And lowered my position, sirs, instead of rising higher;

My brain is getting weaker, I was once considered clever,

I have voted for Coercion that’s to linger on for ever;

To act like this I must have been as mad as any hatter,

But as I can’t retrace my steps, it really doesn’t matter!

Trev.—It really doesn’t matter!

It really doesn’t matter, matter, matter, matter, matter!

Pall Mall Gazette. August 15, 1887.


The Model American Girl.