Punch,  33 (1857), 260.

Metallic Operations

Anon

Genre:

Poetry, Drollery

Subjects:

Steamships, Commerce, Engineering, Charlatanry


    Declares: 'Mark the SS Leviathan lying up there all dry; / Pity the shareholders' panics: / "Metal on Metal" we knew was false heraldry, / Now its declared false mechanics'.



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