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Rh Kittens and rats would occupy the throne, And rule the larder for itself alone !'
 * So rhymed my friend, and asked me what I thought of it.

I told him that so much as I had caught of it Appeared to me (as I need hardly mention) Entirely undeserving of attention.
 * But now, to guide the Congregation, when

It numbers none but really 'able' men, A Vice-Cancellarius will be needed Of every kind of human weakness weeded! Is such the president that we have got? He ought no doubt to be; why should he not ?
 * I do not hint that Liberals should dare

To oust the present holder of the chair—