A SOLO ON THE BONES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2103, 14 June 1894, Page 39

A SOLO ON THE BONES.

Air : " Give the dog-rose a bone." [The graphic description of Professor Black on the occasion of his visit with his class to the works of Kempthorne-Presser is responsible for the following.] Prelude. In which the amorous bone shadows the perils of his route to the heart of his love, the Lady Rosa Canina. Though bis way to his love through Inferno did twine, a Route more horrific to Rosa Canina I tiod than the poet's, via Kempthorne-Prosser's, Through the fires and the vats of those chemical jossers. I was crushed till I bust And pounded to dust ! To, O dear love of mine, a Bonemeal reduced ; - Oh ! Rosa Canina 1 I was boiled in a vat Till I lost all my fat ! To, O dear love of mine, a Soap boiler it went ; Oh 1 Rosa Canina ! Next of my gelatine, thirty per cent., Steam superheated me forcibly shent, To, O dear love of mine, a Gluemaker it went ; Oh 1 Rosa Canina Next, shot from an oven as calcium phosphate, I emerge as Ca »H a P 2 O c , As, O dear love of mine, a Phosphate dicalcic ; Oh ! Rosa Canina ! Anon to a tub lined with tar I was scooted, And treated with acid sulphuric diluted, When, lo ! all my grosserparts fall down in time In the shape of a powder night sulphate of lime ; And the soul of me floats ia & soluble state— A solution of Ca H^P-jOg i As, 0 dear love of mine, a Superphosphate of lime ; 0 Rosa Canina ! And now by her spongioles daintily sucked At last to the heart of my Rosa I'm tucked 1 To, O dear love of mine, a Cell near thy heart, O my Rosa Canina 1 June 9. —Bones.