Comic Arithmetic

by Percival Leigh

PARLIAMENTARY EVOLUTION.

Rule 1.	Make up your mind to "go the whole hog" with your party.
2.	Flatter, gammon, and gloze all parties.
3.	Humbug your opponents, and cheat your supporters.
4.	Make love to every prevailing vagary of the day, and coquet with Mother Church, and her fantastical daughter, Miss Dissent.
5.	Promise every thing, perform nothing, and be the last year of your parliamentary term a contradiction of the six preceding years, so as to ensure another return.