_First W. I. M._ (_with dignity_). Did I? Well, isn't it enough to make anybody, who loves his country, angry when he sees what's going on. Why, the Government's going to turn everything inside out, with some blessed new law about elections. Registration Bill, they call it, or something of that sort. Just as if we hadn't had enough tinkering and pottering lately. It's all through this confounded County Council interfering with everything. _Second W. I. M._ (_aggressive_). What the dickens has the County Council got to do with it? You're always dropping on the County Council. _First W. I. M._ Oh, they've got their finger in every pie. I'm pretty certain this is their job. _Second W. I. M._ Well, you're wrong this time, that's all. You're thinking of the Employers' Liability Bill. _First W. I. M._ No, I'm not. I never even heard of it. So that's where _you're_ wrong. What has the Employers' Liabill got----I mean the Employers' (_steadily, and with determination_) Li-a-bil-ity Bill got to do with the County Council? _Second W. I. M._ Everything. Didn't you read JOHN BURNS'S speech about it? _First W. I. M._ No--and I don't mean to. Ask me another. _Second W. I. M._ All right--I will. Do you mean to deny that our present Registration System is a ridiculous one? _First W. I. M._ (_hotly_). Yes, I do. _Second W. I. M._ (_with triumph_). Ah, I've got you now. You said, only yesterday, that any system by which a Government like this got into power must be ridiculous. (_To_ Inquirer.) Didn't he? _Inquirer_ (_hesitating_). Well, I'm not quite sure. I rather fancy he did say something of that kind. But--(_deprecatingly_)--perhaps he meant something else. _First W. I. M._ No, I didn't. I meant what I said--and I stick to it. But that isn't the same thing as the Registration System. _Second W. I. M._ Perhaps you'll tell us, then, what the Registration System is? _Inquirer_ (_eagerly_). Yes, do. I should like to get to the bottom of it, because I'm constantly meeting a sort of third cousin of mine, who's a Registrar of something or other, and I never quite know what he does. All I know is, that he isn't a Registrar in Bankruptcy. _First W. I. M._ Let me see--how can I put it shortly? It's just this--you chaps have got votes. _Inquirer_ (_decisively_). No, I haven't. _First W. I. M._ (_put out_). Ah, but you ought to have. _Second W. I. M._ (_cutting in_). There you are again. That's just what I've been saying all along. He ought to have--but he hasn't; so where's your beautiful system now? _First W. I. M._ (_retreating strategically_). I never said it was _perfect_, did I? But I'll come to that afterwards. (_To_ Inquirer.) Now why haven't you got a vote? _Inquirer_ (_with a painful sense of inferiority_). I'm sure I don't know. I suppose the old Johnny, whoever he is, didn't chalk me down when he went round last time. _First W. I. M._ Probably you haven't lived in your house long enough. You haven't got a qualifying period.