Punch / Almanack (1844)

REBECCA AND HER DAUGHTERS KISSING HANDS WITH THE PRINCE OP WALES,

Hessians to be waiting 011 the shore. The object of the French was to obtain
booty, ami they would have got nothing but. a welting and leathering trom the
Ilessians if tliey had paid a visit to England.

"■ne 23rd, in the year 17»G, the kins sent a message to Parliament,
L>ng them that the French intended to invade England; and that, eing
ts the trench should not put their loot in it, he had ordered a >ou >,'

SOCIAL ECONOMY.

For those gentlemen who are lovers of the Virginian weed in its
native purity, we publish the following list of prices furnished us by
one of the first Spanish Houses :—

A choice high-dried dock-leaf Regalia Ad.

A line old cabbage Cuba 2d.

A genuine Woodville goss-lettuce Havannah 4d.

A full-flavoured brown-paper Government Manilla . 2d.

A real Bengal Brussels-sprout. Cheroot l£&

Several hundred-weight of very rare JUinories have recently been
raised to the title of the 41 Duke of Sussex's Cigars.'' They require
very few pujjs to make good judges smoke them.

ahquis

t0 luulerj

^ 4 ^itnbay in ILcnt.

"Vflf" YhSTEKDAY, lfU2, thk Dl'hk (ip CaMBKIDGR made Fit ee of tiie
City of London—and iis Tavern.

rp New Moon Oh. 17 m. Our Sheriff, F. C., gives a dinner to the
artists, and gets raytlier fresh.

W1831. Jenkins's pockets assure him that he is out of place. Wishing to move in the first,
circles, he has his name engraven on a card, with this simple addition—"Attends
Evening Parties."

English Stack Coaches started in France, 18)7, which failed,
though the French in diligence were always behind them.

J1 The Gin Act.repealed, 1743. The country, though attached totho
liquor, object to go so iar as to swallow the metisuve.

S "Pea-coats" Khfusud Admission into the Fit of the Oreu/,, }S 13.—Queues,
having gone out of fashion, they object to the introduction ol I' 8.

p "isntford n. 18-12. Ilis Valet Suisse finds that Vice, like Virtue, has
many trial*i before it meets its reward.

tition against being sued hob Tithes, 1736. The Clergy ottose
Wishing to make a silk purse out of 1 the-nig's ear.

5 £buntrap m Hfnt

Pollux south 7 h< 41 m. Sir Frederick, with his brother Davidj
goes half-price to the Victoria.

I'll inch Geokue oi' Cambriiigk lion n 1S)1>. And sf»ngc to say, unlike Ai'OuajA,
still without a Pension. Ladies and Gentlemen, "Take enre of your Pockets.",

The niisT Bank ok England Notes Fobokti hy K. Vaugiiak, 1758. The cheat was
detected, the note, like those of the Bank of.lilegancc, "looking unutterable tilings."

181(1. Jenkins visits the Opera, to hear the noble names announced hy liis friend ]''ogi
tlie linlinian. lie is followed by a plum-pudding coach-dog; suspects the dog's high
connection from his looks; and offers him a home, as such benevolence may meet with
its reward.

Sin Robert Peel has tub extraordinary number ok Four Garters at iiir
Disposal^ 1842. Sir Charles Wethei ell/ wishing to relorm the looseness of hid habits,
applies fbr a jtair.

Greece declares itself insolvent, 1843. VV anted? a Compo-
sition to take Greece out of people's books.

Ol J,-L"CTri,cal at Royal Adelaide Gallery d. 1842.

^"luti n * ^ie ^ea(* a ^l0^cin(J

yftl PASSED in Parliament that no Foreigner should receive a
io.. v°ur of t?i?-th5 own, 1701. The \st Jet. of Victoria repealed the aforesaid in
^1. Jenkii ?n lingers.

y»e plain 8 otl ^ie " Managing Director," and offers for his daughter. Colours
«>orn.» jOfy of. his birth, "thanks Heaven that, though a Jenkins, he is nobly
^OiITy g/ >111 Proof of his high paternity, produces—the spoon.

N*vy\^«s Bounty offered to all Able-Bodied Seamen to enter the
Tjjj. (\ °* ^lrst*rate accommodation lor Boarders. N.B. A Cat kept.

of hesolyes to pay tiik Income-Tax, 1842. And byway

Cast etlent^llr3ent, gives up the luxury of the English Drama

s°uth 7 h. 46 m. The statue of George 111., Pall Mall,
vvS is at • *aitliful Commons.

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