"THE GOVERNESS WHO, MA' SAID, WOULDN'T DO."
A PLAINT FROM PARNASSUS.
(By an "Unrecommended" Resident.)
[Mr. Gladstone (replying to Mr. Johnston, of Ballykilbeg) announced that no recommendation had been submitted to Her Majesty upon the subject of the succession to the office of Poet Laureate, and that there was no immediate intention of submitting one.]
Glorious Apollo! This is wondrous hard!
Fancy John Bull without Official Bard!
His plight is sad as that of the great men