Punch (13.1847)

24 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

THE STATUE
AGAIN.

Government will not suffer
(the Monster Statue to be re-
moved "on public grounds."
We suggest, therefore, that it
'be put up to auction amongst
the Duke's admirers, and
knocked .down to whomsoever
bids highest. It might then be
<erected on private grounds—per-
haps in some nobleman's park, or
garden, or corn-field, or orchard,
and so be hidden from public
view. By the bye, the objection
•strikes us as being very ground-
less, considering the Statue is up
in the air, and not on any ground
at all, unless the few flower-pots
'belonging to the gatekeeper of
the arch are taken as " public
grounds."

the real and
the ideal.

Baron Roth-
schild, though
immensely rich, is
occasionally very
wilfy. He was
called uponrecent-
ly to give a good
definition of the
Heal and the
Ideal, when he
answered, " I can-
not give you a
more forcible ex-
ample than the
following: — the
Pteal is the cur-
rent coin of Spain,
and a Spanish
Bond, which is
supposed to re-

?resent it, is the
deal." The Baron
may be sure of

maxim picked up at Ipswich. » flk ffi^^sb^^g^^^w^3^H|^^ar_—---- the vote of every

No man—no householder at ?^Jm l^^^S^S^^^^^^^ l^iiiiiL------ Spanish Bond-

.!cast—knows his real value till WmiMBfliBhk^W ■§E^B|BMB||«^^^« ^nisPI holder at the en

election. ^nHnHSI^^^^i §8§W^ffllSl suing election.

"SHALL I HOLD YOUR HORSE, SIR?"