_Sequel._--Delighted to find that our scientific expedition has one result. I have consulted the Professor, and we are both of the opinion, that from the summit of the Ironice Mountains it is possible to get a splendid bird's-eye view of India.
In St. SWITHIN's forty days Comes the end of voting-frays; Forty extra then arrays Mr. G.
He had hoped for many more, But he cannot even score Forty-four, that fought he for-- Mr. G.
Fortified with fortitude. Rule your motley multitude, And so earn our gratitude Mr. G.!
Oh majority, you know "Gently does it;" therefore go Quite _piano_, Forty--show Mr. G.
Though his forty is not fat, It is fair at least; so that JOHN shall not be taxed for PAT, Mr. G.
Spare him income tax that grieves, Lest he think that he perceives ALI BABA's Forty ---- Mr. G.!
WALKER!--Mr. TOOLE is going into the country, and Mr. GARDEN is to take his place. This sounds like a seasonable change, as Londoners who cannot get away to a Garden, will now have a GARDEN coming to them.
(_IN RE PAYNE_ V. _'ENRY HAUTHOR JONES._)
Alas, poor JONES, how sad your fate! The Law's stern coldness comes to freeze Your burning wish to captivate With words you know will always please-- "No fees!"
When "bang goes saxpence" for a page Of poorest paper, where one sees More puffs than programme, then your rage Seems right. One cries, "At least for these No fees!"
If Dr. BRAMWELL,[1] who they say Cures psychological disease, Had known he would have willed away Your PAYNE, like tooth-ache--he would seize "No fees!"
You've _lost_ the case, and now, "that's flat,"[2] Must pay those eminent Q.C.'s Your Bill of Costs! No Play-bill that! You will not find the Law decrees "No fees."
[Footnote 1: Mentioned in _Times_ Leading Article, Aug. 3.]
[Footnote 2: "That's flat." HENRY (AUTHOR SHAKSPEARE) IV., Part I., Act I., Scene 3.]
A TRIO.--Congratulations to Sir WILLIAM CUSINS, who from his known admiration for WAGNER, is generally known as "Cusins German." He was a "King's Scholar," and KING, whoever he was, must have found him a remarkably apt pupil. He has composed a Comic Opera called _Giddy 'Un_. The next Knight is JOSEPH BARNBY, a name suggestive of pure rustic music. The last of the Knights, Sir WALTER PARRATT, has chosen as his device the ancient legend always associated with the head of the PARRATT family, i.e., "Scratch a Poll." This dates from very ancient times, and was an inscription found in a temple of Apollo.