For to-morrer's Kingsbury meetin', is the last there'll be, I fear;

Of all suburbin races, the werry last they say,

For that Anderson in Parlyment, 'as contrived to get 'is way.

It's ter'ble rough on us, Bill; on us, an' all our pals,

As 'asn't got no tickets for that bloomin' Tattersall's;

For 'ow without these meetin's our livin's were to get,

Is a rayther ticklish problim, as I 'avent worked out yet.

Truth, February 21, 1878.


THE MODERN MAY QUEEN.