Mr. B. Tree. "All right, my dear Kemble. Quite true what you say; and, any night I am unable to play, you shall be my double!"


WHIPPED IN VAIN.

(By an M.P. of a Retiring Nature.)

The Whip, he writes to me to-day,

Not, as his wont, in tones pacific,

But in the very strongest way,

And using language quite terrific.

He hopes to see me in my place,

And woe betide the sad seceder,