Steady Customer

Sir Winston Churchill stood at the House df Commons bar recently, having a drink with an old journalist friend. Asked Churchill: "What are they saying about me these days?"

"Well, quite frankly, quite a few of your Conservative friends are saying that it would be a good thing for the party if you were to resign some time fairly soon," replied the journalist.

Churchill glanced around the bar: "You know, as I look at this room and think back over my long association with this House, I think that this is a pretty good pub." Britain's great man, thinking of the English publican's insistent cry at closing time when reluctant customers must be urged out into the night, gazed dreamily at the ceiling and added: "And as I look at the faces in the House, I wonder why I should leave this pub until someone says, 'Time, please'--in somewhat stronger accents than those of my friends to whom you have been speaking."

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