AT HAWARDEN.
"Mr. Gladstone gave Earl Spencer and Earl Granville a specimen of his skill with the axe yesterday. With Mr. Herbert Gladstone to assist him, the Right Honourable gentleman, stripped to his waist, attacked a tree in most vigorous fashion!"—Times, Nov. 4.
Said Spencer to Granville,
"Like strokes on an anvil."
Said Granville to Spencer,
"He'll catch influenza."
Young Herbert, brow mopping,
Cried, "Letter from Dopping!"
Growled Gladstone, not stopping
In chopping, "Blow Dopping!"
And so went on lopping.
"Refusal to Pay a Levy in Ireland."—This was what Mrs. Ram saw as the heading of a paragraph in an evening paper. "Well," said the good lady, "if they won't pay a Levy, why not send a Moses, and see if he will get it."