Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 25, 1893

NAILED!

(Lord Dufferin and the Gallic Vermin.)

[At the Annual Dinner of the British Chamber of Commerce in Paris, Lord Dufferin took occasion to refer trenchantly, but temperately, to the long series of calumnies lately directed against him by certain sections of the French Press.]

Yes, Dufferin, yes, the Reptile Press

Is not confined to realms Teutonic.

You squelch it—could you well do less?—

With an urbanity fine, ironic.

France is too chivalrous, too polite,

To back these crawlers, venomous, "varment"!—

But our Ambassador does quite right

To—brush them lightly from his garment.

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