And so they bear with dance and song,

And crimson foil and green; They wearily sit, and grimly long

For the Transformation Scene.

KING BORRIA
BUNGALEE BOO

K'

ING BORRIA BUNGALEE BOO
Was a man-eating African swell;

His sigh was a hullaballoo,

His whisper a horrible yell -
A horrible, horrible yell!

Four subjects, and all of them male,
TO BORRIA doubled the knee,

They were once on a far larger scale,

But he'd eaten the balance, you see

("Scale" and "balance" is punning, you

see.)

There was haughty PISH-TUSH-POOн-BAH,

There was lumbering

One day there was grief in the crew,
For they had n't a morsel of meat,
And BORRIA BUNGALEE BOO

Was dying for something to eat

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Come, provide me with something to eat!"

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"ALACK-A-DEY, famished I feel;

Oh, good little TOOTLE-TUM-Teh, Where on earth shall I look for a meal? For I have n't no dinner to-day!. Not a morsel of dinner to-day!

"Dear TOOTLE-TUM, what shall we do? Come, get us a meal, or in truth,

If

you don't we shall have to eat you,
Oh, adorable friend of our youth!
Thou beloved little friend of our youth!

And he answered," Oh BUNGALEE Boo,
For a moment I hope you will wait,
TIPPY-WIPPITY TOL-THE-ROL-LOO
Is the queen of a neighboring state
A remarkably neighboring state.

"TIPPY-WIPPITY TOL-THE-ROL-LOO,
She would pickle deliciously cold-
And her four pretty Amazons, too,
Are enticing, and not very old
Twenty-seven is not very old.

"There is neat little

Titty-Fol-Leh,

There is rollicking

TRAL-THE-RAL-LAH,

There is jocular

WAGGETY-WEH,

There is musical DоH-REH-MI-FAH

There's the nightingale DOH-REH-MI-FAH !"

So the forces of BUNGALEE BOO
Marched forth in a terrible row,
And the ladies who fought for QUEEN LOO
Prepared to encounter the foe-
This dreadful insatiate foe!

not they!

But they sharpened no weapons at all,
And they poisoned no arrows
They made ready to conquer or fall
In a totally different way
An entirely different way.

With a crimson and pearly-white dye
They endeavored to make themselves fair,
With black they encircled each eye,

And with yellow they painted their hair
(It was wool, but they thought it was hair).

Yes, drew them right up to the head.

But jocular WAGGETY-WEH,

Ogled DOODLE-DUM-DEH (which was wrong), And neat little TITTY-FOL-LEH

Said, "TOOTLE-TUM, you go along!

You naughty old dear, go along!"

And rollicking TRAL-THE-RAL-LAH
Tapped ALACK-A-DEY-AH with her fan;

And musical Dон-REH-MI-FAH

Said,

PISH, go away, you bad man!
Go away, you delightful young man !

And the Amazons simpered and sighed,
And they ogled, and giggled, and flushed,

And they opened their

pretty

eyes
wide,

And they chuckled, and flirted,

and blushed

(At least,

if they could, they'd have blushed).

But haughty PISH-TUSH-POOH-BAH

Said, ALACK-A-DEY, what does this mean?" And despairing ALACK-A-DEY-Aн

Said, "They think us uncommonly green,
Ha ha! most uncommonly green!"