Note 25 — MAGGIE’S VISIT TO OXFORD[24]

In a letter to the editor, the charming lady to whom these pleasing verses were sent says: “This line is introduced because he told me a story of some soldiers who could never remember the words of their marching song, except for the last line, so they used to sing the words of ‘Mary had a little lamb,’ finishing with ‘The lamb was sure to go—Shouting the Battle-cry of Freedom’!”