No. 9. “Dufferin’s Tormentors.”
Reading edition
The Ministerial party in the House, headed by Sir John Macdonald were exceedingly anxious for a prorogation of Parliament, the Opposition as earnestly opposed that course. Their counter entreaties to the Governor-General on the subject suggested the familiar scene of the railway passenger and his friends the “cabbies.”
August 2nd, 1873.
No. 9.
DUFFERIN’S TORMENTORS, or “PER VIAS RECTAS.”
J—N A. (ANXIOUSLY.) “CARRIAGE, SIR? ‘MINISTERIAL’ HOTEL—ONLY CONSTITUTIONAL PLACE IN THE CITY—COME ALONG WITH ME, SIR.”
Mc—K—Nz— (EAGERLY.) “THIS WAY MY LORD—‘REFORM’ HOUSE! TAK’ THE RIGHT COURSE—GIE US YER CHECKS!!”
L—d D—ff—n. “MUCH OBLIGED, GENTLEMEN, I ASSURE YOU; BUT I HAVE A ‘RIG’ OF MY OWN AT HAND, YOU KNOW.”