Punch (103.1892)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

[July 30, 1892.

SIR CARLOS EUAN-SMITHEZ; OR, THE INSULTING SULTAN AND THE HIGH-TONED CHRISTIAN KNIGHT.

A Modern Moorish Ballad, a^ter the fashion a* Bon Gaultier.

Brave Sir Carlos Euan-Smithez ! basely have" they borne thee
down; [crown ?

Thousands, thirty, would they tip thee as a churl they 'd tip a
Thou at home hadst shown that Sultan with emphatic toe the door ;
In Morocco thou didst coolly turn thy back upon the Moor.

Long in fiery Fez he lingered, subtle Smithez, being bound
To contract Commercial Treaty with the minions of Maiiound.
Full eight weeks' negoeiations smoothed that Treaty's parlous way ;
On the fifth July the Sultan swore it should be signed next day.

But the false Frank's furtive whisper at the Sultan's ear was heard.
(When the Frank may foil the Saxon won't he do so ? Like a bird!)

And the treacherous Moorish Monarch, to his people's interest
blind,

Sold the sham he dubbed his honour, changed the thing he deemed
his mind.

" Christian Knight," began the Monarch (" knight " was diplomat
for "dog"),

" There is something in your Treaty, that I relish—like roast bog.
Know Morocco is no home for Factories and Colossal Stores ;
And the omnipresent Bagman is a bugbear to my Moors !

"All my Cadis, all my ladies, wish at—Hades Western Trade.
You must make large alterations in the Treaty we've half made ;