Punch: Punch (36.1859)

Florence. "- and now Old is yotjr Pony, Fred?"

Fred. " Well, I don't know, exactly—but Robert thinks he is about Fourteen Years!"
Florence. "On!—Then I suppose he will very soon be a HORSE!"

A SERIOUS HOAX.

To the Editor of the Record.

REASONS FOR SUPPORTING LORD DERBY'S
GOVERNMENT.

by a gentleman who glories in the pact op having done so.

Dear Brother,

The following information, derived from the Great. Babylon

by Submarine and British. Telegraph, needs, and is, I fear, unlikely to If I knew a man who for Derby would vote,

receive, confirmation :— D' ye think I would ask him to turn his coat ?

" Ancona has been declared in a state of siege. n 110 ! My friend, I would simply say,

" The light in the lighthouse at the entrance of the harbour has been extinguished. Do you know whom you are supporting, pray?
" The Pope has protested."

May we, can we, believe the flattering intelligence which declares You're supporting a man who in 'Thirty-Two

the Roman Pontiff to have protested against the extinction of light ? Jfnt a t(>helP the Reform Bill through :

Can we entertain the fond idea that the Pope has become a Protestant ? 1 hen ratted ashamed of his one wise tack

Alas ! I am afraid not. I apprehend that the triple-crowned apostate Aud thenceforth on Reformers has turned Ins back,

is too deeply enamoured of the darkness of error to object to the You're supporting a man, who in'Fifty-Two

extinction of any light but that of one of the wax-candles of his own Was the chief of The Anti'-Free-Trade crew

idolatry. Would, indeed, that we could welcome to our bosoms, as a | ^no appealed to the country, but all in vain,
uove the report which we are constrained to reject in the too palpable
form of a canard, or duck! Would that we were enabled to hail
wilh the shout of gladness the news which we are compelled to

dismiss with the cry of Walker! Says, " Reform is in future no child of mine ;

Affectionately yours, And protests that the franchise never can

}3£H$eS}. Be given to the honest Working Man.

P.S. Happily, it is not true that the Prince of Wales diaed wholly You're supporting a man, who has prophesied

01: salmon last Friday. That altho' by no treaty our hands are tied,

— And with despots' disputes have nought to do,

The Poor Man's loaf to make dear again.
You're supporting a man, who in 'Fifty-Nine

The Latest Fashion in Moustaches.

Scexe :—Somewhere in the Burlington Arcade.

Yet a war we must shortly be driven to.

To Lord Derby", then, while you give support,
You are doing precisely the thing you ought
loung Pall Mall (from underneath a long towel). My moustache is For England expects that every man

getting too loud a red. I say, my man, 1 think 1 will have it dyed. I Will keep in the Government—if he eon '.

Fount/ Truefitt (deeply hurt, ami starting back with horror). Dyed, '________

Sir ! Impossible ! You must not think of such a thing. I can assure I

you, my dear Sir, on my honour, that in the way of moustaches, there ! A Drop for the Pope.—Between two seats of war, i'io NotfO
are nothing but reds and browns worn just now ! | may fall to the ground.