Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PAGE AN APPEAL TO THE POET LAUREATE ... 96 " Come, wake up, sweet Austin, and tip us a stave." THE "HANG THE EXPENSE" BUDGET ... 99 " Hang the expense!" LORD SALISBURY AND THE BISHOPS . . .103 Sitting on the Bishops. LORD WOLMER'S DILEMMA ..... 107 Viscount Wolmer doesn't want to be taken upstairs to bed. BECHUANALAND ... . . . .109 " Yet Drink they have tabooed, vie learn, In Bechuanaland." THE BISHOP AND THE BREWER . . . . in "Said the Bishop to the Brevier, ' Sir, 1 very greatly fear, From all that I have heard, that you adulterate your beer.' " THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DUKE . . -113 " With Radicals I once combined The Tory goose to cook ; But now, come to a better mind, I represent the Duke." THE REASSEMBLING OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS . 117 " When they spied Harry Chaplin advance up the floor." "DARE TO BE A DANIEL!" . . . . .121 "Dare to stick together— The Party made of two." A LITTLE MORE FIGHTING . . . . -123 " A little more fighting will make it all square." YE UNIONISTS OF ENGLAND . . . .127 " When the Dissolution's come and gone, And there's nothing left but 'Joe'/" Cartoons in RDpme and Cine To Balfour says Joe, "You're the greatest of men; I've said it before, and I'll say it again." Says Balfour to Joseph, " It's perfectly true, No couple are equal to me and to you; And the country we govern is safe as can be, So long as it's governed by you and by me." October 1902. THE HEATHEN CHINEE The Heathen Chinee! The Heathen Chinee! How Lyttelton loves him we all of us see. To protect him from harm and his money to save, We'll send out and catch him, and make him a slave. Oh! then in a "compound" how happy he'll be! Who—who is so blest as the Heathen Chinee ? So Lytte...