Colonial Bishops cannot go.
You may express surprise
At finding Bishops deal in pride--
But if that trick I ever tried,
I should appear undignified
In Rum-ti-Foozle's eyes.

"The islanders of Rum-ti-Foo
Are well-conducted persons, who
Approve a joke as much as you,
And laugh at it as such;
But if they saw their Bishop land,
His leg supported in his hand,
The joke they wouldn't understand--
'T would pain them very much!"



The Precocious Baby. A Very True Tale



(To be sung to the Air of the "Whistling Oyster.")

An elderly person--a prophet by trade--
With his quips and tips
On withered old lips,
He married a young and a beautiful maid;
The cunning old blade!
Though rather decayed,