Punch (44.1863)

January 10, 1863,] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

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Cabby, “ This wont do, Sir ; it’s a Temperance Medal; ’taint a Shillin’.”
Intoxicate. “ Good s'shillns’ worth of shilver ; no further ushe t’me Cably / ”

CLOTHES! CLOTHES! CLOTHES!

(For the Distress in true Cotton Districts.)

The naked to clothe is a Christian’s fit work,

Though it may be performed by a Jew or a Turk ;

But Jew, Turk, or Christian, as every fool knows,

Must be furnished with cloth to make any one clothes.

If many poor thousands in dress you would keep,

’Tis a cardinal point that your clothes should be cheap -
And to clothe them for little it need not be hard :

Since the cloth might be gotten for nothing a yard.

All the odds, ends, and remnants, which people reject,
Some benevolent ladies propose to collect.

These patches, joined, neatly with skill and with care,
Would make suits fair to look at and famous to wear.

Sewing classes of weavers, whose mills idle stand,

Will be taught to work up these materials by hand;
Thus the girls will the use of the needle acquire,

So needful for all who to wedlock aspire.

These poor folks will all be in articles drest
Of their own manufacture, coat, trousers, and vest,
Shirts, jackets and petticoats ; bedding beside,

Will their needles themselves and each other provide.

Of list and waste cuttings there needs but a store;

And the ladies have some, but want very much more.

So to tradesmen and others we venture to say,

Give them those shreds and patches you erst threw away

Material and clothes, therefore, send in, like bricks,

To Pitt’s Head Mews, Park'Lane, W., 5 and 6.

If cash you’d contribute, we give you to know
’Twill be gladly accepted by Hatchard & Co.

BUT Observe! Messrs. Hatciiabd & Co., No. 187
Piccadilly, W. Copy the Address, Nos. 5 and G, Pitt’s
Head Mews, Park Lane, W., and direct to the Ladies’
Supplementary Association, in Aid of the Sewing and
Educational Classes. Their motto is No Monopoly, and
they challenge competition.

THE POLICEMAN’S LITTLE GAME.

That truly Conservative measure, the New Night Poaching Act, is
working admirably. A pleasing instance of its operation is narrated by
the Hampshire Advertiser, in the report of a case which came the other
day before the Magistrates at Andover. Subjoined are the particulars
of this gratifying sample of the fruits of well-advised legislation. A
respectable but over-sensitive inhabitant of Charlton, named Dickman,
presented himself to the Bench with the following frivolous complaint
against a vigilant policeman. Mr. Hickman said that he was in
Andover on the previous Saturday evening, when he bought a rabbit
for his Sunday’s dinner, cost him, as Mr. Pepys says, 1#. 6d. He took
it away with him, intending to carry it home, whither it was not des-
tined to arrive. Within a few yards of his house, he was stopped by
the village policeman, who very properly and pertinently demanded to
know how he came by tire rabbit? As Mr. Dickman declined to satisfy
the policeman’s inquiring mind further than by the information that he
had bought his rabbit in Andover for eighteenpence, that zealous and
active officer immediately seized it, and carried it off to the station,
putting the incommunicative Dickman merely to the slight incon-
venience of providing something else for his next day’s dinner. And
this, forsooth, was the grievance with which he thought it worth wdrile
to trouble the Andover Magistrates ! As if his rabbit had been stolen!
Of course those worthy Justices told him that they judged that the
policeman had acted bond fide, fully believing that he had obtained the
rabbit illegally, and therefore had not exceeded his duty in taking it
away; accordingly, that they must decline to interfere. After the
delivery of this decision, which surely empowered the policeman to
eat the game which he had conveyed (the wise call it), the superin-
tendent told the Bench that the rabbit had been returned to the pro-
secutor, who, however, replied that he had not yet received it. We may
yet, therefore, indulge the hope that the policeman feasted upon his
lawful prize smothered in onions.

It, is delightful to think that an absurd jealousy for the liberty of the
subject has given way to an enactment which empowers a policeman to
seize and take possession of any hare, or rabbit, or other species of
game, which anybody is carrying, and which he may possibly have

obtained from some landlord’s preserve. The New Poaching Act only
wants one little amendment to make it complete. The police ought to
be empowered to loot any poulterer’s shop, and confiscate all the game
in it which they suspect of having beeu obtained by poaching. A
clause to this effect will perhaps be added to the above-named excellent
statute next Session by the Torv country gentlemen, with the consent,
or by the forbearance, of the Liberal Members of Parliament. In the
meantime, should a general election occur, perhaps the majority ol
voters will gratefully remember the authors and abettors of that
salutary measure.

NAME-CHANGERS.

It being now understood that any person who may be desirous oi
changing his name may do so by a bondfide publication of his inten-
tions, the following individuals, w'hose names have for some reason or
other got into disfavour with themselves or others, have given notice of
their wish to effect a substitution.

PRESENT NAME.

NAME DESIRED.

Mr. Cox
„ Spurgeon
„ Disraeli
„ Boucicault
„ Holloway
„ Tupper
Sir George Grey
Dr. Colenso
Washingtub Wilks
O’Donaghue
J. A. Roebuck
Lord Llanover

proposes to change

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Macaulay-Buckle.
St. Augustine.
Bolin gbroke.
Shakspeare.
Abernethy.
Solomon.

Lycurgus Draco.
Timothy.

Cicero Chatham.
0. Cromwell.
Herr Yon Janus.
Lord Knockundeil

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