Chapter 27 A SHORT SIDELOOK AT THE ELECTION

The brisk Election-day, unlike that wearisome but instructive canvass of the Englishman in his castle vicatim, teaches little; and its humours are those of a badly managed Christmas pantomime without a columbine-old tricks, no graces. Nevertheless, things hang together so that it cannot be passed over with a bare statement of the fact of the Libera