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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 11, 1893 + + +Author: Various + +Editor: Francis Burnand + +Release Date: September 20, 2007 [eBook #22691] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, +VOL. 104, MARCH 11, 1893*** + + +E-text prepared by Matt Whittaker, Juliet Sutherland, and the Project +Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) + + + +Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this + file which includes the original illustrations. + See 22691-h.htm or 22691-h.zip: + (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/2/6/9/22691/22691-h/22691-h.htm) + or + (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/2/6/9/22691/22691-h.zip) + + + + + +PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI + +VOL. 104 + +MARCH 11, 1893. + + + + + + + +MIXED NOTIONS. + +No. VI.--REGISTRATION REFORM. + +(_Scene and Persons as Usual._) + +_First Well-Informed Man_ (_bristling with indignation, as he lays down his +newspaper_). Well, I'm dashed! + +_Inquirer_ (_nervously_). What's up? + +_First W. I. M._ _What's up!_ Everything's up. Up the spout, that's where +this blessed country will be if this kind of thing's going on. + +_Inquirer._ What kind of thing? + +_First W. I. M._ Why, all this gerrymandering kind of business. + +_Inquirer._ Oh, by the way, that reminds me. I came on that word the other +day. Can any of you chaps tell me what it means? + +_First W. I. M._ It's as plain as a pikestaff. It means playing ducks and +drakes with things all round, and letting the whole business go thoroughly +rotten. + +_Inquirer._ Has it got anything to do with jerry-builders? + +_First W. I. M._ It's the same thing precisely. + +_Inquirer_ (_insisting_). But what's the point of calling 'em jerry? Where +does that come in? + +_First W. I. M._ It's a French word. + +_Second W. I. M._ It isn't. It's German. + +_First W. I. M._ Bosh, it's French. + +_Second W. I. M._ I bet you a dollar it's German. + +_First W. I. M._ And I bet you a dollar it's French. (_To Average Man._) +Here, you decide. Which is it? + +_Average Man._ Well, I'm sure it isn't French---- + +_Second W. I. M._ (_interrupting_). Of course it isn't. Pay up, my boy! + +_Average Man_ (_continuing_). But, on the other hand, it isn't German. + +_First W. I. M._ Oh, rot! It must be one or the other, you know. +(_Scornfully._) You'll be telling us it's Greek next. + +_Average Man._ Well, of course, it _might_ be; but, as a matter of fact, I +fancy it's English. + +_First W. I. M._, _Second W. I. M._ (_together_). Oh, you tell that to the +Marines! It won't wash here. + +_Inquirer_ (_doubtfully_). Perhaps it's American. + +_Average Man_ (_resignedly_). Well I daresay it is. Any way, you can have +it so if you like, It may be Sanskrit for all I care. + + [_Retires to his paper. A pause._ + +_Inquirer_ (_to First W. I. M._). But, look here, what made you lose your +hair, just now? You looked as angry as blazes about something. + +_First W. I. M._ (_with dignity_). Did I? Well, isn't it enough to make +anybody, who loves his country, angry when he sees what's going on. Why, +the Government's going to turn everything inside out, with some blessed new +law about elections. Registration Bill, they call it, or something of that +sort. Just as if we hadn't had enough tinkering and pottering lately. It's +all through this confounded County Council interfering with everything. + +_Second W. I. M._ (_aggressive_). What the dickens has the County Council +got to do with it? You're always dropping on the County Council. + +_First W. I. M._ Oh, they've got their finger in every pie. I'm pretty +certain this is their job. + +_Second W. I. M._ Well, you're wrong this time, that's all. You're thinking +of the Employers' Liability Bill. + +_First W. I. M._ No, I'm not. I never even heard of it. So that's where +_you're_ wrong. What has the Employers' Liabill got----I mean the +Employers' (_steadily, and with determination_) Li-a-bil-ity Bill got to do +with the County Council? + +_Second W. I. M._ Everything. Didn't you read JOHN BURNS'S speech about it? + +_First W. I. M._ No--and I don't mean to. Ask me another. + +_Second W. I. M._ All right--I will. Do you mean to deny that our present +Registration System is a ridiculous one? + +_First W. I. M._ (_hotly_). Yes, I do. + +_Second W. I. M._ (_with triumph_). Ah, I've got you now. You said, only +yesterday, that any system by which a Government like this got into power +must be ridiculous. (_To_ Inquirer.) Didn't he? + +_Inquirer_ (_hesitating_). Well, I'm not quite sure. I rather fancy he did +say something of that kind. But--(_deprecatingly_)--perhaps he meant +something else. + +_First W. I. M._ No, I didn't. I meant what I said--and I stick to it. But +that isn't the same thing as the Registration System. + +_Second W. I. M._ Perhaps you'll tell us, then, what the Registration +System is? + +_Inquirer_ (_eagerly_). Yes, do. I should like to get to the bottom of it, +because I'm constantly meeting a sort of third cousin of mine, who's a +Registrar of something or other, and I never quite know what he does. All I +know is, that he isn't a Registrar in Bankruptcy. + +_First W. I. M._ Let me see--how can I put it shortly? It's just this--you +chaps have got votes. + +_Inquirer_ (_decisively_). No, I haven't. + +_First W. I. M._ (_put out_). Ah, but you ought to have. + +_Second W. I. M._ (_cutting in_). There you are again. That's just what +I've been saying all along. He ought to have--but he hasn't; so where's +your beautiful system now? + +_First W. I. M._ (_retreating strategically_). I never said it was +_perfect_, did I? But I'll come to that afterwards. (_To_ Inquirer.) Now +why haven't you got a vote? + +_Inquirer_ (_with a painful sense of inferiority_). I'm sure I don't know. +I suppose the old Johnny, whoever he is, didn't chalk me down when he went +round last time. + +_First W. I. M._ Probably you haven't lived in your house long enough. You +haven't got a qualifying period. + +_Inquirer._ Haven't I? How long ought I to have lived there? + +_First W. I. M._ (_vaguely_). Oh, it's