Were—“I’m very glad ’tis o’er.”
Funny Folks, October 9, 1875.
The Stoker.
Once in February dreary, while the Commons, weak and weary,
Pondered many a quaint and curious Tory measure then in store,
While they nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at the chamber-door;
“Some new member ’tis,” they muttered, “tapping at our chamber-door;
’Tis Kenealy—nothing more!”