For, in tooling our dog-cart along,
If you're left with the reins you are sure to be right,
If the reins are my right, it's all wrong."
Officious Friend. Oh, more poetry! What a chap you are for Metaphysics and the Muses! Now the foundations of my belief are facts and figures.
Driver (meditatively). It's a fact that the Tory total figures out much larger than the Liberal Unionist.
Officious Friend. Oh, bother! What's that got to do with it! Our Compact——
Driver. Is ours—not Leamington's it seems.
[Hums.
"There was a man at Leamington,
Who thought it would be nice