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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101,
+November 14th, 1891, by Various
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+
+ <h1>PUNCH,<br />
+ OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.</h1>
+
+ <h2>Vol. 101.</h2>
+ <hr class="full" />
+
+ <h2>November 14th, 1891.</h2>
+ <hr class="full" />
+ <span class="pagenum"><a name="page229"
+ id="page229"></a>[pg 229]</span>
+
+ <h2>LETTERS TO ABSTRACTIONS.</h2>
+
+ <h3>No. VI.&mdash;TO VANITY.</h3>
+
+ <p>DEAR VANITY,</p>
+
+ <p>I think I can see you smirking and posturing before the
+ abstract mirror, which is your constant companion. It pleases
+ you, no doubt, to think that anybody should pay you the
+ compliment of making you the object and the subject of a whole
+ letter. Perhaps when you have read it to the end you will alter
+ your mood, since it cannot please you to listen to the truth
+ about yourself. None of those whom you infect here below ever
+ did like it. Sometimes, to be sure, it had to be endured with
+ many grimaces, but it was extraordinary to note how the clouds
+ caused by the aggravated truth-teller passed away as soon as
+ his departure had enabled the object of these reproaches to
+ recover his or her false self again. What boots it, after all,
+ to tell the truth? For those whom you protect are clad in
+ armour, which is proof against the sharpest lance, and they can
+ thus bid defiance to all the clumsy attacks of the merely
+ honest and downright&mdash;for a time; but in the end their
+ punishment comes, not always in the manner that their friends
+ predict, but none the less inevitable in one manner or another.
+ For they all fashion a ridiculous monster out of affectations,
+ strivings and falsehoods, and label it "Myself;" and in the end
+ the monster takes breath, and lives and crushes his despised
+ maker, and immediately vanishes into space.</p>
+
+ <p>Permit me to proceed in my usual way, and to offer you an
+ example or two. And I begin with HERMIONE MAYBLOOM. HERMIONE
+ was one of a large family of delightful daughters. Their father
+ was the well-known Dr. MAYBLOOM, who was Dean of Archester
+ Cathedral. His massive and convincing volumes on <i>The Fauna
+ and Flora of the Mosaic Books in their Relation to Modern
+ Botanical Investigation</i>, must be within your recollection.
+ It was followed, you remember, by <i>The Dean's Duty</i>,
+ which, being published at a time when there was, so to speak, a
+ boom in religious novels, was ordered by many readers under the
+ impression that it was likely to upset their mature religious
+ convictions by its assaults on orthodoxy. Their disappointment
+ when two stout tomes, dealing historically with the
+ <i>status</i> and duties of Deans, were delivered to them, was
+ the theme of cheerful comment amongst the light-hearted members
+ of the Dean's own family.</p>
+
+ <div class="figright"
+ style="width:50%;">
+ <a href="images/229.png"><img width="100%"
+ src="images/229.png"
+ alt="The Reverend Stephen Hankinson." /></a>
+ </div>
+
+ <p>Was there ever in this world so delightful a family circle
+ as that of the Deanery? The daughters were all pretty, but that
+ was their smallest merit. They were all clever, and well-read,
+ without a tinge of the bluestocking, and most of them were
+ musical to the tips of their slender fingers. How merrily their
+ laughter used to ring across the ancient close, and how
+ playfully and gently they used to rally the dear learned old
+ Dean who had watched over them and cared for them since Mrs.
+ MAYBLOOM'S death, many years before, with all the tender care
+ of the most devoted mother. And of this fair and smiling
+ throng, "my only rosary," as the Dean used to call them,
+ HERMIONE was, I think, the prettiest, as she was certainly the
+ most accomplished. Every kind of gift had been showered upon
+ her by Nature. When she played her violin, accompanied by her
+ elder sister on the piano, tears trickled unbidden down the
+ aquiline nose of the militant Bishop of Archester, the chapter
+ stood hushed to a man, and the surrounding curates were only
+ prevented by a salutary fear of ruining their chances of
+ preferment from laying themselves, their pittances, and their
+ garnered store of slippers at her pretty feet. Then in a fit of
+ charming petulance, she would break off in the middle of the
+ piece, lay down her violin, and, with a pretty imperiousness,
+ command a younger sister to fetch her zither, on which to
+ complete the subjugation of her adorers. And then her
+ caricatures&mdash;summer-lightning flashes of pencilled wit, as
+ I heard the Reverend SIMEON COPE describe them in a moment of
+ enthusiasm after she had shown us her sketch of his rival, the
+ Reverend STEPHEN HANKINSON.</p>
+
+ <p>But even in those days, while she still had about her all
+ the fascinations of peerless beauty and fresh and glowing
+ youth, I mistrusted her. Alone of all the sisters she seemed to
+ me to be wanting in heart. I heard her several times attempt to
+ snub her father, and once I noted how she spent a whole evening
+ in moody silence, and refused to play a note, for no other
+ reason that I could see except that Captain ARBLAST, of the
+ 30th Lancers, the dashing first-born of the Bishop, who
+ happened to be spending a few days of his long leave in
+ Archester, devoted himself with all the assiduity of his
+ military nature to twirling his heavy moustache in the
+ immediate neighbourhood of SOPHY MAYBLOOM, and not in that of
+ HERMIONE. Indeed, I have reason to know that, after the guests
+ had departed, poor SOPHY had to endure from her sister a
+ dreadful scene, the harsh details of which have not yet faded
+ from her memory. And then I remembered, too, how it was a
+ matter of family chaff against HERMIONE that once, not very
+ long after she had entered upon her teens, she had sobbed
+ convulsively through a whole night, because she had discovered
+ that her juvenile arms were thin and mottled, and she imagined
+ that she would never be able to wear a low dress, or shine in
+ Society.</p>
+
+ <p>Such, then, was the beautiful HERMIONE, who for some years
+ rode rough-shod over the hearts of all the males in Archester.
+ Space fails me to enumerate all her engagements. She broke them
+ one after another without a thought, and cast her admirers away
+ as if they had been dresses of last year's fashion. Most of
+ them, it must be said, recovered quickly enough, but the
+ miserable COPE became a hopeless hypochondriac, and never
+ smiled again. He died the other day, and HERMIONE's sketch of
+ HANKINSON was found, frayed and soiled, in an ancient
+ pocket-book which he always carried about with him. HANKINSON'S
+ fate seemed at first to be worse. He took to poetry, morbid,
+ passionate, yearning, unhealthy poetry, of the skimmed
+ SWINBURNE variety, and for a time was gloomy enough. Having,
+ however, engaged in a paper conflict with one of his critics,
+ he forgot his sorrows, and though he still declares an
+ overwhelming desire for death and oblivion about six times a
+ year, in various magazines, he seemed, when I last saw him,
+ fairly comfortable and happy. But, of course, he has never
+ secured a vicarage.</p>
+
+ <p>To return to HERMIONE. She at last married a certain Mr.
+ PARDOE, a barrister practising on the Archester Circuit, and
+ established herself in town. Shortly afterwards she became the
+ rage. Her beauty, her wit, her music, her dinners, her
+ diamonds, were spoken of with enthusiasm. All the elderly
+ <i>rou&eacute;s</i>, whose leathery hearts had been offered up
+ at hundreds of shrines, became her temporary slaves. She coaxed
+ them, cajoled them, and fooled them, did this innocent daughter
+ of a simple-minded Dean, to the top of their various bents. She
+ schemed successfully against countless rivals, in order to
+ maintain her pre-eminence in the admiration of her circle. Her
+ ambition knew no bounds. She changed her so-called friends
+ every week; she cultivated grand passions for actors, authors,
+ musicians, and even for professors. Sometimes she played to
+ select audiences with all her old ravishing skill, but this
+ happened more and more rarely, until at last she utterly
+ declined, and even went so far as to flout H.S.H. the Duke of
+ KALBSKOPF, who had been specially invited to meet her.</p>
+
+ <p>Then suddenly came the crash. She left her husband, in
+ company with CHARLIE FITZHUBERT, the heir presumptive to the
+ wealthy earldom of Battersea. On the following day Mr. PARDOE
+ blew out his brains, leaving ten thousand pounds of debt and
+ three young children. Six months afterwards the venerable Dean
+ died, and sentimental people spoke of a broken heart. Then the
+ Earl of BATTERSEA, in a fit of indignation, married, and was
+ blessed with a son, the present Earl. CHARLIE FITZHUBERT
+ married HERMIONE, but they are as poor as curates, and he hates
+ her. I saw her two days ago in a shabby hired carriage. She is
+ getting prematurely old, and grey, and wrinkled, and everybody
+ avoids her, except her sister SOPHY, who still visits her, and
+ suffers her ill-humour.</p>
+
+ <p>Charming story, isn't it? I shall write again soon.</p>
+
+ <p>Yours, in the meantime,<br />
+ DIOGENES ROBINSON.</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <p>NIGHT-MAILING.&mdash;"Night Mail between London and Paris"
+ has been recently announced in all the papers as now ready and
+ willing to take night-mailers from Victoria, L.C. &amp; D., to
+ the French Capital. It is to be a Third-class Night Mail,
+ though a Knight of the First Class can, of course, travel by it
+ should he be so disposed. Thirty shillings through fare for "a
+ single;" but as the tariff doesn't explicitly inform us whether
+ the passenger will be asked the question, "Married or single?"
