Punch (58.1870)

126 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [March 26 1870.

A PICTURE OBLITERATED.

It was a Lovely Morning Last Sunday, March 13th. But the Spring Temperature suddenly Melts the Snow-
Snow had Fallen Heavily in the Night, but the Sun on the Slanting Koof of his Country Box, and lo ! The
was Shining Brightly as Spriggins came out to go to Catastrophe.
Church. He pauses to Admire the Scene!

PEACE TO IRISH PIGS.

(Hawfinch sings.)

As I was a walkun St. Stephen's hard by,

I heerd a gurt hullaballoo in a sty,

Where grunt, squake, and snort in rough music did jine,

And there was Bill Gladstone a feedun his swine.

They run and reared up, they, gnashed tusks, pushed wi' snout;
I thinks they'd ha gored un could they ha got out.
I never afore zee sich tumult and strife,
Goo on in a pigsty the whole o' my life.

I says to 'n, I says, " Bill, why, what pigs be they,
That thanks for their vittles returns that queer way ? "
" Them there precious pigs," says Bill Gladstone, says he,
" Them riotous hogs, they be Irish, they be."

Says I, " What pervuss pigs in Ireland is bred!
Wun't aven bide quiet the whilst they be fed."
" I'm sorry," says Willum, " to say, no, they wun't,
The more they gits given 'um the wuss they do grunt.

" In this place afore me chaps long ha' took pains
To plase 'um wi' wash and to coax 'um wi' grains.
Now, I've ben a tryun to zilunce their squeal
Wi' Liberal mizures o' best barley-meal."

" Their troughs thee mayst cause to run over wi' swill; "
I says ; " barley-meal thee mayst gorge 'um wi', Bill ;
Pearl-barley them pigs thee mayst offer at last:
Thee't find that thy pearls afore s Aine thee't ha' cast.

" 'Tis time them unruly pigs now for to check
Wi' rings droo the nose and a clog round the neck.

If that means doan't answer, then curry their hides ;
Drap into they hogs wi' a broomstick besides.

" As justus and kindness thee fully hast tried,
They's now got the 'vantidge o' right on thy side :
Zo put forth thy might for to back thy right by,
And Peace Preservation enfoorce in the sty."

TOBACCO FOR TIPPERA.RY.

Among the various questions lately asked of Government in the
House of Commons, one was a sensible one. Colonel French
inquired of the Chancellor op the Exchequer " whether he would
permit on any, and on what terms, the cultivation of tobacco in
Ireland." Either it would or would not pay to grow tobacco in Ire-
land. If it would not pay, tobacco would not be grown; if it would
pay, the freedom to grow it would be a real emancipation and matter
of j ustice to Ireland.

Perhaps we may yet live to smoke Enniskillen Shag, Trim Bird's
Eye, and Wexford Returns, or, instead of foreign cigars, solace our
nervous system with Waterford Regalias, Cork Principes, Wicklow
Pickwicks, and Government Galway Cheroots. It would be a good
job if, by permitting the growth of Irish tobacco, the Legislature
caused the fire of Irish sedition to end in smoke.

Royal Academy.

{Presented to Mr. Horsman, M.P., by his admiring Constituents.)

Fine Subject. Portrait of " A Superior Person," by the Right Hon.
B. Disraeli.

A Spring Circuit.—Jumping through the hoops held for the
riders round a Circus.