1 DECEMBER 1906, Page 33

THE COLENSO NONSENSE RHYMES. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

"A Bishop there was of Natal,

Who had a Zulu for a pal ; Said the Zulu: 'Look here, Sure this Pentateuch's queer.'

Which converted my Lord of Natal."

There was another rhyme with a variation There was a good Bishop Colenso,

Who could reckon from one up to ten. So,

Finding numbers Levitical

Not arithmetical, He went out and told the black men so.

Naughty Bishop Colenso ! Naughty Bishop Colenso I"

.The variation was :—

"Finding that Moses Couldn't count noses."

But this was not thought so good.—I am, Sir, &c., Sia,—The rhymes I remember about Bishop Colenso are not quite the same as those you quote in your notice of Lady Dorothy Nevill's Memoirs in the Spectator of November 17th. They ran—

E.G. T. F.