Punch: Punch (83.1882)

274 PUNCH, OH THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [Decmbbr 9, 1882.

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THE M‘SALISBTJRY PIPING HOT. THE M‘GLADSTONE CLEARS HIS PIPES FOR THE NEXT EFFORT.

Sweet Holmes !

[Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes has resigned the Chair of Anatomy at
Harvard University.]

T ohr health, dear “ Autocrat ” ! All England owns
Your instrument’s the lyre, and not “ the Bones.”

Let hear our wishes^trust us they ’re not cold ones !
that though you give up bones, you may make old ones.

Extract from the Letter of an English Trade Unionist
to a Friend in London.—Not ad a bad time of it. Tea and
Turn-out and banquits. Come, says one chap, and see Lev Raw
Sam Moose at the Theayter. Not knowing the dialect I didn’t care

much about Sa?n Moose, and I didn’t know which character exackly
his was. Twixt you and me, Bill, I don’t think much o’ these
forriners. They ain’t got the quiet steady goin’ way as we have,
and they ’re all for shoutin and palaverin and screamin and kissin
and embracin. We ain’t in it with ’em, and there’s no more union
between the French Reds and us than there is between Black and
White, which don’t mix without the white being nasty dirty, and
the black may perhaps be a little less black than it was before. As
for their light clarets to put blood in your veins—give me beer, Bill,
and Barclay and Perkins for ever ! I’m longing for a good pull
at the pewter when I return to my native land, which after all is the
best thing with beef for the backbone of our British Constitution.

Leap Year.—A year in which many people suffer from the Jumps.