YOU DON’T NEED A CAT

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33941, 6 September 1975, Page 14

YOU DON’T NEED A CAT

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“Nine out of 10 people anywhere in the world would 'know there is a Lord Mayor of London, but none out of the 10 would know who he was,” said the Lord Mayor of London, Sir Murray Fox, in Auckland . . . Just" as the financial influence of the City has not diminished, neither has the status of the Lord Mayor . . . ceremony and traditional pomp ... A telephone call will get him an audience with the Prime Minister almost as quickly as if it were from the Queen. —News. The Lord Mayor of London Has a Coach and Horses, And Turtle Soup at his Banquets, Among other Courses. The Lord Mayor of London Is a famous Thing to be — They all know HIM (the Lord Mayor said). How many know he's ME? A most historical Mayor — That’s all I know. • He killed Wat Tyler, didn't he? Centuries ago — Somehow the Name escapes me, Which seems unfair. The King was Richard 11. But WHO was the Mayor? Shakespeare employs him For a Bit Part or Two. With no Name, little to say, And Less to do — ‘Enter in the hurly-burly The Lord Mayor’ — Sir. He’s more of a Stage Effect Than a Character: Excent for Dick Wittington. Who owes to the Nursery The Name — but None of the Money He made out of Mercery — Whose Dad was a Knight before him. Who never had a Cat — Who financed two Kings (the Lord Mayor said), Now, how about THAT?