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January 14, 1865
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [January 14, 1865.
THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING.
Hard Riding Comet. “ Come along, Sir—Jump up—Just what I told you about our Country, you see—Get over anywhere
with a Fall."
A MERRY CHRISTMAS IN A WORKHOUSE !
Mr. Punch, Sir,—
Read this. I want to know wot you say to this here, Sir:—
“ The Christmas Entertainment at the Poorhotjse.—In our notice of this
entertainment in our Wednesday’s paper, we stated that the Christmas tree was
given by Mr. Councillor Rogers. This should have been Mr. Alderman
Coles.”
The fact, as I expects to inwite your hanimadwersion, is that, by
whomsoever given, a Christmas tree was actially interduced into a
workus durin the Christmas of 1864. My scollardsnip ain’t so pore but
what I’m habie to say 1864 is a hannus mirabilis. But this languidge
is too mild to ixpress the hindignation with which, as a British Beadle,
I regards the allowance of sitch a unporochial hindulgence as a Christ-
mas tree _ to them wicious paupers. A Christmas hentertainment in a
workus, includin a Christmas tree ! Wot next? I axes whilst I feels
astonishment and fury a blazin in my dilated eyes and glowin in my
puffed and purple cheeks. Wot next, Sir? Read on, Mr. Punch; it
is the Hampshire Independent as contains the foregoin parrigraff; read
on, Sir, and amost right hunderneath it your hire will be aggrywated by
this bother astoundin peece of inflammation:—
“ The Ebony Minstrels at the Workhouse.—On Thursday evening this com"
pany gave an entertainment to the inmates in a large room belonging to the boys’
school, which was filled with a delighted audience of old and young. The perform-
ance was hiehly creditable to the gentlemen who took part in it, and will long be
remembered by those for whose pleasure it was so generously given."
There, Sir! Nigger minstrels in a workus ! That’s the Southampton
workus. Nigger minstrels! Agen I hax, wot next ? Hoppera singers
I spose, Senior Mary Oh, and Mamselle Patty and Wotsername.
“ La Travvyarter in the workus. We ave mutch plesur in recordin
the anouncment that the hoppera of La Traviarter was performed this
Christmasyn our workus hand afforded igh grattificashun to the delited
hinmates.” That’s wot you’ll see peraps next yereinyour Southampton
contempory; hand I apeel to you. Sir, can you conseave hanythink more
demoralisin ? I dare say they ad not honly as much roast beef and
plum pudin in the Southampton workus as they cood heat, but halso
minspy, and no doubt but wot it ’ll hend on some iday and olliday with
turtle and wenison. Christmas hentertainments, a Christmas tree, and
Hethiopian Serrenaders in the Southampton workus ! Flyin full in the
face ol porochial economy! Where (To the Southampton Board of
Guardians igspeckt to go to ?
Sir, I am, &c.,
St. Pancridge’’s Place, 1865. Bumble.
P.S. You’ll take note this here is from me, Bumble the Beadle, and
not Mrs. Bumble, as peraps you would hinfer from the creme of the
letter in the poscrip. Still lower down in the same colum as the fore-
goin you ’ll find these words :—
“ Singular Coincidence.—The following remarkably suitable text for this festive
season was selected as the foundation of a discourse on .Sunday evening last (being
Christmas Day) by both the Rev. H. H. Carlisle, at Above Bar Chapel, and the
Rev. 8. March, at Albion Chapel:—Nehemiah, ch. viii. verse 10, ‘ Go your way, eat
the fat.and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is
prepared.’ ”
Like prechin like practis. ’Tis werry werry sad to see sitch hun-
porochial principals prevvelent at Southampton!
The Encyclical Letter.
December Wi, 1864.
“ The Roman Church,” the Popes would neatly say,
“ Is Peter’s barkbut we say something neater;
Henceforth the Letter, writ the other day
By the Ninth Pius, is the Bark of Peter.
“ EXTRA-ORDINARY remedy.”
How to make your Hair grow.—Get up early in the morning and
gently scrape your skin with a boot-jack.
Hint to Sculptors.—A Lamb giving way to its feelings in a
plaintive cry would be an excellent subject for a Bas-relief.
THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING.
Hard Riding Comet. “ Come along, Sir—Jump up—Just what I told you about our Country, you see—Get over anywhere
with a Fall."
A MERRY CHRISTMAS IN A WORKHOUSE !
Mr. Punch, Sir,—
Read this. I want to know wot you say to this here, Sir:—
“ The Christmas Entertainment at the Poorhotjse.—In our notice of this
entertainment in our Wednesday’s paper, we stated that the Christmas tree was
given by Mr. Councillor Rogers. This should have been Mr. Alderman
Coles.”
The fact, as I expects to inwite your hanimadwersion, is that, by
whomsoever given, a Christmas tree was actially interduced into a
workus durin the Christmas of 1864. My scollardsnip ain’t so pore but
what I’m habie to say 1864 is a hannus mirabilis. But this languidge
is too mild to ixpress the hindignation with which, as a British Beadle,
I regards the allowance of sitch a unporochial hindulgence as a Christ-
mas tree _ to them wicious paupers. A Christmas hentertainment in a
workus, includin a Christmas tree ! Wot next? I axes whilst I feels
astonishment and fury a blazin in my dilated eyes and glowin in my
puffed and purple cheeks. Wot next, Sir? Read on, Mr. Punch; it
is the Hampshire Independent as contains the foregoin parrigraff; read
on, Sir, and amost right hunderneath it your hire will be aggrywated by
this bother astoundin peece of inflammation:—
“ The Ebony Minstrels at the Workhouse.—On Thursday evening this com"
pany gave an entertainment to the inmates in a large room belonging to the boys’
school, which was filled with a delighted audience of old and young. The perform-
ance was hiehly creditable to the gentlemen who took part in it, and will long be
remembered by those for whose pleasure it was so generously given."
There, Sir! Nigger minstrels in a workus ! That’s the Southampton
workus. Nigger minstrels! Agen I hax, wot next ? Hoppera singers
I spose, Senior Mary Oh, and Mamselle Patty and Wotsername.
“ La Travvyarter in the workus. We ave mutch plesur in recordin
the anouncment that the hoppera of La Traviarter was performed this
Christmasyn our workus hand afforded igh grattificashun to the delited
hinmates.” That’s wot you’ll see peraps next yereinyour Southampton
contempory; hand I apeel to you. Sir, can you conseave hanythink more
demoralisin ? I dare say they ad not honly as much roast beef and
plum pudin in the Southampton workus as they cood heat, but halso
minspy, and no doubt but wot it ’ll hend on some iday and olliday with
turtle and wenison. Christmas hentertainments, a Christmas tree, and
Hethiopian Serrenaders in the Southampton workus ! Flyin full in the
face ol porochial economy! Where (To the Southampton Board of
Guardians igspeckt to go to ?
Sir, I am, &c.,
St. Pancridge’’s Place, 1865. Bumble.
P.S. You’ll take note this here is from me, Bumble the Beadle, and
not Mrs. Bumble, as peraps you would hinfer from the creme of the
letter in the poscrip. Still lower down in the same colum as the fore-
goin you ’ll find these words :—
“ Singular Coincidence.—The following remarkably suitable text for this festive
season was selected as the foundation of a discourse on .Sunday evening last (being
Christmas Day) by both the Rev. H. H. Carlisle, at Above Bar Chapel, and the
Rev. 8. March, at Albion Chapel:—Nehemiah, ch. viii. verse 10, ‘ Go your way, eat
the fat.and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is
prepared.’ ”
Like prechin like practis. ’Tis werry werry sad to see sitch hun-
porochial principals prevvelent at Southampton!
The Encyclical Letter.
December Wi, 1864.
“ The Roman Church,” the Popes would neatly say,
“ Is Peter’s barkbut we say something neater;
Henceforth the Letter, writ the other day
By the Ninth Pius, is the Bark of Peter.
“ EXTRA-ORDINARY remedy.”
How to make your Hair grow.—Get up early in the morning and
gently scrape your skin with a boot-jack.
Hint to Sculptors.—A Lamb giving way to its feelings in a
plaintive cry would be an excellent subject for a Bas-relief.