"How's that?" I asked, fearing for a moment that much talking had made Tommy mad.
"Don't you remember? Haven't you been Through a Looking-Glass?
'The time has come,' the Walrus said,
'To talk of many things:
Of shoes, and sticks, and sealing-wax,
Of cabbages, and kings.
And why the sea is boiling hot—
And whether pigs have wings.'
You bet that somewhere in the icy north that Walrus had been accustomed to sit on the Opposition benches in Committee of Supply. Couldn't otherwise have so accurately described situation."
Business done.—In Committee of Supply.