something between three and four +years. I can't tell you the exact number; they alter it every year. + +_Second W. I. M._ Who alter it? + +_First W. I. M._ The Revising Barristers, or somebody. + +_Second W. I. M._ Well, my brother-in-law's a Revising Barrister, and I +never heard of him doing that. + +_First W. I. M._ (_sarcastic_). But you don't suppose he'd tell _you_ +everything he does, do you? + +_Inquirer._ But I've lived in my house six years. + +_First W. I. M._ Ah! but aren't you a lodger? + +_Second W. I. M._ What's the odds if he is? My brother's a lodger, and I +know he's got a vote. + +_First W. I. M._ But that's a different franchise altogether. + +_Second W. I. M._ How do you mean? They're both lodgers. + +_First W. I. M._ But they don't live in the same district. Perhaps they +don't give him a latch-key. + +_Inquirer_ (_producing it_). Yes they do. Here it is. (_Chuckles._) I think +I jolly well see myself without a latch-key. But, I say, about this vote. I +don't half like not having got one. What shall I do about it? + +_First W. I. M._ You'd better see somebody about it. + +_Inquirer._ Somebody was talking about Leasehold Franchise the other day. +Perhaps I could get in on that. + +_First W. I. M._ Ah! I daresay that _might_ help you. [_Terminus._ + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: "NOUS AVONS CHANGÉ TOUT CELA!" + +"WERE YOU EVER IN CHICAGO, DUCHESS?" + +"WHY YES, LADY MARY. IT'S MY NATIVE PLACE, YOU KNOW--AT LEAST, IT USED TO +BE!"] + + * * * * * + +NEW NOVEL BY Mr. G.--_The Art of Midlothian._ + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: DRESS REHEARSAL OF EMINENT COMEDIANS, GRANDOLPH AND SARUM, +_Previous to Starring Tour in Scotland and Ireland respectively_.] + + * * * * * + +OUR BOOKING-OFFICE. + +_Time and the Woman._ By RICHARD PRYCE. Not by any means a pearl of Pryce, +and certainly not likely to make so great noise in the novel-reading world +as did _The Quiet Mrs. Fleming_, by the same author. METHUEN & CO. publish +it. + +The Baron heartily recommends FRANK BARRETT'S novel, in three vols., +entitled, _Kitty's Father_. A thoroughly absorbing plot, well worked out, +and interesting right up to the last page. _Kitty's_ father is a mysterious +person, and she, not being a wise child, for she doesn't know him, does +several foolish things, and says several wise ones. _Kitty's_ uncle is a +necessary nuisance, but a cleverly and consistently drawn character, while +_Kitty_ herself is delightfully made out of good home-spun material. But +the villanous Curate is just a bit too grotesque, too Uriah-Heepish for the +awfully tragic situation in which he is placed. When the imaginative author +shifts the scene to Dublin, why did he not represent an Irish +Cardinal-Archbishop as waiting at the stage-door to escort home the +light-and-leading lady? But "for a' that and a' that," most decidedly "read +it," quoth the Baron, and on he goes again. + +MARION CRAUFORD'S _Children of the King_, published by MACMILLAN, is a +tragic story, told in most simple and most fascinating style. It is all +colour and character: the colours and the characters being those of +Southern Italy. + +Out of regard to the importunities of numerous correspondents, the Baron +has read IBSEN'S _Master Builder_, translated by two of the Ibsenitish +cult. "Only fancy!" Of all the weak-knee'd, wandering, effeminate, +unwholesome, immoral, dashed "rot," to quote _Lord Arthur_ in the +_Pantomime Rehearsal_, this is the weak-knee'dest, effeminatest, and all +the epithets as above superlatived. Read it by all means, and see it, too, +if you will, but if the honest English play-goer's verdict is worth a "big, +big, D" (I thank thee, W. S. G., for teaching me that abbreviated form of +dashed expressiveness!) he will give IBSEN'S _Master Builder_ the benefit +of the "D," and "D" it once and for ever. And that, at your service, my +masters, is the rough-and-ready opinion expressed by, + +Yours truly, THE BARON DE B.-W. + + * * * * * + +A RACY READING OF AN OLD QUOTATION FROM SCOTT. + +(_Suggested by Burns._) + + "My foot is on Newmarket Heath! + My name, JEM LOWTHER!" + + * * * * * + +The benefits that Sir JOHN LAWES has been able and will yet be able to +confer on agriculturists everywhere, including those in his immediate +neighbourhood, cause him to be regarded as a living exception to the rule +about a prophet in his own country. So, in that part of England, "Profit +and LAWES" are synonymous terms, meaning the same person. + + * * * * * + +"HAPPINESS IN----FOLKESTONE." + +["He said, 'Go and be----' I accordingly went and stayed at Folkestone." + +_See last Thursday's "Daily News;" Evidence in the De Walden Case._] + + Thrice happy Town Council! when pestered to pave, + Remember this fact that her Ladyship mentions. + Intend, but do nothing; your rates you can save + By paving your streets with the best of intentions. + + * * * * * + +HITHERTO UNREPORTED.--Mr. GLADSTONE and Mr. ASQUITH received deputations on +the Eight Hours' Question last Friday. The chief speakers were Mr. PARROT +and Mr. ONIONS. Mr. G. observed that in all his vast experience, frequently +as he had tasted a savoury dish of rabbit and onions, yet the combination +of Parrot with Onions was something really novel. Perhaps Mr. PARROT would +be useful at any bye-election, and would give them the state of the poll. +As to Mr. ONIONS, well, he (Mr. G.) hadn't words of welcome sufficiently +strong for him. Why hadn't he brought "BRER RABBIT" with him? In +approaching the Eight Hours' Question, no time must be lost, so he would at +once proceed to business. + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: FROM OUR VILLAGE. + +_Mrs. Sharply_ (_to the Doctor, who has looked in, having heard that her +"good man" is ailing_). "NO, I THANK YE, SIR. YOU SEE I'VE HEERD OF YOU, +SIR, AS YOU'VE BEEN 'PRAC_TI_SING' HERE FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS, AND SO +I'D RATHER YOU WENT 'PRAC_TI_SING' ELSEWHERE, AS I DON'T WANT NO +_'SPERIMENTS_ ON MY OLD MAN!"] + + * * * * * + +At a recent Monday Pop Concert, Mr. BORWICK put any amount of +powder--everyone has seen or heard of Borwick's Powder--into his +performance of "_Suite Anglaise_." As a pretty lady observed, "He might +just as well, or better, have put the name in English, and called it, '_The +Sweet English Girl_.'" Messrs. JOACHIM, RIES, STRAUSS, and PIATTI, played a +string-quartette in C Sharp Minor, and out of respect to the Ecclesiastical +Season of the year, they gave marked prominence to the "_Lento_" in G. +Flat. + + * * * * * + +A GENUINE BUILDING SOCIETY.