And through the heat of summer, Warm night and sultry day, While Brahmins teach the girls to love And Hindu youths to pray; When, through the Rajah’s palace, Or in the poor man’s hut, Against the winds of winter The doors are closely shut; When in his close Zenana The Indian swell reclines, And smokes the bubbling hookah And quaffs forbidden wines; And when in dufter-khanah Lall-puggree counts the gains He made from swarthy chieftains On Agra’s sun-burnt plains; When the ryot drives the bullock, And twists his broken tail; When Hindo maidens seek their loves, And old crones fiercely rail; When the woman cooks the curry, And piles it on the rice, And the baboo and the labourer Alike count up their pice, In every home in Agra, In many a place afar, They’ll tell the tale of that day when Jan Larrens held Durbar. From _Lyrics and Lays_. By Pips. Calcutta, Wyman 1867. ―――― BEFORE THE COMITIA. (_The Two Aruspices._) In Rome, ere the Comitia To business could be set, The Augurs and Arùspices In solemn conclave met; The peckings, pipings, hoppings Of the sacred fowls to try, And in the victim’s entrails For signs of fate to pry. * * * * * There’s Dizzius Aruspex Wears a sardonic grin, Though sterner Merrypebblius Such laughter holds a sin; But, for all he looks so solemn, No less he twigs the fun, E’en while his brow on Dizzius Appears to frown “Ha’ done!” “Leaders should not be laughers,” (He holds) “whate’er their case; If in ’tis too triumphant; If out, ’tis not in place. Or, if a laugh be needful”―― Which he does not believe―― “The Arùspice’s laugh should never Extend beyond his sleeve.” (_Thirteen verses omitted._) _Punch._ February 8, 1873. ―――― THE DAUNTLESS THREE. This is the title of a parody, issued in pamphlet form by Messrs. J. Hall and Son, Cambridge. Second edition 1874, price sixpence, and said to be by A. de L. H. It would certainly be of literary interest to know the author’s name of this humorous, and scholarly parody of Macaulay’s _Horatius_, as the same initials are prefixed to another parody, of a similar character, entitled “_The Battle of Lake Mort_,” which will be more fully described when dealing with parodies of Macaulay’s “_Battle of the Lake Regillus_.” “_The Dauntless Three_,” consists of forty two verses, with a number of burlesque latin notes. The subject of the parody is the well worn theme of the “Town and Gown” rows. The Citizens of Cambridge By Jonas Webb they swore, That the gownsmen for the future Should hold their own no more. By Jonas Webb they swore it, And named Guy Fawkes his day, And to their quarters all sent forth, East and West and South and North, To summon their array.