Punch: Punch (91.1886)

July 17, 1886.]

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

35

INTERIORS AND EXTERIORS. No. 38.

A DREAM OF MARLBOROUGH HOUSE.

H.R.H. the Prince of Wales receiving the Representatives op Himself as depicted in the various Illustrated Papers.

Just a few weeks in town,
Just as I 'd bought a gown,
Amber and gold and brown,

Quite too delightful;
Just as the Season brings
All sorts of pleasant things,
We ye to fly, as on wings.

Isn't rt frightful?

£n other days the House
»at till men slew the grouse,

,SL .tJley've no sort of vovs;

ihis Dissolution,
U>ming_ at such a time,
Surely is quite a crime
Uainst our dear, dull, sublime,

Old Constitution.

THE ELECTION

{By a Disgusted Debutante.)

They will oppose Papa,
So I, and poor Mamma,
Sadly must say " Ta-ta,"

His defeat fearing;
We shall have no more fun,
For us the Season 's done,
Off the whole party run,
Electioneering.

Bother their polities,
All their election tricks,
I'm in a pretty fix.

All my plans undone;
Oxford and Cambridge blue,
Eton and Harrow too,
Unseen: what shall I do,

Whirled out of London!

sanm? jfe?rs.- Pabxiks and Gotto Mr. Punch has received a
Uni t knion Stationery," consisting of envelopes on which the
non,°r i fi&ures as a sort of water-mark. It is considered as
tw ;<-• 7 aPPr°Priate to the present time ; but Mr. P. is of opinion
—th X stable for any future time in the history of Great Britain
trn7f=U"U ^mittedly, "there is no time like the present "—as he
UBts tne Umrvn " will ol

"Je Union" will always be what Messrs. P. and G.'s wares
' l-e-i Stationary." So that's aMotto, For Parkins and Gotto.

EXTRACTS?' FROM' THE CATALOGUE OF THE PROPOSED
COLONIAL MUSEUM.

237. Coal-Waggon, sometimes let out for the Races at 'Appy
'Ampton—used by the Government to convey the distinguished
Colonists from the Railway Station, Aldershot, to the Enclosure, at
the Royal Review.

238. Section of a quaint Sandwich which served as a piece de
resistance at a Banquet offered to the Colonial Visitors after the
Opening of Professor Hollowat's " Pillories " by Her Majesty.

239. Committee-Man's Badge, lost by a Common Councillor at
the Guildhall Ball in the Crypt Supper-Room, and found well in
advance of the wreck of a lady's fan.

240. Cards of Invitation sent by Members of the House of Peers
to a Lady believed to belong to the crime de la crime of Society
in Queensland.

241. One Hundredweight of "K.C.M.G." Stars, found to be in
excess of those needed for wholesale distribution.

242. "Family-Trees" of Mr. Bosisto and other eminent
Australians, showing the connection between those distinguished
persons and the Mother Country.

243. Prescription for Dyspepsia, gratuitously presented^ by a
celebrated physician to colonial sufferers from injudicious hospitality.

244. Five hundred Return Tickets, sacrificed by Colonials
preferring State recognition in England to obscurity at the Antipodes.

Russian Cricket.—Her play is to bowl out England, and come
out strong at Batoum.