"A CUT OFF THE JOINT."
A BABE O' GRACE.
[Mr. Chamberlain says that "Mr. Gladstone's Home Rule Policy was
conceived in secresy, was born in deceit, and was nurtured on evasion.">[
Poor Babe (whom kind Nurse C. so fain would throttle)
Ill was thy fate, fed from the Gladstone bottle!
Nurture less harsh had Romulus and Remus.
Nurse C. would, oh! so gladly, "Nicodemus
The bantling into Nothing." Yet it lives
And kicks and crows, and lots of trouble gives,