--The Birds, just now. And its members are not +even waiting for a Re-leaf Fund, which will, however, soon come, with "the +flowers that bloom in the Spring, tra-la!" + + * * * * * + +THE G. O. M. FROM A MUSICAL POINT OF VIEW.--When preternaturally alert, he +is "Mr. G. Sharp." When depressed, he is "Mr. G. Flat." When himself again, +he is "Mr. G. Natural." As being second son, he is "G. Minor." He is also +_hors ligne_. But he refuses to be musically translated to the House of +Lords, and become "The Upper G." + + * * * * * + +_Q._ What is the difference between a lover asking the object of his +affections to marry him, and a guest who ventures to hint to his host that +the Pommery '80 is rather corked? + +_A._ The one pops the question, the other questions the pop. + + * * * * * + +Mrs. R. saw the heading of a paragraph in the _Times_, of Monday. Feb. 27, +"Jade in Upper Burmah." She laid the paper down, and exclaimed, "Dear me! I +wonder who she is!" + + * * * * * + +If we ever do adopt Bimetallism, it is evident, from Mr. GLADSTONE'S +masterly speech, that holders of Consols will obtain very little +consol-ation. + + * * * * * + +PILL-DOCTOR HERDAL. + +(_Translated from the Original Norwegian by Mr. Punch_) + + [PREFATORY NOTE. The original title, _Mester-Pijl-drögster Herdal_, + would sound a trifle too uncouth to the Philistine ear, and is + therefore modified as above, although the term "drögster," strictly + speaking, denotes a practitioner who has not received a regular + diploma.] + +ACT FIRST. + + _An elegantly furnished Drawing-room at_ Dr. HERDAL'S. _In front, on + the left, a Console-table, on which is a large round bottle full of + coloured water. On the right a stove, with a banner-screen made out of + a richly-embroidered chest-protector. On the stove, a stethoscope and + a small galvanic battery. In one corner, a hat and umbrella stand; in + another, a desk, at which stands_ SENNA BLAKDRAF, _making out the + quarterly accounts. Through a glass-door at the back is seen the + Dispensary, where_ RÜBUB KALOMEL _is seated, occupied in rolling a + pill. Both go on working in perfect silence for four minutes and a + half._ + +_Dr. Haustus Herdal_ (_enters through hall-door; he is elderly, with a +plain sensible countenance, but slightly weak hair and expression_). Come +here, Miss BLAKDRAF. (_Hangs up hat, and throws his mackintosh on a +divan._) Have you made out all those bills yet? [_Looks sternly at her._ + +_Senna_ (_in a low hesitating voice_). Almost. I have charged each patient +with three attendances daily. Even when you only dropped in for a cup of +tea and a chat. (_Passionately._) I felt I _must_--I _must_! + +_Dr. Herd._ (_alters his tone, clasps her head in his hands, and +whispers_). I wish you could make out the bills for me, _always_. + +_Senna_ (_in nervous exaltation_). How lovely that would be! Oh, you are so +unspeakably good to me! It is too enthralling to be here! + + [_Sinks down and embraces his knees._ + +_Dr. Herd._ So I've understood. (_With suppressed irritation._) For +goodness' sake, let go my legs! I do _wish_ you wouldn't be so confoundedly +neurotic! + +[Illustration: "For goodness' sake, let go my legs!"] + +_Rübub_ (_has risen, and comes in through glass-door, breathing with +difficulty; he is a prematurely bald young man of fifty-five, with a +harelip and squints slightly_). I beg pardon, Dr. HERDAL, I see I interrupt +you. (_As SENNA rises._) I have just completed this pill. Have you looked +at it? + + [_He offers it for inspection diffidently._ + +_Dr. Herd._ (_evasively_). It appears to be a pill of the usual dimensions. + +_Rübub_ (_cast down_). All these years you have never given me one +encouraging word! _Can't_ you praise my pill? + +_Dr. Herd._ (_struggles with himself_). I--I cannot. You should not attempt +to compound pills on your own account. + +_Rübub_ (_breathing laboriously_). And yet there was a time when _you_, +too---- + +_Dr. Herd._ (_complacently_). Yes, it was certainly a pill that came as a +lucky stepping-stone--but not a pill like that! + +_Rübub_ (_vehemently_). Listen! Is that your last word? _Is_ my aged mother +to pass out of this world without ever knowing whether I am competent to +construct an effective pill or not? + +_Dr. Herd._ (_as if in desperation_). You had better try it upon your +mother--it will enable her to form an opinion. Only mind--I will not be +responsible for the result. + +_Rübub._ I understand. Exactly as you tried _your_ pill, all those years +ago, upon Dr. RYVAL. [_He bows, and goes out._ + +_Dr. Herd._ (_uneasily_). He said that so strangely, SENNA. But tell me +now--when are you going to marry him? + +_Senna_ (_starts--half glancing up at him_). I--I don't know. This +year--next-year--now--_never_! I cannot marry him ... I cannot--I +_cannot_--it is so utterly impossible to leave you! + +_Dr. Herd._ Yes, I can understand _that_. But, my poor SENNA, hadn't you +better take a little walk? + +_Senna_ (_clasps her hands gratefully_). How sweet and thoughtful you are +to me! I _will_ take a walk. + +_Dr. Herd._ (_with a suppressed smile_). Do! And--h'm!--you needn't trouble +to come back. I have advertised for a male book-keeper--they are less +emotional. Good-night, my little SENNA! + +_Senna_ (_softly, and quiveringly_). Good-night, Dr. HERDAL! + + [_Staggers out of the hall-door, blowing kisses._ + +_Mrs. Herdal_ (_enters through the window, plaintively_). Quite an +acquisition for you, HAUSTUS, this Miss BLAKDRAF! + +_Dr. Herd._ She's--h'm!