And versatile Gladstone a-wearing the Green,

And Harcourt defending Home Rule and the rough-rage;

And Disintegration approaching our realm,

And Rads—so they fancy—inviting invaders;

But that which their souls must with woe most o'erwhelm

Is—Lord Randolph Churchill a-chaffing Fair Traders!


"'Jam' satis," as our Schoolmaster had just breath enough to murmur when he escaped from out of the midst of a Socialist Meeting in Trafalgar Square.


Unfortunately, the great enemy of the Teetotal Temperance Societies is—the British "Public."