DOI Heft:
February 13, 1864
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16873#0072
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[February 13, 1864.
DOING A LITTLE BUSINESS.
Old Equestrian. “ Well but—you ’re not the Boy I left hy Horse with ! ”
Boy. “ ISTo, Sir, I jist Spekilated, and bought ’im of t’other Boy for a Harpenny?”
TROTTING OUT THE HOBBIES.
Come spinners of long stapled yarn
For Parliamentary crochet,
With chaff-loads, to St. Stephen’s barn,
Eh, vite, Messieurs, approchez i
Be it on spec, on sale, or view,
Now trot out. all your hobbies.
Your thorough-breds and cock-tails too,
Hacks, cart-horses, and cobbies.
From dry statistics’ barren waste.
From facts and figures’ ploughed-land,
From the far-distant fields of taste,
From high ideal Cloud-land !
Empty the mare’s nests, where your steeds
Have left their eggs to addle,
Hid, whatsoe’er your hobbies’ breeds,
Muster to “ boot and saddle.”
Here limps the over-trained old hack
All jocks have been astride of;
Who’s had John Russell on his back,
Whom Dizzy’s tried a ride of.
Poor old Reform ! Through wear and tear.
In spite of sprain and spavin, you
Have still, so Bright and Gibson swear,
A gallop for the Avenue !
Alas ! is this the high-bred colt
All England once was sweet on—
So hard to hold, so strong to bolt,
His pins so firm and fleet on:
Engaged so deep, his friends scarce knew
Which event to begin with,—
The horse we backed till all was blue,
The nag all stood to win with!
Poor old boss! you may put up Bright,
In his flame-coloured jacket,—
Quote Gibson’s tip, “the pradjs all right,”
(With his cash will he back it P)— _
“ Rest and be thankful,” cries the friend,
Who tooled him once ’gainst Bobby ;
The toughest nags must have an end,—
Take home that hard-used hobby !
See where, behind, the string advance !
Hobbies out-running mention:
There’s Berkeley’s Ballot, Kinglake’s France,
Cobden’s Non-intervention:
Fitzgerald’s Bounce, and Whalley’s Cry,
Hennessy’s Roman Candle,
Dizzy’s Caucasian Mystery ;
Lennox’s Toionley-Scandal:
A weedy, washy, leggy lot.
As ever paced the paddock!
No more like winners of a pot
Than sprat’s like Dublin haddock,
Says Pam, with just a leetle wink
Over his wary shoulder,—
“ Old Co?ifidence is safe, 1 think,
Though he were ten years older! ”
Fructicultural Economy.
An
Apple-pie Order.—-'Those Horticulturists who supply their own
fruit puddings and tarts from their own garden, should take care, as early
as possible, to order the children to commence making apple-pie beds.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[February 13, 1864.
DOING A LITTLE BUSINESS.
Old Equestrian. “ Well but—you ’re not the Boy I left hy Horse with ! ”
Boy. “ ISTo, Sir, I jist Spekilated, and bought ’im of t’other Boy for a Harpenny?”
TROTTING OUT THE HOBBIES.
Come spinners of long stapled yarn
For Parliamentary crochet,
With chaff-loads, to St. Stephen’s barn,
Eh, vite, Messieurs, approchez i
Be it on spec, on sale, or view,
Now trot out. all your hobbies.
Your thorough-breds and cock-tails too,
Hacks, cart-horses, and cobbies.
From dry statistics’ barren waste.
From facts and figures’ ploughed-land,
From the far-distant fields of taste,
From high ideal Cloud-land !
Empty the mare’s nests, where your steeds
Have left their eggs to addle,
Hid, whatsoe’er your hobbies’ breeds,
Muster to “ boot and saddle.”
Here limps the over-trained old hack
All jocks have been astride of;
Who’s had John Russell on his back,
Whom Dizzy’s tried a ride of.
Poor old Reform ! Through wear and tear.
In spite of sprain and spavin, you
Have still, so Bright and Gibson swear,
A gallop for the Avenue !
Alas ! is this the high-bred colt
All England once was sweet on—
So hard to hold, so strong to bolt,
His pins so firm and fleet on:
Engaged so deep, his friends scarce knew
Which event to begin with,—
The horse we backed till all was blue,
The nag all stood to win with!
Poor old boss! you may put up Bright,
In his flame-coloured jacket,—
Quote Gibson’s tip, “the pradjs all right,”
(With his cash will he back it P)— _
“ Rest and be thankful,” cries the friend,
Who tooled him once ’gainst Bobby ;
The toughest nags must have an end,—
Take home that hard-used hobby !
See where, behind, the string advance !
Hobbies out-running mention:
There’s Berkeley’s Ballot, Kinglake’s France,
Cobden’s Non-intervention:
Fitzgerald’s Bounce, and Whalley’s Cry,
Hennessy’s Roman Candle,
Dizzy’s Caucasian Mystery ;
Lennox’s Toionley-Scandal:
A weedy, washy, leggy lot.
As ever paced the paddock!
No more like winners of a pot
Than sprat’s like Dublin haddock,
Says Pam, with just a leetle wink
Over his wary shoulder,—
“ Old Co?ifidence is safe, 1 think,
Though he were ten years older! ”
Fructicultural Economy.
An
Apple-pie Order.—-'Those Horticulturists who supply their own
fruit puddings and tarts from their own garden, should take care, as early
as possible, to order the children to commence making apple-pie beds.