Punch (55.1868)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

[August 1, 1868.


MALMESBURY NURSES.

Loud Malmesbury consider! that it is Useless to teach Modern Languages at tile Public Schools, “ as Parents can

EASILY PROCURE SUCH INSTRUCTION FOR THEIR CHILDREN EY HIRING FOREIGN NURSES.” OBSERVE THE DELIGHT OF FOUR YOUNG

Gentlemen who liave returned from Harrow for the Holidays, and discover that their Parents have procured French
and German Instruction for them. Also observe the Envy of the young and untutored Clown.

THE TAP TRIUMPHANT. (A DITHYRAMBIC OF THE DOG DAYS.)

Fill up a glass,
Brim-fall of Bass,

Or Allsopp if you will,
Strong beer or stout;
The Bill’s thrown out,
The Sunday Liquor Bill.

Drink health to them
Whose votes did stem
The Sabbatarian tide,

And check the crew
Of Maniacs, who
For Maine Law are allied.

By brief Report,

As sweet as short,

’Tis proved that he’s an Ass
Who doth asperse,

And would coerce,

As sots, the working class.

To say, when loose,

From beer’s abuse
Refrain they never can.

Is all my eye,

’Tis to belie

The British working man.

What more needs he
From drink to be
Restrained, than any Swell,

Who quaffs, at ease,

What him doth please,

In club or in hotel ?

Who says you must
Not fellows trust,

With swipes to drench their throats,
As well might say.

That such as they,

We are unfit for votes !

This summer hot
Would make the lot
Of thirsty souls severe ;

If, broiled and fried,

They were denied
All Sunday, any beer.

May be, the State
Has felt, of late,

Flow great would be the bore,
To go all day,

Forbid their clay
To moisten, for the poor.

Drink up your beers,

And give three cheers
For liberty to cool

A droughty tongue.

Free, still, is Bung
F rom Sabbatarian rule.

Punch, on the Head.

In an account of a terrible assault committed by a school-boy at
IFerault upon his Master, a contemporary states that “ the latter was
awakened by feeling a hand on his shoulder, and the noise of several
blows on his head.” Noav one may hear a singing in the ears, but
blows on the head, if sufficiently hard, are generally felt, we fancy, not
heard. Perhaps, however, they were sound blows.

The Weather Abroad.
Spain.

-A great Reignfall is shortly expected in

Never Mind.

Hot days and cool drinks have something to answer for. Lord
Napier, of Magdala, visited the Wimbledon Camp on the Wednesday,
and “ when he was going away,” the Band struck up, “ See the
Conquering Hero comes” _

THE LATEST DISCOVERT.

A Friend who had read in the Times about “ the table-land of
Wimbledon,” reports that he found it, most agreeably, in Jennison’s
Refreshment Stand.