I rise to order, Mr. Speaker, and should like to know—
Chorus.
Oh! oh!
Mr. Speaker, in a passion.
Chair, gentlemen! To wonder now at Balaam’s ass were weak,
It seems the custom for such animals to speak.
Mr. Walter Stanley resumes.
The point I wish to touch upon, if not amiss, is simply this—
An evil very great prevails, on which some folks are often joking,
I mean in sober seriousness the evil habit some boys have of smoking.