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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 103,
+Sep. 24, 1892, by Various
+
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+Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 103, Sep. 24, 1892
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+
+ <h1>PUNCH,<br />
+ OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.</h1>
+
+ <h2>Vol. 103.</h2>
+ <hr class="full" />
+
+ <h2>September 24, 1892.</h2>
+ <hr class="full" />
+ <span class="pagenum"><a name="page133"
+ id="page133"></a>[pg 133]</span>
+
+ <h2>'ARRY AT 'ARRYGATE.</h2>
+
+ <div class="figright"
+ style="width:38%;">
+ <a href="images/133.png"><img width="100%"
+ src="images/133.png"
+ alt="" /></a>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>DEAR CHARLIE,&mdash;Rum mix this 'ere world is, yer
+ never know <i>wot</i>'ll come next!</p>
+
+ <p>Don't emagine I've sent yer a sermon, and treacle
+ this out as my text;</p>
+
+ <p>But really life's turn-ups are twisters. You lay out
+ for larks, 'ealth, and tin,</p>
+
+ <p>But whenever you think it's "a moral," that crock,
+ "Unexpected," romps in.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Who'd ha' thought of <i>me</i> jacking up suddent,
+ and giving the Sawbones a turn?</p>
+
+ <p>Who'd ha' pictered <i>me</i> "Taking the Waters"?
+ Ah! CHARLIE, 'twos hodds on the Urn</p>
+
+ <p>With Yours Truly, this time, I essure you. I fancied
+ as Tot'nam-Court Road</p>
+
+ <p>Would he trying its 'and on my tombstone afore the
+ green corn wos full growed.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p><i>Bad</i>, CHARLIE? You bet! 'Twas screwmatics and
+ liver, old Pill-box declared.</p>
+
+ <p>Knocked me slap orf my perch, fair 'eels uppards. I
+ tell you I felt a bit scared,</p>
+
+ <p>And it left me a yaller-skinned skelinton, weak,
+ and, wot's wus, stoney-broke.</p>
+
+ <p>If it hadn't a bin for my nunky, your pal might have
+ jest done a croak.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Uncle NOBBS, a Cat's-butcher at Clapton, who's bin
+ in luck's way, and struck ile,</p>
+
+ <p>Is dead nuts on Yours Truly. Old josser, and grumpy,
+ but <i>he</i>'s made his pile.</p>
+
+ <p>Saw me settin' about in the garden, jest like a old
+ saffron-gill'd ghost</p>
+
+ <p>A-waiting for cock-crow to 'ook it, and hanxious to
+ 'ear it&mdash;a'most.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Sez he, "Wy, the boy is a bone-bag! Wot's that?
+ Converlescent? Oh, fudge!</p>
+
+ <p>He's a slipping his cable, and drifting out
+ sea-wards, if <i>I</i>'m any judge.</p>
+
+ <p>I was ditto some twenty year back, BOB, and
+ 'Arrygate fust set <i>me</i> up.</p>
+
+ <p>Wot saved the old dog, brother ROBERT, may probably
+ suit the young pup.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>"Carn't <i>afford</i> it? O'course yer carn't,
+ JENNY; but&mdash;thanks be to
+ 'orse-flesh&mdash;<i>I</i> can&mdash;"</p>
+
+ <p>Well, he tipped us a fifty-quid crisp 'un&mdash;and
+ ROOSE sent me 'ere; he's <i>my</i> Man!</p>
+
+ <p>Three weeks' "treatment"! Well, threes into fifty
+ means cutting a bit of a dash;</p>
+
+ <p>Good grub, nobby togs, local doctor, baths, waters,
+ and everythink flash.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>"'Appy 'ARRY!" sez you. But way-oh, CHARLIE!
+ 'Arrygate isn't all jam.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Me</i> jolly? Well, mate, if you arsk me, I
+ carn't 'ardly say as I ham.</p>
+
+ <p>To spread myself out with the toppers is proper, no
+ doubt, bonny boy;</p>
+
+ <p>But&mdash;I wish it wos Brighton, or Margit, or
+ somewheres a chap could <i>enjoy</i>.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Oh, them "Waters," old man!!! S'elp me never! yer
+ don't kow wot nastyness <i>is</i></p>
+
+ <p>Till you've tried "Sulphur 'ot and strong," fasting.
+ The Kissing Gin, taken a-fizz,</p>
+
+ <p>Isn't <i>wus</i> than ditch-water and sherbet; but
+ Sulphur!!! It's eased my game leg;</p>
+
+ <p>But I go with my heart in my mouth, and I feel like
+ a blooming bad hegg.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>B-r-r-r-r! Beastliness isn't the word, CHARLIE.
+ Language seems out of it, slap.</p>
+
+ <p>When I took my fust twelve ounces 'ot, from a gal
+ with a snowy white cap,</p>
+
+ <p>And cheeks like a blush-rose for
+ bloominess&mdash;well, I'm a gent, but, yah-hah!</p>
+
+ <p>I jest did a guy at the double, without even nodding
+ ta-ta!</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Where the Primrose Path leads to, my pippin, I'm
+ cocksure can't 'ave a <i>wus</i> smell.</p>
+
+ <p>Like bad eggs, salt, and tenpenny nails biled in
+ bilge water. Eugh! Old Pump Well?</p>
+
+ <p>Wy then let well alone, is my motter, or leastways,
+ it would be, I'm sure,</p>
+
+ <p>But for BLACK&mdash;local doctor, a
+ stunner!&mdash;who's got me in 'and for a cure.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>I'm not nuts on baths took <i>too</i> reglar; but
+ 'Arrygate baths ain't 'arf bad,</p>
+
+ <p>When you git a bit used to 'em, CHARLIE. I squirmed,
+ though fust off, dear old lad!</p>
+
+ <p>They so soused, and so slapped, and so squirted me.
+ Messing a feller about</p>
+
+ <p>Don't come nicer for calling it <i>massage</i>. But
+ there, it's O.K. I've no doubt.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>They squat you upon a low shelf, with a sort of a
+ water-can "rose"</p>
+
+ <p>At the nape of yer neck, while a feller in front
+ squirts yer down with a 'ose.</p>
+
+ <p>He slaps you as though you wos batter, he kneads you
+ as if you wos dough,</p>
+
+ <p>And gives yer wot for on the spine, till you git in
+ a doose of a glow.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Then you're popped in a big iron cage, where the
+ 'ose plays upon you like fun;</p>
+
+ <p>A lawn, or a house a-fire, CHARLIE, could not be
+ more thoroughly done.</p>
+
+ <p>Sez I, "I'm <i>insured</i>, dontcher know, mate; so
+ don't <i>waste</i> the water, d'ye 'ear?"</p>
+
+ <p>But he didn't appear to arf twig. He seemed jest a
+ bit thick in the clear.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Then the bars of yer cage bustes out like a lot of
+ scent fountings a-play&mdash;</p>
+
+ <p>'Taint <i>oder colong</i>, though, by hodds; sulphur
+ strong seems the local <i>bokay</i>.</p>
+
+ <p>They call this the "Needle Bath," CHARLIE. It give
+ <i>me</i> the needle fust off;</p>
+
+ <p>'Cos the spray would git into my eyes, and the
+ squelch made me sputter and cough.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Then they wrop you well up in 'ot towels, and leave
+ yer five minutes to bake,</p>
+
+ <p>And that's the "<i>Aix Douche</i>," as they call it.
+ <i>I</i> call it the funniest fake</p>
+
+ <p>In the way of a bath I 'ave met with; but, bless
+ yer, it passes the time,</p>
+
+ <p>And <i>I</i> shan't want a tub for a fortnit when
+ back in Old Babbylon's grime.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Dull 'ole, this 'ere 'Arrygate, CHARLIE! The only
+ fair fun <i>I</i> can find</p>
+
+ <p>Is watching the poor sulphur-swiggers, a-gargling
+ and going it blind.</p>
+
+ <p>Oh, the sniffs and sour faces, old fellow, the
+ shudders and shivers, and sighs;</p>
+
+ <p>The white lips a-working like rabbits', the sheepish
+ blue-funk in their eyes!</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Old Pump Room's a hoctygon building, rum blend like
+ of chapel and bar,</p>
+
+ <p>With a big stained-glass winder one side,
+ hallygorical subject! So far</p>
+
+ <p>As I've yet made it out, it's a hangel a-stirring up
+ somethink like suds.</p>
+
+ <p>"A-troubling the waters," I 'eard from a party in
+ clerical duds.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>You arsk, like you do at a bar, for the speeches of
+ lotion you want.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Some</i> say; you git used to the flaviour, and
+ <i>like it</i>! Bet long hodds <i>I</i> shan't.</p>
+
+ <p>I've sampled the lot, my dear CHARLIE, Strong
+ Sulphur and Mild, Cold <i>and</i> 'Ot;</p>
+
+ <p>And all I can say is, the jossers who say it ain't
+ beastly talk rot.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>You jest fox their faces! They enters, looks round,
+ gives a shy sort of sniff,</p>
+
+ <p>Seem to contemplate doing a guy, brace their legs,
+ keep their hupper lips stiff;</p>
+
+ <p>Take their tickets, walk up to the counter, assumin'
+ a sham sort of bounce,</p>
+
+ <p>And ask, shame-faced like, for their gargle, 'as
+ p'r'aps is a 'ot sixteen hounce.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>When they git it, a-fume in a tumbler, a-smelling
+ like hegg-chests gone wrong,</p>
+
+ <p>They squirm, ask the snowy-capped gurl, "Is
+ <i>this</i> right?"&mdash;"Yes, Sir. Sixteen ounce,
+ strong!"</p>
+
+ <p>Sez the minx with a cold kind o' smile.
