18 AUGUST 1894, Page 18

LORD SALISBURY'S IDEAL BRIDEGROOM.

[AN IIIPROMPTIT.1 SAID the Toad, while pacing slowly Through the wood from east to west, Bent on finding in the thicket Her whose physique matched him best,— $' Is her skin more darkly spotted ?

Have her eyes a brighter gleam P Have her toes a wider webbing ?

Has she greater length of limb ?

Is she waiting on the outer Skirts of forest, she I'd wed?"

Yes; but tangled are the footpaths, Dark the branches overhead,— Will they ever meet, those beings P Similsr, selected, tried : He the one ideal bridegroom, She the true ideal bride ! E. T.