--extremely civil and obliging. But I am parting +with her, ALINE--mainly on _your_ account. + +_Mrs. Herd._ (_evades him_). Was it on my account, indeed, HAUSTUS? You +have parted with so many young persons on my account--so you tell me! + +_Dr. Herd._ (_depressed_). Oh, but this is hopeless! When I have tried so +hard to bring a ray of sunlight into your desolate life! I must give RÜBUB +KALOMEL notice too--his pill is really too preposterous! + +_Mrs. Herd._ (_feels gropingly for a chair, and sits down on the floor_). +Him, _too_! Ah, HAUSTUS, you will never make my home a real home for me. My +poor first husband, HALVARD SOLNESS, tried--and _he_ couldn't! When one has +had such misfortunes as I have--all the family portraits burnt, and the +silk dresses, too, and a pair of twins, and nine lovely dolls. + + [_Chokes with tears._ + +_Dr. Herd._ (_as if to lead her away from the subject_). Yes, yes, yes, +that must have been a heavy blow for you, my poor ALINE. I can understand +that your spirits can never be really high again. And then for poor Master +Builder SOLNESS to be so taken up with that Miss WANGEL as he was--that, +too, was so wretched for you. To see him topple off the tower, as he did +that day ten years ago---- + +_Mrs. Herd._ Yes, that too, HAUSTUS. But I did not mind it so much--it all +seemed so perfectly natural in both of them. + +_Dr. Herd._ Natural! For a girl of twenty-three to taunt a middle-aged +architect, whom she knew to be constitutionally liable to giddiness, never +to let him have any peace till he had climbed a spire as dizzy as +himself--and all for the fun of seeing him fall off--how in the world----! + +_Mrs. Herd._ (_laying the table for supper with dried fish and punch_). The +younger generation have a keener sense of humour than we elder ones, +HAUSTUS, and perhaps, after all, she was only a perplexing sort of +allegory. + +_Dr. Herd._ Yes, that would explain her to some extent, no doubt. But how +_he_ could be such an old fool! + +_Mrs. Herd._ That Miss WANGEL was a strangely fascinating type of girl. +Why, even I myself---- + +_Dr. Herd._ (_sits down and takes some fish_). Fascinating? Well, goodness +knows, I couldn't see _that_ at all. (_Seriously._) Has it never struck +you, ALINE, that elderly Norwegians are so deucedly impressionable--mere +bundles of overstrained nerves, hypersensitive ganglia. Except, of course, +the Medical Profession. + +_Mrs. Herd._ Yes, of course; those in that profession are not so inclined +to gangle. And when one has succeeded by such a stroke of luck as you +have---- + +_Dr. Herd._ (_drinks a glass of punch_). You're right enough there. If I +had not been called in to prescribe for Dr. RYVAL, who used to have the +leading practice here, I should never have stepped so wonderfully into his +shoes as I did. (_Changes to a tone of quiet chuckling merriment._) Let me +tell you a funny story, ALINE; it sounds a ludicrous thing--but all my good +fortune here was based upon a simple little pill. For if Dr. RYVAL had +never taken it---- + +_Mrs. Herd._ (_anxiously_). Then you _do_ think it was the pill that caused +him to----? + +_Dr. Herd._ On the contrary; I am perfectly sure the pill had nothing +whatever to do with it--the inquest made it quite clear that it was really +the liniment. But don't you see, ALINE, what tortures me night and day is +the thought that it _might_ unconsciously have been the pill which----Never +to be free from _that_! To have such a thought gnawing and burning +always--always, like a moral mustard poultice! (_He takes more punch._) + +_Mrs. Herd._ Yes; I suppose there is a poultice of that sort burning on +every breast--and we must never take it off either--it is our simple duty +to keep it on. I too, HAUSTUS, am haunted by a fancy that if this Miss +WANGEL were to ring at our bell now---- + +_Dr. Herd._ After she has been lost sight of for ten years? She is safe +enough in some Sanatorium, depend upon it. And what if she _did_ come? Do +you think, my dear good woman, that I--a sensible clear-headed general +practitioner, who have found out all I know for myself--would let her play +the deuce with me as she did with poor HALVARD? No, general practitioners +don't _do_ such things--even in Norway! + +_Mrs. Herd._ Don't they indeed, HAUSTUS? (_The Surgery-bell rings loudly._) +Did you hear _that_? There she is! I will go and put on my best cap. It is +my duty to show her _that_ small attention. + +_Dr. Herd._ (_laughing nervously_). Why, what on earth!----It's the +night-bell. It is most probably the new book-keeper! (Mrs. HERDAL _goes +out_; Dr. HERDAL _rises with difficulty, and opens the door_.) Goodness +gracious!--it _is_ that girl, after all! + +_Hilda Wangel_ (_enters through the Dispensary door. She wears a divided +skirt, thick boots, and a Tam o'Shanter, with an eagle's wing in it. +Somewhat freckled. Carries a green tin cylinder slung round her, and a rug +in a strap. Goes straight up to_ HERDAL, _her eyes sparkling with +happiness_). How are you? I've run you down, you see! The ten years are up. +Isn't it scrumptiously thrilling, to see me like this? + +_Dr. Herd._ (_politely retreating_). It is--very much so--but still I don't +in the least understand---- + +_Hilda_ (_measures him with a glance_). Oh, you _will_. I have come to be +of use to you. I've no luggage, and no money. Not that _that_ makes any +difference. I never _have_. And I've been allured and attracted here. You +surely know how these things come about? [_Throws her arms round him._ + +_Dr. Herd._ What the deuce! Miss WANGEL, you _mustn't_. I'm a married man! +There's my wife! [Mrs. HERD. _enters_. + +_Hilda._ As if _that_ mattered--it's only dear, sweet Mrs. SOLNESS. _She_ +doesn't mind--_do_ you, dear Mrs. SOLNESS? + +_Mrs. Herd._ It does not seem to be of much _use_ minding, Miss WANGEL. I +presume you have come to stay? + +_Hilda_ (_in amused surprise_). Why, of course--what else should I come +for? I _always_ come to stay, until--h'm! + + [_Nods slowly, and sits down at table._ + +_Dr. Herd._ (_involuntarily_). She's drinking my punch! If she thinks I'm +going to stand this sort of thing, she's mistaken. I'll soon show her a +Pill-Doctor is a very different kind of person from a mere Master Builder! + + [HILDA _finishes the punch with an indefinable expression in her eyes, + and_ Dr. HERDAL _looks on gloomily as the Curtain falls. End of First + Act._ + + * * * * * + +"AMONG THE MEMORABLE BOOKS OF THE PRESENT RAINE."