DOI issue:
July 30, 1864
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16874#0058
THE “ IMPERENCE ” OF THEM LOWER CLASSES.
First Bystander (British Workman) to Second ditto (Gorgeous Flunkey). “ Well, blowed if I wouldn’t a’most as soon be you, Johnny,
as one o’ them Fellers this ’ot weather ! ! ”
“WHO'S GRIFFITH ? ”
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In Commemoration of a Grand Parliamentary feat.
Tame ! Blow your trumpet
In honour of the greatest man that liveth :
Or if you have a drum, just thump it,
Hurrah! for Dauby Griffith !
Renown is his that never yet surrounded
Any M.P.
Let all electors gaze, and say, astounded,
“ Yes, that is He.”
Not once nor twice iu our rough island story,
A thing twice done has brought a Briton glory,
But none like this, 0 Tame, no never ! Tar be.
The thought of equalling the fame of Darby !
Twice Mayor have liberal Aldermen been greeted,
Twice Killed is Neeley’s most triumphant play,
Twice Speaker has a Commoner been seated.
And twice ten years has Punch been England’s stay.
Twice men have had small-pox, spite vaccination,
Twice men have married, spite the warning Past,
Twice have risked life in mad aerostation,
Twice have risked fortune on the dicer’s cast,
Twice have men tried a Crystal Palace dinner,
Twice sought to find a Peeler on his beat,
But never yet has Briton, saint or sinner,
Performed great Darby Griffith’s awful feat.
Hear it, O, Counting Babbage, hear with joy,
Hear it, O Bidder, Calculating Boy,
I or counting such as this was never done
Beneath the Sun.
Hear it, all bores, wherever you may be
Ou land or sea.
Leap up, and shout, and hail him with a roar.
The Greatest Bore.
Tor in July, One, Eight, Six, Tour,
Within twelve hours did Darby G.
Stand twice upon the Commons’ floor
(They laughed, but what cared he P)
And in the selfsame day,—
Read papers, if you doubt—
Devizes, twice thy Member raised his bray,
And was, in most unceremonious way,
Twice Counted Out.
Conjugal Unanimity.
A Yorkshire Paper says, last week : —
“ A ‘ lady’ fell off one of the boat piers at Scarborough, and was in imminent
danger of being drowned. Three fishermen let each other down, forming a chain of
their bodies, and saved her. The ‘ lady ’ did not even thank her deliverers.”
Nor, we understand, did her husband.
NOTES and notes.
A Correspondent from America says,—
“ If Lee makes a dash at Baltimore, New York will quickly change its note.”
Yes, and may then find it easier to change its note than its green-
back.
A Waif from Wimbledon.
“ Pray don’t hurry on so, it’s really very dangerous,” said Captain
Charley to Miss Lightfoot, wrho was in haste to see the shooting.
“Dangerous!” exclaimed the lady, “ Why, what is there to tear ? ”
“ Well,” observed the gallant officer, “ you see, some of our fellows
are remarkably good shots, and you might be mistaken for the Running
Dear! ”
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First Bystander (British Workman) to Second ditto (Gorgeous Flunkey). “ Well, blowed if I wouldn’t a’most as soon be you, Johnny,
as one o’ them Fellers this ’ot weather ! ! ”
“WHO'S GRIFFITH ? ”
l2n ©he
In Commemoration of a Grand Parliamentary feat.
Tame ! Blow your trumpet
In honour of the greatest man that liveth :
Or if you have a drum, just thump it,
Hurrah! for Dauby Griffith !
Renown is his that never yet surrounded
Any M.P.
Let all electors gaze, and say, astounded,
“ Yes, that is He.”
Not once nor twice iu our rough island story,
A thing twice done has brought a Briton glory,
But none like this, 0 Tame, no never ! Tar be.
The thought of equalling the fame of Darby !
Twice Mayor have liberal Aldermen been greeted,
Twice Killed is Neeley’s most triumphant play,
Twice Speaker has a Commoner been seated.
And twice ten years has Punch been England’s stay.
Twice men have had small-pox, spite vaccination,
Twice men have married, spite the warning Past,
Twice have risked life in mad aerostation,
Twice have risked fortune on the dicer’s cast,
Twice have men tried a Crystal Palace dinner,
Twice sought to find a Peeler on his beat,
But never yet has Briton, saint or sinner,
Performed great Darby Griffith’s awful feat.
Hear it, O, Counting Babbage, hear with joy,
Hear it, O Bidder, Calculating Boy,
I or counting such as this was never done
Beneath the Sun.
Hear it, all bores, wherever you may be
Ou land or sea.
Leap up, and shout, and hail him with a roar.
The Greatest Bore.
Tor in July, One, Eight, Six, Tour,
Within twelve hours did Darby G.
Stand twice upon the Commons’ floor
(They laughed, but what cared he P)
And in the selfsame day,—
Read papers, if you doubt—
Devizes, twice thy Member raised his bray,
And was, in most unceremonious way,
Twice Counted Out.
Conjugal Unanimity.
A Yorkshire Paper says, last week : —
“ A ‘ lady’ fell off one of the boat piers at Scarborough, and was in imminent
danger of being drowned. Three fishermen let each other down, forming a chain of
their bodies, and saved her. The ‘ lady ’ did not even thank her deliverers.”
Nor, we understand, did her husband.
NOTES and notes.
A Correspondent from America says,—
“ If Lee makes a dash at Baltimore, New York will quickly change its note.”
Yes, and may then find it easier to change its note than its green-
back.
A Waif from Wimbledon.
“ Pray don’t hurry on so, it’s really very dangerous,” said Captain
Charley to Miss Lightfoot, wrho was in haste to see the shooting.
“Dangerous!” exclaimed the lady, “ Why, what is there to tear ? ”
“ Well,” observed the gallant officer, “ you see, some of our fellows
are remarkably good shots, and you might be mistaken for the Running
Dear! ”
I ‘