Chapter 31 No.31

A thousand guilders! The Mayor looked blue;155

So did the Corporation, too.

For council dinners made rare havoc

With Claret, Moselle, Vin-de-Grave, Hock;

And half the money would replenish

Their cellar's biggest butt with Rhenish.160

To pay this sum to a wandering fellow

With a gypsy coat of red and yellow!

"Beside," quoth t