"Yes," agreed the President. "Tell us it again without boiling eggs with indignation."
"Tell it like Miss Ha-Ha in the Higher Water," begged the Vice. "You know Minnie Ha-Ha."
And Buster, who had a well-known gift that way, burst into saga of familiar metre:—
"Two Wise Men that were of Gotham,
You have heard ere this of Gotham?
In a bowl went not to sea they.
Loved they well their Universi-
Ty of Dantzig and were always
Doing it in season. Out of
Season also did they do it.
If you ask me what they did do,
All that I can say is 'Dantzig'.
Dantzig there in famous Gotham,
Dantzig each one with the other.
One he lepped so much in Dantzig
He at last became a leper.
Bounding so high went his brother
That men said he was a Bounder.
Said he was an awful Bounder.
From the Dantzig Club they thrust them,
Búnged thěm fórth něm íně cóntrǎ
Dí cěn té yǒu'll únděrstánd mě,
Bút thǐs métrě spóils thě quántǐ
Tiés ǒf thém thěre Látǐn wórdsěs. . . ."
