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The House of Commons Press Gallery Disraeli as Orator The Story of the Dry Champagne The Labour Member Dr Kenealy's Fiasco Mr Newdigate's Eloquence Lord Beaconsfield's Success "Stone-walling" Robert Lowe's Classics The Press Gallery and Mr Gladstone. I forget precisely how it came about that I secured my first sessional appointment in the gallery of the House of Commons.
The meagre little figure in robes and coronet is shown slinking by Lord Brougham similarly attired, and the latter addresses the arrival, saying, "You'll find it very cold up here, Johnnie." I was in the House also when Mr Biggar introduced the great parliamentary art of "stone-walling."
On the 4th they lost twenty-eight men killed and ninety-eight wounded from a gruelling all-day shell-fire and stone-walling. That night they got relief and were out for two days, when they were back in the front trenches again. The 5th and the 6th were fairly quiet; that is, what the P.P.s or Mr. Thomas Atkins would call quiet. Average mortals wouldn't.
We said there was no vacancy on the staff for her, and she immediately set herself to create one, by pounding and punching at the staff in private. Finding this of no avail, she threatened to "sing" Maudie dead, also in private, unless she resigned. Maudie proving unexpectedly tough and defiant, Nellie gave up all hope of creating a vacancy, and changing front, adopted a stone-walling policy.
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