Punch (37.1859)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. (-November 18o9.

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A VERY PARDONABLE MISTAKE.

Itinerant Musician. “ Meaning me, Miss ? ”

“EEU DE JOIE.”

A Great deal of fuss has
been made about the fact
of fifty-six geese having
been roasted at once before
the same fire, at Norwich.
Why Punch roasts twice
as many every week, and
thinks nothing of it. He
has roasted over and over
again the entire House of
Commons at a single blow
—and though they have
amongst them some of the
very finest geese in the
country, yet every Member
has been done beautifully
to a turn—so much so,
that many a constituency,
when their pet Solan has
been laid before them, have
scarcely recognised him
again. In the same way
Mr. Punch undertakes to
roast at the shortest notice,
as many geese as the legis-
lature and the quacks, the
theatres and the pulpits,
the dissecting-room and the
critics, choose to supplyhim
with ; and he also promises
to do all the plucking and
basting and seasoning him-
self. Quantity is no ob-
ject; in fact, the greater
number of geese that come
in Mr. Punch’s way the
greater his pleasure in
roasting them. His range
is wide enough to take in
the whole world.



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PRIESTS AND THEIR SHAWLS.

The subjoined advertisement from the Weekly Register is commended
to the attention of youthful Puseyites, whom it may serve to convince
that playing at Roman Catholics is a rather expensive amusement

ANTED, a Handsome COPE. The undersigned, who once received
a Cope from a kind but unknown friend, begs to mention that the said Cope
is now almost unfit for use. The poor state of the mission will not enable the priest
to purchase another. The undersigned, therefore, respectfully but earnestly tx gs
of some good friend to present a new Cope to the church, in honour of our Blessed
Lady and Saint Teresa. It will come safe by rail. Many prayers will be said for
_J the kind donor. If it be not convenient to send a Cope itself, £10 to purchase one
will be most acceptable.

JOHN CANON DALTON.

St. Mary’s Church, London Road, Lynn, Norfolk.

From the conclusion of the above pious aud pathetic appeal, it
appears that a cope costs £10. This would be a heavy fork out for the
majority of young curates, disposed to indulge in ecclesiastical masque-
rading. To be sure, the cope for which the Rev. Canon Dalton
advertises is explained to be a “handsome” one. Mr. Dalton may
be conceived to be a sacerdotal dandy; and it may be thought that a
serviceable cope is to be had at a lower figure than what he puts it at;
but be distinctly states that his mission is a poor one, so that any but
the very plainest description of cope would probably be out of keeping
with the style of bis meeting-house, and the cheapest cope would be
handsome enough for him. A cope fit to figure in before a fashionable
1 congregation or assembly, would no doubt be an awfully high ’pike.
Parents and guardians of youth intended for the Church should beware
how they confide them to the tuition of Puseyite preceptors, lest those
extravagant ritualists should instil into their minds a love of finery,
which may cause them ultimately to ruin themselves in dress.

If a cope costs^nly as much as £10, what does a stole cost, and an
alb, and a dalmatic, and a chasuble ? What does the complete costume
amount to P But there is every reason to suppose that the price of
copes is “from” £10 upwards to a much larger quotation; and the
outfit of a young Puseyite parson, if at all like the real thing, would
assuredly cost the old gentleman his father a great deal more money
i than the sum total of all the bills which his sisters run up in the course
of an entire year for Crinoline.

Buccleucii v. Brougham.—It is the Drone and the Busy Bee.

INN-YALID1SM EXTRAORDINARY.

It is rather late now to think of going out of town; but to those
who, like ourselves, have not yet had their holiday, and who, in like |

similitude, have not too much to spend in it, advantages are offered by I

the following advertisement, which, for other reasons possibly, the
reflective mind, we think, may be induced to pause over:—

TSLE OF WIGHT.—KING’S HEAD HOTEL AND BOARDING

-*- HOUSE, close to the Sea. Single beds, Is. 6d ; Breakfast or Tea, Is. ; Dinners, 2s.
Attendance, Is. “ It’s highly recommended to invalids at Evans's.” Oct., 1859.

One is proverbially used to couple cheapness with n—ot niceness,
but if this hotel be as remarkable for comfort as economy, one might
certainly be tempted to form a wish to visit it. In this case one would i
have to form a second wish, to know with more distinctness, where the
King’s Head really is. “ Close to the sea ” is a rather vague direction, j
and one might have to travel completely round the island, before one j
hit upon the spot where the hotel is placed.

But puzzling as it is to ns to guess the King Head’s whereabouts, j
the last phrase in this notice of the house yet more perplexes us. As
an additional allurement, besides the lowness of its tariff, we are
informed that “It’s highly recommended to invalids at Evans’s.”
Invalids at Evans’s! O, cheery-voiced, and rosy-cheeked! 0, kindly-
smiling, snuff-bestowing, laughter-moving, health-promoting, jolly,
jocund, joyous, jaunty Paddy Green ! Who could ever dream of
finding invalids at Evans’s.

How Happy!

Question being bad whether the police were allowed to smoke,
Jones remarked, “I was very glad, that awfully cold night, to see all
the police down our road with pipes or cigars.” “Reminding you,”
said the sparkling Brown, “ of Lord Macaulay’s line in the Armada—

“ Cape beyond Cape, in endless range, those twinkling points of fire.”

Punch's Literary Anecdotes.

EOR USE IN A QUADRILLE.

An eminent party, or perfumer, has said that a Revolution can’t be
made with Rose-water. But from Garibaldi’s calling on Farina to
act, it would seem that one can be made with Eau-de Cologne.