You'll "respect 'er Independence and Integrity," you say? Well, a man who on a woman 'is 'and would dare to lay-- Hay? _Save in the way o' kyindness!_ Why, you've capped me there, I own, Which I didn't think _that_ sentiment to Frenchies was beknown. It's a bit o' good old VIC.! But you've nicked it quick and slick. Well, I 'ope you'll square it fairly, and not lay it on too thick, In the brave old _Bismarck_ way!
The idea o' wasting ivory, silk, and peacocks' tails, and such, Upon merchants who're a trifle too much like GEORGE CANNING'S "Dutch."[A] When a fair and square Free Trader, like--well, not _un_like myself, Could stand by for to purtect 'er, and 'elp 'er--and 'im--pile pelf, Well--I can quite understand She may find your 'eavy 'and Too _kyind_ by half, my Frenchy, and prefer the British land, And the British Tar's old way.
Yes; our ROSEBERY and your DEVELLE do agree--in words, no doubt, But, yer see, the Ten Commandments, in Bangkok, git turned about! "Independence and Integrity" for pooty dear Miss SIAM, Is wot _you_'re "interested in" my Frenchy,--and so I am! Only--in the game we play, Cards do turn up in a way That would stagger sly AH SIN himself. If you git in my way On my road to "Old Cathay," Or my aid this gyurl _should_ pray, I _might_ p'raps come down like thunder,--as I did in Mandalay!
"In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much."
THE BATTLE OF THE SEXES.--_Middlesex_ v. _Sussex_.
_The performance has begun._ Captain BOYTON _has just descended the Chute in a boat, with a bevy of lightly-clad young ladies waving flags with shrill enthusiasm. Canadians, Indians, and Negroes row various craft containing Beauties of the Ballet about the Lake. An elderly Negress stands on an island, and waves a towel encouragingly at things in general. Two Clowns, accompanied by a futile individual disguised as a Frog, start to run round the margin of the Lake with a gallant determination to be funny, but abandon the attempt after making a quarter of the distance, and complete the circuit with a subdued and chastened demeanour._
_Mr. Bravo_ (_to_ Mr. BLAZZEY, _enthusiastically_). Capital show this--wonderfully well arranged!