They sadly repeat, and most sternly expose.

Truth. August 13, 1885.


The Limited Monarch.

“Her Majesty’s ship Monarch, having then continued on her course at a speed of barely eight knots an hour, finally, when she was distant from Malta fully 250 miles, came to a dead stop, and broke down.”

I’m the Monarch of all I survey,

And Brassey the fact won’t dispute,

For here I’ve been sticking all day

Like some waterlogged sea-going brute!

O Cheeseparing, where are the charms