Who says he can, as a matter of course,

In a balloon the Atlantic cross;

And, by way of proving he can,

He shows us a part of his plan,

Which looked, in miniature, very neat,

At the Polytechnic in Regent Street,

And answered, the truth to tell,

Uncommonly well,

As far as it went; but, the fact to say,

It went but a very little way.