THE SPEAKER DROPS INTO VERSE.
The Speaker of the British House of Co mre runs and Canon: 'Ra wills ley have been exchanging compliments ini verse. Sir Donald Maclean, in congratulating Mr. Lowther on hi# re-election to the Chair, said that “an ideal Speaker must not only have gapd- vision, but be sometimes quite blind; not omy have acute hearing, but occasionally be almost stone deaf.” Thu? prom jtea Canon Rawnsley to send the following verse to the Sneaker, “with apology to Sir Donald Maclean”:—
In you ther ideal Speaker all men find, Keen-sighted ever, but at times stone-
blind, , Swift with an ear for every member’s
tone, But when need bo as deaf gs any stone; Endowed w.ith double senses and possess’d With sense of humour, of all sense* ■bet.
Tile Speaker sent the fallowing reply : ■Sir Donald, I ween, has been rather unkind. And I. wish that the word had been,
“mum/* For he made me out deaf and he made me out blind, And he knows that I always am dumb.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 102, 1 May 1919, Page 5
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