"OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY!"
[Mr. Gladstone has gone on a visit to Mr. George Armitstead, at Black Craig Castle, Perthshire. Mr. Henry Gladstone stated that the Prime Minister would receive no deputations, and that the holiday would be purely recuperative.]
Pensive Premier museth:—
Purely recuperative! Ah! precisely.
Leave me alone, and I shall manage nicely.
How the bees boom amidst the purple heather!
Better than Bowles and Bartley! (Yawn.) Wonder whether
They're "booming" still about Sir William's head;
Buz-wuz! Buz-wuz! And raspy Russell, red
With Orange rage, shakes he a towzled crest?