_Q._ How do you define politics?
_A._ It is the science of constructing new governments; the first step
to which is the destruction of the existing one.
_Q._ In what do we make it chiefly to consist?
_A._ In abusing our neighbours, and quarrelling amongst ourselves.
_Q._ To what do we generally apply ourselves in peace?
_A._ In insulting the English.
_Q._ How are we occupied in war?
_A._ In being beaten by the English.
_Q._ How do we profit by war?
_A._ It gives us material for clap-traps on the stage.
_Q._ How do we profit by defeat?
_A._ In calling it a victory.
_Q._ How do we maintain our boast that we are the most ingenious nation
on the earth?
_A._ By employing the ingenuity of Englishmen in all our great public
works.
POETICAL CALENDAR,
AND
CHRONOLOGY FOR THE YEAR 1843.