LIFE OF MYTTOX. 99 



"A REFORM CANDIDATE'S SPEECH. 



" Yes ! gentlemen, upon my soul, 



I thank you much for what you've done ; 



Though at the bottom of the poll, 

 I've too much ' Bottom ' yet to run. 



" I told you all, when first I came. 



You'd not find me the man to shirk ; — 



To play ON — now I've lost the game. 

 Does seem like devilish up-HiLL w^ork.* 



" Reform's my vessel, mann'd by Brums, 

 Who hoist ME for their ' Union Jack ;' 



She'll fight till Captain Beardsworth comes 

 To steer her on some other tack. 



" Yes ! he has nail'd me to the mast, 



Without a rag of canvass going ; 

 And though we are capsized at last. 



The Captain ' raised the wind ' that's blowing." t 



* Sir Rowl.ind Hill, Bart., was tlie successful candidate. 

 tit is said that Beardsworth appeared on the hustings with a b.inlc- 

 note, of large amount, pinned on his breast. 



