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Show Followed the Same Craft, In tho days when Sir Oavan Duffy was a leading flguro In Victorian politics poli-tics thcro sat In the Mclbourno parliament par-liament n wealthy hut not well-informed butcher. The chief secretary of tho day was deprecating tho nttl-tudo nttl-tudo of tho leader of the opposition, whoso conduct was, he declnred, worse than Nero's. "Who was Nero?" Interjected Inter-jected tho knight of tho cleaver, with equal scorn and sincerity. "Who was Nero?" replied tho delighted chief secretary. sec-retary. "Tho honorablo gentleman ought to know. Nero was a eolcbrated Roman butcher" |