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Victoria College Students' Carnival. Thursday and Saturday - 25th & 27th June 1908

Les Enfants

Les Enfants.

Sing "Booh to you—Pooh, pooh, to you ! that's what I shall say"Patience

If you go up College way,
Any time of night or day,
And you meet a poor young mother in despair,
Who has lost her darling child,
Don't stand there meek and mild,
Please to show her up the library stair;
For she's sure to find it there,
Perched high upon a chair,
Swatting German, Pol. Econ., or Hebrew prose;
And Mac is quite distraught
Seeking desks of every sort,
To fit the infant that to College goes.

Chorus.
Send up your children,
Do send your children,
Send up your children to the Coll.
As a crêche it's just O.K.
So send them right away.
Oh! Do send your children up to Coll.

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Now, Von, you're up to date,
And know at any rate
How to keep up the interest in your class;
Take milk—a pint will do—
And sugar—just a few—
And brew these infants "bottles" on the gas.
And, John, although they cry
Because your Latin's dry,
You can hardly take the infants on your lap;
So mix some honey sweet
With your "periods" and "feet,"
And make your sparkling prose into a "pap."

Chorus—Send up your children, etc.

Our new profs, (Scotties twa)
Are different very far
In the rate of progress that they make each day;
For Adamson's too fast,
And can go ahead "full blast,"
Because He has no "chickies" to delay.
But our Mathematics don,
Who's a replica of John,
And a prof. who teaches how to rule red lines,
Is hindered every day,
By stopping on the way
To hush the teething infants' peevish whines.

Chorus—Send up your children. etc.

—"Pontifex."