The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #137540   Message #3146624
Posted By: fat B****rd
02-May-11 - 03:28 PM
Thread Name: What is a 'bumper'?
Subject: RE: What is a 'bumper'?
Harry 'Breaker' Morant uses the word in his poem 'Butchered to Make a Dutchman's Holiday'

Let's toss a bumper down our throat, -
   Before we pass to Heaven,
And toast: "The trim-set petticoat
   We leave behind in Devon."