Punch (79.1880)

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [November 27, 1880.

WHEN GREEK CUTS GREEK,

An Appeal,



Modern Athens! will you start,
When I ask you hack my heart.
Forced, hy these affairs down West,
Thus to cool my Eastern zest F
Need I add, too,—surely No,—

2.(Lt] ]iov ads dycorw !

For, to empty coffers blind,

Though you’ve tried to raise the wind !
By each lid, whose rusty hinge
Gives me a financial twinge;

By the lot you ’re safe to owe,—

Yet, well—there, ads kycarZ.

So, sweet Athens! when I’m gone,

If you will persist alone,—

(But, 0 don’t he such a fool)—

Still to fly at Istamboul,—

Mind, though floored and thrashed, you ’ll know

Zd>7] p.ev ads dycnru !

FREE FOES OF FREEDOM.

At a meeting of the Commission of the General Assembly of the
Free Kirk recently held in Edinburgh:—

“The Moderator was authorised to sign petitions against any measures
brought forward in Parliament for opening Museums, Art Galleries, and
Libraries on Sundays.”

So much for the attitude of the Free Kirk of Scotland towards the
freedom of everybody in the United Kingdom not of its own per-
suasion with regard to Sunday; but if this is the light shed on the

subject by a Moderator, the sooner Scotland gets some new Lamps
for the old ones the better for everybody’s rational enjoyment on the
Saubbawth. To visit Museums and Art Galleries on Sunday is. at
least an improvement on tippling whiskey, seeing double, and turning
the Saubbawth into a Saw-both Day.

Lord Randolph Churchill does much to settle the case of
Ireland by telling us that in that country Mr. Forster is known as
“ Old Buck Shot.” Lord Randolph is doubtless well qualified to
speak on all matters of gunnery, for he is such a small bore himself.