The Tonbridgian, April, 1873. H. M.


“In my opinion there’s only one policy worth a ducat!”

“And that, Benjamin,” I ask in my captivating way, is——?”

“Pointedly expressed in the following lines of the poet:—

“Let Rads delight to bark and bite,

For God has made ’em so;

Let Butts and Biggars growl and fight,

For ’tis their nature to;

But Hardy, you must never let