Punch (92.1887)

PUNCH, OK THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

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JUBILEE GUESTS.

Lord Chamberlain. "All right, Your Royal Highnesses. You'll all be attended to in tour turns.'

the sorrows of a Chamberlain, [door!) j A cab-full of Strtnities, to "place "
F'lii ' y.es' y°ur Royal Highness, that's your '
( j PerPlex;ity and courtly pain.

W Jubilee's a bore.)

^fat pleasures and 'midst palaces to roam,
j} ,s nice for foreign dignities, no doubt;

"itthen they 've lots of palaces at home,
__"hich we are quite without.

In Grand Hotils, their grumbling mouths
to muzzle, [Grace!)

Is what I call (Number Fourteen, Your
The real " Jubilee Puzzle."

The Turks now! How I envy the snug posts
of them.

Civilisation is but pain and less for us.

{At six, Sire f) Palaces? Why they have
hosts of them
All round about the Bosphoius.

Well, I must do my best. (All in good time.
Serene Transparencies!) The post of
"Boots"

Hy office, which I used to think sublime,
This sort of thing scarce suits.