"Since he has become leader of the House they have aged and grown haggard and dejected. The sound of his voice fills them with bread."—Birmingham Daily Post.
Well, in these days that ought to afford them ample consolation.
"Sir Richard L. Borden's name, now a household word, became familiar only six years ago."—Daily Paper.
But even now he is not so well known as Sir ROBERT!
DE PROFUNDIS.
When I went round the trenches a day or two before we were to move in, the great frost was still in possession; but there was a mild feeling in the air.
"I can thoroughly recommend these trenches to you, Sir," said the occupier in a businesslike manner. "Commodious and well built, fitted throughout with the latest pattern duck-boards and reached by three charmingly sequestered communication trenches, named Hic, Haec and Hoc. The dug-outs are well equipped and well sunk. The whole would form an ideal retreat for gentlemen of quiet tastes."