1871 Oxford Night Caps a collection of receipts for making various beverages used in the university

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are fond of aquatic excursions. Many are the sonnets and songs which have been made upon the fair waiting women who almost invariably prepare this cooling and wholesome beverage. The following specimen, written some years since, probably will not prove unacceptable to the reader.

Say-lives far or near a damsel 80 fair, So cheerful, 80 blithe, or 80 merry?

On earth I can't find A nymph half 80 kind As Doris, the Maid of the Ferry.

My rivals may boast, and coxcombs may toast Her in old port, madeira, or sherry; To them I can prove, They'll ne'er gain the .love Of Doris, the Maid of the Ferry.

She looks up the oars, and the old tavern scores, "And now and then cleans out a wherry;

The sails she can mend, And the parlour attend, For obliging's the Maid of the Ferry.