+ and so be charged accordingly, we may presume that a margin is
+ left for a little surprise. The train of Night Mails&mdash;a
+ kind of gay bachelor train, no females being of the
+ party&mdash;is to start at 8:15 P.M., and to be in Paris at
+ 5:50 A.M.</p>
+ <hr />
+ <span class="pagenum"><a name="page230"
+ id="page230"></a>[pg 230]</span>
+
+ <h2>DRAWING THE BADGER.</h2>
+
+ <p class="center">(<i>A Natural History Note</i>.)</p>
+
+ <div class="figcenter"
+ style="width:100%;">
+ <a href="images/230.png"><img width="100%"
+ src="images/230.png"
+ alt="The Badger" /></a>
+ </div>
+
+ <p>The Badger (<i>Meles-Taxus</i>) is at once one of the most
+ inoffensive and (in one sense) offensive of our few remaining
+ British Carnivora. He is described by NAPIER of Merchiston, in
+ his <i>Book of Nature and of Man</i>, as a "quiet nocturnal
+ beast, but if much 'badgered' becoming obstinate, and fighting
+ to the last, in which it is a type of a large class of Britons,
+ who like to be let alone, but when ill used can fight."</p>
+
+ <p>That great new authority on Natural History, Mr. G.A. HENTY
+ (author of <i>Those Other Animals</i>), should be able to tell
+ us much about the Badger. Therewith he would be able, in his
+ own favourite fashion, to "point a moral" (against the
+ Demogorgon Democracy), and "adorn a tale" (of laboured
+ waggery). He might find the subject as suggestive of sardonic
+ chaff as American women and Republican institutions.</p>
+
+ <p>What says the popular WOOD? He describes the Badger as "slow
+ and clumsy in its actions," and as "rolling along so awkwardly
+ that it may easily be mistaken for a young pig in the dusk of
+ the evening." Woe, however, to whomsoever <i>does</i> take the
+ creature for "a young pig." "Being naturally as harmless an
+ animal as can be imagined, it is a terrible antagonist when
+ provoked to use the means of defence with which it is so well
+ provided."</p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page231"
+ id="page231"></a>[pg 231]</span>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>We tax the patience of poor <i>Meles-Taxus</i>,</p>
+
+ <p>Until he turns with tooth and claws and whacks
+ us.</p>
+
+ <p>The natural home of <i>Taxus</i>&mdash;the
+ Exchequer&mdash;</p>
+
+ <p>Harbours a creature that keeps up its pecker.</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <p>"For the purpose of so-called 'sport,' the Badger used to be
+ captured and put into a cage ready to be tormented; at the
+ cruel will of every ruffian who might chose to risk his dog
+ against the sharp teeth of the captive animal."</p>
+
+ <p>This particular sort of "sport" is a little out of date. But
+ "drawing a Badger" is not unknown even in these humanitarian
+ days. Dogs will sometimes voluntarily rush in to risk their
+ hides and muzzles against the aforesaid sharp teeth, &amp;c.
+ Look at those in the picture!</p>
+
+ <p>The two small, if aggressive, terriers seem unequally
+ matched against the "clumsy" but strong-jawed and
+ terribly-toothed Badger. They have drawn him, indeed, out of
+ his hole, and one of them, at least, seems rather sorry for it,
+ if you may judge by the way in which he turns tail and makes
+ for his protector, the big Bull-Terrier. The ventripotent
+ broken-haired tyke looks more valorous&mdash;for the moment.
+ Yap! yap! yap! <i>Meles-Taxus</i> takes little notice of him,
+ however. His eyes are on that sturdy specimen of <i>Canis
+ familiaris</i> there, whose bold eyes in turn are on
+ <i>him</i>. Both, perhaps, experience&mdash;</p>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>That stern joy which warriors feel</p>
+
+ <p>In foemen worthy of their steel."</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <p>"Drawn by those two tiny yelpers? Not a bit of it! But
+ <i>you</i>, my complacent canine Colossus&mdash;come on if you
+ dare!" And he <i>does</i> dare, evidently. Whether he'll regret
+ his daring remains to be seen.</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <h3>The Memory of Milton.</h3>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>MILTON forgotten? Nay, my BESANT, nay;</p>
+
+ <p>Not wholly, even in this petty day,</p>
+
+ <p>When learning snips, when criticism snaps,</p>
+
+ <p>And the great bulk of readers feed on scraps.</p>
+
+ <p>Still, still he finds his "audience fit, though
+ few,"</p>
+
+ <p>The rest <i>forget</i> not since they never
+ knew.</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <hr class="short" />
+
+ <h3>The Off-Portsmouth Phrase-Book.</h3>
+
+ <p>Have you caught a fish?</p>
+
+ <p>No, but I have bagged a cannon-ball.</p>
+
+ <p>Is the sea too rough for your boat?</p>
+
+ <p>No, the sea is not too rough, but the Torpedoes are
+ decidedly embarrassing.</p>
+
+ <p>Is that a pretty shell that you are going to carry home to
+ your children?</p>
+
+ <p>No, it is a live one, that, if it bursts a yard nearer, will
+ blow us into smithereens.</p>
+
+ <p>Do you propose returning to your lodging to-night?</p>
+
+ <p>That is a matter that will be decided by the Commander of
+ the nearest practising gun-boat.</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <div class="figcenter"
+ style="width:60%;">
+ <a href="images/231a.png"><img width="100%"
+ src="images/231a.png"
+ alt="The result of too much Greek" /></a> <b>THE
+ RESULT OF TOO MUCH GREEK.</b>
+
+ <p><i>First Classic</i>. "BY THE WAY, HADN'T DANTE GOT
+ ANOTHER NAME?"</p>
+
+ <p><i>Second Classic</i>. "YES; ALFIERI, I THINK&mdash;OR
+ ELSE ALIGHIERI."</p>
+
+ <p><i>First Classic</i>. "AH, PERHAPS YOU'RE RIGHT. I HAD A
+ NOTION IT WAS GABRIEL ROSSETTI, OR SOMETHING!"</p>
+ </div>
+ <hr />
+
+ <h4>CUTTING REMARKS.</h4>
+
+ <div class="figleft"
+ style="width:20%;">
+ <a href="images/231b.png"><img width="100%"
+ src="images/231b.png"
+ alt="Tied to Time." /></a> Tied to Time.
+ </div>
+
+ <p>Mr. HENRY AUTHOR JONES has taken a theatre wherein to play
+ his own plays to his own taste. On the first night of <i>The
+ Crusaders</i> this taste was not exactly the taste of the
+ audience. Mr. HENRY AUTHOR JONES seemed to object to be tied to
+ time, and the result was the prompt appearance of that terrible
+ conqueror of things terrestrial, General Boredom. Since the
+ initial performance, it is reported that matters have gone on
+ more smoothly. According to the "usual sources of information"
+ the dramatist has been cheered on leaving his theatre, and
+ heartily congratulated. On one occasion he actually
+ supplemented his piece with a speech! Apparently he was under
+ the impression that there could not be too much of a good
+ thing&mdash;JONES for choice! It may be that since the first
+ performance, there has been some curtailment made in the play.
+ To judge from appearances it was a question of
+ cutting&mdash;either the author the play, or the public the
+ theatre!</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <p>QUITE A NEW SPEC.&mdash;We have just received a prospectus
+ of a Company entitled "<i>The Monarch Insurance Society</i>."
