no REMINISCENCES OF 



To 'Muchty he went, but it didn't avail — 



" Heigh ho ! " cried Robert — 

 For the folk told him there that he'd better turn ta 

 So awa' " Froggy " gaed by the very next mail, 

 Chorus — With his Tory, etc. 



Now of " Froggy's " reverses to fill up the cup — 



" Heigh ho ! " cried Robert— 

 They^d to put him to bed, and to cover him up, 

 Or a Liberal mob would have gobbled him up. 

 Chorus — And his Tory, etc. 



Sir Thomas of Cambo's a good man and true — 



" Heigh ho ! " cried Robert — 

 But, Sir Thomas, your share in this contest you'll rue, 

 For, believe me, you never will pull your man through, 

 Chorus — With his Tory, etc. 



Then " Froggy," my mannie, ye'd best mak' your boo — 



" Bye, bye I " cried Robert — 

 For the betting against you's loo to 2, 

 And Fifeshire prefers an old friend to a new, 



Chorus — With such Tory talkee, gammon and spinage : 

 "Gone away MI" cried Anstruther Thomson. 



Sir Frederick Hamilton's brother-in-law, General 

 Philip Anstruther of Thirdpart, an artillery officer, 

 was taken prisoner by the Chinese and put into a 



" My Dear Burgoyne, — 



" I write an account of how I was taken, 

 and how I have since fared, which I know you will 

 be kind enough to have copied and sent to my 

 brother for transmission to my mother. I make it 

 out from a little diary which I have kept ever since 

 my arrival here. 



"On Wednesday, the i6th of September, 1841, 

 I started, at about ten o'clock, to the North gate 

 of Tinghae, to get the valleys on the great north road 



