National Affairs: A Magical Waistcoat

Once upon a time there was an eminent mathematician named Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who laid down his compasses and took up his pen. Thereat all children rejoiced, for they were given Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

More recently an eminent justice, surreptitiously doffing his wig, began to pen another story, the story of Johnny and his Magic Vest. But all children did not begin to rejoice. In fact a few of them may now be weeping, for last week the eminent justice, laying aside both wig and pen, accepted a portfolio. It was not an...

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