+ Of course, all the Crowned Heads of Europe will be in it. We
+ haven't yet read it, the title being sufficient for the
+ present. <i>&Ccedil;a donne &agrave; penser</i>. Will it
+ provide New Monarchs for old ones? Will it give good sovereigns
+ in exchange for bad ones? If so&mdash;where will the profit
+ come in?</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <h4>FRENCH AS SHE IS "WRIT."</h4>
+
+ <p>The <i>Standard's</i> own Vienna Correspondent, when
+ reporting the unpleasant incident in the life of the Duc
+ d'ORL&Eacute;ANS, told us how the Prince, on unwittingly
+ "accepting service," said to the astute lawyer's clerk, "Mais,
+ Monsieur, ce n'est pas le moment." To which the clerk replied,
+ "also in French," says the <i>Standard</i>, "One time is as
+ good as another." But why was not the lawyer's clerk's French
+ as she is spoke given as well as that of M. le Duc? And how
+ much more telling it would have been had M. le Duc been served
+ well and faithfully by a clerk like <i>Perker's Mr. Lowten</i>,
+ fresh, very fresh, from a carouse at the "Magpie and Stump," or
+ even by one of <i>Messrs. Dodson and Fog's</i> young men who
+ enjoyed themselves so much when "a twigging" of the virtuous
+ <i>Mr. Pickwick</i>.</p>
+
+ <p>"Mais, Monsieur, ce n'est pas le moment," says the Duke, to
+ which our <i>Mr. Lowten</i> would have replied in
+ Magpie-and-Stumping French, "Eggskewsy moy, Mossoo, le Dook,
+ ung Tom is aussy bong qu'ung autre. Mossoo ler Dook ar
+ maintenong p&eacute;rus&eacute; ler documong; voici le copy et
+ voil&agrave; two. Bonsoir, il faut que je l'accroche."</p>
+
+ <p>Whereupon he would have "hooked it," as it appears this
+ particular lawyer's clerk did, and was not seen again. No doubt
+ he joined a circle of admiring friends in the legal
+ neighbourhood (some Magpies-and-Stumps still exist), where,
+ over a glass and a cigar, he recounted the merry tale of how he
+ had served a Duke.</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <p>The relation of Hypnotiser to the Hypnotised at the Aquarium
+ may be simply described as "GERMANE to the subject.'</p>
+ <hr class="short" />
+
+ <p>SONG AND CHORUS FOR THE COUNTY COUNCIL ON NEXT DEBATE ON THE
+ WATER SUPPLY&mdash;"Young BENN he was a nice young man."</p>
+ <hr />
+ <span class="pagenum"><a name="page232"
+ id="page232"></a>[pg 232]</span>
+
+ <h2>THE TRAVELLING COMPANIONS</h2>
+
+ <p class="center">No. XIV.</p>
+
+ <p>SCENE&mdash;<i>Gardens belonging to the H&ocirc;tel du Parc,
+ Lugano. Time, afternoon; the orchestra is tuning up in a
+ kiosk.</i> CULCHARD <i>is seated on a bench in the shade,
+ keeping an anxious eye upon the opposite door.</i></p>
+
+ <p><i>Culch.</i> (<i>to himself</i>). She said she had a
+ headache, and made her father and VAN BOODELER go out on the
+ lake without her. But she certainly gave me to understand that
+ she might come out when the band played, if she felt better.
+ The question is, whether she <i>means</i> to feel better or
+ not. She is the most tantalising girl! <i>I</i> don't know what
+ to make of her. Not a single reference, as yet, to that last
+ talk we had at Bingen. I must see if I can't recall it to her
+ memory&mdash;if she comes. I'll wait here, on the chance of
+ it&mdash;we are not likely to be dis&mdash;&mdash;. Confound it
+ all&mdash;PODBURY! (<i>with suppressed irritation as</i>
+ PODBURY <i>comes up</i>). Well, do you <i>want</i> anything in
+ particular?</p>
+
+ <p><i>Podb.</i> (<i>cheerfully, as he sits down</i>). Only the
+ pleasure of your society, old chap. How nicely you do put
+ things!</p>
+
+ <p><i>Culch.</i> The&mdash;er&mdash;fact is, I can't promise to
+ be a particularly lively companion just now.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Podb.</i> Not by way of a change? Ah, well, it's a
+ pity&mdash;but I must put up with you as you are, I suppose.
+ You see&mdash;(<i>with a grin</i>)&mdash;I've got that vow to
+ work out.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Culch.</i> Possibly&mdash;but <i>I</i> haven't. As I've
+ already told you&mdash;I retire.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Podb.</i> Wobbled back to Miss TROTTER again, eh? Matter
+ of taste, of course, but, for my part, I think your
+ <i>first</i> impression of her was nearer the truth&mdash;she's
+ not what I call a highly cultivated sort of girl, y' know.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Culch.</i> You are naturally exacting on that point, but
+ have the goodness to leave my first impressions alone,
+ and&mdash;er&mdash;frankly, PODBURY, I see no necessity
+ (<i>now</i>, at all events) to take that
+ ridiculous&mdash;hum&mdash;penance <i>too</i> literally. We are
+ <i>travelling</i> together, and I imagine that is enough for
+ Miss PRENDERGAST.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Podb.</i> It's enough for <i>me</i>&mdash;especially when
+ you make yourself so doosid amiable as this. You needn't alarm
+ yourself&mdash;you won't have any more of my company than I can
+ help; only I <i>must</i> say, for two fellows who came out to
+ do a tour <i>together</i>,
+ it's&mdash;&mdash;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [<i>Walks away,
+ grumbling.</i></p>
+
+ <p><i>Later. The band has finished playing;</i> Miss TROTTER
+ <i>is on the bench with</i> CULCHARD.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Miss T.</i> And you mean to tell me you've never met
+ anybody since you even cared to converse with?</p>
+
+ <p><i>Culch.</i> (<i>diplomatically</i>). Does that strike you
+ as so very incredible?</p>
+
+ <p><i>Miss T.</i> Well, it strikes me as just a <i>little</i>
+ too thin. I judged you'd go away, and forget I ever
+ existed.</p>
+
+ <div class="figright"
+ style="width:50%;">
+ <a href="images/232.png"><img width="100%"
+ src="images/232.png"
+ alt="Ah, how little you know me!" /></a> "Ah, how
+ little you know me!"
+ </div>
+
+ <p><i>Culch.</i> (<i>with tender reproach</i>). How little you
+ know me! I may not be an&mdash;er&mdash;demonstrative man,
+ my&mdash;er&mdash;feelings are not easily roused, but, once
+ roused, well&mdash;(<i>wounded</i>)&mdash;I think I may claim
+ to possess an ordinary degree of constancy!</p>
+
+ <p><i>Miss T.</i> Well, I'm sure I <i>ought</i> to feel it a
+ vurry high compliment to have you going round grieving all this
+ time on <i>my</i> account.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Culch.</i> Grieving! Ah, if I could only <i>tell</i> you
+ what I went through! (<i>Decides, on reflection, that the less
+ he says about this the better.</i>) But all that is past. And
+ now may I not expect a more definite answer to the question I
+ asked at Bingen? Your reply then was&mdash;well, a little
+ ambiguous.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Miss T.</i> I guess it's got to be just about as
+ ambiguous now&mdash;there don't seem anything I <i>can</i> say.
+ There's times when I feel as if it might be sort of elevating
+ and improving to have you shining around; and there's other
+ times when I suspect that, if it went on for any considerable
+ period, likely I'd weaken. I'm not just sure. And I can't ever
+ make myself believe but what you're disapproving of me, inside
+ of you, most all the time!</p>
+
+ <p><i>Culch.</i> Pray dismiss such&mdash;er&mdash;morbid
+ misgivings, dear Miss TROTTER. Show that you do so by accepting
+ me as your guide and companion through life!</p>
+
+ <p><i>Miss T.</i> My! but that sounds like a proposal?</p>
+
+ <p><i>Culch.</i> I intended it to bear
+ that&mdash;er&mdash;construction. It <i>is</i> a
+ proposal&mdash;made after the fullest reflection.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Miss T.</i> I'm ever so obliged. But we don't fix things
+ quite that way in my country. We want to feel pretty sure,
+ first, we shann't get left. And it don't seem to me as if I'd
+ had opportunities enough of studying your leading
+ characteristics. I'll have to study them some more before I
+ know whereabouts I am; and I want you to understand that I'm
+ not going to commit myself to anything at present. That mayn't
+ be sentiment, but I guess it's common-sense, anyway. And all
+ <i>you</i>'ve got to do is, just to keep around, and kind of
+ impress me with a conviction that you're the vurry brightest
+ and best man in the entire universe, and I don't believe you'll
+ find much difficulty about <i>that</i>. And now I guess we'll
+ go into <i>table d'h&ocirc;te</i>&mdash;I'm just as
+ <i>ravenous</i>!</p>
+
+ <p><i>Culch.</i> (<i>to himself, as he follows her</i>).
