Volume 156 — "MUTABILE SEMPER."

To such as have a humorous bent Pleasant indeed it was to cull From rival organs what was meant By the enlightened vote of Hull; What process of the mind (if any) drove her To execute that ludicrous turn-over. Some held the Peace was too severe, And others not severe enough; The latter cried, "The cause is clear— LLOYD GEORGE is made of flabby stuff;" The former took the line that he had blundered In letting Fritz (their friend) be grossly "plundered." Then came a still small voice which said, "The thing that sent the coupon West Was Woman; something in her head Told her that second thoughts were best; To Party laws she hasn't learnt to knuckle (This was the view advanced by Mr. BUCKLE). "Men know a 'pledge's' worth by now; They take it with a touch of salt; To Woman 'tis a sacred vow, And for the least alleged default She gives her Chosen One no minute's grace, But treats it like a breach-of-promise case." O "Ministering Angels," ye Who yet are mobile as the breeze, Have you alone the right to be "Uncertain, coy and hard to please?" Our Ministerial Angels (GEORGE and kind)— Aren't they allowed, poor males, to change their mind? O.S.