DOI issue:
July to December, 1851
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16608#0114
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PUNCH. OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI
YANKEE DOODLE AT COWES.
See the Newspaper Paragraphs about the Yacht
" America."
Yankee Doodle came to Cowes,
"With temper rather skittish,
Slick and trim from stern to bows,
And bound to wop the British.
Lord A.'s craft is rather smart;
Lord B.'s cutter's handy ;
" Stop till you see our boat start,"
Says Yankee Doodle dandy.
" 0, Yankee Doodle, doo,
She's the boat to win, Sir ;
"When it only blows a few,
Crikey, how she grins, Sir ! "
" Yankee Doodle's run is clean
REMARKABLE CROCODILE FOUND IN IRELAND. As a Repudiator's—
She walks through the etarnal green
- — ==========r=^=:--, As he does from his haters.
Her masts point upwards to ttie skies,
LITERARY ECLIPSE. Like the States' aspiration,
Tjrr , . . . While down below pig ballast lies,
We nope the printers will take the precaution to damp, with additional moisture, the | qj0 represent the nation!
sheets on which our present number is printed, as we are about to introduce a piece of q Yankee Doodle doo
brilliancy from a Sunderland paper, which is really enough to burn everything else com- j You'll wish the clipper farther;
pletely out. The writer, wishing to communicate the fact that the sun set on a certain j g]ie wa]ks as fast as does the lisjht
day, bursts forth_ into the following literary blaze. Our Sunderland contemporary can i From every Yankee star there."'
scarcely be safe with such a fiery genius on the premises, which we trust are amply insured.
Wre feel it a sort of duty to throw cold water upon this luminary, and put him out. Now, " Yankee Doodle's pennant waves,
reader, take care. If you have got a pair of green spectacles, put them on before you J Flapping like a whip, Sir;
read the following, or get a piece of smoked glass. Are you ready? Now, then, let the ' Won't your Swells look black as slaves?
Sunderland luminary fiie away :— Won't it make 'em skip. Sir?
Though 1 feel a bit afraid
That you'll think us vaunting,
I can't help saying, when you've weighed,
You're likely to be wanting !
O Yankee Doodle, doo—
She's the boat to wop you;
You're too fast by half, at Cowes;
We 're the boys to stop you ! "
" The rest of the evening, and especially before sunset, the heavens presented the most glorious aspect we
ever remember to have witnessed. The blue expanse beyond, seemed more pure, stainless, and incorruptible,
than ever feasted our visual orbs before. Interspersed, as it was, with calm companies of gold-fringed, curling
cloudlets, that reposed in the most tranquil and holy rest on the breast of this stainless canopy; and the
floods of golden light that streamed witli tremulous, wavy motions fr*>m the mighty orb, as ' he stood trembling
at the gates of the west,' electro-plating with burnished gold every hill and tree, every house and spire; and, as
he rolled down among the mountains of clouds that seemed to gather there to form a magnificent temple for
his reception, and which his setting beams invested with such brilliant tints and golden effulgence, we
thought that this was surely a scene enough to make any one, not absolutely irrational, to feel a struggling of
emotions too sweet, and too big for any other utterance than that of sileut worship."
We have only one suggestion to make about the author of this paragraph. Let him be
placed in the centre of his own parish, where his brilliancy would save all the expense of j a Cardinal Would-be.
gas or oil, and realise the most sanguine idea of what might be done with the electric light. , „ , ,. ,, . .,
° I A Correspondent of the Morning Advertiser
- ' asks—
" Would you believe that, when Wiseman dines out, he
appears in his church dress and preceded by Mons. Searle,
hearing two tapers with a velvet cushion, on which is the
Cardinal's hat! Would not Wiseman be a Wolsey if he
{For the Kilkenny Cat.) ■ could?" ,
Potato is regene- j Tf l)e Cfrau a reai Wolsey. As he can't,—a Linsey-
rat.ed. Ihrough w i
THE POTATO IN IRELAND.
the breadth of the
land, the root i
looking up; as i
in defiance of tin
articles lost and pound in the crystal
palace.
scorn and 'tyranny \ Among the articles lost and found in the Crystal
of the Saxon. Yes; I Palace, there have been two that would form the
we shall be spared '"< greatest curiosity in the whole Exhibition, could they
the exultations of i be embodied in the collection ; we allude to the time
the bigotted crew, lost by the various clocks, and the level found by
who have too long' the water in the numerous fountains.
dominated over this
oppressed, but now
and for ever hence-
forth indignant
country.
