THE AGED MAN

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Westminster Gazette, May 16, 1901.]

(With apologies to Sir John Tenniel.)

I shook him well from side to side
Until his face was blue.
“Come, tell me where’s the Bill,” I cried,
“And what you’re going to do.”
He said, “I hunt for gibes and pins
To prick the Bishops’ calves,
I search for Royal Commissions, too,
To use as safety valves.”

[See the Debate on Temperance Legislation in the House of Lords, May 14, 1901.]

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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