For a rare old friend will accept a bill;

And, it's rather superfluous to say

That the Gull the bill will have to pay.

The Gull, to free him from human ills,

Will gulp down boxes of Holloway's pills;

And will rub his hair three times a-day

With stuff to prevent it from turning grey.

He is right; for, to give the stuff its due,

It turns the hair not grey but blue.

Oh, the Gull, in the course of his ev'ning walk,