Genre:

Poetry, Drollery

Subjects:

Vaccination, Aeronautics, Accidents, Mathematics, Expertise

    Responding to news of the statesmen, Christopher D Griffith, who was 'Twice Counted Out' or defeated in Parliament, stresses that 'a thing twice done has brought a Briton glory' and considers other infamous events that happened twice. For example, 'Twice men have had small-pox, spite vaccination [...] Twice have risked life in mad aërostation'. Acclaims Griffith's feat above them all, apostrophising 'Counting Babbage' and 'Bidder, Calculating Boy', on the subject.