To Colonel Rhino, standing by:
"We'd be Field Marshals soon, no fear,
If we'd Rebellions ev'ry year!"

[Illustration: THE REBELS SURRENDER]

This done, the prisoners were sent
Off to perpetual banishment;
Forbidden thenceforth, under pain
Of death, to e'er come back again!
Oh, sad indeed that Rebel band,
That bade farewell to dear Zooland.




One of the King's Heroes.


T'was soon remarked by not a few
That Hippo was not seen;
The rumour ran--alas! too true--
That he had wounded been.

Then messengers went out and found
The hero of the strife;
His wounds with bandages were bound
By his most loving wife.

The King himself, when he was told,