Punch (14.1848)

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PREFACE.

" Russia—Hum ! Nicholas with an eye on Poland, and in his paternal brain cogitations upon the best ami
♦ liest mode of throwing a new supply of vitals to the Bear.

" Bavaria ! an Ex-King seated by the Waters of Bitterness, drinking draughts therefrom out of a dancer's slipper.

" America—China-—New Zealand—-Greece—Ireland "-

And here Punch withdrew his hand from the fast rolling globe, as from the point of a pike.

For an hour and more, Punch, holding his right knee in his clasped hands,—thought how, in the world's present
confusion, he could best benefit the world.

This, it will be confessed, was a great thought ; a thought vast as the Universe.

How to make France peaceful, modest, self-sacrificing ?

How to take the continual blister—of native fly—from the breast of Spain ?

How to give wisdom and an Emperor at the same time to Austria 1

How to help the Pope as Boots to Ferdinand ?

How—how ?—

And Punch, in despair, again turned the globe—again drummed upon it with his perplexed fingers.

At length he jumped up, witli a new resolution beating in him. " I will "—cried Punch—" put forth a Charter for all
human kind. A Charter of One Point, and it is—Let every man, rich and poor, strong and feeble, high and low, let every man
do one thing, and that one shall be sufficient to all things—Let him do his best."

And that Punch might carry out his own injunction, he immediately nibbed his pen to commence his Eighth Year's
work—his Fifteenth Volume !

Punch a.ttik£d by the Graces. {After Gtjtdo).