272 THE COMPLETE SPORTSMAN 



of political opponents with whom the Distin- 

 guished Politician is engaged to play golf on 

 the following day. Add a carefully prepared 

 Peroration in which the Distinguished Poli- 

 tician's party is likened to a gallant sailing-ship 

 marching with drums flying into the enemy's 

 camp, putting its hand to the plough and not 

 looking back, cementing the seeds of Inter- 

 national amity, and bearing a banner beneath 

 whose brilliant light government for the people, 

 by the people, of the people, to the people, from 

 the people, with the people, shall prevail so long 

 as the incommensurate ocean laps the sounding 

 shores of that mighty Empire on which the sun 

 never sets. 



Heat the Earnest Persons with intense fervour 

 until they boil over with sounds of " For He's a 

 Jolly Good Fellow !" Let the organ play the 

 same air three bars behind the Earnest Persons. 

 Bring forward another Nervous-looking Gentle- 

 man to address the meeting, while the Earnest 

 Persons look at their watches and remark that 

 it is much later than they imagined. Let the 

 Nervous-looking Gentleman repeat whatever the 

 Distinguished Politician has already said, only 

 in less felicitous phraseology, and while this is 

 going on empty the building gradually of all 

 but the Ushers and 1 Caretaker. Surround the 

 Distinguished Politician with Policemen, place 



