Mr. Blatchford on the match-tax:—

"In this insidious manipulation of the thin end of the Tory wedge do we not perceive the cloven hoof of the serpent casting its shadow before?"—Weekly Dispatch.

No; all we see is Mr. Blatchford laboriously trying to emulate Sir Boyle Roche.


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Tommy. "I went to a place a bit further down the road for supper last night. I don't go there again."

Lady Muriel Beltravers-Montmorency. "Oh, what's the matter with it?"