From The Incomplete Angler, by F. C. Burnand. 1876.
The Passionate Statistician to His Love.
“For my part, I am a passionate Statistician…. Go with me into the study of statistics, and I will make you all enthusiasts in statistics.”
Mr. Goschen at Whitechapel.
Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That facts and figures can supply
Unto the Statist’s ravished eye.
And we will sit ’midst faction’s shocks