Punch (59.1870)

August 27, 1870.]

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

8-5

THE HEIGHT OF BLISS.

AUGUST FIFTEENTH.

"Among the trucks taken after the battle of Woerth was one
inscribed * De Paris a Berlin.' It was one of the vehicles em-
ployed, to carry the French prisoners through the Prussian
capital on the 15th of August! "— War News.

They found a truck inscribed

" From Paris to Berlin,"
And bitterly they gibed

As they packed the prisoners in.

'Twas on August the fifteenth,

As through Berlin streets they rode ;

And the Berlin ecker-stehers
They cracked their jest and crowed.

'Twas thus that in Berlin

The Emperor's fete was kept,
By the Nemesis, whose Twin

Through Paris scowling stept

By streets, and places, bare

Of festal pomp and pride :
No streamers on the air

No playhouse-doors set wide.

Only churches for the crowd

To pray help against, the foe :
Only curses deep and loud

On him who wrought this woe.

Only the beggars, free

This day lo ply their trade,
When hands should liberal be,

And hearts disposed to aid.

Who that then asked relief,

So abject of estate,
As he, the Imperial Chief,

Who holds this jour defe'te?

Of all those thousands stirred

With grief and anger grim,
Who gives a kindly word

Or a kindly thought to him ?

Highland Shepherd. "Fink Toon, Glasco', I pelieve, and lots o' coot Mfac Of all those beggars free

there." Tourist. " Off, yes, lots.

Highland Shepherd. "An' Drink, too?" Tourist. "Oh, yes."

Highland Shepherd {doubtingli/). " Ye'll get Porter tae yir Par-rich ?"
Tourist. " Yes, if we like."

Highland Shepherd. " Cba-ci-ous !" [Speechless with admiration.

To beg along the way,
Who has such need as he,
Of Charity, to-day ?

THE USE OF THE NEW FOREST.

QUESTIONS FOR BISHOP'S EXAMINATION.

{In any Diocese.)
Who was St. Leger ?

Is he the special Patron r,f Sporting or Mercantile men ?
If of the latter, how would you spell it ?

Mercantile-minded, not to say mean, Statesmen, pray you attend to the fact
"that England has, lost fifty millions by a failure of the hay crop in consequence: ^iTtte oT^L^^Ha England? And

ol the drought. Also to the tact that this present drought is the continuation ot ; wnprp y
a " rain famine," which has " lasted three years." Further, to the facts that trees are '
the great retainers of moisture, that since the Revolution the French forests have been
destroyed, that the drought has been particularly severe in I ranee, that " the amount
of hedgerow timber" in England "is rapidly disappearing under our new systems
of cultivation " pursued with an odious Chinese-piggish eye to mere material pro-
duce, regardless of any defacement of the country's beauty. And just when the
French Government, to remedy the deficiency of moisture, "is planting" trees
"afresh whenever it has the power," which may be limited by its present occu-
pation in planting cannon, consider, and weigh even in your own pecuniary scale
a most pertinent remark (made by a correspondent of the Times) that, for the
mere national gain of a few thousand pounds, which will very soon be poured into
the insatiable maw of our great national expenditure—

State, from personal observation during the past five
years, the names of the wiuners P

Also, if the candidate is ritualisticaliy inclined, the
colours of the riders.

Over what see in the Eastern Counties does Bishop
Stortford preside ?

CORRESPONDENCE.

" It is at this moment we propose to destroy the New Fore«t, one of the best storehouses
of moisture now remaining in the South of England, where there are no mountains to stop
and gather the clouds."

What asses, then, as well as pigs, we must be! In so saying, nobody means
to acknowledge personal stupidity and grovelling sordidness. It is the Legisla-
tive and Ruling Powers who are proposing to fell the New Forest. Let us hope
that enlightened public opinion will restrain them from carrying out the despicable
intentions of foolish Fellers.

a word to a volunteer.

Don't march into public-houses too much after a " march out," lest besides
having red facings, you may become red faced.

Dear Sir,—Is ihe following quotation correct? If so,
it lets in a new light on the character of our great Poet.
The Duke in Never Too Late to Mend says to Bernardo in
prison,—

" Reason thus with Wife :

Jf I do lose thee, I do lose a thing

Which none but tools would keep."

It's rather strong, isn't it? Poor Shakspeare! Poor
Anne Hathaway ! yours tjn]y> Muddle.

P.S. I haven't a book by me. But my memory's good.

Justifiable Stinginess.—Grudging a friend the right
of Laughing at our Expense.