lags_).

Great Romulus, we're glad to see you licked him
(Sing hey the jolly Roman and his ma);
We're jolly glad you punched his head and kicked him
(Sing hey the jolly Roman that you are).

Then hail to you, great Roman!
We yield to you or no man,
(Sing hey the jolly Roman and his ma).
We beg you'll let us help you build the city
(Sing hey the jolly city that he rears);
We'll be your loyal subjects; show us pity
(Sing hey the jolly city and three cheers).
Then hail the jolly city,
To you we chant our ditty,
(Sing hey the jolly city and three cheers).

_Rom_.
Friends, thank you one and all; excuse my tear,
Domestic trouble makes me feel so queer;
But if you like, to celebrate this day
I sing you here one final roundelay.

(_Sings_.)
When Romulus from Tiber's stream escaped,
His infant footsteps to the woodland shaped,
He sort of vowed, if ever he grew big,
He would the walls of a great city dig.
This was his object; here he takes his stand,
Romans ever, ever, ever I'll command.

_Chorus (all going)_--
Rule, old Roma, Roma rule the land,
Romans ever, ever, ever he'll command.

(_Exeunt omnes_.)

CHAPTER SEVEN.

A NIGHT WITH THE CROWNED HEADS.

Sub-Chapter I.

THE ARREST.

It was a ferociously hot day at the beginning of the summer vac. I, as
in duty bound, had been spending my first day as a well-conducted, newly
broken-up schoolboy should.

Being fully impressed with the importance of combining self-improvement
with all my recreations, I had been in the morning to the Zoo, where I
had eaten buns with the elephant, cracked jokes and nuts with the
monkeys, prodded the hippopotamus, got a rise out of the grizzly, made
the lions roar, had a row with the chimpanzee, and generally enjoyed
myself.

Then I had done the Tower. This only took ten minutes, as the place was
horribly slow, and fellows looked after you wherever you went.

After that I had had a turn at the circus, to study the habits of the
horse in a state of nature. I should have liked this more if the clown
had not been such a muff. He wasn't half up to his business, and
consequently the place was not as improving as it ought to have been.
So I shook off the dust of it from my feet, and, after laying some
apples and other things aboard, took an omnibus to Madame Tussaud's,
where I knew I should see some fellows of my acquaintance, and be able
to improve my mind in goo