THE BEST AIR "MINISTER."

Who shall be Lord of the Air,

Now N. has seen fit to declare,

To his followers' deep despair,

That he can't conscientiously sit

In a Cabinet void of grit?

For Churchill is tied to the Front,

And Markham is out of the hunt,

And eloquent Bernard Vaughan

From his pulpit can't be withdrawn.

Who shall be Lord of the Air

And take us all under his care?

Why, Robertson Nicoll, of course—

A man of colossal force,

With a perfectly splendid gift

For soaring and moral uplift.

For, though nobody so uniquely

Can hearten The British Weekly,

His readers will cheerfully spare

Him to go and remain in the air,

Careering along the inane

In a Nicoll-plated plane

With, to lend him additional fervour,

Mr. G*rv*n as his "Observer."