+ "Ah&mdash;h&mdash;h! <i>per</i>cisely!" they smirks,
+ and walks round,</p>
+
+ <p>With this "Yorkshire Stinko" in their
+ 'ands&mdash;and their 'earts in their mouths I'll be
+ bound.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Then&mdash;Gulp! Oh Gewillikins, CHARLIE! it gives
+ yer the ditherums, it do.</p>
+
+ <p>Bad enough if you 'ave to wolf <i>one</i>, but it
+ fair gives yer beans when 'tis <i>two</i>.</p>
+
+ <p>The wictims waltz round, looking white, wishing
+ someone would just spill <i>their</i> wet,</p>
+
+ <p>And&mdash;there's 'ardly a glass "returned empty"
+ but wot shows its 'eel-taps, you bet!</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>This is "Taking the Waters" at 'Arrygate! Well, I
+ shall soon take my 'ook.</p>
+
+ <p>Speshal Scotch, at my favourite pub, from that
+ sparkling young dona, NELL COOK,</p>
+
+ <p>Will do me a treat arter this, mate, and come most
+ pertikler A 1.</p>
+
+ <p>'Ow I long to be back in "The Village," dear boy,
+ with its bustle and fun!</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Still, the air 'ere's as fresh as they make it, and
+ gives yer a doose of a peck,</p>
+
+ <p>And DUNSING, the Boss at "The Crown," does yer
+ proper. I came 'ere a wreck;</p>
+
+ <p>But sulphur, sound sleep, and cool breezes, prime
+ prog, and good company tells;</p>
+
+ <p>So 'ere's bully for 'Arrygate, CHARLIE, in spite of
+ rum baths and bad smells.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>That Fifty is nearly played out, and my slap at the
+ Ebor went wrong&mdash;</p>
+
+ <p>I'd a Yorkshire tyke's tip, too, old man; but I'm
+ stoney, though still "going strong"</p>
+
+ <p>(As <i>Lord Arthur</i> remarks in the play), so no
+ more at "The Crown" I must tarry,</p>
+
+ <p>But if 'Arrygate wants a good word&mdash;as to
+ 'ealth&mdash;it shall 'ave it from</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <p class="author">'ARRY.</p>
+ <hr />
+ <span class="pagenum"><a name="page134"
+ id="page134"></a>[pg 134]</span>
+
+ <div class="figcenter"
+ style="width:100%;">
+ <a href="images/134.png"><img width="100%"
+ src="images/134.png"
+ alt="THE FIGHTING 'FOUDROYANT.'" /></a>
+
+ <h3>THE FIGHTING "FOUDROYANT."</h3>
+ </div>
+ <hr />
+ <span class="pagenum"><a name="page135"
+ id="page135"></a>[pg 135]</span>
+
+ <div class="figcenter"
+ style="width:100%;">
+ <a href="images/135.png"><img width="100%"
+ src="images/135.png"
+ alt="'TWO'S COMPANY.'" /></a>
+
+ <h3>"TWO'S COMPANY."</h3>
+
+ <p><i>Newspaper Boy</i> (<i>suddenly, at window</i>). "WANT
+ AN <i>OBSERVER</i>, CAPTAIN?"</p>
+
+ <p><i>Mathilde</i> (<i>on Honeymoon Trip</i>). "OH,
+ FREDDIE, DEAR! NO! NO!! <i>DO</i> LET US BE QUITE
+ ALONE!"</p>
+ </div>
+ <hr />
+
+ <h2>THE FIGHTING "FOUDROYANT"</h2>
+
+ <h3 class="sc">Being Tugged to its Last Berth&mdash;in a
+ Shipbreaker's Yard.</h3>
+
+ <h4>(<i>A Theme from Turner treated in Modern British style,
+ with Apologies to the Patriotic Painter of "The Fighting
+ 'Téméraire.'"</i>)</h4>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>"Mayhap you have heard, that as dear as their
+ lives,</p>
+
+ <p>All true-hearted Tars love their ships and their
+ wives."</p>
+
+ <p>So DIBDIN declared, and he spoke for the Tar;</p>
+
+ <p>He knew Jack so well, both in peace and in war!</p>
+
+ <p>But hang it! times change, and 'tis sad to
+ relate,</p>
+
+ <p>The old Dibdinish morals seem quite out of date;</p>
+
+ <p>Stick close to your ship, lads, like pitch till you
+ die?&mdash;</p>
+
+ <p>That sounds nonsense to-day, and I'll tell ye for
+ why.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>The good old <i>Foudroyant</i>&mdash;how memory
+ dwells on</p>
+
+ <p>Those brave fighting names!&mdash;was once flag-ship
+ to NELSON.</p>
+
+ <p>But NELSON, you know, died a good while ago,</p>
+
+ <p>And his flag-ship has gone a bit shaky, and so</p>
+
+ <p>JOHN BULL, who's now full of low shopkeeping
+ cares,</p>
+
+ <p>And thinks more of the Stocks than of naval
+ affairs,</p>
+
+ <p>Regards not "Old Memories," that "eat off their
+ head."</p>
+
+ <p>Turn old cracks out to grass? No, let's sell 'em
+ instead!</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>A ship's like the high-mettled racer once sung</p>
+
+ <p>By that same dashing DIBDIN of patriot tongue,</p>
+
+ <p>Grown aged, used up, is he honoured? No, zounds!</p>
+
+ <p>"The high-mettled racer is sold to the hounds!"</p>
+
+ <p>And so with a barky of glorious name,</p>
+
+ <p>(It is business, of course&mdash;<i>and a Thundering
+ Shame!</i>)</p>
+
+ <p>Worn out, she is nought but spars, timbers and
+ logs,</p>
+
+ <p>And so, like the horse, should be sold&mdash;to the
+ dogs!</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>As for the <i>Foudroyant</i>, the vessel was
+ trim</p>
+
+ <p>When it fought with the French, for JOHN BULL, under
+ <i>Him</i>,</p>
+
+ <p>The Star of the Nile. Yes, it carried <i>his</i>
+ flag,</p>
+
+ <p>When it captured the Frenchman. There's no need to
+ brag,</p>
+
+ <p>Or to say swagger things of a generous foe.</p>
+
+ <p>Besides, things have doosedly altered, you know.</p>
+
+ <p><i>We</i>'re no more like NELSON than I to a
+ Merman;</p>
+
+ <p><i>We</i> can sell his flag-ship for firewood, to
+ the German!</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Sounds nice, does it not? If that great one-armed
+ Shade</p>
+
+ <p>Could look down on the bargain he'd&mdash;swear, I'm
+ afraid</p>
+
+ <p>(If his death-purged bold spirit held yet ought of
+ earth).</p>
+
+ <p>And I fancy 'twill move the gay Frenchman to
+ mirth</p>
+
+ <p>To hear this last story of shop-keeping
+ JOHN&mdash;</p>
+
+ <p>Or his huckster officials. The Frenchman, the
+ Don,</p>
+
+ <p>The Dutchman, all foes we have licked,&mdash;may wax
+ bold</p>
+
+ <p>When they hear that the brave old <i>Foudroyant</i>
+ is&mdash;Sold!!!</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Great TURNER has pictured the old
+ <i>Téméraire</i></p>
+
+ <p>Tugged to <i>her</i> last berth. Why the sun and the
+ air</p>
+
+ <p>In that soul-stirring canvas, seem fired with the
+ glory</p>
+
+ <p>Of such a brave ship, with so splendid a story!</p>
+
+ <p>Well, look on that picture, my lads, and on
+ <i>this</i>!</p>
+
+ <p>And&mdash;no, do not crack out a curse like a
+ hiss,</p>
+
+ <p>But with stout CONAN DOYLE&mdash;<i>he</i> has
+ passion and grip!&mdash;</p>
+
+ <p>Demand that they give us back NELSON's old Ship!</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>British hands from protecting her who shall
+ debar?</p>
+
+ <p>Ne'er ingratitude lurked in the heart of a Tar.</p>
+
+ <p>"(Sings DIBDIN) That Ship from the breakers to
+ save"</p>
+
+ <p>Is the plainest of duties e'er put on the brave.</p>
+
+ <p>While a rag, or a timber, or spar, she can
+ boast,</p>
+
+ <p>A place of prime honour on Albion's coast</p>
+
+ <p>Should be hers and the <i>Victory's!</i> Let us not
+ say,</p>
+
+ <p>Like the fish-hucksters, "<i>Memories</i> are cheap,
+ Sir, to-day!"</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <hr />
+
+ <p>ECCLESIASTICAL TASTE.&mdash;A condiment not much in favour
