Punch (59.1870)

November 12, 1*70.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

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THAT CLASSICAL CURVE AGAIN !

Agues {just engaged). " Papa, deak, I am going for a Walk, to meet Ckakles."

Papa (who will have his joke). "All right, Agnes. But now, you've got a Beau, wouldn't it Match better if you
Looked a little more like an Afp.ow i "

BULL AND BULLOCK TO THE RESCUE.

A VOICE FROM THE WEIRD SISTERS.

Tbere are eatable frogs and eatable snails; not the only eatable
I vermin. The fruits of the earth are consumed by hares and rabbits, of
which creatures the former, roasted or jugged, and the latter, curried
or smothered in onions, may be satisfactorily consumed themselves,
especially by the farmers whose crops they devour. They may, there-
fore, be considered the natural quarry of the farmer as well as the fox,

The Prussians may poke their fun at the National Society,
Denounce its doctors for "dummheit," its nurses for impropriety ;
Declare our quarter million given, for sick and wounded's aid,
Poor interest on the profit by Brummagem gunsmiths made,

On the sale of Sniders and Chassepots to French customers trans- i and this is doubtless the sound and liberal view taken of them by titie
ported, i nobleman who has set landlords the good example recorded by a con

Whereby King William and Moltke have been disagreeably
thwarted.

But let Bismarck chafe, and Germany chide, and Bernstobff write
his full,

And neutrals sell arms, still Vaterland may be grateful to John Bull,
Who has given his cash and his skill and help to the sufferers by war
low laid,

And for German and French sick and wounded both good Samaritan
has played.

And if this Bull has been dutiful to humanity's holy laws,
There's a Bullock has shown him of the same breed, in the same
sacred cause—

As Almoner of England's bounty to the hapless peasant crowd,
Whom ravage of war has left sad and sick and naked and famine-
cowed.

Then though Germany vie with France in gird and grumble at neutral
Bull,

Still Bull and Bullock will join hands in a long, strong, and hearty
_ PuL!,

ihe one to find money, the other to spend it for the best,
That the hungry may have a stomachful, and the cold and naked be
drest.

The cry of France and Germany—" To arms ! "
The cry of England—" To alms ! "

temporary in the subjoined announcement:

"Lord Cawdor and Game-Preserving.—The Earl of Cawdor has
made a material concession to his tenantry in regard, to the ground game on
his estate. He has signified his intention of permitting the tenants to kill
and destroy all the rabbits on their farms."

Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor !

A Paradox.

A Poacher was fishing. No doubt
He'd catch a fine something, and cook it.

A keeper came walking about;

The poacher saw him—and a trout,

Which he lost, though he managed to hook

" they mat be housewives yet.

We may smile—the French men laughed—at the idea of a French
woman defending herself against irreverent Germans by the aid of a
thimble containing poison. But when we have smiled, let us own that
it is a good thing that the Amazonian mind should turn in the direc-
tion of thimbles. Needle and thread may follow.

The Odds (In the Great International Match).—Uhlan r. filan.