(_With Mr. Punch's best wishes for the speedy recovery of the French
PRESIDENT._)
["President Deschanel ... was compelled to take several
analgesia cachets. (Analgesia is a condition in which there is
incapacity of feeling pain)."]--_Evening Paper._
When, haply through excess of cake,
In childhood's days of fun and frolic,
I suffered from that local ache
Known to the Faculty as colic;
Or if across the foam I fared
And was (invariably) sea-sick,
How much distress had I been spared
Just by a simple analgesic.
In the Headmaster's awesome den,
His cane poised o'er me palely bending,
A lozenge deftly swallowed then
Had eased the smart of its descending.
Thus might I have indulged in "rags,"
Immune from every sore corrective,
Nor need I then have stuffed my bags
With notebooks, often ineffective.
Henceforth, in any sort of fuss--
Life's little incidental dramas,
As when one boards a motor-bus
Or leaps from trains in one's pyjamas--
I'll take a tabloid. DESCHANEL!
So much to me your agile feat meant;
_L'exemple presidentiel_
Lends quite a _cachet_ to the treatment.
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"59 ACCIDENTS IN 5 YEARS.