+ with High Churchmen just now, must be "Worcester Sauce." It is
+ warranted to neutralise the very highest flavour.</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <h4>Impromptu.</h4>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Of "garnered leaves"</p>
+
+ <p>And "garnered sheaves"</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Sing sentimental donkeys.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Perhaps e'er long</p>
+
+ <p>Their simple song</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Will be of Garnered Monkeys!</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <hr />
+
+ <p>"A railway from Joppa to Jerusalem" sounds like a Scriptural
+ Line. In future, "going to Jericho" will not imply social
+ banishment, as the party sent thither will be able to take a
+ return-ticket.</p>
+ <hr />
+ <span class="pagenum"><a name="page136"
+ id="page136"></a>[pg 136]</span>
+
+ <div class="figcenter"
+ style="width:65%;">
+ <a href="images/136.png"><img width="100%"
+ src="images/136.png"
+ alt="OF MALICE AFORETHOUGHT." /></a>
+
+ <h3>OF MALICE AFORETHOUGHT.</h3>
+
+ <p><i>Cheery Official.</i> "ALL FIRST CLASS 'ERE,
+ PLEASE?"</p>
+
+ <p><i>Degenerate Son of the Vikings</i> (<i>in a feeble
+ voice</i>). "<i>FIRST CLASS?</i> NOW DO I <i>LOOK
+ IT</i>?"</p>
+ </div>
+ <hr />
+
+ <h2>THE LAY OF THE LAST KNIGHT.</h2>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>My name and style are ELLIS ASHMEAD BART&mdash;</p>
+
+ <p>Ah! happy augury. Would I could</p>
+
+ <p>Leave it so. But 'twill not do.</p>
+
+ <p>Like soap of Monkey brand,</p>
+
+ <p>It will not wash clothes,</p>
+
+ <p>Or, in truth, ought else.</p>
+
+ <p>'Tis but an accident of rhythm</p>
+
+ <p>Born of the imperative mood that makes one</p>
+
+ <p>Start a poem of this kind on ten feet,</p>
+
+ <p>Howe'er it may thereafter crawl or soar.</p>
+
+ <p>What I really was about to remark was that</p>
+
+ <p>My name and style are ELLIS ASHMEAD BART-</p>
+
+ <p>LETT, Knight; late Civil Lord of Admiralty</p>
+
+ <p>You know me. I come from Sheffield; at least</p>
+
+ <p>I did on my return thence</p>
+
+ <p>Upon re-election.</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <h4>II.</h4>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>A sad world this, my masters, as someone&mdash;</p>
+
+ <p>Was it my friend SHAKSPEARE?&mdash;</p>
+
+ <p>Says. The sadness arises upon reflection, not</p>
+
+ <p>That I'm a Knight, but that I am, so to speak,</p>
+
+ <p>A Knight of only two letters.</p>
+
+ <p>As thus&mdash;Kt. 'Tis but a glimmer of a night,</p>
+
+ <p>If I, though sore at heart, may dally with</p>
+
+ <p>The English tongue</p>
+
+ <p>And make a pensive pun.</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <h4>III.</h4>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Of course I expected different things from</p>
+
+ <p>The MARKISS.</p>
+
+ <p>What's the use, what's the purpose,</p>
+
+ <p>Of what avail, wherefore,</p>
+
+ <p>That a man should descend from the</p>
+
+ <p>Spacious times of ELIZABETH with nothing</p>
+
+ <p>In his hand other than a simple Knighthood?</p>
+
+ <p>Anyone could do that.</p>
+
+ <p>It might be done to anyone.</p>
+
+ <p>He, him, all, any, both, certain, few,</p>
+
+ <p>Many, much, none, one, other, another.</p>
+
+ <p>One another, several, some, such and whole.</p>
+
+ <p>Why, he made a Knight</p>
+
+ <p>At the same time,</p>
+
+ <p>In the same manner,</p>
+
+ <p>Of</p>
+
+ <p class="i4">MAPLE</p>
+
+ <p class="i8">BLUNDELL!</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <h4>IV.</h4>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Look here, MARKISS, you know,</p>
+
+ <p>This won't do.</p>
+
+ <p>It may pass in a crowd, but not with</p>
+
+ <p>ELLIS ASHMEAD BART&mdash;</p>
+
+ <p>(There it is again. Evidently doesn't matter</p>
+
+ <p>About the feet)</p>
+
+ <p>LETT.</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <h4>V.</h4>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>And yet MARKISS, mine,</p>
+
+ <p>I shall not despair.</p>
+
+ <p>You are somewhat out of it</p>
+
+ <p>At the present moment.</p>
+
+ <p>And I am not sure&mdash;</p>
+
+ <p>Not gorged with certainty&mdash;</p>
+
+ <p>That Mr. G. would be</p>
+
+ <p>Inclined to make amends.</p>
+
+ <p>He is old; he is agëd.</p>
+
+ <p>Prejudice lurks amid</p>
+
+ <p>His scant white locks,</p>
+
+ <p>And forbids the stretch-</p>
+
+ <p>Ing forth of generous hand in whose</p>
+
+ <p>Recesses coyly glint</p>
+
+ <p>The Bart. or K.C.B.</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <h4>VI.</h4>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>But you are not everyone;</p>
+
+ <p>Nor is he. Nor do both together</p>
+
+ <p>In the aggregate</p>
+
+ <p>Compose the great globe</p>
+
+ <p>And all that therein is.</p>
+
+ <p>I'll wait awhile, possessing my soul in</p>
+
+ <p>Patience.</p>
+
+ <p>Everything comes to the man who waits.</p>
+
+ <p>(Sometimes, 'tis true, 'tis the bobby</p>
+
+ <p>Who asks what he's loafing there for,</p>
+
+ <p>And bids him</p>
+
+ <p>Move on.</p>
+
+ <p>That is a chance the brave resolute soul</p>
+
+ <p>Faces.) The pity of it is</p>
+
+ <p>That you, MARKISS, having so much to give,</p>
+
+ <p>So little gave</p>
+
+ <p class="i6">To</p>
+
+ <p class="i10">Me.</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <h4>VII.</h4>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Oh, MARKISS! MARKISS!</p>
+
+ <p>Had I but served my GLADSTONE</p>
+
+ <p>As I have served thee,</p>
+
+ <p>He would not have forsak&mdash;</p>
+
+ <p>But that's another story.</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <hr />
+
+ <p>THE NEW HOPERA OF 'ADDON 'ALL.&mdash;The title finally
+ decided upon for the SULLIVAN-GRUNDY Opera is <i>Haddon
+ Hall</i>. Lovely for 'ARRY! "'Ave you seen <i>'Addon 'All</i>?"
+ Then the 'ARRY who 'as only 'eard a portion of it, will say, "I
+ <i>'addn</i>'t 'eard <i>'all.</i>" As a Cockney title, it's
+ perfect. Successful or not, Author and Composer will
+ congratulate themselves that, to deserve, if not command
+ success, they <i>'ad don all</i> they knew. If successful,
+ they'll replace the aspirates, and it will be some time before
+ they recover the exact date when they Had-don Hauling in the
+ coin. <i>Prosit!</i></p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <p>MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE.&mdash;Says the <i>Pall Mall
+ Gazette</i>:&mdash;"For knocking over a man selling watercress,
+ with fatal results, a Hammersmith cabman has been committed for
+ trial for manslaughter." If this is true, the HOME SECRETARY
+ should immediately interpose. The action of knocking a man over
+ is hasty, and may be indefensible. But if the Hammersmith
+ Cabman had just grounds for belief that the man was "selling
+ watercresses with fatal results," he should rather be commended
+ than committed for trial.</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <p>"KEEPING-UP THE CHRISTOPHER."&mdash;(<i>A Note from an Old
+ Friend</i>).&mdash;"CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS" indeed! As years ago
+ I told <i>Sairey Gamp</i> about her bothering <i>Mrs.
