Come over here where the Chief Justice can't hear us.

(_They cross the stage_.) Now, then, as First Lord of the Treasury?
_Pooh-Bah_.

Of course, as First Lord of the Treasury, I could propose a special vote that would cover all expenses if it were not that, as leader of the Opposition, it would be my duty to resist it, tooth and nail.

Or, as Paymaster-General, I could so cook the accounts that, as Lord High Auditor, I should never discover the fraud.

But then, as Archbishop of Jitipu, it would be my duty to denounce my dishonesty, and give myself into my own custody as Commissioner of Police." Under such arrangements as these the inevitable happens.