The _St. James's Gazette_ suggested that the
Cartoon was thus reproduced in Whistlerian fashion. It certainly is a
study in black, without any relief whatever. A Black business indeed!
Who shall correct the Censor Incensed? Even _Mr. Punch_ himself
would be chary about visiting Petersburg, lest he should be "bound in
Russia,"--and sent to Siberia.
* * * * *
[Illustration: IMITATION THE SINCEREST FLATTERY.
_(Effects of a Long Session in the House.)_]
* * * * *
WHAT THE TAME RABBIT SAID TO THE GRAND OLD GARDENER.
_(Some way after "Alice in Wonderland.")_
"The work of Major MORANT is headed _Profitable Rabbit Farming.
(Laughter.)_ Yes, that is a subject for merriment, probably, on
account of its comparative novelty, but it is also a subject of
satisfaction, which is akin to merriment, because this rabbit-farming
appears to be a very good and promising description of pursuit....
That is the raising of tame rabbits."--_Mr. Gladstone at the Hawarden
Floral and Horticultural Society's Show._
_These were the verses the Tame Rabbit recited_:--
The Grand Old Man was on the stir;
MORANT named me to him;
He gave me a good character;
I thought his meaning dim.
He held me up; they thought it fun!
And laughed; he chid their glee.
If he should push this matter on,
What will become of Me?
He said I was a paying game,
Commending me as such.
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