+ Harris</i>, "I don't believe there's no sich a person." That's
+ what I says, says I, about COLUMBUS, wich ain't like any other
+ sort of "bus" as I see before my blessed eyes every day.</p>
+
+ <p class="author">Yours,<br />
+ ELIZABETH PRIG.</p>
+
+ <p>P.S.&mdash;Mr. EDWIN JOHNSON, him as wrote to the
+ <i>Times</i> last Saturday, is of my opinion. Good Old
+ JOHNSON!</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <p>"HONORIS CAUSÂ."&mdash;To Mr. GRANVILLE MONEY, son of the
+ Rector of Weybridge, whose gallant rescue of a lady from
+ drowning has recently been recorded, <i>Mr. Punch</i> grants
+ the style and title of "Ready MONEY."</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <p>QUESTION AND ANSWER.&mdash;"Why don't I write Plays?" Why
+ should I?</p>
+ <hr />
+ <span class="pagenum"><a name="page137"
+ id="page137"></a>[pg 137]</span>
+
+ <h2>LETTERS TO ABSTRACTIONS.</h2>
+
+ <h3>No. XV.&mdash;TO SWAGGER.</h3>
+
+ <div class="figright"
+ style="width:30%;">
+ <a href="images/137.png"><img width="100%"
+ src="images/137.png"
+ alt="Chepstowe." /></a>
+ </div>
+
+ <p>Not long ago I reminded you of CHEPSTOWE, the incomparable
+ poet who was at one time supposed to have revolutionised the
+ art of verse. Now he is forgotten, the rushlight which he never
+ attempted to hide under the semblance of a bushel, has long
+ since nickered its last, his boasts, his swelling literary
+ port, his quarrels, his affectations&mdash;over all of them the
+ dark waves of oblivion have passed and blotted them from the
+ sand on which he had traced them. But in his day, as you
+ remember, while yet he held his head high and strutted in his
+ panoply, he was a man of no small consequence. Quite an army of
+ satellites moved with him, and did his bidding. To one of them
+ he would say, "Praise me this author," and straightway the fire
+ of eulogy would begin. To another he would declare&mdash;and
+ this was his more frequent course&mdash;"So-and-so has dared to
+ hint a fault in one of us; he has hesitated an offensive
+ dislike. Let him be scarified," and forthwith the painted and
+ feathered young braves drew forth their axes and
+ scalping-knives, and the work of slaughter went merrily
+ forward. Youth, modesty, honest effort, genuine merit, a
+ manifest desire to range apart from the loud storms of literary
+ controversy, these were no protection to the selected victim.
+ And of course the operations of the Chepstowe-ites, like the
+ "plucking" imagined by <i>Major Pendennis</i>, were done in
+ public. For they had their organ. Week by week in <i>The
+ Metropolitan Messenger</i> they disburdened themselves, each
+ one of his little load of spite and insolence and vanity, and
+ with much loud shouting and blare of adulatory trumpets called
+ the attention of the public to their heap of purchasable
+ rubbish. There lived at this time a great writer, whose name
+ and fame are still revered by all who love strong, nervous
+ English, vivid description, and consummate literary art. He
+ stood too high for attack. Only in one way could the herd of
+ passionate prigs who waited on CHEPSTOWE do him an injury. They
+ could attempt, and did, to imitate his style in their own
+ weekly scribblings. <i>Corruptio optimi pessima</i>. There is
+ no other phrase that describes so well the result of these
+ imitative efforts. All the little tricks of the great man's
+ humour were reproduced and defaced, the clear stream of his
+ sentences was diverted into muddy channels, the airy creatures
+ of his imagination were weighted with lead and made to perform
+ hideous antics. Never had there been so riotous a jargon of
+ distorted affectation and ponderous balderdash.
+ Smartness&mdash;of a sort&mdash;these gentlemen, no doubt,
+ possessed. It is easy to be accounted smart in a certain
+ circle, if only you succeed in being insolent. Merit of this
+ order the band could boast of plenteously.</p>
+
+ <p>One peculiarity, too, must be noted in <i>The Metropolitan
+ Messenger</i>. It had a magnetic attraction for all the sour
+ and sorry failures whose reputation and income, however greatly
+ in excess of their deserts, had not equalled their expectation.
+ The Cave of Adullam could not have been more abundantly stocked
+ with discontent. It is the custom of the <i>ratés</i>
+ everywhere to attempt to prevent, or, if that be impossible, to
+ decry success in others, in order to exalt themselves. The
+ "Metropolitans" followed the example of many unillustrious
+ predecessors, though it must, in justice, be added, that they
+ would have been shocked to hear anyone impute to them a want of
+ originality in their curious methods. In the counsels of these
+ literary bravos, WILLIAM GRUBLET held a high place. At the
+ University, where he had pursued a dull and dingy career of
+ modified respectability, not much was thought or spoken of
+ GRUBLET. If he was asked what profession he proposed to adopt,
+ he would wink knowingly, and reply, "Journalism." It sounded
+ well&mdash;it gave an impression of influence, and future
+ power, and, moreover, it committed him to nothing. It is just
+ as easy to say "Journalism," in answer to the stock question,
+ as it is to deliver yourself over, by anticipation, to the Bar,
+ the Church, or the Stock Exchange. Hundreds of young men at
+ both our ancient Universities look upon Journalism as the
+ easiest and most attractive of all the professions. In the
+ first place there are no Examinations to bar the way, and your
+ ordinary Undergraduate loathes an Examination as a rat may be
+ supposed to loathe a terrier. What can be easier&mdash;in
+ imagination&mdash;than to dash off a leading article, a biting
+ society sketch, a scathing review, to overturn ancient idols,
+ to inaugurate movements, to plan out policies? All this GRUBLET
+ was confident of being able to do, and he determined, on the
+ strength of a few successful College Essays, and a reputation
+ for smartness, acquired at the expense of his dwindling circle
+ of intimates, to do it. He took his degree, and plunged into
+ London. There, for a time, he was lost to public sight. But I
+ know that he went through the usual contest. Rejected
+ manuscripts poured back into his room. Polite, but
+ unaccommodating Editors, found that they had no use for vapid
+ imitations of ADDISON, or feeble parodies of CHARLES LAMB.
+ Literary appreciations, that were to have sent the ball of fame
+ spinning up the hill of criticism, grew frowsy and dog's-eared
+ with many postages to and fro.</p>
+
+ <p>In this protracted struggle with fate and his own
+ incompetence, the nature of GRUBLET, never a very amiable one,
+ became fatally soured, and when he finally managed to secure a
+ humble post on a newspaper, he was a disappointed man with rage
+ in his heart against his successful rivals and against the
+ Editors who, as he thought, had maliciously chilled his glowing
+ aspirations. His vanity, however,&mdash;and he was always a
+ very vain man&mdash;had suffered no diminution, and with the
+ first balmy breezes of success his arrogance grew unbounded.
+ Shortly afterwards, he chanced to come in the way of CHEPSTOWE;
+ he impressed the poet favourably, and in the result he was
+ selected for a place on the staff of <i>The Metropolitan
+ Messenger</i>, then striving by every known method to battle
+ its way into a circulation.</p>
+
+ <p>It was at this stage in his career that I met GRUBLET. He
+ was pointed out to me as a young man of promise who had a
+ trenchant style, and had lately written an article on
+ "Provincialism in Literature," which had caused some stir by
+ its bitter and uncompromising attacks upon certain well-known
+ authors and journalists. I looked at the man with some
+ interest. I saw a pale-faced, sandy-haired little creature with
+ a shuffling, weak-kneed gait, who looked as if a touch from a
+ moderately vigorous arm would have swept him altogether out of
+ existence. His manner was affected and unpleasant, his
+ conversation the most disagreeable I ever listened to. He was
+ coarse, not with an ordinary coarseness, but with a kind of
+ stale, fly-blown coarseness as of the viands in the window of a
+ cheap restaurant. He assumed a great reverence for RABELAIS and
+ ARISTOPHANES; he told shady stories, void of point and humour,
+ which you were to suppose were modelled on the style of these
+ two masters. And all the time he gave you to understand, with a
+ blatant self-sufficiency, that he himself was one of the
+ greatest and most formidable beings in existence. This was
+ GRUBLET as I first knew him, and so he continued to the
+ end.</p>
+
+ <p>The one thing this puny creature could never forgive was
+ that any of his friends should pass him in the race. There was
+ one whom GRUBLET&mdash;the older of the two&mdash;had at one
+ time honoured with his patronage and approval. No sooner,
+ however, had the younger gained a literary success, than the
+ sour GRUBLET turned upon him, and rent him. "This fellow," said
+ GRUBLET, "will get too uppish&mdash;I must show up his trash";
+ and accordingly he fulminated against his friend in the organ
+ that he had by that time come to consider as his own. This
+ baseless sense of proprietorship, in fact, it was that wrecked
+ GRUBLET. In an evil moment for himself he tried to ride
+ rough-shod over CHEPSTOWE, and that temporary genius dismissed
+ him with a promptitude that should stand to his credit against
+ many shortcomings. GRUBLET, I believe, still exists.