+ Really, this is not much better than RUSKIN, after all. But I
+ don't despair. That last remark was distinctly encouraging!</p>
+
+ <p>SCENE&mdash;<i>A large Salle &agrave; Manger, decorated in
+ the Pompeian style. Table d'h&ocirc;te has begun.</i> CULCHARD
+ <i>is seated between</i> Miss TROTTER <i>and a large and
+ conversational stranger. Opposite are three empty
+ chairs.</i></p>
+
+ <p><i>Culchard's Neighbour</i>. Then you're going on to Venice?
+ Well, you take <i>my</i> advice. When you get there, you ask
+ for tunny. Don't forget&mdash;<i>tunny</i>!</p>
+
+ <p><i>Culch.</i> (<i>who wants to talk to</i> Miss T.) Tunny?
+ Thank you. I&mdash;er&mdash;will certainly remember his name,
+ if I require a guide.</p>
+
+ <p><i>His N.</i> A guide? No, no&mdash;tunny's a <i>fish</i>,
+ Sir, a coarse red fish, with flesh like a raw beefsteak.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Culch.</i> Is that so? Then I will make a point of asking
+ for it&mdash;if I want raw beefsteak.</p>
+
+ <p>[<i>Attempts to turn to</i> Miss T.</p>
+
+ <p><i>His N.</i> That's what <i>I</i> did when I was at Venice.
+ I sent for the Manager. He came. I said to him. "Look here, I'm
+ an Englishman. My name's BELLERBY. (CULCHARD <i>bows in patient
+ boredom.</i>) I've heard of your Venetian tunny. I wish to
+ taste it. <i>Bring</i> me some!"</p>
+
+ <p><i>Culch.</i> (<i>crushingly</i>). A most excellent method
+ of obtaining it, no doubt. (<i>To</i> Waiter.) <i>Num&eacute;ro
+ vingt-sept, demi bouteille de Chianti, et siphon!</i></p>
+
+ <p><i>His N.</i> You don't wait till I've <i>done</i>, Sir! I
+ <i>didn't</i> obtain it&mdash;not at first. The man made
+ excuses. I was prepared for <i>that</i>. I told him plainly, "I
+ know what <i>you</i>'re thinking&mdash;it's a cheap fish, and
+ you fancy I'm ordering it out of economy!"</p>
+
+ <p><i>Culch.</i> (<i>raising his eyebrows for</i> Miss T.'s
+ <i>benefit</i>). Of course, he naturally <i>would</i> think so.
+ And <i>that</i> is how you got your tunny? I
+ see.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [Mr. BELLERBY <i>stares at him
+ suspiciously, and decides to suppress the remainder of his
+ tunny.</i></p>
+
+ <p><i>Miss T.</i> This hotel seems to be thinning some. We've
+ three ghosts right in front of us this evening.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Culch.</i> (<i>turning with effusion</i>). So we have! My
+ friend is one, and he'll be here presently, but I much prefer
+ myself to see every seat occupied. There is something so
+ depressing about a vacant chair, don't you think?</p>
+
+ <p><i>Miss T.</i> It's calculated to put one in mind of
+ <i>Macbeth's</i> little dinner-party, certainly. But you can
+ cheer up, Mr. CULCHARD, here comes a couple of belated
+ <i>Banquos.</i> My gracious; I <i>do</i> like that girl's
+ face&mdash;she has such a perfectly lovely expression, and
+ looks real superior
+ too!</p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page233"
+ id="page233"></a>[pg 233]</span> <i>Culch.</i> (<i>who has
+ just dropped his glasses into his soup</i>).
+ I&mdash;ah&mdash;which lady are you referring too? (<i>He
+ cleans and adjusts his glasses&mdash;to discover that he is
+ face to face with</i> Miss HYPATIA PRENDERGAST.) Oh ...
+ I&mdash;I see&mdash;precisely, quite so! (<i>He turns to</i>
+ BELLERBY <i>to cover his confusion and avoid meeting</i>
+ Miss PRENDERGAST'S <i>eye</i>.) I <i>beg</i> your pardon,
+ you were describing how you caught a tunny? Pray continue.
+
+ <p><i>Mr. Bellerby</i> (<i>stiffly</i>). Excuse me, I don't
+ seem fortunate enough to have secured your undivided
+ attention.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Culch.</i> (<i>with intense interest</i>). Quite the
+ contrary, I assure you! You were saying you always ordered it
+ out of economy?</p>
+
+ <p><i>Mr. B.</i> Pardon <i>me</i>&mdash;I was saying nothing of
+ the sort. I was saying that I told the Manager I knew that was
+ why he <i>thought</i> I ordered it&mdash;a rather different
+ thing! "You're quite wrong," I said. "You may pay
+ twopence-halfpenny a pound for it, and charge me half-a-crown,
+ if you like, but I mean to <i>taste</i> that tunny!" I was
+ determined not to be done out of my tunny, Sir!</p>
+
+ <p><i>Culch.</i> (<i>breathlessly</i>). And what did the
+ tunny&mdash;I mean the Manager&mdash;say to <i>that</i>?</p>
+
+ <p><i>Mr. B.</i> Oh, made more difficulties&mdash;it wasn't to
+ be got, and so on. At last I said to him (very quietly, but he
+ saw I was in earnest), "Now I tell you what it
+ <i>is</i>&mdash;I'm going to <i>have</i> that tunny, and, if
+ you refuse to give it me,&mdash;well, I shall just send my
+ courier <i>out</i> for it, that's all!" So, with, <i>that</i>,
+ they brought me some&mdash;and anything more delicious I never
+ tasted in all my life!</p>
+
+ <p><i>Culch.</i> (<i>to himself</i>). If I can only keep him on
+ at this tunny! (<i>Aloud.</i>) And&mdash;er&mdash;what
+ <i>does</i> it taste like exactly, now?</p>
+
+ <p><i>Mr. B.</i> (<i>pregnantly</i>), You <i>order</i> it,
+ Sir&mdash;<i>insist</i> on having it. Then you'll <i>know</i>
+ what it tastes like!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [<i>He devotes
+ himself to his soup.</i></p>
+
+ <p><i>Culch.</i> (<i>with his eyes lowered&mdash;to
+ himself</i>). I <i>must</i> look up in another minute&mdash;and
+ then!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[<i>He shivers.</i></p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <h4>"TYPICAL DEVELOPMENTS."</h4>
+
+ <p>One of our very occasional contributors, whose valuable time
+ is mainly occupied by the composition of successful novels,
+ sends us the following, written by his type-writer. From this
+ specimen it will be gathered what a real economy in correcting
+ letter-press a type-writer must be.</p>
+
+ <div class="figleft"
+ style="width:20%;">
+ <a href="images/233a.png"><img width="100%"
+ src="images/233a.png"
+ alt="Mr. Smuggyns" /></a>
+ </div>
+
+ <blockquote class="typewriter">
+ Dear Editor
+ </blockquote>
+
+ <blockquote class="typewriter">
+ I send you my new book to reed and if you likit pleaase
+ give me a legup. The story of my other book was
+ anti-turkish but has not yet been probited in Constanple
+ though it has reachd its tetenth edition, at least the
+ ninth is neraly all shrubshcribed bedfore it isrereaddy. If
+ my pullisher is not sasfide oughtbe. Never use pen now only
+ typwritr so much quickerin tellgible convenent an leshble
+ </blockquote>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p class="typewriter">Yours</p>
+
+ <p class="typewriter">S SMUGGYNS</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <p>It strikes us that either the machine stammers, or that it
+ was, at the time of writing, somewhat the worse for liquor, or
+ that it is a very truthfully phonetic-writing but somewhat
+ indiscreet amanuensis. At the same time herewith and hereby
+ every success to our friend SMUGGYNS'S new book.</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <p>HARD LINES FOR HIM.&mdash;When the first stone of a new
+ theatre in Cranbourne Street was laid the other day by some
+ Magnates of the Theatrical Profession&mdash;beg pardon,
+ "<i>the</i> Profession," we should have said&mdash;Mrs.
