(Cheers in the Ladies’ gallery.)
And therefore his ideas are narrow, unless he meant to try
And show that it was equally injurious for girls to pipe their eye.
The subject of my speech is—to be brief—
Mr. Oswald Layton—That’s a relief.
Mr. Alec Boyce—Chair! chair!
Mr. Arthur Mortram.
Gentlemen, forbear! The sentence I began
Is this. The subject of my speech is “slang;”
We need Reform, a radical reform; we ought to teach