The potato is
saved. Had it pe-
rished, we should
have met with sympathy from Turkey—with consolation from the land of the Great
Mogul. The Hindoo would have stinted himself in his food of rice to have stretched
forth a helping hand across the sea to Ireland; the Esquimaux would have wept like
a brother. All nations of all corners of the earth would have sympathised with stricken
Ireland,—whilst the callous, brutal, and calculating Saxon would have gorged himself with
the beef of Ireland's sons. We are saved from this insult, for the potato is sound—
sound as the hearts of Ireland's patriots, beating as they do with brotherhood and peace.
Entering for the Plate.—A burglary was committed the other day at the Bridewell
in the City, and two or three of the constables were robbed. The burglars carried off a
quantity of plate, and the only wonder is, that as they were in the humour to carry off all
the spoons, they should have left any of the constables behind.
THE CHINESE LADY'S SONG.
A Chinese lady of rank has been singing before
Her Majesty at Osborne, We have been favoured
with a copy of the song, which we beg to say, will
be simultaneously published in China, and here,
there, and everywhere, in order to secure the copy
right.
Song of the Chinese Lady.
Ohc o metoth ete asho pwit hme.
Andb uya po undo fthebe st.
Twi llpr oveam ostex celle ntt ea.
Itsq ua lit yal lwi lla tte st.
Tiso nlyf oursh illi ngsapo uu«
Soc omet othet eama rtan dtry.
Nob etterc anel sewn ereb efou nd.
Oiis ayth eny ou'rer ead ytob uy.
PUNCH. OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI
YANKEE DOODLE AT COWES.
See the Newspaper Paragraphs about the Yacht
" America."
Yankee Doodle came to Cowes,
"With temper rather skittish,
Slick and trim from stern to bows,
And bound to wop the British.
Lord A.'s craft is rather smart;
Lord B.'s cutter's handy ;
" Stop till you see our boat start,"
Says Yankee Doodle dandy.
" 0, Yankee Doodle, doo,
She's the boat to win, Sir ;
"When it only blows a few,
Crikey, how she grins, Sir ! "
" Yankee Doodle's run is clean
REMARKABLE CROCODILE FOUND IN IRELAND. As a Repudiator's—
She walks through the etarnal green
- — ==========r=^=:--, As he does from his haters.
Her masts point upwards to ttie skies,
LITERARY ECLIPSE. Like the States' aspiration,
Tjrr , . . . While down below pig ballast lies,
We nope the printers will take the precaution to damp, with additional moisture, the | qj0 represent the nation!
sheets on which our present number is printed, as we are about to introduce a piece of q Yankee Doodle doo
brilliancy from a Sunderland paper, which is really enough to burn everything else com- j You'll wish the clipper farther;
pletely out. The writer, wishing to communicate the fact that the sun set on a certain j g]ie wa]ks as fast as does the lisjht
day, bursts forth_ into the following literary blaze. Our Sunderland contemporary can i From every Yankee star there."'
scarcely be safe with such a fiery genius on the premises, which we trust are amply insured.
Wre feel it a sort of duty to throw cold water upon this luminary, and put him out. Now, " Yankee Doodle's pennant waves,
reader, take care. If you have got a pair of green spectacles, put them on before you J Flapping like a whip, Sir;
read the following, or get a piece of smoked glass. Are you ready? Now, then, let the ' Won't your Swells look black as slaves?
Sunderland luminary fiie away :— Won't it make 'em skip. Sir?
