Said Rutherford With a Smile

Said Rutherford with a smile,
"It's a mass of solid bile,
And I myself obtained it, what is more,
By a stringent cholagogue
From a vivisected dog,
And I lost it on the Portobello Shore."


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
["I wrote a students's song which is still sung, I understand,
in which a curious article is picked up on the Portobello
beach and each Professor in turn claims it for his department."]