Rudely forced to drink tea, Massachusetts in anger Spills the tea on John Bull—John falls on to bang her; Massachusetts, enraged, calls her neighbors to aid And give Master John a severe bastinade. Now, good men of the law, pray who is in fault, The one who begins or resists the assault?

The Demons were crying now too, a stridulation that rose above the clamor and seemed to pierce the skull.

The French consul was there, and the vice-consul of the United States, as well as Gilbert and the Chairman of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank.

Alack, — mischance comes seldomtimes alone, / But aye the worried dog must rue more curs than one.