--Canon RAINE has just +published (_per_ LONGMANS) his _York_, as one of the series of Historic +Towns. The proofs of RAINE on _York_ of course came very moist from the +press. Is there a frontispiece to it of "RAINE poring over his own book?" +The work is highly spoken of,--so _disons_, "_Vive le Raine!_" + + * * * * * + +Mr. WILSON BARRETT is to appear in a play called _Pharaoh_--"What the +plague!"--Is he coming out as an Egyptian Mummer? Will the drama prove +interesting to plague-goers? + + * * * * * + +A FULL MEASURE OF JUSTICE. + +(_According to the Modern Method._) + + SCENE--_The Old Bailey._ Judge _seated on the Bench, thoroughly + enjoying himself_. Prisoner _in the Dock_. Jurymen _in the Box_. + Counsel, Solicitors, _and_ Public, _in attendance_. + +_Judge._ Now I will swear the Jury. + +_Officer of the Court._ I beg your Lordship's pardon, but I have always +been accustomed to---- + +_Judge_ (_interrupting_). Not at all; I will do it myself. You can't give +_me_ too much work. (_Swears the_ Jury.) And now, Prisoner, what do you +plead, guilty or not guilty? + +_Prisoner._ Well, my Lord, I should say---- + +[Illustration] + +_Judge._ Not guilty. Quite right, always give yourself the benefit of the +doubt. You can't imagine what stupid Jurymen we have sometimes. Quite right +to say Not guilty. And now who appears for the prosecution? + +_Counsel._ I do, my Lord, I---- + +_Judge._ Glad to see the eminent counsel here, and I know of no one who can +better conduct a case. Still, with my learned friend's or rather my learned +brother's, I should say the learned Counsel's permission, I will just open +for the Crown myself. (_Opens for the Crown with brilliant effect. +Applause._) No; I cannot allow any demonstration of that sort. By the way +(_to_ Counsel for the Prosecution), Have we any witnesses? + +_Counsel._ Yes, my Lord, a Police Sergeant. + +_Judge._ Oh, indeed, I will soon settle him. (Witness _enters box and is +sworn_.) And now, you Sir, I am not going to allow any speeches--so be on +your guard. (_Examines and cross-examines him._) Have we any more +witnesses? + +_Counsel._ No, my Lord--that is our case. + +_Judge._ Quite so. The face of the learned Counsel, who is retained for the +defence, is new to me, but if he has no objection, I will open for him. + +_Counsel._ As your Lordship pleases. + +_Judge._ Thank you. (_Addresses the Jury._) And now, if we have no +witnesses, I think I will sum up. (_To_ Counsel for the Defence.) Have we +any witnesses? + +_Counsel._ As your Lordship pleases. + +_Judge._ Well, I think we won't call any witnesses, because then the +Prosecution won't have a reply. + +_Counsel._ As your Lordship pleases. + +_Judge._ Quite so. And now, Gentlemen of the Jury, I have now my own +special functions to perform. I will sum up the case in my judicial +capacity. You must know then----(_Sums up._) And now I will leave you to +decide upon your verdict. (_Jury consults._) Or perhaps you would like to +leave the matter to me? + +_Foreman of the Jury._ As your Lordship pleases. + +_Judge._ Thank you. Then I think we may say "Guilty." Prisoner at the Bar, +it is now my duty to sentence you. I think, under all the circumstances of +the case, that I need not treat you too harshly. There is no doubt that the +prosecution has been conducted in a very able manner; and this remark is +equally applicable to the manner in which the defence has been carried out. +I think a month's imprisonment will be sufficient. Prisoner, you are +sentenced to a month's imprisonment. + +_Prisoner._ As your Lordship pleases. + +_Judge._ But, as I have had a good deal to do with this case, I think I may +as well remain in it to the end. So, with the consent of the convict, the +Counsel, and the Jury, I will go to prison myself. + +_The Entire Court._ As your Lordship pleases. + +_Judge._ Thank you all very much. I hope, after a month's retirement, to +have the pleasure of meeting you again. + + [_Exit, in custody. Curtain._ + + * * * * * + +FOR A FEW NIGHTS OHNET.--Mr. and Mrs. KENDAL have revived _The Ironmaster_. +As may be imagined, the dialogue is full of irony. + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: THE OLD COUNTRY. ST. WYCLIFFE'S COLLEGE, OXBRIDGE. + +_Mr. Jonah P. Skeggs, from Chicago (with his family) suddenly bursts on +Jones, who keeps at Letter A in the Cloisters._ + +"SIR--WE OFFER YOU--MANY APOLOGIES--FOR THIS--UNWARRANTABLE INTRUSION! WE +WERE NOT AWARE THE OLD RUIN WAS INHABITED!"] + + * * * * * + +BETWEEN THE ROUNDS. + + ["The record of the Opposition, so far, is one of wasted opportunities + and ill-conceived tactics. They have been beaten, out-manoeuvred and + discredited by a foe on whom, with proper management, they might often + have turned the tables.... These are no days for punctilious or + overstrained courtesy in dealing with political opponents.... + Conservatives and Unionists may be tolerably certain that they will + gain nothing by this misplaced delicacy."--_The Standard._] + +_Perturbed Old Party loquitur_:-- + + Wich, ARTHUR, I'm puffeck aweer as a fighter you're truly tip-top, + Our party's pecooliar pride, and our cause's particular prop! + _You_ can "pop in a slommacking wunner," if ever a lad could, dear boy: + But--well, there, you ain't scored _this_ round; and yer foes is + a-chortling with joy! + 'Ow is it, my ARTHUR, 'ow is it! I've nurriged you up from a kid, + And if ever a lathy young scrapper showed pluck and fair promidge, boy, + _you_ did; + Wich I've cheridged and cracked you up constant, and backed you in all of + your fights. + And I've swore it was you, right as rain, as would do the Grand Ould 'Un + to rights! + But he's turned up more younger than ever--O drabbit him; 'ow he do + wear!