At snuff no Cornish sailorman would sneeze
That horders of crooks felt they'd more right to own
Old corned-beef's rusty armour spreads disease
The thumb- and finger-prints of Al Capone
It's one of many horrid happenings
Filching the lolly country thrift helped save
In salads all chew grubs before they've wings
Etruscan words which Greece and Rome engrave
The genealogist with field and fess
With quill white-collared through his life will jog
While homeward thirsts to each quenched glass say yes
One misses cricket hearth and croaking frog
Ventriloquists be blowed you strike me dumb
The bell tolls fee-less fi-less fo-less fum