Right merrily with eager pen the specials took it down,
And forty counties learned next day the humours of the town.
Quantox (S. H. Woodhouse.)
The World Parody Competition. November 26, 1879.
On Mr. Gladstone’s Midlothian Speeches.
Attend, all ye who list to hear our noble Gladstone’s praise.
I tell of the thrice famous speech he made in his old days,
When that great lord of flouts and jeers against him led in vain
The peers and those few working men that honied lies could gain.