Letters to Dead Authors by Andrew Lang
page 42 of 131 (32%)
page 42 of 131 (32%)
![]() | ![]() |
|
Have your women folk votes?--Pan.: Bosh!
Have ye got religion?--Pan.: How? Do you go about the streets at night, brawling, blowing a trumpet before you, and making long prayers?--Pan.: Nay! Have you manhood suffrage?--Pan.: Eh? Is Jack as good as his master?--Pan.: Nay! Have you joined the Arbitration Society?--Pan.: Quoy? Will you let another kick you, and will you ask his neighbour if you deserve the same?--Pan.: Nay! Do you eat what you list?--Pan.: Ay! Do you drink when you are athirst?--Pan.: Ay! Are you governed by the free expression of the popular will?--Pan.: How? Are you servants of priests, pulpits, and penny papers?--Pan.: NO! Now, when they heard these answers of Pantagruel they all fell, some a weeping, some a praying, some a swearing, some an arbitrating, some a lecturing, some a caucussing, some a preaching, some a faith- healing, some a miracle-working, some a hypnotising, some a writing to the daily press; and while they were thus busy, like folk |
|