"ANIMAL SPIRITS."
No. IV.—The Glacial Period. Hyde Park, 1895. "Driven in by Stress of Weather."
THE TEN LITTLE MEASURES.
(An Unionist's Forecast.)
[The measures in the Government Programme are ten in number (says the Westminster Gazette), viz., 1, Irish Land Reform; 2, Welsh Disestablishment; 3, Local Veto; 4, One Man, one Vote; 5, Charging Election Expenses on Rates; 6, Unification of London; 7, A Factory Bill; 8, Establishment of Conciliation Boards; 9, Completion of Scottish County Government; 10, Relief of Crofters.]
Ten little measures hung upon the line,
One went up to the Lords, and then there were nine.
Nine little measures asked their turn to wait,