DOI issue:
January to June, 1850
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16605#0092
84 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
MR. BRIGGS HAS ANOTHER DAY WITH THE HOUNDS.
Mb. Briggs can't bear flying leaps, so he makes for a gap—which is immediately pilled by a frantic Protectionist, who
is vowing that he will pitchfork Mr. B. if he comes " galloperraverikg" over his fences—danged if he doant !
STANLEY'S POOR DOLLY.
Why is Stanley melancholy?
Clarendon has spoiled his Dolly,
Scratched the colour off her face,
Smashed poor Dolly's fragile case,
Tossed her like a shuttlecock,
Torn to bits her orange frock,
Kicked and beaten her about,
Ripped up and turned her inside out.
Damaged her in every point,
Put her nose quite out of joint,
Pull'd her limbs off, left not one
Leg for her to stand upon;
And—as in short it may be said—
Completely knocked her on the head ;
And all because of Stanley's folly,
Who would tease Clarendon 'bout Dolly.
Drunkenness in Sport made Sober Earnest.
"Tell me," says the Querist, "which should be preferred, brandy-
and-water in their combined state, or brandy and water separateP"
" Verily," replies the philosopher, " brandy-and-water in union
represent mingled delight, but the spirit and the pure element in their
divided condition constitute unmixed satisfaction."
LEARNING POR LORD PALMERSTON.
In directing the late aggression on Greece, the Foreign Secretary has
shown a sad insensibility to those associations which we have learned
to cherish in our school-days. We do not envy that man's feelings
who could order the blockade of the Piraeus without a compunctious
reminiscence of Themistocles and Pericles; to say nothing of
Con on and Lysander and Alcibiades. Lord Palmerston ought
to have recollected that to Greece we are indebted for all our intellec-
tual civilisation; for Socrates, Xenophon and Plato, Homer and
Achilles. He would not have sent Admiral Parker to menace
Athens, if he had reflected that from the land of Hellas we derive our
rinrru, our rfyco, and our rervcpa, our first and second Aorists, our tIp
5' airafieifiiuevos, and our never-to-be-forgotten TroAvtyAoicrfioto 6iKa<r<rtis.
Medals a Little Over-due.
The Duke of Richmond has complained in the House of Lords
that medals have not been awarded to all the British heroes who were
engaged in the various actions from 1794 to 1814. By all means let
the survivors of battles fought fifty-six years ago receive an acknow-
ledgment of their services,, for which purpose, probably, at this time
of day, a very few medals will suffice. Seniores priores, however, ia
a good rule, and attention is certainly due, in the firsr, instance, to
the claims of such veterans, yet living, as were present at Cressy and
Poictiers.
MR. BRIGGS HAS ANOTHER DAY WITH THE HOUNDS.
Mb. Briggs can't bear flying leaps, so he makes for a gap—which is immediately pilled by a frantic Protectionist, who
is vowing that he will pitchfork Mr. B. if he comes " galloperraverikg" over his fences—danged if he doant !
STANLEY'S POOR DOLLY.
Why is Stanley melancholy?
Clarendon has spoiled his Dolly,
Scratched the colour off her face,
Smashed poor Dolly's fragile case,
Tossed her like a shuttlecock,
Torn to bits her orange frock,
Kicked and beaten her about,
Ripped up and turned her inside out.
Damaged her in every point,
Put her nose quite out of joint,
Pull'd her limbs off, left not one
Leg for her to stand upon;
And—as in short it may be said—
Completely knocked her on the head ;
And all because of Stanley's folly,
Who would tease Clarendon 'bout Dolly.
Drunkenness in Sport made Sober Earnest.
"Tell me," says the Querist, "which should be preferred, brandy-
and-water in their combined state, or brandy and water separateP"
" Verily," replies the philosopher, " brandy-and-water in union
represent mingled delight, but the spirit and the pure element in their
divided condition constitute unmixed satisfaction."
LEARNING POR LORD PALMERSTON.
In directing the late aggression on Greece, the Foreign Secretary has
shown a sad insensibility to those associations which we have learned
to cherish in our school-days. We do not envy that man's feelings
who could order the blockade of the Piraeus without a compunctious
reminiscence of Themistocles and Pericles; to say nothing of
Con on and Lysander and Alcibiades. Lord Palmerston ought
to have recollected that to Greece we are indebted for all our intellec-
tual civilisation; for Socrates, Xenophon and Plato, Homer and
Achilles. He would not have sent Admiral Parker to menace
Athens, if he had reflected that from the land of Hellas we derive our
rinrru, our rfyco, and our rervcpa, our first and second Aorists, our tIp
5' airafieifiiuevos, and our never-to-be-forgotten TroAvtyAoicrfioto 6iKa<r<rtis.
Medals a Little Over-due.
The Duke of Richmond has complained in the House of Lords
that medals have not been awarded to all the British heroes who were
engaged in the various actions from 1794 to 1814. By all means let
the survivors of battles fought fifty-six years ago receive an acknow-
ledgment of their services,, for which purpose, probably, at this time
of day, a very few medals will suffice. Seniores priores, however, ia
a good rule, and attention is certainly due, in the firsr, instance, to
the claims of such veterans, yet living, as were present at Cressy and
Poictiers.