i8 MEMORIES OF MEN AND HORSES 



as it ever will be explained ; but one of the tricks to 

 obtain bold advertisement without the aid of capital 

 has never yet been disclosed, and it was really one to 

 which I still look back with amusement and pleasure. 



Mr Labouchere was continually girding at St Stephen's 

 Review in Truth, and having thought out a plan of 

 campaign, I published the following verses, with Phil 

 May's illustrations, on I5th August 1885 : 



THE BANK OF LOVE 

 A QUEER STORY 



Epaminondas Grabyourshare 

 Was not of birth or fortune rare ; 

 His origin I understand 

 Was from the Jews of Switzerland ; 

 And he was born they tell me so 

 Perhaps a hundred years ago. 



Epaminondas grew apace, 

 He was a youth of little grace 

 But all his friends agreed that he 

 Was very full of devilry ; 

 And when he first gave fancy rope 

 He chanced to see a fair Miss Hope. 

 "This maiden is the sort for me," 

 He cried aloud with bumptious glee. 

 She was a girl with whom to wed 

 The noblest duke might well have bled. 

 Her sire was wealthy without sham 

 A banker he of Amsterdam 

 And she returned the amorous stare 

 Of bold and bad young Grabyourshare 



