What forms be filled, what signatures be sought,
Ere I have speech with such exalted chaps,
I here announce that they are much misled,
That they should see us when we think them far,
Should steal upon us, all unheralded,
And find what frauds, what awful frauds we are.
"I was astonished that not a Londoner raised a cheer for the fine Bankers' Battalion of the Fusiliers which marched through the City to-day. We are really absurdly shy."
"Quex Junior" in "Evening News," April 15.
"The older comrades, who are keeping banks going in the absence of the younger patriots, turned out to cheer their comrades."
"Evening News," same date.
The older bankers, we must presume, are all from the provinces, and not so shy.