Victoria College Students' Carnival. Thursday 29th June 1905
Froggy
Froggy.
[No age possesses more than one great man. Book of Proverbs (in preparation).]
Sundry dog-fights have occured,
That's a "bird,"
Since you heard—
Students murd
Er capping songs;
And one lusty victor,
Always licked her
Jaws for pride belongs,
To the winner in the fight;
For the right
Is the might
(That is trite),
But ne'er a dog,
Triumphant tail has
Held so high as Frog.
For Froggy won the mile at Easter—O!
I guess he's not too slow,
Although he's not a beau.
We saw him spurt ahead in noble style,
We held our breathing while,
He won the mile.
At the by-electi-on
"Peoples' Don,"
Sat upon,
Hutcheson
And I—Izard.
But the wordy kick he
Dealt poor Dicky,
Was a bit too hard.
Fisher's praises have been sung—
He is young,
Curses bung
With a tongue
Of fire, and he
Would never whimper,
For your sympa-
Thy.
Then Fisher lost his temp'rate head, you see;
Said he, "There's none like me,
The mighty F.M.B."
He must have seen things through a hazy fog;
For he is but a log,
Compared with Frog.
There was once a Russian fleet,
Did a feat—
Went to meet,
And delete,
Some fishermen.
They were told to steam her
To Tsushima;
So they did; and then
Saw the Japanese ahead—
Some are fled,
Rest are dead,
Bravely led
By Davy Jones;
Now Jappy whiskies,
Sooth Rodvisky's
Groans.
For when the fight came Roddy went below;
He felt less seedy so.
He's now at Sssebo.
And Togo's proud; it's time we let him know,
There's only one hero,
Viz., Froggy Beau.
"Can I view thee panting, lying on thy stomach without sighing;
Can I unmoved see thee dying on a log, expiring frog."