+ Occasionally, in obscure prints, I seem to detect traces of his
+ style. But no one now pays any attention to him. His claws are
+ clipped, his teeth have been filed down. He shouts and struts,
+ unregarded. For we live, of course, in milder and more
+ reasonable days, and the GRUBLETS can no longer find a popular
+ market for their wares.</p>
+
+ <p>Only one question remains. How in the world can even you, oh
+ respected SWAGGER, have derived any pleasure from witnessing
+ the performances that GRUBLET went through, after you had
+ persuaded him that he was a man of some importance? I do not
+ expect an answer, and remain as before,</p>
+
+ <p class="author">DIOGENES ROBINSON.</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <p>IN BANCO.&mdash;The stability of the concern having been
+ effectually proved by the way in which the Birkbeckers got out
+ of the fire and out of the trying pan-ic, and the ease with
+ which they were quite at home to the crowds of callers coming
+ to inquire after their health, should earn for them the
+ subsidiary title of the Birk-beck-and-call Bank.</p>
+ <hr />
+ <span class="pagenum"><a name="page138"
+ id="page138"></a>[pg 138]</span>
+
+ <div class="figcenter"
+ style="width:100%;">
+ <a href="images/138.png"><img width="100%"
+ src="images/138.png"
+ alt="A GOOD BEGINNING." /></a>
+
+ <h3>A GOOD BEGINNING.</h3>
+
+ <p><i>Uncle Jack</i> (<i>Umpire</i>). "LOVE ALL!"</p>
+
+ <p><i>Monsieur le Baron</i>. "LOVE ALL? PARBLEU! JE CROIS
+ BIEN! ZEY ARE <i>ADORABLES</i>, YOUR NIECES!"</p>
+ </div>
+ <hr />
+
+ <h2>PAN THE POSTER.</h2>
+
+ <h4>(<i>A Modern Perversion of Mrs. Browning's powerful Poem,
+ "A Musical Instrument."</i>)</h4>
+
+ <blockquote class="note">
+ <p>["We are presented just now with two spectacles, which
+ may help us to take modest and diffident views of the
+ progress of the species.... At home there is an utterly
+ unreasonable and unaccountable financial panic among the
+ depositors in the Birkbeck Bank, while in America the free
+ and enlightened democracy of a portion of New York State
+ has suddenly relapsed into primitive barbarism under the
+ influence of fear of cholera."&mdash;<i>The Times</i>.]</p>
+ </blockquote>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>What is he doing, our new god Pan,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Far from the reeds and the river?</p>
+
+ <p>Spreading mischief and scattering ban,</p>
+
+ <p>Screening 'neath "knickers" his shanks of a
+ goat,</p>
+
+ <p>And setting the wildest rumours afloat,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">To set the fool-mob a-shiver.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>He frightened the shepherds, the old god
+ Pan,<a id="footnotetag1"
+ name="footnotetag1"></a><a href="#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a></p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Him of the reeds by the river;</p>
+
+ <p>Afeared of his faun-face, Arcadians ran;</p>
+
+ <p>Unsoothed by the pipes he so deftly could play,</p>
+
+ <p>The shepherds and travellers scurried away</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">From his face by forest or river.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>And back to us, sure, comes the great god Pan,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">With his pipes from the reeds by the
+ river;</p>
+
+ <p>Starting a scare, as the goat-god can,</p>
+
+ <p>Making a Man a mere wind-swayed reed,</p>
+
+ <p>And moving the mob like a leaf indeed</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">By a chill wind set a-quiver.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>He finds it sport, does our new god Pan</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">(As did he of the reeds by the
+ river),</p>
+
+ <p>To take all the pith from the heart of a man,</p>
+
+ <p>To make him a sheep&mdash;though a tiger in
+ spring,&mdash;</p>
+
+ <p>A cruel, remorseless, poor, cowardly thing,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">With the whitest of cheeks&mdash;and
+ liver!</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>"Who said I was dead?" laughs the new god Pan</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">(Laughs till his faun-cheeks quiver),</p>
+
+ <p>"I'm still at my work, on a new-fangled plan.</p>
+
+ <p>Scare is my business; I think I succeed,</p>
+
+ <p>When the Mob at my minstrelsy shakes like a
+ reed,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">And I mock, as the pale fools
+ shiver."</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Shrill, shrill, shrill, O Pan!</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Your Panic-pipes, far from the river!</p>
+
+ <p>Deafening shrill, O Poster-Pan!</p>
+
+ <p>Turning a man to a timorous brute</p>
+
+ <p>With irrational fear. From your frantic flute</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Good sense our souls deliver!</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Men rush like the Gadaree swine, O Pan!</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">With contagious fear a-shiver,</p>
+
+ <p>They flock like <i>Panurge's</i> poor sheep, O
+ Pan!</p>
+
+ <p>What, what shall the merest of manhood quicken</p>
+
+ <p>In geese gregarious, panic-stricken</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Like frighted fish in the river.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>You sneer at the shame of them, Poster-Pan,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Poltroons of the pigeon-liver.</p>
+
+ <p>Your placards gibbet them, Poster-Pan,</p>
+
+ <p>Who crowd like curs in the cowardly crush,</p>
+
+ <p>Who flock like sheep in the brainless rush</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">With fear or greed a-shiver.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>You are half a beast, O new god Pan!</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">To laugh (as you laughed by the
+ river)</p>
+
+ <p>Making a brute-beast out of a man:</p>
+
+ <p>The true gods sigh for the cost and pain</p>
+
+ <p>Of Civilisation, which seems but vain</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">When the prey of your Panic shiver!</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <blockquote class="footnote">
+ <a id="footnote1"
+ name="footnote1"></a><b>Footnote 1:</b>
+ <a href="#footnotetag1">(return)</a>
+
+ <p>Pan, the Arcadian forest and river-god, was held to
+ startle travellers by his sudden and terror-striking
+ appearances. Hence sudden fright, without any visible
+ cause, was ascribed to Pan, and called a Panic fear.</p>
+ </blockquote>
+ <hr />
+
+ <h2>SIR GEORGE AND THE DRAG ON.</h2>
+
+ <h4><i>By a Writer of Books.</i></h4>
+
+ <blockquote class="note">
+ <p>[Sir GEORGE TREVELYAN, speaking to the Institute of
+ Journalists, said that "No one was under the obligation of
+ writing books, unless he was absolutely called to do so by
+ a commanding genius."]</p>
+ </blockquote>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Oh! tell me quickly&mdash;not if Planet Mars</p>
+
+ <p>Is quite the best for journalistic pars,</p>
+
+ <p>Not if the cholera will play Old Harry,</p>
+
+ <p>Not why to-day young men don't and won't
+ marry&mdash;</p>
+
+ <p>For these I do not care. Not to dissemble,</p>
+
+ <p>My pen is, as they say, "all of a
+ tremble"&mdash;</p>
+
+ <p>The pen that once enthralled the myriad crowd,</p>
+
+ <p>The pen that critics one and all allowed</p>
+
+ <p>Wrote pleasantly and well, was often funny,</p>
+
+ <p>The pen that brought renown,
+ and&mdash;better&mdash;money.</p>
+
+ <p>My pen is stilled. That happy time is o'er,</p>
+
+ <p>Like that old English King, I smile no more.</p>
+
+ <p>Now that Sir (Secretary) GEORGE has spoken,</p>
+
+ <p>My fortunes (and alas! my heart) are broken;</p>
+
+ <p>For though I may not lack all understanding,</p>
+
+ <p>My "genius" cannot claim to be "commanding."</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <hr />
+
+ <p>FLOWERY, BUT NOT MEALY-MOUTHED.&mdash;To those who suggested
+ that sending troops to compel the barbarous Long-Islanders to
+ be humane would lose Democratic votes, Governor FLOWER is
+ reported to have replied,&mdash;"I don't care a &mdash;&mdash;
+ for votes. I am going to put law-breakers down, and the State
+ in possession of its property." There was an old song, of which
+ the refrain was, "I don't care a &mdash;&mdash; for the people,
+ But what will the Governor say?" Now we know what the Governor
+ says. 'Tis well said. Henceforth he will be known as <i>The</i>
+ FLOWER of Speech.</p>
+ <hr />
+ <span class="pagenum"><a name="page139"
+ id="page139"></a>[pg 139]</span>
+
+ <div class="figcenter"
+ style="width:100%;">
+ <a href="images/139.png"><img width="100%"
+ src="images/139.png"
+ alt="PAN THE POSTER." /></a>
+
+ <h3>PAN THE POSTER.</h3>PAN (<i>chuckling</i>). "HA! HA!
