Punch (77.1879)

246 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON OHABTVAKL [November .9, 1S79.

A DRAMA OF THE DRAWING-ROOM.

Br means of his Face and Attitude, Jones flatters himself he can express the deepest interest in the conversation
of a Bore, -while in reality his attention is fixed on what is going on in some other part of the Room.

Just at present, old Mrs. Marrable is relating to Jones the harrowing details of her late Lamented's last illness
— while Captain Spinks is Popping the Question to Clara Willoughby behind one of Chopin's Mazurkas—and Jones has
no doubt but that his Face akd Attitude are all Mrs. M. could wish.

"PULL, DEVIL! PULL, BAKER!"

Ah ! It really looks a pretty little game,

As it stands.
Let us hope our pet the Sultan thinks the same.
At Bull's hands,
As his patron, friend, defender,
]f he looked for treatment tender,
With what ecstasies of gratitude his heart—no doubt—expands !

Pull, Devil!—that's the Naughty Northern Bear,
Ogre grim,

Who long has longed the Padishah to tear
Limb from limb!
To save the Turk from ruin,
And so thwart that bogey, Bruin,
Bull's deputy must pull his very hardest against him !

Pull, Baker!—that's Bull's deputy, of course.

Happy choice !
To haul in the Sultan's slack with all his force
He'll rejoice,
For what sympathy hath he
With the immoralitee
Of the East 'gainst which the West uplifts its pure and potent voice?

Pull away, and pull together, pleasant pair,

Never shirk!
Though of solving Eastern Questions men depair,
From your work
Some solution we may see,
Viz., of continuity,
In the prrson and possessions of your Mutual Friend the Turk !

The Way St. Mark's is going.—From the Dog(e)s to the Dogs!

A CAUTION TO GEESE.

According to a police report, on a summons ohtained by the
Metropolitan District Railway Company, a Mr. George Goosey,
attending the other day at the Mansion House and pleading
"Guilty " to a charge of alighting from a carriage whilst a train was
in motion, got himself fined ten shillings. Instead of losing a small
sum of money, Mr. Goosey might have lost life or limb by
his goosehardy act. It is too probable that the monition to "wait
until the train stops " will continue to be disregarded by many a
goosey goosey gander. There are geese whom neither mulct nor
maim incurred by birds of their feather will deter from stepping out
on to the platform whilst the train yet moves, and thus executing a
movement which, without offence to the gallant recruits of the
British Army or their Drill-Sergeants, may well be styled the
"Goose Step" par excellence. For the hero of our text, we may
improve on the nursery rhyme, and sing—

Goosey Goosey gander,
Where would you wander ?
Into trains, and out of trains,
And in my Lord Mayor's chamber !

On a Lee Shore."

" We hear that her Her Majesty's Ship Egeria has received rather serious
damage by going ashore in the neighbourhood of Pakhoi, to which place she
had been despatched to protect British interests."—Standard, Nov 20, 1879.

Let us hope the good ship Britannia will not come to grief in like
manner, while at sea for a similar object.

TnE Maccallum More's Prescription.—How to take Ministerial
utterances—" Cum grano S.iiB jii'w)."