-- + I thought he'd be knocked out at once, the fust round, and he ain't + turned a hair! + He hits hard and fast as the "TINMAN," he's nimble as poor "Young + DUCROW." + And now this round's over, _where are we_? I'm jiggered, dear boy, if _I_ + know! + Look at 'im! As perky as pickles! Weaves in like a young 'un, he do, + Jest as limber of limb as a kitten; pops in that perdigious one--two, + Like a new Eighty-tonner. Good gracious, the wetterun's all over the + shop! + He can mill you, or throw you a burster; feint, parry, duck, counter, or + stop! + Reglar mixture of MACE, Young DUTCH SAM, and a Old Pugilistical 'And! + 'Ow the dooce does he do it, I wonder? I don't mind admitting it's grand. + But--wot price our Party, my ARTHUR? He's scoring two points to our one; + And I don't see the fun of it, ARTHUR, I certinly _don't_ see the fun. + + Mustn't take it to heart overmuch, 'ARTY! 'Taint as I wants for to scold; + But--you play him too light--_entry noo_! 'Taint acos you are young, and + he's old. + As you need be so precious "punctilious." Delicate 'andling of _him_ + Won't pay; it's misplaced altogether. Go at him, lad! Lam the old limb! + His bellows can't be as they used to wos. Youth will be served--that's + your chance; + But, if you play light with Old Shifty, he'll lead you no end of a dance. + Think of BENJY, dear boy, my old champion, bless his black curls! _He_ + wired in, + Never thinking of manners or taste, wich is muck when you're fighting to + win. + Look at GRANDOLPH, the Marlborough Midget, as often reminds me of BEN! + There--there! Don't turn touchy, and tiff; we all need a straight tip now + and then. + You can do him, next round, I've no doubt, if you'll only fight up to + your form. + Pull yourself well together, 'it 'ard, bustle up the old boy, make it + warm!-- + Remember wot JOHNNY BROOME'S mother once wrote to her boy--mark, and + mind!-- + "Be sure you make use of your left; keep away from your man till you find + You can reach him in safety, and _then_--give him pepper. Avoid being + thrown. + But give 'im all the bursters you can!" Wich that Ammyzon, who is beknown + To the fistical world, gave her son--as you're mine--werry proper advice. + When time's called, my ARTHUR, wire in; and wotever you do, _don't be + nice_! + No "overstrained courtesy" _this_ time! It's blessed nigh bunnicked your + chance. + Let me fan you, dear boy, let me fan you! And when it is time to hadvance + Go at 'im for all you are wuth! Bless yer, him and his low Irish lot + Won't be in it with GENTLEMAN ARTHUR--_if only you'll give it him hot_! + + [_Left fanning and fuming._ + + * * * * * + +SHAKSPEARII JUNIORES.--Sir AUGUSTUS HARRIS'S and PETTITT'S _Prodigal +Daughter_ is going all over the shop. She is coming out in France, in +Germany, also, of course, in the Horse-tryin' capital, and will appear, as +a matter-of-Corso, in Rome. This for the original English authors is a +dramatic triumph which for the universality of their work is second only to +that of SHAKSPEARE. + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: BETWEEN THE ROUNDS. + +PERTURBED OLD PARTY (_loq._) "WHICH, ARTHUR MY DEAR, YOU'VE TREATED HIM TOO +DELICATE IN FUST ROUND! YOU'LL 'AVE TO PULL YERSELF TOGETHER, IF YOU'RE +A-GOIN' TO DO ANY GOOD!"] + + * * * * * + +POPULAR SONGS RE-SUNG. + +THE MAN THAT SMOKES THE RANK TWO-D CIGAR, OH! + +AIR--"_The Man that broke the Bank at Monte Carlo._" + +[Illustration] + + [_Pardon, good_ GILBERT, _pardon, genial_ COBORN, _That from the Bois + Boolong. Unto the Cockney purlieus of 'Igh 'Olborn, We shift your + famous song._] + + I'm just "all there," no 'ARRY; I've the money, so I score! + To a Race last week I went, + And there staked a quarter's rent. + Dame Fortune smiled upon me as she never done before: + And now I've copped the ochre I'm a gent! + Yus, now I've piled the pieces, I'm a gent! + + _Chorus._ + + As I mash and lark in Finsbury Park, + With a free an' heasy hair, + You can twig the donahs stare. + "BOB must be a millionnaire!" + You can 'ear 'em cry, + "Oh, ain't _'e_ fly? + And carn't 'e wink the hother heye?" + The man wot smokes the prime Two-D cigar, oh! + + I've chucked my crib, and two-quid-screw, for betting's now _my_ walk; + I do my mornin' march + Down to the Marble Arch. + I'm bound to spot more winners; I've a eye that's like a 'awk; + I'm a mass of oof and 'air-oil, shine and starch; + Yus, a reg'lar mass of ochre, shine and starch. + + _Chorus._ + + As I walk along, still "going strong," + With my Tuppenny all a-flare, + You can 'ear old buffers swear, + As my baccy scents the air. + You can hear 'em sigh, + And moan, "Oh my!" + You can see 'em choke, and blink the heye + At "the man wot smokes the rank Two-D cigar, oh!" + + I paternise the Promenards on a Sunday, with the Swells, + With my topper on the skew, + And my cloud a-blowin' blue; + For a tuppenny smoke and a leary joke they nobble the mam'selles, + And if they're nuts on me, wot can _I_ do? + Yus, if they're arter me, wot can _I_ do? + + _Chorus._ + + As I swagger and swell along Pell-Mell, + With a reg'lar oof-bird air, + You can 'ear sour swells declare, + "A Whitechapel weed!"--and swear. + But their narsty cry + Means--jealousy. + So I puff, and wink the hother heye-- + "The man wot smokes the rank Two-D Cigar, oh!" + + * * * * * + +Nuts for Knutsford. + +In the City Article of last Saturday's _Times_, we read that Lord KNUTSFORD +has joined the London Board of "CHAFFEY, BROS., Limited." What a festive +board! What a rivalry must exist among the CHAFFEY Brothers as to who shall +be the chaffiest and the wheatiest of the family! + + * * * * * + +WOMEN'S WRONGS IN JAPAN. + + [The new Japanese Press Bill prohibits women from becoming Publishers + or Editors.--_Daily Graphic._] + +[Illustration] + + A Land of flowers and of Art, + Which lived for centuries apart, + Some years ago woke with a start; + Folks, simply dressed by wrappin' knees + In silken robes of dainty hue, + Began to long for something new + The good, the beautiful, the true + No longer charmed the Japanese. + + So Western Art improved their lot; + A House of Commons grew. Each got + Boots, trousers, frock-coat, chimney-pot. + "Art? 