Punch (57.1869)

August 28, 1869.]

PUNCH, OE THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

75

LE DUEL a MORT.

Suggested to French Journalists as being still more certain and satisfactory
than their present method of settling political j)lff£ rences.

SEAWAED!

{After Shelley.)

The bathers are splashing,
The spaniels are'dashing,
The darlings are dancing,
Their bright eyes are glancing—

Away !
The railways are rolling,
The steamers are coaling,
The inn bells are ringing,
The Niggers are singing—

Get away!
The sea and the ocean
Are both in commotion :
Klack, White, Gkeen, and Brown
Have all vanished from Town—

Get away!

Take a dip, take a sail,
Never mind turning pale—
A bold fellow, I trow,
Who dare blot paper now

We are free—
Let him feather his oar,
Let him flirt on the shore,
Observe mollusks and shells,
But not the blue belles

In the sea;
And from cliff, cove, and rock,
At the sound of the clock,
Hurry home fleet and fast,
To that wholesome repast—

Shrimps and tea.

And crabs too, and prawns too,
And croquet on lawns too,
And drives on the sands,
And those terrible Bands,

Lovest thou ?
Thy fortnight at Dover
Too soon will be over,
At Bognor thy pleasure
Shall be beyond measure,

I vow,

By that great saline lotion,
The blue briny ocean,
Which at rest, or uplifted,
Is sketched by the gifted
E'en now.

At the 11 Crown " or the " Royal,"
Where sojourn the loyal,
Crowds of tourists are meeting,
Hosts of tourists are eating

At seven ;
While all down the tables,
In white ties and sables,
Pass the grave solemn wai'.ers
To hand the potato's

lu Devon;
And with napkin -in hand",
In the colfee-room stand,
To extinguish the gas,
When to bed you shall pass

At eleven!

A Metaphor Modernised.

FALL IN FASHIONABLE HAUL discovery whereby their own inventions or

. -r, ... „ c £„ . •. , i l v • i designs have been annulled lias "taken the

A Parisian journal reports a iall ot titty per cent, m the value ot ornamental hair; namely, ; w- ^ out 0f their sails" This sayin"- is
" chignons, nattes, catogants, queues, agiements, meches, and false toupets." It is to be hoped j aDhronriate enough for the yachtine season •
that this foretokens literally a fall in artificial hair—the catogants (whatever they are), chignons, *t * ° ^e „ener&[ state of navi'

queues and all the rest of it. Still, however, at present, according to the Paris Correspondent ' '' a this time of aay, perhaps it would
ot the low, 'grey hair is very expensive. Silver locks are perhaps more precious, because
they are scarcer, than golden ; which everybody knows to be as common as carrots. Other-
wise, one would think that, for a lady at least, a silver crown could exceed in value no other
than "apitiful bald crown." A hoary head, even natural, and male, is not always attended by
'the wisdom which the experience it signifies ought to have purchased ; female and factitious, it
may be taken to indicate meretricious idiocy, except in the case of a sensible old woman wearing
a suitable wig.

Capital Punishment.—Stopping in London in August.

be better to complain that,_ we have had the
steam taken out of our cylinders.

to mr. punch.

Please, Sir, what is the Height of the
Season i yours truly,

Six Feet Two.