"Mr. GLADSTONE gave Earl SPENCER and Earl GRANVILLE a specimen
of his skill with the axe yesterday. With Mr. HERBERT GLADSTONE
to assist him, the Right Honourable gentleman, stripped to his
waist, attacked a tree in most vigorous fashion!"--_Times_,
Nov. 4.
Said SPENCER to GRANVILLE,
"Like strokes on an anvil."
Said GRANVILLE to SPENCER,
"He'll catch influenza."
Young HERBERT, brow mopping,
Cried, "Letter from Dopping!"
Growled GLADSTONE, not stopping
In chopping, "Blow Dopping!"
And so went on lopping.
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"REFUSAL TO PAY A LEVY IN IRELAND."--This was what Mrs. RAM saw as the
heading of a paragraph in an evening paper. "Well," said the good lady,
"if they won't pay a LEVY, why not send a MOSES, and see if _he_ will
get it."
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The Plentiful Lac.
[The Rajah of Kupurthala, emulating the Nizam, has offered five
lacs towards the defence of the frontiers of India.]
The Laureate, patriot of sense,
Writes with a pungent pen
Of "That eternal lack of pence
Which vexeth public men."
But India's public men, with pride,
In Princes such as these,
Will find their "lack of pence" supplied
By--a lac of rupees!
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