[Illustration:
Picking and choosing.
Wooing in black and white.
]
Our British Bull, whom nothing well can stop,
Directed by Victoria Regina,
Went, right ahead, into a China shop,
And set himself to work a breaking China!
Be sure he didn't preach or _Cant on_ there:
The expedition he had set his shoes in,
Kept fighting with an expedition rare,
And didn't stop for _picking_ or for _Chusan_!
The town was well besieged; for Johnny took
Position up too strong to be evaded;
And, like the wood-cuts of this comic book,
_Canton_ was soon most thoroughly _block-aided_!