Question and Answer.
Ingoldsby's Question.
"Tiger Tim, come tell me true,
What may a nobleman find to do?"
Modern Idiot's Answer.
Squeak out the "chestnut" (he'll well know which!)
"I can't afford it; I'm far too rich!"
A HOPELESS CASE.
A very Un-Virgilian Pastoral Eclogue.
Interlocutors—Ceres and a Northern Farmer, newest style.
["In several instances last week the prices for new wheat were quoted at 16s. to 19s. per quarter in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, and the general average for the whole country last week was actually only 27s. 7d. It is over two hundred years since anything like so low a price has been quoted for wheat in England."—Westminster Gazette.]