And we feed them with statistics geographic,
And, in the place of bread, we give them “Rule of Three.”
How long then, we ask it in all sadness,
Can such laws be deemed the best;
While the Children, through brain-fever and through madness,
Seek the graveyard—and their rest!
Punch. October 25, 1884.
The Bitter Cry of Agriculture.
Do you hear the cry from Farmers, O my brothers,