'E don't care a rap, an' 'e's," + Saus 'ARRY, "sich a swell! I'm blowed + 'E'd knock 'em in the Old Kent Road." + You are a sight, dressed _à la mode_ + O too-progressive Japanese! + + And yet, to _Madame Chrysanthème_, + Divided Skirter, Primrose Dame, + And all the rest, are but a name; + It therefore cannot happen ease + Is yours, although men dress like frights, + And even have election fights; + One thing is wanting--Women's Rights, + O _fin-de-siècle_ Japanese! + + * * * * * + +THE COMING COAL-SCUTTLE. + +[Illustration] + + Sweet Maiden, what is this you wear, + This most eccentric sort of bonnet, + That stands erect upon your hair + As though a coal-scoop fixed upon it? + + A very funny shape it seems, + Flat, oval, rather like a shuttle, + Or, like some Statesmen's foreign schemes, + A sort of undecided scuttle. + + And yet not wholly of the kind + Beloved by loud Salvation lasses, + Which brings the coal-box to one's mind-- + BOOTH'S fashions would not suit the Classes. + + There's some resemblance to a spoon, + But you are not considered "spooney"-- + Word coined by some low buffoon, + Romantic, quite, as "_Annie Rooney_." + + It's rather like the ace of spades, + And yet it plays the deuce with features, + O Queen of hearts, of pretty maids, + So say we knaves of clubs, male creatures; + + Who look askance at what may shade-- + When larger grown--the face that charms us. + If scoop or scuttle, spoon or spade, + No matter; each of them alarms us. + + * * * * * + +A POSSIBLE BUNGLER.--Through REUTER'S Agency last Friday, we learn that +"BUNGLE KHAN is in Afghan territory." Capital man to be opposed to us. We +shall be ready to take any advantage of him, as, if BUNGLE KHAN _can +bungle_, he will of course do so. + + * * * * * + +ONE FOR THE OTHER SIDE.--Mrs. R. cannot understand how Mr. GLADSTONE can +advocate Monometallism in the House of Commons, as, she says, she has +always heard that "Words are silver, and silence is gold." + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: EMBARRASSING. + +_Curate._ "HELLO, REGIE! AH, IT'S GOOD TO BE YOU! A POOR BEGGAR LIKE ME, +YOU SEE, HAS TO BE CONTENT WITH RUNNING AFTER THE HOUNDS ON FOOT." + +_Regie_ (_who, as the Son of our M.F.H., has all the Hunting-Man's horror +of Foot-people_). "AH--YES. AND THE PATER SAYS HE WOULDN'T MIND THAT SO +MUCH, IF ONLY HALF THE PARISH DIDN'T SOMETIMES TURNOUT TO RUN AFTER +_YOU_!"] + + * * * * * + +ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT. + +EXTRACTED FROM THE DIARY OF TOBY, M.P. + +_House of Commons, Monday, February 27._--"Am thinking, TOBY," said RIGBY, +just now, "of applying for Chiltern Hundreds. Parliament isn't quite the +place I pictured to myself when I fought for a seat. Of course I've done +pretty well. To be made SOLICITOR-GENERAL right off, with WADDY around, and +WILLIS still in prime of life and energy, was a fine thing. But House seems +perversely inclined to accept me as a joke, and that's not the sort of +thing I'm accustomed to at Chancery Bar. Look what happened the other +night, when, in my learned brother RUSSELL'S absence, I answered questions. +Did it in my best, most imposing, and conclusive style. Kept my eye on +SPEAKER throughout, to see how he'd take it. Effect most satisfactory. You +know I make CHITTY sit up, and NORTH tremble. They, to certain extent, used +to it; all new to SPEAKER, and told accordingly. Was really fascinated +myself. I frowned at him, pursed my mouth, wrinkled my forehead, squared my +jaw, sometimes lowered my voice into my boots, anon uplifted it above where +my wig ought to have been. Being my first appearance at table, thought it +worth while to make an effort. Judging from SPEAKER'S limp appearance +towards conclusion of my remarks, felt I had done it. Suddenly curious +noise, that I'm told is known as a titter, interrupted me, and, before I +had quite finished, there was a boisterous roar of laughter." + +"Oh, come," I said, "you mustn't take that too much to heart. House will +have its joke, and, if you won't make it, it sometimes makes it round you, +using you as lay-figure. Your voice and manner in answering simple +matter-of-fact question, were perhaps a size or so too large. But you'll +get the hang of the place by-and-by, and will be all right." + +"I don't think so," said SOLICITOR-GENERAL, sadly. "Look again what +happened just now. House unexpectedly goes into Committee. Can't find +MELLOR. 'You take the Chair,' says the SQUIRE; 'you'll fill it admirably.' +No time for hesitation; I take the Chair; Clerk claps Bill into my hand. I +say, 'Question is, that I do report progress, and ask leave to sit again.' +Shouts of 'Aye,' and 'No.' 'I think the Ayes have it,' I say, in deep +chest-notes, with persuasive fall of eyebrows. 'The Noes have it!' they +shout. Very well; first duty of Chairman is to be impartial; so _I_ say, +'The Noes have it.' Again they roar with laughter. WOODALL, in charge of +Bill, feels for sword of Financial Secretary to War Office. Fortunately, +can't find it. Otherwise, Chair of Committees might have been steepled with +my gore. What shall I do next? 'Put question again,' Clerk hoarsely +whispered. 'Question is, that I do report progress, and ask leave to sit +again. Those who are of that opinion say Aye; the contrary, No. I think the +Ayes have it.' That would at least get me out of the Chair, and you +certainly won't find me asking for leave to sit again. But what follows? In +all parts of the House, just now opposing progress, hilarious shout of 'No! +No!' rises up. That means I'm to go on with the Bill; but I know if I +declare 'the Noes have it,' they'll turn round to the 'Ayes.' So, after +standing for moment irresolutely, Bill in hand, I'm not ashamed to say I +bolted from table, taking Bill with me. House roared louder than ever. Seem +to have discovered excellent joke. But I don't see it, TOBY. If this is +House of Commons life, give me the dignity and quiet of the Chancery Bar." + +Quite a procession of new Members took their seats on election. Honours of +the day with HARRY LAWSON, who, after stubborn fight, has won Cirencester. +As young HARRY, with his beaver on, marched to table, Liberals temporarily +relieved themselves from imputation that they don't know how to cheer. + +_Business done._--Local Veto Bill brought in. + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: