(_Suggested by a Passage in the new Q. R._)
"CANNING did not know that tadpoles
Turn to frogs." Each fool explodes:
But that Queller of the Yelpers
Knew that patriots turn to toads.
GLADSTONE goes in for omniscience;
Does the team obey the bit
As when PAM'S whip stung with banter,
Or when CANNING'S cut with wit?
WILLIAM! _Punch_, who likes you, counsels--
Mix some humour with your zeal,
Making humbugs think is hopeless:
Be content to make them _feel_.
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=No Misnomer.=
A CORRESPONDENT of the _Times_, whose note is headed "Civil Service
Grammar," writes a remonstrance because he has seen a Government Cart
going about inscribed "Her Majesty's Stationary Office." He is evidently
under a misconception as to what office is meant, for what man who
reflects on the progress of the new Law Courts, the new National
Gallery, the new Natural History Museum, the Wellington Monument, &c.,
can doubt for a moment that "Her Majesty's Stationary Office" is the
Office of Works and Public buildings?
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