(_Signed_) W.H.S.
_Henley-on-Thames, New Year's Eve_, 1890.
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THE PERFECT UNION OF CHURCH AND STATE is exemplified in the title and
name of BISHOP KING.
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[Illustration: "A HAPPY NEW YEAR!"]
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[Illustration: "DEFENCE, NOT DEFIANCE."
"In these days of conflicts between Counsel, I propose to make a few
additions to my usual forensic costume."--_Extract from a Letter of
Mr. Welnown Kewsee, Q.C., to a young Friend_.]
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AT THE END OF THE YEAR.
To a Friend,
Do you remember how we sat,
We two, in this same room together
Last year, and talked of this and that,
And warmed our toes and cursed the weather?
And dreamed of fame, and puffed a cloud
(We both smoked briars, I remember),
And sipped our whiskey hot, and vowed
To do or die ere next December?
We spoke without respect of BEN,
BEN who was ploughed, or very nearly;
_Now_ BEN bamboozles jurymen,
And makes his thousand guineas yearly.
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