Punch (98.1890)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON GHAEIVARI.

[January 25, 1890.

CRADUAL TRANSFORMATION SCENE.—FLIGHT OF THE DEMON INFLUENZA AT THE APPROACH OF SPRING.

TTiw TiTTTv nr rrxj-n rinfle Katb andJMAiwABET were wounded as if they'd been to the wars,

villi ui lUJi DAUWJiit. Hilda too and Olga owe her very aggravating scars.

aipg»ffrii *?YT gOTe ft;, Cai?17 th6re* I If &e fashion thus continues of stilettos worn like this,

As the fashion is, she sticks it in her coronal of hair. j Men mnst case their heads in helmet3) or ne'er go near girls, I wis.

It looks yery like the dagger 'bout which Macbeth told such fibs, ; Napless, ^ere 1 Ethelinda's mother, I would say, " Beware'.
That cold steel which tickled Duncan underneath his royal ribs. jf you must keep such a dagger, leave it upstairs —with your hair."

Whomsoever she approaches, that three-cornered dagger prods, Ethelthda fiercely would repel the base insinuation,

And a hecatomb of corpses follows when her head she nods. I But the hint might save her neighbours any further laceration.