an-cut chump,
Orchid for button-'oler!
'E cocked a snook at pride o' race.
We shouted "Brayvo, BRUMMY!
Peg on, we'll put yer in fust place;
Then won't old WEG look rummy?"

_Chorus._

Sich a smart man too! Sich a _very_ smart man!
No _Rip wan Winkle_ HARTY affectation!
Yet 'e somehow made yer feel
That 'e jest knowed 'ow to deal
With the "Gentlemen" by buth and edgercation.

Acrost 'is phiz there stole a smile,
Like sunshine in November.
Sez 'e, "_I_'m for the Sons o' Tile!"
O yus, don't we remember!
We fancied JOE wos one of hus,
A cove we might ha' trusted.
Now you should 'ear the Corkus cuss
At the Brum bubble--busted!

_Chorus._

Sich a smart man too! Sich a _very_ smart man!
No orty scorn, no "arm-cheer" affectation!
One as somehow made yer feel
'E alone knowed 'ow to deal
With Allotments, Taxes and Free Edgercation!

'E chose to play at hodd man hout;
'E ain't the fust by many
Wot's tried to Tommy-Dodd the rout
With a two-'eaded penny.
It's broke our trust; _'e_ can go 'ome
With Toffdom for next neighbour.
_'E_ won't cut Capital's cockscomb
In the 'Oly Cause o' Labour!

_Chorus._

Sich a snide man too! Sich a _very_ snide man!
And now,--but that's 'is hartful affectation!
'E would like to make hus feel
As he only "plays genteel,"
To give Toffs a Demmycratic Hedgercation!

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ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.

EXTRACTED FROM THE DIARY OF TOBY, M.P.

_House of Commons, Monday, March 7._--JOKIM in a bad way to-night.
People are wanting to know how it has come about that TATE's offer of
L80,000 for Picture Gallery, with L80,000 worth of pictures thrown
in to start it, has, after long correspondence with CHANCELLOR OF
EXCHEQUER, been withdrawn. JOKIM rises to explain.

"What I should really like to do," he whispered to me, in confidence,
"is to give him one for his _tete_, as we say in cribbage. But
suppose I must speak him fair." Did his best in that direction though
undercurrent of observation in lengthy paper he read decidedly set
in direction of making TATE out as a cantankerous wrong-headed person
who, proposing to bestow some L160,000 in way of free gift, expected
to have his wishes consulted in such matter of detail as selection of
site for Gallery.

"I venture to hope," said JOKIM, in conclusion, "that the door is not
finally closed on the establ