A. P. SINNETT.
From Tom Hood's Comic Annual, 1871.
A parody of the May Queen, entitled The Premier's Lament, appeared in The Evening News, of February 18, 1884, ridiculing Mr. Gladstone for his policy in Egypt, and foretelling defeat as probable in the then pending vote of censure. The parody had no literary merit.
TIT FOR TAT.
WE were two children in one house,
She was as meek as the mildest mouse,
The time had come for a midnight spree!
When we were over our jokes and wine,