Punch: Punch (100.1891)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

[April 18, 1891.

THE INVECTIVE OF H-RC-RT.

(A Fragment in Hexameters, not by George Meredith,)

Heigh me! brazen of front, thou glutton for Ground Game, how | Nevei-u[^^^^^^^^^^

Hares or Rabbits, or gun-bearing Tories, by Jingo, I. d pot em !
0 hugely shameless ! Thee sbali we follow to do an ^justice
Unto the farmers, seeing the Hares a-munohmg to crops up i

can one, , •

Servant here to thyTmandates heed thee among the Tories f
Surely thy mission is fudge, oh, Dawkay, Conservative Colonel!
I, Sir, hither I fared on account of the cant-armed Sportsmen,
Pledged to tbe combat; tbey unto me have in no wise a harm done,
Never have they, of a truth, come potting my Hares and my Rabbits,

unto ine iaruiei-B, »ecmS ^ «. ~--- "a i- 1

I do not sit at the feet of the blatant Bordesley Gamaliel,
Or of the unregenerate Agricultural Minister.