His wife, it seemed, had gone out for the evening with the lodger.

That was his joke.

It was the most successful song of the whole six.
The one sure Joke.
A philosopher has put it on record that he always felt sad when he reflected on the sorrows of humanity.

But when he reflected on its amusements he felt sadder still.
Why was it so funny that the baby had the lodger's nose?
We laughed for a full minute by the clock.
Why do I love to see a flabby-faced man go behind curtains, and, emerging in a wig and a false beard, say that he is now Bismarck or Mr.
Chamberlain?
I have felt resentment against the Lightning Impersonator ever since the days of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.

During that summer every Lightning Impersonator ended his show by shouting, while the band played the National Anthem, "Queen Victoria!" He was not a bit like Queen Victoria.