+ BANCROFT made a telling impromptu speech, and then Mr. YARDLEY,
+ ancient Cricketer and Modern Dramatist, was hit on the
+ head&mdash;accidentally, of course&mdash;by the bottle which is
+ in use on these occasions. "Very YARDLEY treated," observed Sir
+ DRURIOLANUS, in his happiest vein. Not the first literary gent
+ who, according to the ancient slang of the Tom-and-Jerry
+ period, has been "cut" by ill-use of the bottle. But the
+ unfortunate author's sorrows did not end with this sad blow,
+ as, very soon afterwards, his dear friends the Critics, with
+ profuse apologies for being compelled to handle him so
+ severely, were down upon him for his new version of a French
+ piece, entitled <i>The Planter</i>. So the logical sequence of
+ events was, that first a blow was planted, and then appeared
+ <i>The Planter</i>.</p>
+ <hr class="short" />
+
+ <p>ECCLESIASTICAL LAYMAN.&mdash;At a meeting in Rome, the "Duke
+ di SERMONETA" took the chair. If ever there were a staunch
+ Churchman, this by his name, rendered in English as
+ "Sermon-devourer," should be he.</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <h2>OUR OWN FINANCIAL COLUMN.</h2>
+
+ <p class="center"><i>Telegraphic Address</i>&mdash;"<i>Croesus,
+ E.C.</i>"</p>
+
+ <div class="figright"
+ style="width:25%;">
+ <a href="images/233b.png"><img width="100%"
+ src="images/233b.png"
+ alt="Lend us half a crown till tomorrow there's a good fellow!" />
+ </a>
+ </div>
+
+ <p>Sir,&mdash;Let me first express my financial acknowledgments
+ to the teeming millions who have honoured me, and benefited
+ themselves by seeking my advice since my first letter appeared
+ last week. Communications containing cheques, postal orders,
+ and stamps, have poured in upon me in one unceasing torrent.
+ The consignors have, in every case, been good enough to say
+ that they handed all they possessed over to me, in the full
+ confidence that I would invest the proceeds to the best
+ advantage in some of the countless undertakings in which I
+ wield a paramount influence. Their trust is fully deserved.</p>
+
+ <p>Investors will remember that, in the course of the last
+ German Expedition to Central Africa, a tract of country, rich
+ in every mineral deposit, and admirably fitted for the
+ operations of husbandry, was discovered in lat. 42&deg;, long.
+ 65&deg;. The Germans at that time had not a single handkerchief
+ left, and were unable, therefore to hoist the German flag over
+ the palace of the native king, GUL-GULL. Private information of
+ this was conveyed to me. I at once fitted out an Expedition
+ <i>at my own expense</i>, placed myself at the head of it, and
+ after terrible hardships, in the course of which no less than
+ two hundred of my comrades either succumbed outright to the
+ bite of the poisonous <i>contango</i> fly, or had to be
+ mercifully dispatched by the hammer (a painless native form of
+ death), in order to end their tortures, I succeeded in reaching
+ the capital, where I was hospitably received by the king. After
+ a negotiation of three weeks, His Majesty agreed, in the
+ kindest and most affable manner, to concede to me his whole
+ country together with all its revenues, minerals, royalties,
+ timber, water-power, lakes, farm-houses, stock and
+ manor-houses, the whole beautifully situated in the heart of a
+ first-class sporting country, within easy reach of ten packs of
+ hounds; the old residential palace replete with every modern
+ comfort, and admirably adapted for the purposes of a gentleman
+ desiring to set up in the business of kingship. It matters not
+ what I had to pay for this. The secret is my own, and shall go
+ to Westminster Abbey with me. The point is, that with the funds
+ entrusted to me, I have formed the Cent-per-Central African
+ Exploration and Investment Syndicate, and have allotted shares
+ to all those whose contributions have come to hand. As to
+ profit, I have calculated it on the strictest actuarial
+ principles, and find it cannot be less than &pound;100 for
+ every &pound;100 invested. This may seem small, but in these
+ matters moderation is the soul of business. I shall have more
+ to say on this subject next week.</p>
+
+ <p class="center"><i>Answers to Correspondents</i>.</p>
+
+ <p>DISMAL JEMMY.&mdash;Why do you suggest that the motto of my
+ new company should be, "<i>Stealer et fraudax</i>"? Is it a
+ Latin joke? If so, don't write to me any more. Those who deal
+ with <i>me</i> must be British to the backbone.</p>
+
+ <p>ANXIOUS.&mdash;You can't do better than send me those
+ &pound;50,000. I guarantee secrecy and quick returns. The
+ Eyeoyu Land Trust is best for your purposes (Pref. deb. 492;
+ stk. 18. 2. 3). Send money at once to CROESUS, E.C. Delay might
+ be fatal.</p>
+
+ <p>CAPITALIST.&mdash;No doubt, as you say, Consols are Consols;
+ but take my advice and don't give GOSCHEN your money. Why not
+ try the <i>United Bladder Mortgage Company</i>? Bladders are
+ bound to go up. They were floated at 10 and are now at 96.
+ <i>Verb. sap.</i> No; &pound;20,000 would not be too much.</p>
+
+ <p>"POTTER."&mdash;Something good may he done in Land Rails, if
+ you can get near enough. Have a shot at them by all means.</p>
+
+ <p>"PRACTICAL JOKER."&mdash;Quite right. Sell them.</p>
+
+ <p>"ANXIOUS INQUIRER" wishes to be informed what is the
+ difference between Preferred and Deferred. If he will tell us
+ how much he expects to receive in each case, the mere
+ calculation of the difference will be an easy matter; but to
+ receive it is quite another affair. If he wishes to know the
+ "distinction" between these two classes of "securities," it may
+ be summed up in the answer to the question, "Will you have it
+ now, or wait till you get it?"</p>
+
+ <p>"A PUZZLED ONE."&mdash;Sell everything.</p>
+
+ <p>"MEET ME BY MIDNIGHT."&mdash;Yes. A Loan.</p>
+
+ <p>"LAMBKIN."&mdash;Part with No. 2, &amp;c., but take care of
+ No. 1.</p>
+
+ <p>"INSIDER."&mdash;Get out.</p>
+
+ <p>"TOTTIE TOTTS."&mdash;Here for private consultation from 5
+ to 7 P.M.</p>
+
+ <p>"RICHARD."&mdash;<i>Buy</i> Bizzy B's, <i>Sell</i> Early
+ P's, and Spoiled Fives. <i>Buy</i> Jingoes.</p>
+
+ <p>"BRUNO."&mdash;"Bear" your burdens.</p>
+
+ <p>"ADA WITH THE GOLDENHAIR."&mdash;Send photo at once. Cannot
+ advise until we know your figure.</p>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>"CROESUS,</p>
+
+ <p>E.C."</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <hr />
+ <span class="pagenum"><a name="page234"
+ id="page234"></a>[pg 234]</span>
+
+ <div class="figcenter"
+ style="width:100%;">
+ <a href="images/234.png"><img width="100%"
+ src="images/234.png"
+ alt="Conscientiousness" /></a>
+
+ <h3>CONSCIENTIOUSNESS</h3>.
