Punch: Punch (57.1869)

°» PUNCH, OP THE LONDON CHAPIVAPI. [August 14, 1869.

NATURE'S LOGIC.

Papa. "How is it, Alice, that you never get a Prize at School?"
Mamma. "And that your Friend, Louisa Sharp, gets so Many?"

Alice (innocently). " Ah ! Louisa Sharp has got such Clever Parents ! " [Tableau.

" NO BAIT THIS YEAH!"

" The usual Ministerial Whitebait Dinner will not take place this year."-

Newspaper paragraph.

What was that acid, acrid, cry,
That sounded througli the Treasury,
And Downing Street thrilled like a sigh—
" No Bait this Year ! "

What paler leaves pale Stansfeld's front,
Makes Ayrton's darker than its wont P
The sentence—shrilly, sharp, and blunt—
" No Bait this Year ! "

Was't Gladstone's bile, or Granville's gout,
Layard's " hot with," Lowe's " cold without,"
Or Bruce's bothers brought about,
" No Bait this Year " ?

Was :t Bright's repugnance to a dish
That so suggesteth loaves and fish,
Induced him to put forth the wish—
"No Bait this Year"?

Or was't the want of Bats to kill
(See the Votes on the Irish Bill)
That prompted grateful Gladstone's will—
"No Bait this Year"?

Was't Lowe's example to his friends,
His strenuous thrift of candle-ends
And cheese-parings, that recommends
" No Bait this Year" ?

Or was't a hint to Thwaites & Co.;
Vestries and Guardians meant to show
Their betters dinnerless can go—
Sans Bait this Year ?

Or, shades of Hart and Quartermaine !—
Was't that such load these feasts have lain,
All were rejoiced to swell the strain,
"No Bait this Year"?

Did all, rememb'ring past "Spoke, Spokes !"
Bad wine, stale plats, and staler jokes,
Join in the prayer, which none revokes—
" No Bait this Year " ?

JEWS AND PROSELYTES.

The shade of John Wesley will rejoice to learn that it was no
Methodist after his method who imitated the method of conversion
practised on the boy Mortara at Rome. See what says the Times:—

"The Jewish Abduction Case. — The Rev. Mr. Thomas, one of the
defendants in the above case, was erroneously stated in our leading article on.
the subject to be a "Wesleyan minister. Mr. Thomas is a member of the
Baptist body."

Thomas, it is to be hoped, look you, that, in compassing sea and
land to make a proselyte, you wdl henceforth conduct yourself with
a degree of scrupulousness which will prevent any repetition of the
general remark that you don't seem to be a very Particular Baptist.

one for himself.

Mr. Punch discovers that he is the most credulous creature living,
seeing that he is regularly taken, in by nearly everybody.