Punch (41.1861)

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [Ootobeb 26, 1861

CONFIRMED BACHELOR.

Master 0. O'Rilla. “ Deaw ! How Shocking! There’s another good Fellah done for!
Cousins. “ Why what has happened, Gus ? ”

Cus. “Happened! Why Charley Bagshot Gone Married I”

THE CHANT OE COMPIEGNE.

(With a Fashionable Burden.)

There’s a downy cove at tlie Tuileries,

But at Potsdam’s as downy a one :

And Louis is not more anxious to do,

Than William not to be done.

As the Baden Conference proved a sell,

Let’s try what Compiegne will do :

With dinner and dance, with pic-nic and play,
The German must come to !

So we ’ll sugar the web, and we ’ll butter the
web.

But the fly only says, says he,

'Tma young man from the country,

But you don’t come over me! ”

“ I ’ll give you a lift upon the Throne
Of united Germanie:

An Army upon the Eider,

And a Fleet upon the Spree :

I ’ll give you Schleswig, as appanage
Des Deutschen Vaterland.

And all I ask of you in exchange,

Is a strip of Rhenish sand! ”

So he sugared the web, and he buttered the
web,

But the fly only said, said he,

'Tma young man from the country,

But you don’t come over me ! ”

“ I ’ll set your foot upon the neck
Of Austrian and Dane',

Make England’s self to disavow
Her own Macdonald fain.

Who calls a Prussian blockhead
As traitor I ’ll indict:

Yote your police intelligent,

Your railway-guards polite.”

So he sugared the web, and he buttered the
web,

But the fly only said, said he,

‘Tma young man from the country,

But you don’t come over me 1 ”

“ The wolf’s intentions may be kind
Towards his fleecy friends,

When how they may shake off the bore
Of dogs he recommends.

But Prussia’s debt to France is scored
In red-ruled lines too plain :

And we don’t wish to do the work
Of Leipsic o’er again.

So sugar the web, and butter the web,

The fly only says, says he,

“Tma young man from the country,

But you don’t come over me! ’

“ Your hon’rable intentions all
With gratitude I hail:

But promises to pay are not
Quite payments on the nail.

If frontiers must be rectified,

And treaties overhauled,^

Suppose we dropped our tete-a-tete,

And had a Congress called ?

But as things stand between us two!

All I say is, d’ ye see,—

“ ‘ I’m a young man from the country,
But you can’t come over me ! ’

“ If you have frontiers to round,

I ’ve frontiers to maintain :

Without my loss I don’t quite see
How I can help your gain.

My German wits they may be dull,

And yours are sharp, I know;

But if upon one rope we pull,

I fear you might let go :

Then head o’er heels when I was hurled,
No more my song would be,

“Tma young man from the country,
But you can’t come over m,e ! ’ ”

The Royal Exchange.

Monakchs are generally known more from
then military, than their civil qualities. This
may be one of the reasons why every one has
laughed at the notion of the King of Prussia
visiting the Emperor of the French merely
to “exchange civilities.” It is seemingly
something so very new for monarchs to be
civil to one another, that when they do, no
one gives them credit for it. Nothing will
disabuse politicians of their deeply-rooted con-
viction that a King’s visiting-book and the
Civil List are not totally different things.