+ WHO SAID THAT I WAS DEAD, AND PANIC-FEAR A THING OF THE
+ ARCADIAN PAST?"
+ </div>
+ <hr />
+ <span class="pagenum"><a name="page141"
+ id="page141"></a>[pg 141]</span>
+
+ <h2>SEA-SIDE ILLS.</h2>
+
+ <h4>(<i>By Our Man Over-bored.</i>)</h4>
+
+ <h3 class="sc">A Sea S-Idyll on "Board and Residence."</h3>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>That we hurry out of Town</p>
+
+ <p class="i10">To the sea,</p>
+
+ <p>To be properly done brown,</p>
+
+ <p class="i10">I'll agree;</p>
+
+ <p>But of being nicely done,</p>
+
+ <p>There's another way than one&mdash;</p>
+
+ <p>Viz., the <i>rays</i>, besides of sun,</p>
+
+ <p class="i10"><i>£</i> <i>s.</i> <i>d.</i>!</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Now, it may be very cheap</p>
+
+ <p class="i10">For the chap</p>
+
+ <p>Who is rich, to pay a heap</p>
+
+ <p class="i10">For a nap</p>
+
+ <p>On a sofa that is prone</p>
+
+ <p>To a prominence of bone,</p>
+
+ <p>Or a table undergrown,</p>
+
+ <p class="i10">With a flap;</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>But a man who has not much</p>
+
+ <p class="i10">Of the pelf</p>
+
+ <p>To distribute freely, such</p>
+
+ <p class="i10">As myself,</p>
+
+ <p>And who's ordered change and rest,</p>
+
+ <p>Doubts the change is for the best</p>
+
+ <p>When he has to lie undress'd</p>
+
+ <p class="i10">On a shelf!</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>No; to slumber on a slant</p>
+
+ <p class="i10">Till you're floor'd,</p>
+
+ <p>Is a luxury I can't</p>
+
+ <p class="i10">Well afford;</p>
+
+ <p>And I'm sad to a degree</p>
+
+ <p>That, in Everywhere-on-Sea,</p>
+
+ <p>"Board and Residence" should be</p>
+
+ <p class="i10">Mostly <i>board</i>!</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <hr />
+
+ <p>"DISCOVERY OF A NEW SATELLITE TO JUPITER."&mdash;Well, why
+ not? Why announce it as if a noted thief had been arrested?
+ "Discovered! Aha! Then this to decide"&mdash;cries the
+ Melodramatic Satellite. Poor Jupiter must be uncommonly tired
+ of his old Satellites by this time! How pleased, how delighted,
+ he must be to welcome a new one!</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <div class="figcenter"
+ style="width:65%;">
+ <a href="images/141-1.png"><img width="100%"
+ src="images/141-1.png"
+ alt="VIEW OF 'MARS' AS SEEN THROUGH MR. PUNCH'S TELESCOPE." />
+ </a>
+
+ <h3>VIEW OF "MARS" AS SEEN THROUGH MR. PUNCH'S
+ TELESCOPE.</h3>
+ </div>
+ <hr />
+
+ <h3>MORE LIGHTS!</h3>
+
+ <div class="figleft"
+ style="width:25%;">
+ <a href="images/141-2.png"><img width="100%"
+ src="images/141-2.png"
+ alt="A Straight Tip and a New Sensation." /></a>A
+ Straight Tip and a New Sensation.
+ </div>
+
+ <p>When anyone now in town requires a change from the
+ <i>De</i>-lights of Home, let him go to <i>See Lights of
+ Home</i> at the Adelphi. Great scene of the Wreck not so great
+ perhaps as some previous sensational Adelphi effects. In such a
+ piece as "the Lights," it is scarcely fair that "the Heavies"
+ should have it nearly all to themselves, but so it is, and the
+ two Light Comedy parts capitally played by Miss JECKS and Mr.
+ LIONEL RIGNOLD, do not get much of a chance against the
+ heartrending sorrows of Miss EVELYN MILLARD, and of Mrs.
+ PATRICK CAMPBELL, the slighted, or sea-lighted heroine, known
+ as "Dave's Daughter" (oh, how fond Mr. W.A. ELLIOTT must be of
+ <i>Dave Purvis</i>, the weakest
+ sentimentalist-accidental-lunatic-criminal that ever was let
+ off scot-free at R.H. first entrance before the fall of the
+ Curtain), and the undaunted heroism and unblushing villany of
+ Messrs. CHARLES DALTON, COCKBUKN, KINGSTON &amp; Co. The title
+ might well have been, <i>Good Lights of Home, and Wicked Livers
+ all Abroad</i>.</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <p>"TOP-DRESSING."&mdash;Said Mr. G. to a Welsh audience, "I
+ might as well address the top of Snowdon on the subject of the
+ Establishment, as address you on the matter." Flattery! The top
+ of Snowdon, of course, represented the highest intelligence in
+ Wales.</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <p>"I pity the poor Investors!" exclaimed Mrs. R.
+ sympathetically, when she saw the heading of a paragraph in the
+ <i>Times</i>&mdash;"Bursting of a Canal Bank."</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <p>A BIG BOOMING CHANCE LOST!&mdash;Miss LOTTIE COLLINS,
+ according to the <i>Standard's</i> report of the proceedings on
+ board the unfortunate <i>Cepheus</i>, said that, on seeing two
+ jeering men rowing out from shore, holding up bread to the
+ hungry passengers, she, "had she been a man, would have shot
+ them." She wasn't a man, and so the two brutes escaped. But
+ what another "<i>Boom! te-ray,&mdash;Ta, ra, ra</i>," &amp;c.,
+ &amp;c., this would have been for LA COLLINS!</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <p>NOT IMPROBABLE.&mdash;Lord ROSEBERY might have ended his
+ diplomatic reply to Mr. THOMAS GIBSON BOWLES, M.F., who
+ recently sent kind inquiries to the Foreign Office, as to the
+ Pamirs and Behring Sea, Canadian Government, &amp;c., &amp;c.,
+ with a P.S. to the effect that "his correspondent probably
+ considered him as a Jack (in office), and therefore a
+ legitimate object to score off in the game of BOWLES."</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <p><i>The Prodigal Daughter; or, The Boyne-Water Jump</i>, by
+ DRURIOLANUS MAGNUS and PETTITT PARVUS, was produced with
+ greatest success, last Saturday, at Old Drury. The general
+ recommendation to the authors will be, as a matter of course,
+ <i>i.e.</i>, of race-course, given in the historic words of
+ DUCROW, "Cut the cackle and come to the 'osses." When this
+ advice is acted upon, <i>The Prodigal Daughter</i>, a very fine
+ young woman, but not particularly prodigal, will produce
+ receipts beyond all cacklelation.</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <p>FUTURE LEGISLATION FOR NEXT SESSION.&mdash;Mr. GLADSTONE
+ will introduce a Bill to render criminal the keeping of heifers
+ loose in a field.</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <p>BY A PARAGRAPHIC JOURNALIST.&mdash;Very natural that there
+ should be "pars" about "Mars."</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <p>"SIGNAL FAILURES."&mdash;Most Railway Accidents.</p>
+ <hr />
+ <span class="pagenum"><a name="page142"
+ id="page142"></a>[pg 142]</span>
+
+ <div class="figcenter"
+ style="width:65%;">
+ <a href="images/142.png"><img width="100%"
+ src="images/142.png"
+ alt="CULTURE BY THE SEA." /></a>
+
+ <h3>CULTURE BY THE SEA.</h3>
+
+ <p>"HAVE YOU BROWNING'S WORKS?"</p>
+
+ <p>"NO, MISS. THEY'RE TOO DIFFICULT. PEOPLE DOWN HERE DON'T
+ UNDERSTAND THEM."</p>
+
+ <p>"HAVE YOU <i>PRAED</i>?"</p>
+
+ <p>"PRAYED, MISS? OH YES; WE'VE TRIED THAT, BUT IT'S NO
+ USE!"</p>
+ </div>
+ <hr />
+
+ <h2>THE CHÂTEAU D'"IF."</h2>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>The Castle that I sing, is not</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">The strong-hold <i>près
+ Marseilles</i>,</p>
+
+ <p>Where <i>Monte Christo</i> brewed his plot</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">For DUMAS' magic tale:</p>
+
+ <p>It's one we all inhabit oft,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">The residence of most,</p>
+
+ <p>And not peculiar to the soft,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Mediterranean coast.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>The Castle "If"&mdash;If pigs had wings,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">If wishes horses were,</p>
+
+ <p>If, rather more substantial things,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">My Castles in the air;</p>
+
+ <p>If balances but grew on Banks,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">If Brokers hated "bluff;"</p>
+
+ <p>If Editors refrained from thanks</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">And printed all my stuff.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>If holidays were not a time</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Beyond a chap's control,</p>
+
+ <p>When someone else prescribes how I'm</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">To bore my selfish soul;</p>
+
+ <p>If bags and boxes packed themselves</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">For one who packing loathes;</p>
+
+ <p>If babes, expensive little elves,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Were only born with clothes</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>If <i>Bradshaw</i> drove me to the train!</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Were <i>mal-de-mer</i> a name!</p>
+
+ <p>If organ-grinders ground a strain</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">That never, never came;</p>
+
+ <p>If oysters stuck at eighteen pence;</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">If ladies loathed "The Stores;"</p>
+
+ <p>If Tax-collectors had the sense</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">To overlook my doors!</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>If sermons stopped themselves to suit</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">A congregation's pain;</p>
+
+ <p>If everyone who played the flute</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Were sentenced to be slain;</p>
+
+ <p>If larks with truffles sang on trees,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">If cooks were made in heaven;</p>
+
+ <p>And if, at sea-side spots, the seas</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Shut up from nine till seven.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>If <i>I</i> might photograph the fiend</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Who mauls me with his lens,</p>
+
+ <p>If supercilious barbers leaned</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Their heads for <i>me</i> to cleanse!</p>
+
+ <p>If weather blushed to wreck my plans,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">If tops were never twirled;</p>
+
+ <p>If "Ifs and ands were pots and pans,"&mdash;</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">'Twould be a pleasant world!</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <hr />
+
+ <p>SUMMARY OF RESULT FOR OLD CATHOLIC
+ CONGRESS.&mdash;<i>Lucernâ Lucellum</i>.</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <h2>LADY GAY'S SELECTIONS.</h2>
+
+ <p class="author"><i>Mount Street, Grosvenor Square</i>.</p>
+
+ <p>DEAR MR. PUNCH,&mdash;I got so wet on the St. Leger day,
+ that I've been in bed ever since&mdash;not because I had to
+ wait till my things were dry&mdash;but because I caught a cold!
