"I wonder why he's so Black, Mummy? I suppose he was Born in the Dark!"
"PITY THE POOR ARTIST!"
["I have had occasion to speak on the difficulties of a minister who finds himself pledged to a very large and extensive programme, to each point of which programme there is a large circle of adherents who consider it the foremost and the preeminently important point."—Lord Rosebery.]
Westminster Pavement Artist loquitur:—
Who would be a political "screever"? A drudge
Foredoomed to designing, and destined to smudge,
Like impressionist painters of posters?
Art's in a rum way. Lor! what humbug it is!
Far better the days of old Cruikshank and Phiz,