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August 19, 1865
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16876#0075
August 19, 1865.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
63
A SEASONABLE PETITION.
I
O the Sportsmen of Great Britain, whether
Lords or Commoners, in or out of Parlia-
ment, anywhere assembled,
The Humble Petition of the Grouse and
other Game, now under sentence of death
for purposes of sporting,
Showeth, That your petitioners are
about to be pursued by your honourable
selves, and hunted, caught, shot, wounded
and otherwise maltreated, to afford you
some amusement.
That your petitioners have, from their
birth, been fed and taken care of with a
view to this maltreatment; and, nurtured
as they are, unhappily it is not in their
power to escape it.
That your petitioners have heard from their grandfathers and grandmothers, who happen to have survived, or from their parents, aunts or
uncles, with whom they now reside, what tortures these their relatives have received in former seasons, through being hunted by bad sportsmen,
and fired at by bad shots.
That your petitioners have friends who have been mangled, maimed, and mutilated, instead of being bagged, and who have suffered frightful
anguish and the loss of limb or eyesight, by the clumsy way in which they have aforetime been attacked.
That such agonies have specially been suffered in battues, where, in the fuss and fluster of what is called a “flush,” guns have been let off
without sufficient aim, and volleys have been fired at so many birds together, that some of them are certain to be wounded by stray shot.
Your petitioners would therefore humbly pray that battue-shooting be in future discontinued, as being barbarous and cruel beyond the
common run of sport.
And your petitioners would further pray that, as far as may be possible, all bad shots be excluded from all future shooting parties, and
that sportsmen be instructed how to judge their distance rightly, and to hold their weapons straight, before they be permitted to come into
the field.
And your petitioners would further pray that loaders be appointed to load for all unskilful sportsmen, and, to prevent such mutilation and
mangling as aforesaid, that these loaders be directed to put no shot in the guns.
And your petitioners would also pray that, inasmuch as what is sport to you is death to them in most cases, care should be humanely
taken to make that death quite certain, and, where your petitioners are picked up before dying, they be put out of their misery ere being put
into the bag.
And your petitioners will ever pray, &c.
[Here follow the foot-marks.']
AN “ENGLISH BENEDICTINE” IN PARIS.
According to a contemporary, Brother Ignatius has written a letter
from Manchester, dated on the “Eeastof St. Anne, Mother of the
Blessed Virgin Mary,” wherein having stated some remarkable par-
ticulars relative to certain of his make-believe monks :—
“ With regard to ex-Brother Stanislaus, Brother Ignatius adds, that that indi-
vidual went with his (Ignatius’) money to Paris. There he was to have spent his
time in meditation and penance for his sins, while the hope was held out to him to
return to Norwich.”
Paris is just the very place of all others in the whole world to send a
sham friar to with money, and a commission to spend his time in
meditation and penance for his sins. Accordingly, none but
persons of the snowiest innocence will be surprised at the following
account of “ Stanislaus ;”
“ He, however,’’ says Brother Ignatius, “ entirely falsified his word, and yet at
the same time writes to ask me for more money/'
Very likely. Stanislaus most probably assured Ignatius that he
meant to flog himself three times a-day, and to subsist on soupe maigre.
Of course, what he did was to go and dine every day at the best
restaurant that he knew, and drink as much champagne and Burgundy
as ever he could. In the evening he may reasonably be supposed to
have generally repaired in his monk’s habit to a bal masque. And. then
no wonder that lie soon wrote back to his Superior to ask him for
more money._
The Lost Pleiad.
The following extraordinary advertisement appears in a Sheffield
JfOR SALE—SIX PRESSING VICES.
Are these the same as the Seven Deadly Sins; and if so, where is the
missing one ?
The Practical Veterinarian.—Pen cows affected with cow-pox
together with sheer) that are threatened with small-pox.
63
A SEASONABLE PETITION.
I
O the Sportsmen of Great Britain, whether
Lords or Commoners, in or out of Parlia-
ment, anywhere assembled,
The Humble Petition of the Grouse and
other Game, now under sentence of death
for purposes of sporting,
Showeth, That your petitioners are
about to be pursued by your honourable
selves, and hunted, caught, shot, wounded
and otherwise maltreated, to afford you
some amusement.
That your petitioners have, from their
birth, been fed and taken care of with a
view to this maltreatment; and, nurtured
as they are, unhappily it is not in their
power to escape it.
That your petitioners have heard from their grandfathers and grandmothers, who happen to have survived, or from their parents, aunts or
uncles, with whom they now reside, what tortures these their relatives have received in former seasons, through being hunted by bad sportsmen,
and fired at by bad shots.
That your petitioners have friends who have been mangled, maimed, and mutilated, instead of being bagged, and who have suffered frightful
anguish and the loss of limb or eyesight, by the clumsy way in which they have aforetime been attacked.
That such agonies have specially been suffered in battues, where, in the fuss and fluster of what is called a “flush,” guns have been let off
without sufficient aim, and volleys have been fired at so many birds together, that some of them are certain to be wounded by stray shot.
Your petitioners would therefore humbly pray that battue-shooting be in future discontinued, as being barbarous and cruel beyond the
common run of sport.
And your petitioners would further pray that, as far as may be possible, all bad shots be excluded from all future shooting parties, and
that sportsmen be instructed how to judge their distance rightly, and to hold their weapons straight, before they be permitted to come into
the field.
And your petitioners would further pray that loaders be appointed to load for all unskilful sportsmen, and, to prevent such mutilation and
mangling as aforesaid, that these loaders be directed to put no shot in the guns.
And your petitioners would also pray that, inasmuch as what is sport to you is death to them in most cases, care should be humanely
taken to make that death quite certain, and, where your petitioners are picked up before dying, they be put out of their misery ere being put
into the bag.
And your petitioners will ever pray, &c.
[Here follow the foot-marks.']
AN “ENGLISH BENEDICTINE” IN PARIS.
According to a contemporary, Brother Ignatius has written a letter
from Manchester, dated on the “Eeastof St. Anne, Mother of the
Blessed Virgin Mary,” wherein having stated some remarkable par-
ticulars relative to certain of his make-believe monks :—
“ With regard to ex-Brother Stanislaus, Brother Ignatius adds, that that indi-
vidual went with his (Ignatius’) money to Paris. There he was to have spent his
time in meditation and penance for his sins, while the hope was held out to him to
return to Norwich.”
Paris is just the very place of all others in the whole world to send a
sham friar to with money, and a commission to spend his time in
meditation and penance for his sins. Accordingly, none but
persons of the snowiest innocence will be surprised at the following
account of “ Stanislaus ;”
“ He, however,’’ says Brother Ignatius, “ entirely falsified his word, and yet at
the same time writes to ask me for more money/'
Very likely. Stanislaus most probably assured Ignatius that he
meant to flog himself three times a-day, and to subsist on soupe maigre.
Of course, what he did was to go and dine every day at the best
restaurant that he knew, and drink as much champagne and Burgundy
as ever he could. In the evening he may reasonably be supposed to
have generally repaired in his monk’s habit to a bal masque. And. then
no wonder that lie soon wrote back to his Superior to ask him for
more money._
The Lost Pleiad.
The following extraordinary advertisement appears in a Sheffield
JfOR SALE—SIX PRESSING VICES.
Are these the same as the Seven Deadly Sins; and if so, where is the
missing one ?
The Practical Veterinarian.—Pen cows affected with cow-pox
together with sheer) that are threatened with small-pox.