Punch: Punch (70.1876)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

[January 29, 1876.

WHAT OUR WALTZING IS COMING TO.

Distinguished Foreigner. " Voulez-vous me faire l'honneur de Danser cette Valse avec moi, Meess Matilde?"
Miss Matilda {an accomplished Waltzer). " Avec ' plaiseer, Monsieur. Quelle est voter Forme—le ' Lurch de Liverpool,'
le 'Dip de Boston,' ou le 'Kick de Ratcliffe Highway?' "

[IVe have feebly tried to represent the " Ratcliffe Highway Kick," whicJi at present is only danced in the very best society, and confers a
great air of distinction on the performers.

TURKEY PIE (A Passage from an International Drama).

Scene—A Banqueting Hall. Table spread. The Three Emperors discovered.

First Emperor. And so, my dear Brothers, you have quite
excused me for taking the initiative ? You see, it had to be done
by somebody, and so I-

Second and Third E>nperors [together). Oh, certainly !

First Emperor. "Permit me to thank you.

Seco?id Emperor. And you neither of you doubt my honourable
intentions ? You do not imagine that I wish to take an unfair share ?
First and Third Emperors {together). Oh, certainly not !
Second Emperor. Permit me to thank you.

Third Emperor. And you do not doubt for a second that, in spite of
my last highly successful war, I now wish to keep the peace ? You
do not imagine that I consider our alliance a convenience for the
moment, and not a lasting reality ?

First and Second Emperors (together). Oh, certainly—we mean,
oh, certainly not! In fact, we mean what you mean.

Third Emperor. Permit me to thank you. ;

Enter Britannia.

First Emperor (with much politeness). Dear Madam, we arelso
glad to see you. We thought you would come. Pray, sit down.

Britannia (firmly). But my little business-transaction with the
Khedive ?

First Emperor. Is forgiven—nay approved!

Britannia (hesitating). And my traditional policy ?

First Emperor. Is forgotten. And if all our kind friends in the
rest of Europe are but pleased with our present disinterested and
altogether unselfish arrangements, why then Austria

Second Emperor. And Russia——

Third Emperor. And Germany- Britannia. And England?

The Three Emperors. Ought to live bappy ever after !

(Tableau. Curtain. End of Prologue.)

"ECCE NOS RURSUM."

(Pantomimes, Circuses, and Theatres.)

" Xow, by our troth, but we must see this Surrey," says Some-
body in Somebody's historical play. Mr. Punch repeats it in refer-
ence to the Pantomime at the theatre of that ilk—taken all round,
and Yokhses apart, emphatically the best this year. That is, of
the theatrical Pantomimes proper. Punch must be allowed to keep
a special niche in his affections for the high-chivalric Ring-Panto-
mime, Valentine and Orson (with such a beard), at Hengler's
Cirque, where Bibb the Inimitable almost succeeds in ousting
" Sandy" himself—now a Sangerian instead of a Henglerian—from
our dear loves. The two stand like a brace of Circus Arcadians,
" Et cantare pares et respondere parati,''1 the crowning clowns of
their generation. Altogether Hengler's opens to us a round, or,
should we not say, circle, or circus, or cirque of delight; and as the
joy of children is the sauce royal for all Christmas feasts of fun, give
us one Circus, with a clown like Bibb or Sandy, Sandy or Bibb,
and, better still, three Circuses—for, besides Hengler's, have we
not Sanger's at Astley's, and Rizarelli's in Holborn—before many,
nay, before most, theatres.

"Currite Servi."

"At the Madras Club nine different curries flavoured by as many different
chutneys, were served to His Royal Highness."

" Our Own," with the Prince.

Three times three curries thrice three chutneys flavour !

Byeulla's plats, if not their plots, so thicken,
One thing^ the native Cooks won't curry—favour,

By surfeiting the Prince with curried chicken!

Advice on the Burials Bill.—Bury your animosities.