Punch (59.1870)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARITA.RI.

[August 20, 187":

JETSAM AND FLOTSAM.

Smith being SauT Our from the Continent this Year, takes a Cottage Ornes on Deb-Side, Scotla.no. The Children are
Sent up first. The House is described as " Conveniently Furnished "—they Find it so !

A GOOD NAME.

What is in a Name ? Something. For instance, there's a pecu-
liarly chuckling sort of look about au educational advertisement headed

"GIGGLESWICK GRAMMAE-SCHOOL."

The School for the Giggleswick Grammar must be an amusing place,
and the Giggleswick Grammar itself a most entertaining, and also, of
■course, a most instructive book.

Giggleswick, we discover, is near Settle, in Yorkshire. Probably
the natives do not appreciate the advantages of Giggleswick so much
as do the Settlers. " New Boy?," says the Giggleswick (it's a delight-
ful name !—so cheery !) advertisement, "should come to the school at
two o'clock on the 22nd of August." We would like to be there as a
New Boy : that being impossible, we must content ourselves with going
down in our popular character of The Old Boy. " The dormitories,"
continues the Giggleswickianadvertisement, have "separate cubicles."
How charming, how ecstatic, to sleep in a Giggles wickian cubicle !
But stay, what is a cubicle ? Did we ever sleep in a cubicle ? No ;
we should as soon have thought of slumber in a bicycle. "Cubicle"
is, we suppose, a translation of cubiculum, that is, with due deference
to the Giggleswickian Professors. A cubiculum was a bedchamber.
There were cubicula diurna et nocturna, to quote Smith, who quotes
Pliny, and the nocturna were also called dormitoria. But Giggleswick
says that the dormitoria contain cubicula. Wheels within wheels, that
is, rooms wit.hin rooms ; Giggleswick all over. There is yet another
meaning for cubiculum, " the pavilion or tent in which Roman emperors
were accustomed to witness the public games." Perhaps this is the
idea of the Cubiculum GiggleswicMum, or Giggleswickian Cubicle. No
doubt there are plenty of games in the dormitory, bolstering, for ex-
ample ; and perhaps the big boys or monitors recline in their eubicles
while Fourth Form gladiators contend. This may be the Giggles-
wickian sense of cubicle. But as " on application " the Giggleswickian
Head Master (it sounds pantomimic, a Master with a Giggleswickian
head) " will give any further information," we can only refer ourselves

to him; and wishing him and his " health and happiness," with the
additional Jeffersonian-Rip-van-Winkleish wish " that, he may live long,
and prosper," we finish by flinging our College cap in the air, and crying,
" Success to Giggleswick !"

A COMPLIMENT.

The Bishop preached.

The congregation subsequently requested his Lordship to publish
his sermon.
His Lordship was delighted.

"And so," said he, with jocose affability to the Senior Church wardeu,
" the people were very much pleased ? Eh ? "

"Well, you see, your Lordship," replied the official, "our folks
zvould like to know summat about it; afcd-"

" Ah ! " interposed the Bishop, complacently, " I see they'd like to
read it at home."

" Well, your Lordship, that 'a just what, they would like ; 'cos-—
(here he paused, and then added, confidentially) "it wor very hot
weather, you see, and so—when your Lordship wor preachin' they were
all asleep ! "

Verse and Verse.

A muscular man of Ashaugo,

Ascended a tree for a maugo,
He fell from the top,
Three thousand feet drop,

But—he got up and danced a. fandango.

publichouse port.

Certain publicans advertise " Wine from the Wood." What wood
does Bung mean by "the wood?" In the case of Port, perhaps
Logwood.