+
+ <p><i>Miss Fitzogre</i>. "WELL, GOOD-BYE, PERCIVAL, AND BE
+ A GOOD BOY!"</p>
+
+ <p><i>Percival (a very good boy, who has just been
+ specially warned not to make personal remarks about People
+ in their presence</i>). "GOOD-BYE. I'LL NOT TELL NURSE WHAT
+ I THINK OF YOUR NOSE TILL YOU'RE GONE!"</p>
+ </div>
+ <hr />
+
+ <h3>A JUBILEE GREETING!</h3>
+
+ <p class="center">(<i>Set to a Song from Sir Walter
+ Scott</i>.)</p>
+
+ <p class="center">NOVEMBER 9, 1891.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Mr. Punch (for self and everybody)
+ loquitur</i>:&mdash;</p>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>My Prince, 'tis for our coming King</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">We all lift glass in hand;</p>
+
+ <p>For him that loud hurrahs do ring</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">To-day all round the land,</p>
+
+ <p class="i16">My Prince,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">All round a loyal land!</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Let sycophantish slave kotoo;</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">You love not such display;</p>
+
+ <p>Let courtiers cringe and creatures "boo."</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">'Tis not our English way,</p>
+
+ <p class="i16">My Prince,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">'Tis not our English way.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>As FLORA to Prince CHARLIE bent</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">It is no shame to bow;</p>
+
+ <p>And you're a man to be content</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">With man's respect, I trow,</p>
+
+ <p class="i16">My Prince,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">With man's respect, I trow.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>For Fifty Years we've known you, Sir,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">And liked you. Love is free!</p>
+
+ <p>That's why the land is all astir,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">To hail your Jubilee,</p>
+
+ <p class="i16">My Prince,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">To hail your Jubilee.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>In Forty-Six <i>Punch</i> pictured you,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">"A Sailor every
+ inch,"<a id="footnotetag1"
+ name="footnotetag1"></a>
+ <a href="#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a></p>
+
+ <p>Toasting "Mamma!" in a stiff brew</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Without a sign of flinch,</p>
+
+ <p class="i16">My Prince,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Without one sign of flinch.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>In Seventy-One he stood beside</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Your door in sad
+ "Suspense."<a id="footnotetag2"
+ name="footnotetag2"></a><a href="#footnote2"><sup>2</sup></a></p>
+
+ <p>We saw the turn in that dark tide</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">With thankfulness intense,</p>
+
+ <p class="i16">My Prince,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">With gratitude intense.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>From stage to stage your course he's marked</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Abroad as eke at home;</p>
+
+ <p>Where'er you've travelled, toiled, skylarked;</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">And now mid-age has come,</p>
+
+ <p class="i16">My Prince,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">And now mid-age has come.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Come as it comes to all. Most true!</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">But, "let the galled jade wince,"</p>
+
+ <p>Still <i>Punch's</i> pencil pictures you</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">As every inch a Prince,</p>
+
+ <p class="i16">My Prince,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Yes, every inch a Prince!</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>And now your Jubilee we greet,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">With hearty English joy,</p>
+
+ <p>Who, as those Fifty Years did fleet,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Have watched you, man and boy,</p>
+
+ <p class="i16">My Prince,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Have watched you, man and boy.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>When all is done that Prince can do,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">All is <i>not</i> done in vain.</p>
+
+ <p>That's why we drink Good Health to you</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Again and eke again,</p>
+
+ <p class="i16">My Prince,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Again and eke again!</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p><i>Punch</i> turns him round and right about,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">And leads the British roar</p>
+
+ <p>Which rises in one loyal shout,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">"Health to the Prince once more!</p>
+
+ <p class="i16">My Prince,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Health to him evermore!"</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>And health to her, the unfading flower</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">From Denmark, o'er the foam.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Ad multos annos</i>, grace, and power,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Love, and a Happy Home,</p>
+
+ <p class="i16">My Prince,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Love, and a Happy Home!</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Now youth has gone, and manhood come,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Your Jubilee we keep,</p>
+
+ <p>Good-will shall strike detraction dumb,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">And sound from deep to deep,</p>
+
+ <p class="i16">My Prince,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">From white-cliff'd deep to deep!</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <hr />
+
+ <p>AN APPARENTLY HARD CASE.&mdash;Miss Print is responsible for
+ a great deal. The other day a tender-hearted person read in a
+ daily paper, that a stranger "arriving in Paris, did not even
+ know where to go and die." How sad! But the compositor had only
+ omitted the "n" from the last word of the sentence. So it
+ wasn't so bad after all, though for the stranger bad
+ enough.</p>
+ <hr class="short" />
+
+ <p>"Music's the Food."&mdash;At the Savoy Hotel the band of
+ Herr WURMS is advertised to perform during dinner. The name of
+ the dinner might follow suit, and be entitled "The Diet of
+ Wurms, for Gentle and Simple." Of course the band of Herr WURMS
+ is an attraction; "Wurms for bait," eh?</p>
+ <hr />
+ <span class="pagenum"><a name="page235"
+ id="page235"></a>[pg 235]</span>
+
+ <div class="figcenter"
+ style="width:100%;">
+ <a href="images/235.png"><img width="100%"
+ src="images/235.png"
+ alt="A Jubilee Greeting!" /></a>
+
+ <h3>A JUBILEE GREETING!</h3>
+
+ <p>MR. PUNCH (<i>for self and everybody</i>). "HEARTY
+ CONGRATULATIONS, SIR!&mdash;KNOWN YOU FIFTY YEARS, AND LIKE
+ YOU BETTER THAN EVER!!"</p>
+ </div>
+ <hr />
+ <span class="pagenum"><a name="page237"
+ id="page237"></a>[pg 237]</span>
+
+ <div class="figcenter"
+ style="width:100%;">
+ <a href="images/237a.png"><img width="100%"
+ src="images/237a.png"
+ alt="A kindly view of it." /></a>
+
+ <h3>A KINDLY VIEW OF IT.</h3>
+
+ <p class="center"><i>First Rustic</i> (<i>to Second
+ Ditto</i>). "OH, I SAY! AIN'T HE FOND OF HIS HORSE!"</p>
+ </div>
+ <hr />
+
+ <h3>IO TRIUMPHE!</h3>
+
+ <h4>OR, GREEK FOR HEIFER!</h4>
+
+ <p class="center">(<i>By an Old Boy.</i>)</p>
+
+ <div class="figright"
+ style="width:35%;">
+ <a href="images/237b.png"><img width="100%"
+ src="images/237b.png"
+ alt="Arcadian piper and dancing sheep." /></a>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Thee, Camus, reverend renown</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Thy grateful votaries seek,</p>
+
+ <p>Foil'd are the Vandals who'd "send down"</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">The Genius of Greek.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>For Culture's jewell'd master-key</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">They cupboard pick-locks tend,</p>
+
+ <p>And in the cult of Mammon see</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Learning's true aim and end;</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Pit shallow youth's impatient fuss</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Against the grit of CATO,</p>
+
+ <p>Set IBSEN up for &AElig;SCHYLUS,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">And OLLENDORFF for PLATO;</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>For songs august of heroes sung,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">And epic hosts embattled,</p>
+
+ <p>Enforce some pidgin-Latin tongue</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">By every waiter prattled;</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>For nymphs, where o'er the fragrant pines</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">A sea-bright sun uprises,</p>
+
+ <p>Their fancy plays round primmest lines</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Of prigs receiving prizes.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>From Sir JOHN CHEKE to Dr. JEBB,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">From CALVERLEY to MILTON,</p>
+
+ <p>Clear spirits burst the Sophist-web,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">And rent the rook they built on.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>WELLDON is falsely named in this,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">For sure, in slighting Greek, he</p>
+
+ <p>Will Learning's final blessing miss,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Her
+ <i>&kappa;&alpha;&lambda;&omega;&sigmaf;
+ &pi;&epsilon;&pi;&omicron;&iota;&eta;&kappa;&epsilon;</i></p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>What though the urchin deem it "rot"</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">(Such hasty views we stoop'd to,</p>
+
+ <p>Not seeing how on earth they got</p>
+
+ <p class="i2"><i>Tetummenos</i> from <i>Tupto</i>)</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Still let us learn, not beastly facts,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">The field of any booby,</p>
+
+ <p>But how thought acts and interacts,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">And contraries can true be.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Though on oblivion's barren shores</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">He give it quick sepulture,</p>
+
+ <p>Still through reluctant passman's pores</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Instil the dew of culture.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Still give us of the rills divine</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">That flow from haunted Helicon,</p>
+
+ <p>Nor rend thyself to feed the swine,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Like a perverted Pelican.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Keep far the time when every bee</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">That booms in every bonnet,</p>
+
+ <p>Shall find a chair of Apiary,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">And drone long lectures on it.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Still the large light and sweetness seek</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Of KEATS'S raptured vision,</p>
+
+ <p>(Or KEATE'S)&mdash;till Greek at last meets
+ Greek</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">In brotherhood Elysian.</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <hr />
+
+ <p>A NEW TREASURE FOR. THE TREASURER OF
+ BARTHOLOMEW'S.&mdash;<i>Mr. Punch</i>, G.P.E., General
+ President of Everything, begs to congratulate Professor HUBERT
+ HERKOMER, R.A.M.A., on his admirable portrait of Sir SYDNEY
+ HEDLEY, and now, not only HEDLEY, but Full-Lengthly WATERLOW,
+ Bart., of "Bart's," which H.R.H. correctly described as "a very
+ fine work of Art, painted by one of our most eminent artists."
+ Such approbation of Sir HUBERT HERKOMER is praise indeed!
+ <i>Mr. Punch</i>, G.P.E., prefixes the "Sir" prophetically. For
+ the present it may be taken as the last syllable, detached, of
+ "Profes-sir"</p>
+ <hr class="short" />
+
+ <p>"WELLS, I NEVER!"&mdash;"Mr. WELLS," says the <i>Times</i>
+ Correspondent, "has made 250,000 francs" (up to now), and "last
+ year he made &pound;20,000." Talk of the waters at various
+ drinking or health-resorts abroad, why, their fame is as
+ nothing compared with the unprecedented success of the WELLS of
+ Monte Carlo. How the other chaps who lose must be like LEECH'S
+ old gent "a cussin' and a swearin' like hanythink." So the two
+ extremes at Monte Carlo may be expressed by the name of a
+ well-known shopkeeping London firm, <i>i.e.</i>, SWEARS AND
+ WELLS.</p>
+ <hr />
+ <span class="pagenum"><a name="page238"
+ id="page238"></a>[pg 238]</span>
+
+ <div class="figcenter"
+ style="width:100%;">
+ <a href="images/238.png"><img width="100%"
+ src="images/238.png"
+ alt="Mr. Punch at the Potteries." /></a>
+
+ <h4>ON TOUR. MR. PUNCH AT THE POTTERIES.</h4>
+ </div><span class="pagenum"><a name="page239"
+ id="page239"></a>[pg 239]</span>
+ <hr />
+
+ <h3>NOTHING LIKE LABOR.</h3>(<i>A Pleasant Prospect suggested
+ by the evidence taken before the Royal Commission</i>.)
