something like the following, though this is of a somewhat later date: There was an old lady lived over the sea, And she was an Island Queen. Her daughter lived off in a new countrie With an ocean of water between. The old lady's pockets were full of gold, But never contented was she, So she called on her daughter to pay her a tax Of three-pence a pound on her tea, Of three-pence a pound on her tea. "Now, mother, dear mother," the daughter replied, "I shan't do the thing you ax. I'm willing to pay a fair price for the tea, But never the three-penny tax." "You shall," quoth the mother, and reddened with rage, "For you're my own daughter, you see. And sure 'tis quite proper the daughter should pay Her mother a tax on her tea, Her mother a tax on her tea." And so the old lady her servant called up And packed off a budget of tea, And, eager for three-pence a pound, she put in Enough for a large familee. She ordered her servant to bring home the tax, Declaring her child should obey, Or old as she was, and almost woman grown, She'd half whip her life away, She'd half whip her life away. The tea was conveyed to the daughter's door, All down by the ocean side, And the bouncing girl poured out every pound In the dark and boiling tide, And then she called out to the Island Queen, "Oh! Mother! Dear Mother!" quoth she, "Your tea you may have when 'tis steeped enough, But never a tax from me, No, never a tax from me!"[11] The diary has little more to say than Trevelyan. We read "Twenty-eight chests of tea arrived yesterday, which are to make an infusion in water at seven o'clock this evening." And the next day: "Last night twenty-eight chests and a half of tea were drowned." It is clear that Mr. Adams knew what was to be done; he never knew the names of the doers, steadfastly refusing to be told. "You may depend upon it," he says, writing to a friend in 1819, "that they were no ordinary Mohawks. The profound secrecy in which they have held their names, and the total abstinence from plunder, are proofs of the characters of the men. I believe they would have tarred and feathered anyone of their number who should have been detected in pocketing a pound of Hyson."