"Look, dear—isn't that good? 'Will you march too, or wait till March the Second'?"


A PIOUS HOPE.

[Suggested by an interview between M. Sazonoff and Mr. Harold Begbie in The Daily Chronicle.]

The Russian statesman, Harold Begbie thinks,

Is a good egg and not a subtle Sphinx;

Some day perhaps he will a better egg be

And tell us frankly what he thought of Begbie.