Punch (98.1890)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

[June 14, 1890.

"WILL HE GET THROUGH ?"

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"William: Henby loquitur ■—

Poue! Pouf! I'm that awfully out of breath with my long and
terrified scamper, [Milo would hamper.

"With that bull on my track, and this bag on my back, a burden that

Though Milo was not a pedestrian " pot," nor was it a turnstile that
nipped him; [that gripped him.

No, if 1 remember my classics aright, 'twas the fork of a pine-tree

Bat nowadays one had need be a Milo and a fleet Pheidippides in

And°with carrying weight I'm in such a state, it isn't much further

/can run, Sir. , , ,

Oh, drat that bull! Will nobody pull the brute by the tail, and stop

Such beasts didn't ought to be let loose; in the cloture pound they
should pop him,