THIEN TAO;
OR, THE SYNAGOGUE
OF SATAN
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that he succeeded
in his famous attempt to outdo the feats of Captain
Webb.
Nor
was
his reception
less
than a triumph.
So athletic
a
nation as the Japanese
still
were could not but honour so superb an
achievement, though it cost them dear, inasmuch as the Navy League
(by an astute series of political
moves) compelled the party in power to
treble the Navy, build a continuous line of forts around the sea-coast,
and expend many billions of yen upon the scientific breeding of a more
voracious species of shark than had hitherto infested their shores.
So they carried
Kwaw
shoulder-high to the Yoshiwara,
and passed
him the glad hand, and called out the
Indians, and annexed his per
sonal property for relics, and otherwise followed
the customs of the
best
New York
Society, while
the
German
Band
accompanied
the
famous Ka Ru So to the following delightful ballad:
CHORUS.
Blow the tom-tom,
hang the flute!
Let us all be merry!
I'm a party with acute
Chronic
1.
Monday I'm a skinny critter
Quite Felicien-Rops-y.
Blow the cymbal,
bang the zither!
Tuesday I have dropsy.
Chorus.