["He was brought up to speak in the ante-stumping era."--_Lord Rosebery
on Lord Granville._"]

You do well, my dear Lord, to spread GRANVILLE'S renown.
Knightly, loyal, and courteous to monarch or clown,
He had pluck, and swift speech, though no mere Party Pump.
To our late platform level he hardly worked down;
But the popular sign of _his_ day was "The Crown,"
Of _ours_ 'tis "The Magpie and Stump."

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A PROPHECY AS TO THE U.B.R.

When the Eights are reaching Chiswick,
One will give the other physic.

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TWO DROMIOS.--One day last week at Highgate, a certain or uncertain WILLIAM
PEA, horsedealer, was summoned by the Police for furious driving. The
Police knew him well by sight, but not well enough, as he clearly proved
what _Mr. Weller Senior_ called "a alleybi." Evidently Mr. PEA has a
double, and "as like as two Peas" is peculiarly applicable in this case.
For if the other one isn't a Pea, he has been taken for one by the
Pee-lers.

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QUESTION OF POLITENESS.--Except in the case of a man's father having been