Though 1 feel a bit afraid
That you'll think us vaunting,
I can't help saying, when you've weighed,
You're likely to be wanting !
O Yankee Doodle, doo—
She's the boat to wop you;
You're too fast by half, at Cowes;
We 're the boys to stop you ! "
" The rest of the evening, and especially before sunset, the heavens presented the most glorious aspect we
ever remember to have witnessed. The blue expanse beyond, seemed more pure, stainless, and incorruptible,
than ever feasted our visual orbs before. Interspersed, as it was, with calm companies of gold-fringed, curling
cloudlets, that reposed in the most tranquil and holy rest on the breast of this stainless canopy; and the
floods of golden light that streamed witli tremulous, wavy motions fr*>m the mighty orb, as ' he stood trembling
at the gates of the west,' electro-plating with burnished gold every hill and tree, every house and spire; and, as
he rolled down among the mountains of clouds that seemed to gather there to form a magnificent temple for
his reception, and which his setting beams invested with such brilliant tints and golden effulgence, we
thought that this was surely a scene enough to make any one, not absolutely irrational, to feel a struggling of
emotions too sweet, and too big for any other utterance than that of sileut worship."
We have only one suggestion to make about the author of this paragraph. Let him be
placed in the centre of his own parish, where his brilliancy would save all the expense of j a Cardinal Would-be.
gas or oil, and realise the most sanguine idea of what might be done with the electric light. , „ , ,. ,, . .,
° I A Correspondent of the Morning Advertiser
- ' asks—
" Would you believe that, when Wiseman dines out, he
appears in his church dress and preceded by Mons. Searle,
hearing two tapers with a velvet cushion, on which is the
Cardinal's hat! Would not Wiseman be a Wolsey if he
{For the Kilkenny Cat.) ■ could?" ,
Potato is regene- j Tf l)e Cfrau a reai Wolsey. As he can't,—a Linsey-
rat.ed. Ihrough w i
THE POTATO IN IRELAND.
the breadth of the
land, the root i
looking up; as i
in defiance of tin
articles lost and pound in the crystal
palace.
scorn and 'tyranny \ Among the articles lost and found in the Crystal
of the Saxon. Yes; I Palace, there have been two that would form the
we shall be spared '"< greatest curiosity in the whole Exhibition, could they
the exultations of i be embodied in the collection ; we allude to the time
the bigotted crew, lost by the various clocks, and the level found by
who have too long' the water in the numerous fountains.
dominated over this
oppressed, but now
and for ever hence-
forth indignant
country.
The potato is
saved. Had it pe-
rished, we should
have met with sympathy from Turkey—with consolation from the land of the Great
Mogul. The Hindoo would have stinted himself in his food of rice to have stretched
forth a helping hand across the sea to Ireland; the Esquimaux would have wept like
a brother. All nations of all corners of the earth would have sympathised with stricken
Ireland,—whilst the callous, brutal, and calculating Saxon would have gorged himself with
the beef of Ireland's sons. We are saved from this insult, for the potato is sound—
sound as the hearts of Ireland's patriots, beating as they do with brotherhood and peace.
Entering for the Plate.—A burglary was committed the other day at the Bridewell
in the City, and two or three of the constables were robbed. The burglars carried off a
quantity of plate, and the only wonder is, that as they were in the humour to carry off all
the spoons, they should have left any of the constables behind.
THE CHINESE LADY'S SONG.
A Chinese lady of rank has been singing before
Her Majesty at Osborne, We have been favoured
with a copy of the song, which we beg to say, will
be simultaneously published in China, and here,
there, and everywhere, in order to secure the copy
right.
Song of the Chinese Lady.
Ohc o metoth ete asho pwit hme.
Andb uya po undo fthebe st.
Twi llpr oveam ostex celle ntt ea.
Itsq ua lit yal lwi lla tte st.
Tiso nlyf oursh illi ngsapo uu«
Soc omet othet eama rtan dtry.
Nob etterc anel sewn ereb efou nd.
Oiis ayth eny ou'rer ead ytob uy.