Punch (92.1887)

2ii PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [May 21, 1887.

ROOSTERS DURING AN ALL-NIGHT SITTING.

A New Political Song to an old Tovular Tune. Air—'1 The Young Cock cocklts as the Old Cock crows'

It's a well established fact, upon which most roosters act,
(And from which Gladstonian "items " do not vary)

That Leaders, if they've grit, to their followers transmit,
A type that almost seems heredi-ta-ry.

If he crows until he's hoarse, the old Chanticleer, of course,
That cockerel would be at once derided,

Who did not follow too with a Cock-a-doodle-doo I
By the precedent parental strictly guided.

Chorus.

It may pass into a proverb, for St. Stephen's surely knows,
That it's done with perfect openness and not "beneath the rose."