+
+ <p>And so the Un-employed rose from the ditch in which he had
+ passed the night, and made for the town. It was early morning,
+ and he thought he could possibly get something to do at the
+ baker's.</p>
+
+ <p>"Want to work?" cried the foreman. "Why, my good fellow, it
+ is all over for the next two days. The trade only allows four
+ hours, so we begin at eight on one night, and carry it on until
+ four on the following morning. People get their loaves a little
+ stale, but old bread is said to be good for the digestion!"</p>
+
+ <p>So the Unemployed went on until he came to a half-built
+ house. The workmen had left, but there was still a watchman on
+ the premises.</p>
+
+ <p>"Want to work! Why <i>what</i> are you thinking about! Why,
+ our trade only allows two hours a day, so we build a house by
+ laying foundation-stones. It is rather slow, but very
+ sure."</p>
+
+ <p>So the starving man continued his journey. He was
+ unsuccessful at every trade centre. One industry allowed its
+ members to work only for three hours a day, another two, a
+ third four, and so on. There was only one exception to the
+ rule, and this (so the doctor thinks) was caused by necessity.
+ The undertakers were fully employed twelve hours out of the
+ twenty-four. Even the public-houses were closed at noon. The
+ workhouses and casual wards were never empty.</p>
+
+ <p>But being of a sanguine temperament, the Unemployed cheered
+ his drooping spirits by murmuring, "Better luck to-morrow!"
+ Then he retired to his rather damp quarters in the country
+ ditch!</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <h4>Literary Intelligence.</h4>
+
+ <p><i>Airy opening of article by</i> Mr. GINLEY SCORCHSAM, <i>a
+ rising young author</i>. "Asked by Editor of <i>Magazin des
+ Louvres</i> to let him have a paper on Art as Applied to
+ Drapery&mdash;&mdash;"</p>
+
+ <p><i>Note by the Agonised Editor</i> (<i>who has been
+ struggling with MS. for several hours</i>). "And he <i>did</i>
+ let me have it, with a vengeance!"</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <div class="figcenter"
+ style="width:70%;">
+ <a href="images/239a.png"><img width="100%"
+ src="images/239a.png"
+ alt="A scene at the Lucullus." /></a>
+
+ <h3>A SCENE AT THE "LUCULLUS."</h3>
+
+ <p><i>Mrs. Blunderby</i>. "Now, MY DEAR MONTY, LET ME ORDER
+ THE LUNCHEON AR-LA-FRAINGSY. GASSONG! I WISH TO
+ BEGIN&mdash;AS WE ALWAYS DO IN PARIS, MY DEARS&mdash;WITH
+ SOME <i>CHEF-D'OEUVRES</i>&mdash;YOU UNDERSTAND&mdash;SOME
+ <i>CHEF-D'OEUVRES."</i></p>
+
+ <p><i>Emile, the Waiter, is in despair. It occurs to him
+ however, presently that the Lady probably means "Hors
+ d'oeuvres," and acts accordingly</i>.</p>
+ </div>
+ <hr />
+
+ <h4>LIGHT CONDUCT IN HEAVENLY BODIES.</h4>
+
+ <div class="figleft"
+ style="width:20%;">
+ <a href="images/239b.png"><img width="100%"
+ src="images/239b.png"
+ alt="An Astronomer Loyal." /></a>
+ </div>
+
+ <p>DEAR MR. EDITOR,</p>
+
+ <p>What on earth, or rather what in the starry Heavens' name is
+ the meaning of this heading to a paragraph in the <i>Times</i>
+ of Tuesday, Nov. 3:&mdash;</p>
+
+ <blockquote>
+ "APPARENT DUPLICITY OF JUPITER'S SATELLITE No. 1."
+ </blockquote>
+
+ <p>Except that the stars are given to wink, I have never before
+ heard of the Heavenly Bodies being accused, of immorality. It
+ is true that the duplicity is said to be only "apparent" or
+ alleged, but this is doubtless due to the precaution of the
+ scientist to escape an action for libel. Flatterers have often
+ been accused of this vice, and Satellites are not much better.
+ A "Star" on the stage might perhaps thus acknowledge the
+ presence of a friend and admirer in the Stalls or in the
+ charmed Circle. But for a Heavenly Body to be guilty of
+ duplicity, and above all for a "Number One" Heavenly Body, is
+ too much. No more will the simple lines</p>
+
+ <blockquote>
+ "Twinkle, twinkle, little Star!"
+ </blockquote>
+
+ <p>be true. No; if "Jupiter's Satellite No. 1" takes to such
+ light conduct, then shall we, have to read</p>
+
+ <blockquote>
+ "Wink, O wink, you little Star!"
+ </blockquote>
+
+ <p>Henceforth let astronomers be very careful what observations
+ they make. To what a state of things are we coming, when at
+ night all the sublunary world is nodding, and the Stars above
+ are winking. If there's duplicity in a Satellite of Jupiter,
+ how about Jupiter itself? Can we henceforth put any trust in
+ the Planets? Are they in league with deceitful soothsayers,
+ astrologers, and fortune-tellers? I cannot further pursue the
+ painful subject. We owe a debt of gratitude to the <i>Times</i>
+ for exposing duplicity in the highest places. Imagine treachery
+ in Aurora Borealis! What an awful flirt she would be!! How
+ she'd "wink the other eye!"</p>
+
+ <blockquote>
+ Yours,<br />
+ AN ASTRONOMER LOYAL.
+ </blockquote>
+ <hr />
+
+ <p>FROM MASHONALAND.&mdash;Inspired by the success of ARTHUR
+ B., of DE GORSTIBUS NON DISPUTANDUM, and of Sir KETTLE-DRUMMOND
+ WOLFF, our GRANDOLPH meditates a surprise return to his own
+ native land and to Parliamentary life. He announces his
+ intention of changing his name, and will call himself "Lord NIL
+ DESPERANDUM CHURCHILL." Hail to the modern Coeur-de-Lion!"</p>
+ <hr class="short" />
+
+ <p>FINAL.&mdash;The <i>Daily Chronicle</i> says it does not
+ regard Mr. GOSCHEN as one of the Puritans of finance. Well, no,
+ perhaps, GEORGE JOACHIM'S finance&mdash;like his
+ manner&mdash;is rather
+ <i>Cavalier</i>!</p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page240"
+ id="page240"></a>[pg 240]</span>
+ <hr />
+
+ <h3>ONLY FANCY!</h3>
+
+ <div class="figleft"
+ style="width:20%;">
+ <a href="images/240a.png"><img width="100%"
+ src="images/240a.png"
+ alt="Farmer Atkinson" /></a> Farmer Atkinson.
+ </div>
+
+ <p>MR. FARMER-ATKINSON, M.P., attending the American Methodist
+ Conference, has been supplying the United States with
+ interesting illustrations of House of Commons manners.
+ Incidentally he observed that Primitive Methodists, members of
+ which body were largely represented in his audience, are
+ "impostors." This led to some misunderstanding, and Mr.
+ FARMER-ATKINSON, M.P., found it necessary to explain that he
+ had used the term "simply in a Parliamentary sense." We learn
+ by special Zadkiel telegram that, on emerging from the Hall
+ after the meeting, the Rev. HERCULES EBENEZER (Omaha), bringing
+ down his clenched fist on the crown of the hat of Mr.
+ FARMER-ATKINSON, M.P., altered its situation in a direction
+ that temporarily obscured the vision of the Hon. Member.</p>
+
+ <p>"What do you mean?" inquired Mr. FARMER-ATKINSON, M.P.,
+ struggling out of the wreck of his hat.</p>
+
+ <p>"I mean it in a purely Pickwickian sense," said the Rev.
