A silence ensued, except for one mumble:
Sounds like he's senile, or loony, or Russian.
The Chairman tabled the banker's petition
For legal and laughing discussion.
By noon next day it was all over town
The Gazette, the evening edition.
The banker erected his outhouse
In the classical outhouse tradition.
And never returned to the Board of Health
Which had voted without opposition
Refusing him planning permission.