Punch: Punch (36.1859)

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[March 5, 1859.

VIVE LE SPORT!

English Friend (to Foreigner of distinction). "The Eox has broke, and gone away/"

Foreigner of distinction {who has been galloping about the rides, to his immense satisfaction). "Aha! He is broken, and gone avay !
What a pity ! Zen i suppose it is all ovare, and we must go Home !"

It is not that a small bird sings

With aught of warning voice,
And bids distrust Anointed kings,

Or chiefs, the People's Choice.
We trust them all, with all our soul,

We know their honour's high ; .
But still we think, upon the whole,

We'll keep ourpoioder dry.

No Monarch ever broke his word,

Tar less the oaths he swore,
Or if such things have e'er occurred

'Twas in bad days of yore.
All kings are now so good and true,-
What, doubt a Sovereign, fie !

KEEP IT DRY.

No nation lashed by dastard greed,

Or priests, or ancient spite,
Will clamour to its chiefs to lead

Its armies to the fight.
We 're all a band of brothers, John,

All linked by friendship's tie;
But this one whim we '11 act upon,

We 'U keep our powder dry.

No statesman now is led astray

By love of place, or fame,
To urge his wavering prince to play

At war's infernal game.
They 're all so cosmopolitan,
For justice each would die;

But still, John Bull, 'twixt me and you, j And yet it's just as well, old man
We'll keep our powder dry. To keep your poioder dry.

No chance lest hot sea-captains clash

On far Atlantic waves,
And raise a quarrel o'er such trash

As buccaneers, or slaves.
No distant parties burn to thrust

Lean fingers in the pie;
But though we 're all belief and trust,

We '11 keep our powder dry.

No armed three-deckers crowd a dock,

No soldiers mass and drill;
No royal hands, on rifle's lock,

Test how the gun will kill.
N o cannon stores with strange increase

Pacific pledge bebe:
But though the world's so lapped in peace,

We'll keep our Powder dry.

THE GARDENER OE COVENT GARDEN.
Prom a contemporary devoted to horticulture, we cull the following

of finding employment, horticultural and musical, on the stage of real
life. In obtaining it, however, there are a few difficulties which he
may have to surmount. The artist who enters with the flower-pots in
advertisement:— | Mozart's opera is apparently a drunken character, and this will not

do for the Rev. C. T., if it is the case with that Gardener's representa

WANTED, AS GARDENER, by a Clergyman in Yorkshire, a res-
pectable middle-aged Man to look after two Cows, Pigs, and Poultry, and to
make himself useful ; a single man preferred; to board with the servants and sleep
over tne stables. Wages, 8.9. per week, or to a Man with a Bass Voice, able to prac-
tise 111 the week with the singers, and to lead the church singers, 10s. Must be a
member ol the Church ot England, and his character must bear strict inquiry. He
must be a good Kitchen Gardener, and be able to attend to a small Greenhouse.—
Rev. C. T., <fec.

Should the above meet the eye of the operatic super who does the
hardener m the opera of Le Nozze di Figar., it may put him in the way

tive. Then the man for the Reverend gentleman's money must be a
member of the Church of England, whereas the Italian operatic super
is probably an adherent of the Church of Rome, and would lead the
church singers to the Popish chapel. Lastly, the Reverend gentleman's
money is at the most no more than ten shillings a week, whilst perhaps
the salary of the super is superior to that amount, and in quitting
Covent Garden to cultivate real cabbages, and deserting the footlights
for cucumber frames, a super may consider that he would be accepting
a rather too subordinate engagement.