Punch: Punch (36.1859)

2(H PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [May 21, 1859.

F. M. PUNCH SYMPATHISES WITH THE POOR (!) ITALIAN ORGAN-GRINDER.

F. M. P. " There my man, it's a Pity a great hulking fellow like you should turn a handle to make such a nasty
noise ! Here's an Instrument for you, Go and Play upon it in your own Country!"

THE ANGLERS' EETUE.N,
(After Walton.)

crafty fellow, and bites warily; you fish for him in troubled waters : he
is called a Pope.

P. In good sooth, la! Methought that fish came never nigh an
angler wearing your colours. With what bait, may I ask you, did
r , ^ ^ „„ „ „• ' you tempt your pope ?

Venato* . Lord d. Piscator . Mr. b. Lhs. Punch. • yen_ Troth> Sir. keep it to yourself: with a bit of the end of the

P. Give you good day, Gentlemen. Prom your trim and your tack- Protestant pig's snout and the tip of his tail

ling, I perceive you have but now returned from the country, whither, P- 1 marv,?b then, the pig hath not squeaked. As touching nun, 1

when last we met, you were, in a great hurry as I remember, going an trow yon will no longer pretend to go the whole hog ; and, 1 fear me,

angling. Welcome back to town ! I pray you tell me how you have that,_ for your bait, you will shortly Jail the Protestant pig. ,

sped amongst the ponds and rivers, with your hooks and your plum- ,.Fuc- Sir,1 pray you, not a word about the pig: let us to some otacr

mets, your floats, your lines, and your angle-rods? What have vou "ls£,ouT1'sre;1 , , , , , -, ,-, A ,

cauo-ht? P. Well, Sir, at what places had you the besr, sport r

Pise.' Truly, Sir, a few gudgeon. They are, indeed, but a small fry ;1 f<f JIar^ Sir, at Ashburton Bedford, Berwick; also at Chester,

whereas we had hoped to bring home a good dish of trout, and perad- Colchester, Devizes; likewise at Dover.

venture, also, of perch and pike; but they were too wary, and would P;1 Pardon ™, Sir; but I pray you resolve me this riddle :-W hy
neither rise at our gold fly nor run at our minnow of the same metal. 'the men of Dover like untciJxcient Pistol r

P. I pray you, what bait did you use to catch those same gudgeon ! , Good Sir, truly I am Dizzy, and not CEdipus; and, albeit i

withal? rove n°t resignation, I will give it up.

Pise. One of the like substance with our fly and minnow; marry, a : P- S9; and the next time Sir, you are asked this question you may
sort of golden cadis : for your gudgeon is a groundling, and you must sa^an ^h\e £ou> Because they were made to swallow a Leere.
fish for him at the bottom/with a worm or grub. But" Sir, I will con- , Tnjly Sir, a merry saying. Then, Sir, we did get some luek
fesstoyou-only, mark you, this is between ourselves, and must go at Newport in theJsle of Wight;^at Newryrnlreland; at Pontefract
no further-we did take sonie of them with a drag-net, wheremto we Tr^o, Tynemouth Wareham Weymouth, Windsor, whe e we dul
did scare and terrify them. Por, indeed, to make free with the saying tickle some small Thames trout; at Carnarvon and Yarmouth where
of the poet Horace, my maxim is, "Pish, by fair angling if I can hook > there are no fish so good as your bloater; at Plymouth, Hels.oa, and
them; if not, by whatsoever means, fish." m a few oth,er s,™g nooks> noles> and corners, where a man may have

P. Sir, I perceive you are a moraliser. But how comes it you i 300& sP°rt fP,r his money. . 0™„ „f mj.„„,„

caught only gudgeon, sith, from what you stick not to own to me, 11 Alter tliat> Sir, I shad essay to sing you a little song of m} own
suppose all to be fish that cometh into your net ? i composing :—

ren. Nay, Sir; Piscator spake of gudgeon, as it were, in the CANDIDATE b SONG,

gross; but our fish are mostly of that breed, and the rest are like unto j Come vote for me, and be my knave,

them, as chub, and dace, and roach, and such-like fry. But now, here j ' And we a cask of beer will, stave,

L will show you a rare fish, whereof we have caught two or three/ That you may drink till homeward wheeled,

which lad not been done before by our party for some whde. He is a | As soon as you to sleep shad yield.