Full glad is the face of the earth when the vineyards are laden; Loud laughs with innumerous laughter in wreath upon wreath The ocean at Blackpool or Margate; most blithely the maiden Unfastens the sheath Of her mouth like the bloom of a musk rose, when Fangol has furbished her teeth; So fair was the smile of the sea-kings; so sweet was the look on The faces of HEZLET and OUIMET and most of their peers When they passed from the contest, a smile with a sort of a hook on, Unclouded with tears; It went slap through their cheeks down the fair-way and bunkered itself by their ears. And if e'er in the future, cast down from the promise of Heaven, Half-stymied by William, I grumble and groan at my fate When he captures the hole (and the game) with a pretty bad 7, Whilst my score is 8, And I bubble with impotent anger, I seethe with tumultuous hate. Let me think of my album of photos, whose title is "After," All cut from the dailies; it gives you most wonderful tips For producing without any pressure the right kind of laughter; It gives you the grips And the stance of the teeth of the _plus_ men, and how to get length from the lips. EVOE. * * * * * "Hobbs lbw b Bold c Pearson."--_Scotsman._ PEARSON ought really to be told that you cannot catch a man off his pads. * * * * * Illustration: A HOLIDAY TASK. PRIME AND WAR MINISTER. "AFRAID I'VE LET YOU IN FOR RATHER AN AWKWARD JOB WITH THIS AMENDING BILL." LORD CREWE. "MY DEAR FELLOW, YOU'RE SO VERSATILE--WHY NOT SPEND THE REST OF THE RECESS MAKING YOURSELF A BARON OR A BISHOP? THEN YOU COULD TAKE IT ON INSTEAD OF ME." * * * * * ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT. (EXTRACTED FROM THE DIARY OF TOBY, M. P.) _House of Commons, Monday, May 25._--"Let the curtain ring down, Mr. SPEAKER, and the sooner the better. It is a farce, and I think a contemptible farce." Thus BONNER LAW--the farce being the Third Reading of the Home Rule Bill. The curtain had risen on a thronged and excited House. Were it the custom at the T. R. Westminster to put out notice-boards one might have borne the legend dear to the heart of the manager, "Standing room Only." Even late-comers among the peers were fain to stand by the doorway opening on the Gallery, where earlier birds had found twigs on which to sit. Overflow of Commoners into the side galleries gave the last touch to stirring scene presented but twice or thrice in history of a Session.