and we shall be invited to dance the Referendum Lancers.
Servants' Ball,
January 17th, 1911.
"I shall be calling you Comrade Perrot, and you will be calling me Comrade Morgan."
[ON ARCHBISHOPS AND BISHOPS.]
It is customary among certain classes to look upon Bishops as men living in beautiful palaces, faring sumptuously, and rolling about in carriages; but there is no ploughman who does a harder day's work than does our Bishop. As to the clergy, many of them labour amongst us for a stipend which many an artizan would despise.
Bassaleg Farmers' Dinner,
October 13th, 1881.
There is a certain class of advanced politicians who never lose an opportunity of serving their own ends by impressing upon their hearers their particular notions of what a Bishop of the Church of England is like. That dignitary is generally pictured as a gentleman who receives a large salary, is clothed in purple and fine linen, fares sumptuously every day, and lives in luxurious idleness.