He's running round taking a lot of satisfaction blowing it out just now, and the swells over there are clapping like anything, but the first knock will show that it's just a bun-bag, with a hole in it." "Folks in the old country are solid on the buns, though," said Milburn as they parted, and Alfred Hesketh, who was walking with his host, said--"It's bound in the end to get down to that, isn't it ?" Presently Hesketh came back to it.
"Quaint idea, that--describing Wallingham's policy as a bun-bag," he said, and laughed.

"Winter is an amusing fellow." "Wallingham's policy won't even be a bun-bag much longer," said Milburn.
"It won't be anything at all.

Imperial union is very nice to talk about, but when you come down to hard fact it's Australia for the Australians, Canada for the Canadians, Africa for the Africans, every time." "Each for himself, and devil take the hindmost," said Hesketh; "and when the hindmost is England, as our friend Murchison declares it will be--" "So much the worse for England," said Milburn, amiably.

"But we should all be sorry to see it and, for my part, I don't believe such a thing is at all likely.

And you may be certain of one thing," he continued, impressively: "No flag but the Union Jack will ever wave over Canada." "Oh, I'm sure of that!" Hesketh responded.