DOI issue:
December 21, 1861
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16868#0260
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[December 21, 1861.
BOOKING A CUSTOMER.
Messrs. Cutts and Longstick, who have suffered much from the difficulty attending the Identification of “ Clients” on their return from a
lengthened Towr, resort to the accompanying Device. Whilst the Captain is being measured by the Foreman, the Junior Partner adjusts the Camera
for his Photograph.
A GOD-SPEED TO THE CANADA-BOUND.
God speed you, Guards and Rifles, Line-regiments and Artillery,
Punch flings his old shoe after you, and drains his glass of Sillery,
And here’s his toast, “May boiled and roast, and drink and clothes and
firing,
Ne’er fail your pluck, and here’s good luck, stout arms and legs
untiring.”
The St. Lawrence has its sleet and fogs, its ice-wind keen and frore;
On sea there’s storm before you, and frost upon the shore ;
In the long, long march, through pine and larch, along the trampled
snow,
With the icy breath of a sleepy death about you as you go.
But John Bull clothes your bellies and your backs with food and
furs,
And in your own braye veins the blood of manhood cheerly stirs ;
So if there’s pith in meat and drink, and manly hearts beside,
All safe you ’ll land, and to arms you ’ll stand, where rolls St. Law-
rence wide.
And the blessing of your countrymen, and countrywomen too,
Will cling and close about you, as hearty blessings do.
Surpassing warmth of food ana fire, from heart to heart they’ll run—
And England’s wide and watchful arms will clasp her every son.
There are beardless chins among you, there are heads all grizzly-grey,
There are lads of tender nurture, and rough slips that none would stay:
There’s gentle blood and simple, there’s nobleman and clown,
Eor suffering and for danger by common duty boune.
The fopling Guardsman flings his crust of foppery away
And sets to work as lightly as e’er he set to play:
From club, boudoir, and drawing-room, and hunting-field, he’s there,
To face the lot that others face, and fare as others fare.
And some leave wives and children, sweet-hearts, and parents dear,
Warm hearths for icy darkness, full cups for sorry cheer :
From the general to the private, not one among them all.
But blithely makes his sacrifice, be it great or be it small.
And shall we grudge them a comfort, that purse of ours can pay,
A God-speed and a greeting, as they sail upon their way ?
Blow fair, ye winds ; be merciful, grim winter, to our brave,
May our blessing serve to strengthen, our prayer have power to save !
COMMERCIAL SLANG.
In a trade report, dated from Melbourne, we hud the following extra*
ordinary entry -
“Bass’s ale dull.”
The statement, made in the face of the known fact that Bass’s ale is
brisk, cannot but be considered most unscrupulous. According to
commercial intelligence from Eoochow, also, “Tea” is “active” and
Congou is likewise represented as “ active ” by advices from Shanghai,
What is the activity of tea ? Is it similar to that of physic ? Tea used
to be denounced as a slow poison by some people; for slow the wags
sometimes wrote sloe. If tea is stained for the British market with
mineral colouring matter, it may well be poisonous ; perhaps intensely
so, operating not slowly hut with great rapidity. Do the latest accounts
from China suggest no fear that the tea which they describe as active
may be an active poison F
Notes on the Cattle Show.
In Class 4, that of Devon Cows, a prize of £5 was awarded to Mr-
E. Pope. How came his Holiness not to win a prize for a Bull P
The pigs were said to be marked by admirable breeding. Ou this
occasion, then, they negatived the old saying“ What can you exnect
from a hog but a grunt F ”
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[December 21, 1861.
BOOKING A CUSTOMER.
Messrs. Cutts and Longstick, who have suffered much from the difficulty attending the Identification of “ Clients” on their return from a
lengthened Towr, resort to the accompanying Device. Whilst the Captain is being measured by the Foreman, the Junior Partner adjusts the Camera
for his Photograph.
A GOD-SPEED TO THE CANADA-BOUND.
God speed you, Guards and Rifles, Line-regiments and Artillery,
Punch flings his old shoe after you, and drains his glass of Sillery,
And here’s his toast, “May boiled and roast, and drink and clothes and
firing,
Ne’er fail your pluck, and here’s good luck, stout arms and legs
untiring.”
The St. Lawrence has its sleet and fogs, its ice-wind keen and frore;
On sea there’s storm before you, and frost upon the shore ;
In the long, long march, through pine and larch, along the trampled
snow,
With the icy breath of a sleepy death about you as you go.
But John Bull clothes your bellies and your backs with food and
furs,
And in your own braye veins the blood of manhood cheerly stirs ;
So if there’s pith in meat and drink, and manly hearts beside,
All safe you ’ll land, and to arms you ’ll stand, where rolls St. Law-
rence wide.
And the blessing of your countrymen, and countrywomen too,
Will cling and close about you, as hearty blessings do.
Surpassing warmth of food ana fire, from heart to heart they’ll run—
And England’s wide and watchful arms will clasp her every son.
There are beardless chins among you, there are heads all grizzly-grey,
There are lads of tender nurture, and rough slips that none would stay:
There’s gentle blood and simple, there’s nobleman and clown,
Eor suffering and for danger by common duty boune.
The fopling Guardsman flings his crust of foppery away
And sets to work as lightly as e’er he set to play:
From club, boudoir, and drawing-room, and hunting-field, he’s there,
To face the lot that others face, and fare as others fare.
And some leave wives and children, sweet-hearts, and parents dear,
Warm hearths for icy darkness, full cups for sorry cheer :
From the general to the private, not one among them all.
But blithely makes his sacrifice, be it great or be it small.
And shall we grudge them a comfort, that purse of ours can pay,
A God-speed and a greeting, as they sail upon their way ?
Blow fair, ye winds ; be merciful, grim winter, to our brave,
May our blessing serve to strengthen, our prayer have power to save !
COMMERCIAL SLANG.
In a trade report, dated from Melbourne, we hud the following extra*
ordinary entry -
“Bass’s ale dull.”
The statement, made in the face of the known fact that Bass’s ale is
brisk, cannot but be considered most unscrupulous. According to
commercial intelligence from Eoochow, also, “Tea” is “active” and
Congou is likewise represented as “ active ” by advices from Shanghai,
What is the activity of tea ? Is it similar to that of physic ? Tea used
to be denounced as a slow poison by some people; for slow the wags
sometimes wrote sloe. If tea is stained for the British market with
mineral colouring matter, it may well be poisonous ; perhaps intensely
so, operating not slowly hut with great rapidity. Do the latest accounts
from China suggest no fear that the tea which they describe as active
may be an active poison F
Notes on the Cattle Show.
In Class 4, that of Devon Cows, a prize of £5 was awarded to Mr-
E. Pope. How came his Holiness not to win a prize for a Bull P
The pigs were said to be marked by admirable breeding. Ou this
occasion, then, they negatived the old saying“ What can you exnect
from a hog but a grunt F ”