+ HERCULES EBENEZER (Omaha), with a seraphic smile that disarmed
+ controversy.</p>
+ <hr class="short" />
+
+ <p>The GERMAN EMPEROR has lately rearranged his scheme of work
+ for weekdays. From six A.M. to eight A.M. he gives lectures on
+ Strategy and Tactics to Generals over forty years old. From
+ eight to ten he instructs the chief actors, musicians and
+ painters of Berlin in the principles of their respective arts.
+ The hours from ten to twelve he devotes to the compilation of
+ his Memoirs in fifty-four volumes. A limited edition of
+ large-paper copies is to be issued. From twelve to four P.M. he
+ reviews regiments, cashiers colonels, captures fortresses,
+ carries his own dispatches to himself, and makes speeches of
+ varying length to all who will listen to him. Any professional
+ reporter found taking accurate notes of His Majesty's words is
+ immediately blown from a Krupp gun with the new smokeless
+ powder. From four to eight he tries on uniforms, dismisses
+ Ministers and officials, dictates state-papers to General
+ CAPRIVI, and composes his history of "How I pricked the
+ Bismarck Bubble." From eight to eleven P.M. His Majesty teaches
+ schoolmasters how to teach, wives how to attend to their
+ families, bankers how to carry on their business, and cooks how
+ to prepare dinners. The rest of the day he devotes to himself.
+ On Thursday next His Majesty leaves Berlin on his tenth visit
+ to the European Courts.</p>
+ <hr class="short" />
+
+ <p>There is no truth in the report that the Lord CHANCELLOR is
+ arranging a Christmas party, to which shall be invited all the
+ members and connections of his family for whom he has found
+ places during his term of office. It is well known that the
+ accommodation at Lord HALSBURY's town residence is
+ comparatively limited.</p>
+ <hr class="short" />
+
+ <p>We regret to hear that Mr. JOHN O'CONNOR, M.P. (known in the
+ House of Commons as "Long JOHN"), has decided to retire from
+ political life. His personal experience during the Cork
+ Election has convinced him that no man over 5 ft. 8 in. can
+ safely take part in active politics.</p>
+
+ <p>"Bricks, dead cats, sections of chimney-pots, which flew
+ harmless over the heads of the crowd, invariably struck me,"
+ said Mr. O'CONNOR, toying with the bandage over his left
+ eyebrow.</p>
+ <hr class="short" />
+
+ <p>It is quite true, as reported in the newspapers, that Dr.
+ GUTTERIDGE was not present when the final result of the polling
+ in the Strand was made known, and that it was explained to the
+ reporter he had been "called out to see a patient." The
+ suggestion that the undertaking of this hopeless contest was
+ designed solely to lead up to this incident, is one worthy only
+ of the diseased imagination of a professional rival, who has no
+ patients to call him out&mdash;even from Church.</p>
+ <hr class="short" />
+
+ <p>It is stated (and has been denied) that Herr VON DER
+ BLOWITZOWN-TROMP is about to retire from his supervision of
+ universal affairs exercised through the Special Paris Wire of a
+ contemporary. We are glad to learn that this intention does not
+ in any case imply absolute disappearance from the European
+ Stage. It is no secret in diplomatic circles that the Herr has
+ been approached on the question of his ascending the throne of
+ Bulgaria. His keen insight into European politics has convinced
+ him that this arrangement would afford a settlement of an
+ ever-ruffled question. He has, we understand, stipulated that
+ the Principality shall be raised to the status of a Kingdom. "I
+ have," he said to the Emissary of the Powers who approached him
+ on the subject, "been so long accustomed to associate with
+ Crowned Heads, that in a Principality I should feel like a fish
+ out of water."</p>
+
+ <p>With his usual considerateness, Herr VON DER
+ BLOWITZOWN-TROMP has recognised the inconvenience that would be
+ imposed on his subjects, if, in daily use, they were obliged to
+ refer to him by his full title. He will, therefore, deign to be
+ known on coins, postage-stamps, and in semi-official
+ communications, as TROMP THE FIRST.</p>
+ <hr class="short" />
+
+ <p>There is no truth in the report that, on behalf of Mr. JOHN
+ MORLEY, Sir WILLIAM HARCOURT waited upon Mr. CHAMBERLAIN, and
+ asked him to name a friend; that the Right Hon. Gentleman
+ "mentioned" Mr. JESSE COLLINGS; and that the two seconds have
+ arranged a meeting at Boulogne. The idle rumour doubtless arose
+ out of the fact that an acrimonious correspondence between the
+ two former friends has been carried on in the columns of the
+ <i>Times</i>.</p>
+ <hr class="short" />
+
+ <p>According to the newspaper reports, during the ceremony of
+ acceptance by the Prince of WALES, as President of
+ Bartholomew's Hospital, of "the portrait of Sir SYDNEY
+ WATERLOW, the Treasurer," the portrait "occupied a prominent
+ position on the platform, and the Hon. Baronet sat immediately
+ in front of it." We learn that this arrangement led to some
+ misunderstanding, people, on entering, not at first knowing
+ which was the portrait, and which was Sir SYDNEY.</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <div class="figcenter"
+ style="width:30%;">
+ <a href="images/240b.png"><img width="100%"
+ src="images/240b.png"
+ alt="Paddy Rewski, the Pianist." /></a>
+
+ <p>Paddy Rewski, the Pianist, makes his bow, and escapes to
+ America from an enthusiastic audience, who might have torn
+ him into musical pieces at St. James's Hall.</p>
+ </div>
+ <hr />
+
+ <h4>ECHOES FROM THE LABOUR COMMISSION.</h4>
+
+ <p><i>First Voice.</i> I hear that you wish to give your
+ evidence before this Commission?</p>
+
+ <p><i>Second Voice.</i> Certainly, that is my desire. I am here
+ to speak in the name of my fellow-labourers,
+ and&mdash;&mdash;</p>
+
+ <p><i>First V.</i> Yes, thank you, that will do. You are in
+ favour of Trade Unions?</p>
+
+ <p><i>Second V.</i> I am. I feel that when rich and poor meet
+ in mighty conflict, there is only&mdash;&mdash;</p>
+
+ <p><i>First V.</i> Yes, thank you, that will do. And you
+ believe that strikes are beneficial?</p>
+
+ <p><i>Second V.</i> I do consider them beneficial, most
+ beneficial. I feel that labour must have its rights, and that
+ the white dove of liberty has only to&mdash;&mdash;</p>
+
+ <p><i>First V.</i> Yes, thank you, that will do. And you are in
+ favour of arbitration?</p>
+
+ <p><i>Second V.</i> No, I am not. For when DIVES meets the
+ beggars, then the cry of labour rises on the stilly night,
+ and&mdash;&mdash;</p>
+
+ <p><i>First V.</i> Yes, thank you, that will do. And may I ask
+ to what trade you belong?</p>
+
+ <p><i>Second V.</i> I belong to none. Every thinking and
+ right-minded man should care for his fellows as himself. Like
+ an eagle on a snow-capped mountain, he should&mdash;&mdash;</p>
+
+ <p><i>First V.</i> Yes, thank you, that will do. Then may we
+ ask, if you belong to no trade, what is your occupation?</p>
+
+ <p><i>Second V.</i> My occupation is to talk
+ to&mdash;&mdash;</p>
+
+ <p><i>First V.</i> Yes, thank you, that will do!</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <p>NOTICE TO PROBABLE IRISH OBJECTORS ON BOTH SIDES.&mdash;The
+ Novel that <i>Mr. Punch</i> so recently praised, entitled
+ <i>Tim</i>, is neither Irish nor political. Both sides can buy
+ and enjoy it. A Parnellite author is thinking of adapting
+ DICKENS, and bringing out a new version of an old_ Christmas
+ book, to be entitled <i>Tiny Tim.</i></p>
+ <hr class="short" />
+
+ <p>OLD TIMES REVIVED.&mdash;The New Lord Mayor. Gracious
+ EVANS!! "And," asks a middle-aged Correspondent, "during this
+ Mayoralty will the Munching House be known as EVANS'S?"</p>
+ <hr class="full" />
+
+ <blockquote class="footnote">
+ <a id="footnote1"
+ name="footnote1"></a> <b>Footnote 1</b>:
+ <a href="#footnotetag1">(return)</a>
+
+ <p>See Cartoon, "Every Inch a Sailor," p. 129, Vol. XI.,
+ Sept. 26, 1846.</p><a id="footnote2"
+ name="footnote2"></a> <b>Footnote 2</b>:
+ <a href="#footnotetag2">(return)</a>
+
+ <p>See Cartoon. "Suspense," p. 263, Vol. LXI., Dec. 23,
+ 1871.</p>
+ </blockquote>
+ <hr class="full" />
+
+ <div class="figleft"
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+
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