+ <i>What</i> a day it was!&mdash;I am told that in addition to
+ the St. Leger, Doncaster is chiefly celebrated for <i>Butter
+ Scotch</i>&mdash;if so, I presume they don't make it
+ out-of-doors, or it would have stood a good chance of being
+ melted&mdash;(not in the mouth)&mdash;on Wednesday fortnight!
+ But the excitement of the race fully made up for the liquid
+ weather, and we all&mdash;(except the backers of
+ <i>Orme</i>)&mdash;enjoyed ourselves. I was told that the Duke
+ of WESTMINSTER had "left the Leger at Goodwood," which is
+ simply absurd, as I not only saw it run for at Doncaster
+ myself, but it is ridiculous to insinuate that the Duke went
+ there, put the Leger in his pocket&mdash;(as if a Nobleman ever
+ kept books)&mdash;walked off quietly to Goodwood and left it
+ there deliberately!</p>
+
+ <p>I conclude it can only be an expression coined to
+ discount&mdash;(another ledger term)&mdash;the victory of <i>La
+ Flèche</i>,&mdash;to which not half enough attention has been
+ drawn, solely (in my opinion) because <i>La Flèche</i> is of
+ the gentler sex, and men don't like the "horse of the year" to
+ be a mare.</p>
+
+ <p>I still maintain she was unlucky to lose the Derby, as she
+ won the Oaks two days later in two seconds quicker
+ time:&mdash;(which is an anachronism&mdash;as if you win
+ <i>once</i> out of <i>twice</i>&mdash;how can it be two
+ <i>seconds</i>?)</p>
+
+ <p>There was good sport at Yarmouth last week, though owing to
+ the rain the course must have been on the soft (roe)
+ side,&mdash;by the way you can get them now in bottles, and
+ very good they are. I am glad to see that staunch supporter of
+ the turf, Lord ELTHAM, winning races again&mdash;as his horses
+ have been much out of form lately, at least so I am told, but I
+ was not aware that horses were in a "form" at all, unless being
+ "schooled" over hurdles.</p>
+
+ <p>I shall have a word or two to say on the Cesarewitch
+ shortly&mdash;having had some private information calculated to
+ break a ROTHSCHILD if followed&mdash;but for the moment will
+ content myself with scanning the programme of the Leicester and
+ Manchester Meetings.</p>
+
+ <p>There are two races which seem perhaps worth picking
+ up&mdash;one at each place; and, while giving my selection for
+ the Leicestershire race in the usual verse, I will just mention
+ that I should have given Lord DUNRAVEN's <i>Inverness</i> for
+ the Manchester race, but that I see his Lordship has sent it to
+ America&mdash;rather foolish, now that winter is coming on; but
+ perhaps he has another, and may be doing a kindness to some
+ poor American Cousin! <i>St. Angelo</i> might win this race
+ without an Inverness, though I presume he will appear in
+ <i>some</i> sort of clothing.</p>
+
+ <p class="author">Yours devotedly, LADY GAY.</p>
+
+ <h3 class="sc">Leicestershire Royal Handicap Selection.</h3>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>On seeing an awkward, three-cornered affair,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">Which I heard was a racer from
+ Fingal,</p>
+
+ <p>And hearing him roaring, and whistling an air,</p>
+
+ <p class="i2">I said, he'll be beaten by
+ <i>Windgall</i>.</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <p>P.S.&mdash;This is <i>awful</i>; but <i>what</i> a horse to
+ have to rhyme to!</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <p>"SHUT UP!" AT BARMOUTH!&mdash;Mr. GLADSTONE having made up
+ his mind not to utter another syllable during his holiday,
+ selects as an appropriate resting-place, a charming sea-side
+ spot where he stops himself, and where there is a "Bar" before
+ the "mouth."</p>
+ <hr />
+ <span class="pagenum"><a name="page143"
+ id="page143"></a>[pg 143]</span>
+
+ <div class="figcenter"
+ style="width:100%;">
+ <a href="images/142.png"><img width="100%"
+ src="images/142.png"
+ alt="MR. PUNCH'S FISHING PARTY." /></a>
+
+ <h3>MR. PUNCH'S FISHING PARTY.</h3>
+ </div>
+ <hr />
+ <span class="pagenum"><a name="page144"
+ id="page144"></a>[pg 144]</span>
+
+ <div class="figcenter"
+ style="width:45%;">
+ <a href="images/144.png"><img width="100%"
+ src="images/144.png"
+ alt="THE FINDING OF PHARAOH." /></a>
+
+ <h3>THE FINDING OF PHARAOH.</h3><i>Interesting Discovery in
+ the Dead Season.</i>
+ </div>
+ <hr />
+
+ <h2>VERY ENTERTAINING.</h2>
+
+ <p>Dear MR. PUNCH,&mdash;So much is done by the organisers of
+ the Primrose League in the shape of amusements for the people,
+ that it seems strange "the other side" should not follow suit.
+ Without having decided political opinions, I like both the
+ Government and Her Majesty's Opposition to be on equal terms.
+ Hence my suggestion. I see that, a few days ago, Mr. GLADSTONE,
+ in speaking to an audience at Barmouth, made the following
+ remarks. He said&mdash;He belonged to almost every part of the
+ country. A Scotchman by blood, born in Lancashire, and resident
+ in London, he had become closely attached to Wales by marriage,
+ and had now become too old to get rid of that inclination.
+ Surely these admissions conjure up the possibility of a really
+ excellent entertainment. To show you what I mean, I jot down,
+ in dramatic form, my notion of the manner in which the
+ PREMIER's excellent idea should be worked out:&mdash;</p>
+
+ <blockquote>
+ <p>SCENE&mdash;<i>A large hall, with a platform. On the
+ platform, Committee and Chairman. In front of the Chairman,
+ large table, with cloth reaching to the floor.