APPLYING FOR THE CHILTERN HUNDREDS.] + +_Tuesday Night._--"It's a natural temptation," said CHARLES RUSSELL, "for +the human mind to believe that Mr. G.'s latest performance at table of +House of Commons excels all he has done before. There is a phrase--you are +probably familiar with it in HORACE--which speaks of the _Laudator temporis +acti_. But the other impulse is certainly, in this connection, quite as +strong, I, therefore, hesitate to affirm that that's the best speech Mr. G. +ever made; but certainly it's among the best." + +[Illustration: Young Harry obtaining his Majority on Coming of Age in the +Parliamentary Time.] + +It was on Bimetallism. Like olives and claret, Bimetallism quite an +acquired taste; ordinary Member will have none of it; flees House when +subject announced. In the Parliamentary world, Bimetallism supplies part of +the BROWNING or IBSEN cult known out-of-doors. Analogy accurate inasmuch, +that whilst mass of mankind are averse to contemplation of topic, the few +faithful pass all ordinary bounds in the enthusiasm of their worship. Thus, +for upwards of hour to-night, MEYSEY-THOMPSON handled it as if he loved it. +MONTAGU, whilst musically jingling in trowser-pocket handful of +newly-minted sovereigns, equally adulatory. Then Mr. G. walked in. It was +reasonably thought in advance that Bimetallism would prove too much even +for the charm of his oratory. Had evidently come down unprepared for +special effort; neither sheaf of notes nor pomatum-pot. He listened to +mover and seconder, and then just talked to entranced House, crowding up in +every corner. Quite surprised, as Mr. G. was himself when he sat down, to +find he'd been talking for an hour. + +_Business done._--House declares by 229 votes against 148, will have +nothing to do with Bimetallism. + + * * * * * + +_Wednesday._--Hear a very pleasant thing in connection with an old friend. +Am told that as soon as Local Veto Bill passes into law, WILFRID LAWSON is +to be raised to the Peerage. + +"Why not?" asks SQUIRE OF MALWOOD. "On the principle that the Devil +shouldn't have all the good tunes suitable for WESLEY'S hymns, why should +the Trade have the monopoly of the Peerage? Why shouldn't there be a +Viscount APPOLINARIS as well as a Baron BASS, a Lord BARLEYWATER to pair +off with a Baron BARLEYCORN? Let us drink (in toast-and-water), health and +long life to Lord BARLEYWATER of Brayton!" + +_Business done._--In discussion on Irish National Education Bill GRANDOLPH +effects little surprise. Been running admirably in double harness with +Prince ARTHUR. This afternoon suddenly jibs; nearly upsets coach. + + * * * * * + +_Friday_, 1 A.M.--"Begin to think, TOBY," said Prince ARTHUR, as we walked +home together in the moonlight, "that we shall scotch this Home-Rule Bill +yet. Expectation only just dawned on me. When I went down to House in the +afternoon, was of different opinion. Had philosophically settled down to +acceptance of inevitable. Might maim it a bit in Committee; play with it so +as to block off other business, and send it up to Lords at so late period +of Session that they would seem justified in throwing it out, on score of +inadequate time to discuss it. Now I think we shall go one better. COURTNEY +thought he could serve Unionist cause better from standpoint below Gangway. +The supremest service he could render to that cause was effected when he +created vacancy in Chair." + +"Don't you think," I said, "they were a little hard on MELLOR? Wasn't the +sport something after the fashion of the gallant emprise in Windsor Park +with the carted stag? And then the merry sportsmen didn't give the new +Chairman the ordinary courtesy of a fair start and a little run." + +"Oh," said Prince ARTHUR, "if you put it in that way, of course there's +something to be said. But all is fair in hate and war. Mr. G. should have +thought of that before he got rid of COURTNEY. Our business is to stop +Home-Rule Bill from passing, and after to-night the way is clear, and the +goal certain." + +_Business done._--New Chairman baited for an hour by Westminster Clock. +Before the lawless, disorderly squabble about Law and Order in County +Clare, regular foot-ball scrimmage, in which SAUNDERSON naturally turned +up. In one of the pauses the Colonel dropped into poetry? could hear him +crooning to himself:-- + + There's Justice O'BRIEN of Clare, + How rare! + 'Tis little for justice they care + Down there! + + They're choke full of crimes, + (So at least says the _Times_), + And they've got no policemen to spare, + How quare! + They've got no policemen to spare. + +_Friday Night._--Seems, after all, MELLOR quite right in his ruling +yesterday. Point was that, on supplementary Estimate, you may not debate +questions of policy settled when original vote agreed to. Prince ARTHUR +denounced this as absolutely novel principle. CHAMBERLAIN kept game up from +other side, and for full hour conviction borne in upon new Chairman that +life not worth living. SPEAKER, appealed to to-day, declares MELLOR to have +been in the right. Report of Select Committee on Estimates. Procedure cited +to show COURTNEY categorically laid down the principle challenged, and +systematically acted upon it. + +[Illustration: Irish National Football Match.] + +"Yes," said SQUIRE OF MALWOOD, reflectively stroking his chin, "and +COURTNEY might have got up and said so last night. Only his fatal +bashfulness, his irreclaimably retiring disposition, could have kept him +silent in such circumstances. True, his interposition would have spoiled +the little game of his friends. It would not have been War, but it would +have been Magnanimous." + +_Business done._--ALBERT ROLLIT, and Ex-Lord Mayor WHITEHEAD, carry +Resolution declaring Revised Railway Rates prejudicial to commercial +interests of country. + + + +***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOL. +104, MARCH 11, 1893*** + + +******* This file should be named 22691-8.txt or 22691-8.zip ******* + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/2/6/9/22691 + + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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