Women taking liquor: Skepsey had a vision of his wife with rheumy peepers and miauly mouth, as he had once beheld the creature:--Oh! they need discipline not such would we have for the mothers of our English young.

Decidedly the women of principle are bound to enter wedlock; they should be bound by law.

Whereas, in the opposing case--the binding of the unprincipled to a celibate state--such a law would have saved Skepsey from the necessitated commission of deeds of discipline with one of the female sex, and have rescued his progeny from a likeness to the corn-stalk reverting to weed.

He had but a son for England's defence; and the frame of his boy might be set quaking by a thump on the wind of a drum; the courage of William Barlow Skepsey would not stand against a sheep; it would wind-up hares to have a run at him out in the field.

Offspring of a woman of principle!...