_A Ballade for the Board._
"The lobby of the Metropolitan Board of Works offices was
recently the scene of a serious assault, committed by Mr.
KEEVIL, upon Mr. SHEPHERD."--_Daily Paper_.
Gentle SHEPHERD, tell me true,
Did, selecting time and place,
Wary KEEVIL go for you,--
Hit you on the chest and face?
Did he, waiting on the stairs,
Watch until you passed him by,
Then adroitly, unawares,
Plant one on your weather eye?
Did, O SHEPHERD, tell me true,
Wary KEEVIL get at you!
Gentle SHEPHERD, answer me,
Say, did you, when last you spoke,
Language use that possibly
Wary KEEVIL might provoke?
If so, p'raps 'twas not too wise,
Though it could involve no right
To attempt to black your eyes
In a stand-up Board-Room fight!
Ah! sweet SHEPHERD, sure his due
He will get who went for you!
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"PROUD O' THE TITLE."--The Bishop of LICHFIELD,
in one of his speeches at the Church Congress last week,
included the English Roman Catholics among the "other
Nonconformists." Then his Lordship was graciously
pleased to observe that he was very willing to acknowledge
the QUEEN as supreme, but objected to the authority
of Parliament, in Church matters. It is very evident on
which side Dr. MACLAGAN would have been in the reign
of the pure and pious HENRY THE EIGHTH, when that
amiable monarch ordered the decapitation of those
bigoted and obtuse "Nonconformists," Bishop FISHER,
and Sir THOMAS MORE.
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[Illustration: HARDLY FAIR.
OUR ARTIST PAINTS AN INTERESTING STUDY OF A FURZE BUSH.]
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