Mem. on the Behring-Sea Business.
A Forty-hours' speech by magniloquent Carter!
That Behring Tribunal has caught a Tartar!
Whatever the upshot one cannot but feel
'Tis a fine illustration of "Say and Seal!"
Though Bunsby might say of this lengthy oration,
"The Behring will lie in the application."
Appropriate Song (for anybody connected with the Tourist-Managing firm of Gaze, on hearing a Lady say that she was "going to try a Cook.")
"Ah me! she has gone from our Gaze,
That beautiful girl from our door!"
(The remainder can be added ad libitum, and sung whenever opportunity permits.)
"A Move on the Board" in the Right Direction.—Our Surprising School-Board has voted in favour of allowing its Industrial School youths to enjoy "reasonable recreation" on Sundays. Its version of Sir William Jones's distich would be something as follows:—
The morn at Church, the afternoon at play,
Will serve to while the Day of Rest away.
Apparently it looks favourably on a modicum of Sunday Cricket or Football, and does not taboo even the enormity of Lawn-tennis. As against that eminently strict Sabbatarian, Mrs. Grundy, the tennis-player may defend himself by a reference to the "services" in which he is engaged.
