JEAMES. "DULL SESSION!-DULL SEASON!-THINGS BAD IN THE CITY!-HINFLUENZA ALL HOVER THE SHOP; AND, NOW THE HEMP'ROR 'S GONE, THE SOONER WE'RE HORF THE BETTER!!" A NEW ELECTION "LAY." Оn, young Mrs. BRAND has gone down to the East! And save her fine treble she weapons has none; Yet she means with that voice that the seat shall be won. So good at a lay, at a ballad so grand, There never was dame like the young Mrs. BRAND! All boldly she 's entered the Cambridgeshire halls, 'Mid the squires, and the parsons, the farmers, and thralls! Said DUNCAN, the foeman, "My friends, on my word, Of a stranger proceeding I never have heard. I don't wish to be rude, but I can't understand What you mean by this singing, oh young Mrs. BRAND!" "You need not suspect me," the lady replied; "I care not how flows the electoral tide, I merely have come down to Wisbech to-day To sing a few stanzas, trill one little lay. I am tired of long speeches, Home-Rule I can't stand, So lovely her voice, so bewitching her grace, scoff, Declare they are "smoked off," Is there no room inside? If smoke means Hades, We,"to oblige the ladies," 4. Describe the process of resuscitating a person apparently drowned. How would you revive a person rendered insensible by (1) cold, (2) by sunstroke. 5. Give simple remedies to be applied at Have taken outside seats this many a once in case of bites by a mad dog, acci year, Cold, but with weeds to cheer Our macintosh-enswathed umbrella'd Pray learn to smoke yourselves! Don't crowd us out, don't snub, and sneer, and sniff, But-join us in a whiff! dental poisoning by arsenic, and swallowing of spurious coin. 6. How would you set, (1) a leg, (2) an arm, (3) a broken finger? If a man is run over by a Hansom, what should you do? Describe an excellent substitute for a litter, when you can obtain nothing better. 7. State shortly what you consider your duty would be, (1) were the country invaded, (2) were London in the hands of the mob, (3) were your neighbourhood visited by fire, and decimated by the plague. There, Mr. Punch, if every School-Board scholar could supply satisfactory answers to the above questions, I would not grudge my with equanimity on eighteenpence !-Yours, shilling in the pound-nay, possibly look cordially, ONE WHO IS SCHOOL-BORED. |