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an animal called the reem, which is spoken of by Job as 

 an unmanageable animal, of great strength, but one which 

 refused to bend its neck to the yoke." 



Jack Webber. " No bad type of John Bull, we must 

 allow ; and may the gods preserve me from a unicorn 

 team, which I once drove for three months. But as we 

 call a one-eyed horse, ' single-peeper,' should not a one- 

 horned rhinoceros be called, monoceros?" 



Frank Eaby. " You are becoming facetious, Jack ; 

 suppose you give us another song." 



Jack Webber. "With all my heart; and as you have 

 been speaking of Moses, I will give you one about 

 Adam: 



PARODY ON THE 'OLD ENGLISHMAN.' 



' Old Adam was the first-born man, as everybody knows, 

 He never paid a tailor's bill, because he wore no clothes ; 

 Nor fine kid gloves upon his hands, as you may well suppose, 

 Nor dandy collar round his neck, nor shoes to hide his toes. 



CHORUS: For Adam was a gentleman, one of the olden time. 



He neither rent nor taxes paid, nor duns came to his door, 

 For he had enough of meat and drink, and some left for the 



poor ; 



For the poor were not then born, nor either were the great, 

 No rogues or thieves had he to fear, so he never lock'd his gate. 



For Adam, &c. 



His wife his dinner cook'd each day, of good fat roast and boil'd, 

 And oftentimes, for want of fire, his dinner it got spoil'd ; 

 And he would have had it cook'd by gas, but he could not 



afford 

 And from Oldham had his coals, but the pits were not then 



bored. 



For Adam, &c. 



He led a very happy sort of comfortable life, 

 And never quarrelled with anyone, except 'twas with his wife ; 

 And she durst trust him out at nights, for so some people say ; 

 Nor was she ever once afraid that he would go astray. 



For Adam, &c. 



And Eve, unlike our women now, in bows or frills ne'er drest, 

 Nor ever drank or gin or tea now was not Adam blest? 

 Her neighbours she never scandalized, nor treated them with 



scorn, 



She was the pink of women then, because none else were born. 



For Adam, &c. 