+ Water-bottle, and tumbler, and lamp.</i></p>
+ </blockquote>
+
+ <div class="drama">
+ <p><i>Chairman.</i> Ladies and Gentlemen, I have great
+ pleasure in announcing that the Right Hon. W.E. GLADSTONE
+ (<i>cheers</i>), will give his entertainment entitled "The
+ Man of Many Characters" almost immediately. The PREMIER's
+ train is a little late, but&mdash;ah, here come his
+ fore-runners. (<i>Enter two Servants in livery with a large
+ basket-box, which they place under the table and then
+ retire.</i>) And now we may expect the PREMIER
+ immediately.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <blockquote>
+ <p>[<i>Enter</i> Mr. GLADSTONE <i>in evening dress
+ hurriedly. He is received with thunders of
+ applause.</i></p>
+ </blockquote>
+
+ <div class="drama">
+ <p><i>Mr. Gladstone.</i> Ladies and Gentlemen! (<i>Great
+ cheering.</i>) I regret I have kept you waiting for some
+ quarter of an hour. My excuse must be that I caused the
+ train to be pulled up, because I noticed at a wayside
+ station a crowd of villagers who, apparently, were desirous
+ to hear me speak. You must forgive me, for it was for the
+ good of the nation. (<i>Cheers.</i>) And now without
+ preface, I will appear as my friend Farmer HODGE. (<i>Loud
+ applause, during which the</i> PREMIER <i>dives under the
+ table and re-appears in character. Continued applause.</i>)
+ I be mighty glad to see ye. And now, I'll tell ye what I
+ thinks about the Eight Hours' Bill. (<i>Airs his opinions
+ in "Zomerzetshire" for some twenty minutes. At the
+ conclusion of his performance re-appears in evening
+ dress-coat. Applause.</i>) Thank you very much. But
+ although Farmer HODGE is a very good fellow, I think SANDIE
+ MACBAWBEE is even better. With your permission, I will
+ appear as SANDIE MACBAWBEE. (<i>Disappears under table, and
+ re-appears in Highland Costume. Cheers.</i>) Dinna fash
+ yourselves! Ma gracious! It's ma opinion that you'll just
+ hear a wee bit about Home Rule for Bonnie Scotland. Well,
+ ye ken&mdash;(<i>Airs his opinions upon his chosen subject
+ in broad Scotch. After a quarter of an hour he re-appears,
+ and receives the usual applause.</i>) Thank you from the
+ bottom of my heart. And now as I have shown you Scotland
+ and England, I think you would be pleased with a glimpse of
+ London. (<i>Cheers.</i>) You all like London, do you not?
+ (<i>Applause.</i>) With your kind permission, I will
+ re-appear as a noted character in the great tragic comedy
+ of the world's Metropolis. (<i>Dives down and comes up as a
+ Costermonger. Prolonged applause.</i>) What cheer!
+ (<i>Laughter.</i>) Well, you blokes what are you grinning
+ at? I am a chickaleary cove, that's what I am. But I know
+ what would knock you! You would like to 'ear about 'Ome
+ Rule. Eh? What cheer! 'Ere goes. (<i>Reveals his Home-Rule
+ scheme with a Cockney twang and dialect. Then disappears
+ and re-appears in his customary evening dress.</i>) Thank
+ you most earnestly. (<i>Loud cheers.</i>) And now I am
+ afraid I must bid you good-bye. But before leaving, I must
+ confess to you that I have never had the honour of
+ appearing before a juster, more intelligent, and more
+ appreciative audience. [<i>Bows and exit.</i></p>
+
+ <p><i>Voices.</i> Encore! Encore! Encore!</p>
+
+ <p><i>Mr. Gladstone</i> (<i>returning</i>). I am deeply
+ touched by this sign of public confidence. I would
+ willingly continue my character illustrations indefinitely,
+ but, unfortunately, I am required in another part of the
+ country to repeat the same performances. I have only just
+ time to catch my special train. Thank you again and
+ again.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <blockquote>
+ <p>[<i>Exit hurriedly, after kissing his hand. The Footmen
+ reappear, and take away the large box. Applause, and
+ Curtain.</i></p>
+ </blockquote>
+
+ <p>There, my dear <i>Mr. Punch</i>, is the rough idea. I feel
+ sure it could be carried through with the greatest possible
+ advantage.</p>
+
+ <p class="author">Believe me, yours most truly,<br />
+ AN EARNEST PATRIOT.</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <h2>THE QUEEN OF MAN-O'ER-BOARD.</h2>
+
+ <h4><i>A Novel in Little from a Drama in Full.</i></h4>
+
+ <h3>CHAPTER I.&mdash;<i>Lady Violet Malvern at Home.</i></h3>
+
+ <p>It was a gorgeous entertainment, consisting chiefly of
+ recitations and the "<i>Intermezzo</i>." Lady VIOLET MALVERN
+ was <i>the</i> life and soul of the party. But there were
+ lesser lights in a Baron FINOT, an old diplomatist, and a Major
+ GARRETT, an officer in retreat. Then came ARMAND SEVARRO. He
+ was an adventurer, and a friend of Baron FINOT, and had a
+ solitary anecdote.</p>
+
+ <p>"I am going to be married to a young lady of the name of
+ DOROTHY BLAIR, but cannot reveal the secret, because her mother
+ is not well enough to hear the news."</p>
+
+ <p>Then ARMAND met Lady VIOLET.</p>
+
+ <p>"I dreamed years ago of going to the City of Manoa to find
+ its queen. I have found her this evening."</p>
+
+ <p>"And she is&mdash;?" queried Lady VIOLET.</p>
+
+ <p>"You!" hissed the Brazilian (he was a Brazilian), and
+ departed.</p>
+
+ <p>"What folly!" murmured Lady VIOLET, in the moonlight.</p>
+
+ <p>And many agreed with her.</p>
+
+ <h3>CHAPTER II.&mdash;<i>The Garden of Dorothy Blair.</i></h3>
+
+ <p>DOROTHY was on the Thames. There came to her ARMAND.</p>
+
+ <p>"Will you never publish our contemplated marriage?" she
+ asked.</p>
+
+ <p>"How can I, child?" he replied. "How can I reveal the secret
+ when your mother is not well enough to hear the news?"</p>
+
+ <p>It was his solitary anecdote.</p>
+
+ <p>She sighed, and then came a steam-launch. It contained Lady
+ VIOLET, the other characters, lunch, and (played off) the
+ "<i>Intermezzo</i>."</p>
+
+ <p>Then ARMAND preferred to flirt with Lady VIOLET to
+ DOROTHY.</p>
+
+ <p>"What nonsense!" thought DOROTHY.</p>
+
+ <p>And her thoughts found an echo in the breasts of the
+ audience.</p>
+
+ <h3>CHAPTER III.&mdash;<i>Smoke in the Smoking-room.</i></h3>
+
+ <p>And the Right Hon. RICHARD MALVERN, having had supper, was
+ jealous of his wife. He told Lady VIOLET that he considered
+ ARMAND <i>de trop</i>. But he did it so amiably that it touched
+ Lady VIOLET deeply.</p>
+
+ <p>"I will send ARMAND away," she replied. Then she told the
+ Brazilian that it was his duty to stay away until his
+ engagement was announced.</p>
+
+ <p>"But how can it be announced?" he replied, repeating his
+ solitary anecdote. "I am engaged to a young lady, but I cannot
+ reveal the secret, because her mother is not well enough to
+ hear the news."</p>
+
+ <p>Then Lady VIOLET bade him, haughtily, adieu! He departed,
+ but returned, accompanied by the "<i>Intermezzo</i>."
+ Then&mdash;probably at the suggestion of the music&mdash;she
+ hugged him. Then he left her.</p>
+
+ <p>"This is very wearisome," murmured Lady VIOLET.</p>
+
+ <p>And the audience agreed with her.</p>
+
+ <h3>CHAPTER IV.&mdash;<i>A Weir on the Thames.</i></h3>
+
+ <p>It being moonlight, Lady VIOLET walked on a terrace, and
+ admired a dangerous weir. There was a shriek, and the Brazilian
+ rushed in accompanied by the "<i>Intermezzo</i>."</p>
+
+ <p>"Fly with me to any part of the Desert that pleases you
+ most."</p>
+
+ <p>"I would be most delighted," replied Lady VIOLET; "I would
+ sacrifice myself to any extent, but I would not annoy my
+ husband."</p>
+
+ <p>"Then let me kiss you with the aid of MASCAGNI," and he
+ pressed his lips to her brow, to the accompaniment of the
+ "<i>Intermezzo</i>."</p>
+
+ <p>"I have been to Manoa, and kissed its Queen," said the
+ Brazilian, as he jumped into the weir, wearily. "It would have
+ been better had I died before."</p>
+
+ <p>"Yes," thought Lady VIOLET, as she leisurely fainted, "it
+ would indeed have been better had he died in the First Act than
+ in the last. Then the piece would have been shorter, more
+ satisfactory, and less expensive to produce. Nay, more&mdash;a
+ solitary Act might have been one too many!" And yet again the
+ audience, "all o'er-bored," entirely agreed with her!</p>
+ <hr />
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