THINGS ONE WOULD RATHER HAVE LEFT UNSAID.

Professor Chatterleigh. “By George! I’m so Hungry I can’t Talk!

Fair Hostess (on hospitable thoughts intent). “Oh, I’m so Glad!”


THE MESSENGER OF PEACE.

(With apologies to the Shade of the Author of “Al Aarof.”)

[I have read ... that I have come to Ulster to revive religious bigotry, to rekindle the embers of party strife, and to revive ancient feuds which are now in a fair way to be forgotten. I can assure you that these are not the objects which I propose to myself. (Laughter.)—Report of Mr. Chamberlain’s Speech in Belfast.]

Erin’s Guardian Angel sings:—

I came (by the steamer)