There,—I call the whole thing low:

E’en my trumpet I can’t blow;

Off! Here, let me gang below—

Steward! Let me do, or die!

Punch, 1882.

When the elephant Jumbo was sent from the Zoological Gardens, London, to the United States he was accompanied by his keeper, Scott, who was with him when he was killed by a locomotive engine.


Salisbury to the Conservatives.

Friends, by Whig retrenchment bled,

Friends, whom Beaconsfield has led,