Punch (92.1887)

Waby 15, 1887.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 27

THE DRAFT HOUND.

Humph! So he's here! Will he ever go
back ?

Call him the pick of the opposite pack,
^ent me awhile. It's exceedingly kind!
Know him of old; wasn't quite to my mind
JNot so long since. Thought him most unre-

StalL I 'ye had losses, and so must be pliable.
Uoks a bit lonely! Would like to have had
Une or two kennel-mates, eh, my old lad (

Master of Hounds, loquitur:—
Somehow, however, that couldn't be squared;
Others hung back, but thought you could be

Compliment, truly! Tour points they could
never

Appreciate fully. And yet you are clever!
Promising pups, like the one I've just lost,
Bring heaps of bother, involve lots of cost.
You '11 fill his place in a steadier style.
Hope you '11 get on with my kennel awhile.

Should have liked "Harty " ; such hounds
are so few! [do!

Still, you have points, and—I think you may

At the annual Twelfth Night festivity given
on the stage of Old Drury last Thursday, a
Shakspearian actor cautiously declined the
proffered slice. Quoting the reply of Hubert,
he exclaimed, " Baddeley I fear! " And he
did not " take the cake."