(_The Sporting M.P.'s Straight Tip to Trevelyan._)
In the intervals of Sport
M.P.'s vamp the country's work,
Therefore cut the Sessions short,
Supplementary Sessions shirk.
_Must_ have time to pot the grouse,
_Must_ have time to hook the salmon,
Spoil our Sport to help the House?
Gammon!!!
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LOST, somewhere between Land's End and John O'Groat's, a
highly-treasured heir-loom, known as the "British Sense of Fair Play."
It disappeared immediately after the issuing of the Report of the
Parnell Commission, and has never been seen or heard of since. Many
applicants have claimed to have re-discovered it; but, from Sir R-CH-RD
W-BST-R and Sir W-LL-M H-RC-RT, to L-RD D-NR-V-N, and (last and least)
Sir W. M-RR-TT, all have absolutely failed to substantiate their claims.
Any Public Man, of whatever party, who can prove his possession of the
lost treasure, by making a speech embodying a judicial survey of the
Judges' Report, without party-feeling, special pleading, or paltry
spite, will, on applying personally to _Mr. Punch_, be HANDSOMELY
REWARDED!!!
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