Punch: Punch (70.1876)

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [February 26, 1876.

5BIN' COCK ROBIN.

" Who killed Cock Robin ? »
"I," said Dame Fashion
(Who ne'er knew compassion',

"I killed Cock Robin!"

" Who saw him die ? "
" The Great Eye, in whose ken
Fates of birds are, and men—

I saw him die ! "

"■Who caught his blood?"
" We," said apers of Worth—
Though English by birth !—

'"We caught his blood!"

Candid.

Mr. Punch, with some astonishment at the freedom and fulness
of the admission, read last week in that leading medical organ the

Lancet—■

" The law presupposes that every person dying has the assistance of a
medical man, and that where such assistance is not procured . . . the facts
should be referred to a Coroner."

Such thoughts may have occasionally crossed the lay mind, but
what non-medical authority would have dared to give them words ?

horatian motto for a board op guardians.

" Mox reficit rates . . . indocilis pauperiem pati."

Carminum, lib. i. 1.

"Who made his bier?"

" I," said Madame La Mode ;

" In wing - trimmings be-
stowed,
I made his bier! "

" Where '11 be his grave ? "
"In my hat," says the
Maid,

" When off Missuses' laid—■
There '11 be his grave ! "

'' Who '11 he his chief mourners ? "
English maid, English mother,
Both one and the other,

"We '11 be his chief mourners! "

" Who will cry o'er his bier ? "
Children gentle and good,
Fresh from Babes in the Wood,

Will cry o'er his bier.

"What's the prayer they will
pray? "

" English girls, England

through,
Small birds' corpses eschew! "
That's the prayer they will pray.

" Who '11 to that say Amen ? "

All, save fools of a feather,

In chorus together,
Will to that say Amen!

son" and stranger.

We sincerely hope the new comedy of Alex. Dumas fils will
remain an Etrangere as far as the English stage is concerned.