PARLIAMENTARY FOOTBALL MATCH.—"FOWLER'S FINE SINGLE-HANDED RUN."
—(See page 267.)
A DILEMMA.
Young Sportsman (to his small nephew, the Parson's son). "Hello! Jimmie! why don't you come out on the Pony? You'll never be a Man if you don't Hunt."
Jimmie. "Now listen to that, Mother! There's Uncle Jack says I shall never be a Man if I don't. There's Father says it's Cruelty if I do. Then old John says I should be laming the Pony; and you say the Pony would be laming me! What am I to do?"
"A SINGLE-HANDED RUN."
["It is interesting to watch the methods of obstruction.... Progress (with the Parish Councils Bill) has been slow enough, but it is impeded with an artfulness which indicates a certain division of labour among the different sections of the Unionist army. The first section includes the Liberal Unionists, whose rôle is ... to take no overt part in the game of mere talkativeness; the second is the official Tories, who mostly hate the Bill ... and lose no opportunity of expressing a guarded but thoroughly sincere distrust of every portion of it; the third section consists of the go-as-you-please Lowtherites—the mere guerillas, who are allowed to obstruct as much and as long as they please."—"House and Lobby" in the "Daily Chronicle."]
(Rough, and rather amateurish, reporter's mems. picked up on the St. Stephen's Football Grounds during the progress of the big match, Midlothian United v. Unionists. See illustration, p. 266.)