Punch,  40 (1861), 187.

Ironsides, Chairman

Anon

Genre:

Poetry, Drollery

Subjects:

Military Technology, Steamships, Manufactories, Industry


    'Our wooden walls are being cased / With iron plates we see; / But if they're Sheffield ironsides, / How very soft they'll be'.



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