Punch (95.1888)

191

OLD KING COAL.

SONG OF AN ANTI-SCIENTIST.

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King Coal {roused out of his slumber). " Oh, what a Bore ! "
Lnndon [to Science). "Take my advice, and don't have any-
thing to do with him. He 's a great deal too deep for us."

" ' Is there Coal under London ?' "We sincerely trust there is not, and
1 that, if there is, it will never be discovered. The prospect of a colliery
district at Streatham, with an eventual revival of the iron industries of Surrey,
Kent, and Sussex, is enough to make every Londoner despair.' "—Times.

Yes, Old King Coal is a merry old soul,
And a merry old soul is he ;
But we shall all he undone
If they find him under London;
So we trust that is fiddlededee.
O'l! the plague and the pother, Oh! the shindy and the smother