Whate'er I do is right."
Yea, interests are hard to reconcile;
'Tis hard to please yet help the little isle;
We have done neither quite.
Though we change the music ever, yet the people scorn our song;
O rest ye, brother Ministers, we shall not labour long.
AUGUSTO MENSE POETA.
(C. J. Billson.)
In the year 1868, when the mania for trapeze performances was at its height, and men and women were nightly risking their lives to please the thoughtless audiences at the music halls, The Tomahawk had some powerful cartoons (drawn by Matt Morgan) in condemnation of this senseless and dangerous form of entertainment; it also published the following parody of—