The Isle may with one theme resound,—

O'Brien—and his breeches!

Hold! Though I'd fain be jingling on,

One rhyme, experience teaches,

You can't ring on for aye! I've done.

Farewell, O'Brien's breeches!


The Shakspearian Question.

An Actor's opinion on the Bacon v. Shakspeare controversy, expressed in a strictly professional cryptogrammatic style.

"Shakspeare written by a chap called Bacon, my boy? Very likely; I always found 'lots of fat' in it."