"They must be pretty well off, I should think, to live in a House like that?"

"Oh yes, Sir, very Rich indeed. Why, they 'ad a Golden Wedding there, the Week before last!"


FINALITY.

["He was one of those who believed that, even in the ordinary legislation of the House, and still more in a measure of such complexity, it was the utmost folly to talk of finality!"—Mr. J. Redmond the Home-Rule Bill.]

Are our sage legislators, then, set upon finding

A measure that's "final, conclusive, and binding,"

As lawyer-phrase puts it? They might as well try

To fix dawn in the East, or nail clouds to the sky!

There's nothing that's "final" in infinite time,