Some years ago a Law Officer of the Crown got up to give an important speech. As, stuffed with dignity, he rose, the House was suddenly dumbstruck to see a brierwood pipe drop from his pocket. It fell upon the Ministerial bench, and there lay in full view of the assembly. There followed shrieks of laughter. The Law Officer gazed about to divine the disturbance; he blushed, he bungled in his speech, and then, sighting the humble Driar, he made a grab at it and dug it savagely out of sight. But the effect of his speech was quite destroyed.
When a man moves an amendment he brings it up to the clerk of the table in writing. Judge, then, the amazement of the House when a member walked up the floor in his stockinged fect. It was his habit—for reasons of his own—to remove his shoes and stick them under the seat when he was in the House. He even gave speeches minus his shoes. But this evening, suddenly called upon to come to the table, he forgot his condition and daidly marched along, exposing his striped stockings. Members rolled "about the benches in excessive mirth.
"If a politician, however, wants to gain instant popularity in Paliament, if he sits down on his hat he at once becomes a A thing like that is enjoyed Indeed Parliament, without Little incidents, would be really ponderous-dull, And every night has its incident.
liticians are human, An orator was declaiming on the magnificent. work of his own party. "I believe, sir," he said magnificently, that Providence created this party to guard the destinies of England." Then he halted for the cheers. There only came the low, muttered wor from beneath the gallery; Ah, Providence moves ina mysterious way its wonders to perform."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.