T dedicate this verse The theme shall be the Woosung Bar, The, rhymes can not be worse, And if the doggrel seems too thin Yo suit the reader's views Just rend the prose they're pri ing in Your favourite Daily News But if you want to move the shoal, Call in good old John P., Who quickly will scour out a hole From Shanghai to the ses, He'll buy the Chipper's noble fleet And filled with mud and stones, He'll lay them where the chan nieet, To rest their ancient bones.
And thus the river's eh and flow Will be directed straight To scour away the mud bel sure as flute is fate.
Or if you want another way The river's bed te clear, Then why not call in Tommy K., And wake him engineer For there is no one else who knows:
So much about the cause Which makes depusite of the loess, Or understands its laws.
Or if you want a j lan from me Tis this:—Let all refuse til they find the channel free To pay their Tonnage Dues.
Tae Moaxzr.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.