Punch (59.1870)

December 17, 1870.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

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"no such luck."

Young Lady. '' Is it Hungry, then ? Come along, little Dabling, it

shall have its dinner."

Street-Sweeper {overhearing, and misapplying). "Here y' are, Miss! Right
you are ! I jest am ! " [Ah/ but it vjas Fido she was speaking to I

" LAST SCENE OF ALL ! "

" The last struggle [at the Cattle Show] lay between the Devon heifer and the shorthorn
steer which had been, the crack beast of Birmingham Show, and this fine steer was decreed
the victor. This is Mr. Pulvek's great winner of the year, which, having carritd off
£121 worth of honours at Birmingham, £124 worth of prizes before that, now takes
£110 more ; making- in all £355 of winnings. It has been sold to a butcher of Gloucester
for £100."

This is sad. Alter all its honours and prizes, after being admired, and extolled,
and decorated, at Birmingham and in London and other applauding places, after
flattering notices in the public prints, and beautiful portraits in illustrated
papers and on omnibus panels, after drawing all London and half the country to
gaze on its haudsoine form and perfect, proportions, alter being discussed and
criticised by the best judges of cattle-flesh in England, and patted and stroked
by some of its fairest, softest hands—to be bartered for a poor, paltry hundred
pounds, to be sent, in cold blood, by its ungrateful owner—for whom it has won so
much money and glory, making the name of Pclver for one whole week as
familiar to thousands and tens of thousands as Bismarck or Gambetta—to the
butcher! It is hard.

0, Pulver, Pulver ! We do not envy you your feelings, and cannot trust
ourselves to think of 'he heart-rending separation between the doomed ox and its
faithful herdsman. Poor short-horned and short-lived steer! thy fate, we fear, is
irrevocable; but can no plan be devised to save thy rosetted successors in years to
come at Islington from the shambles and the slaughter-house? The Smithfield
Club, the Royal Agricultural Society, the Boyal Humane Society, the Society of
Arts—will not these and other bodies co-operate to guarantee iuture champion
Devona and Herefords an honourable retirement and a happy old age ? We only
plead for them, but it is not without a struggle that we are mute on behalf of the
leading sheep and the more eminent amongst the pigs

Her New Lobby.

A CONQUEfiOE'S NEW CROWN.

Hail, Emperor or Germany,

Arisen from Prussia's King !
Some glory, if not gain, to thee

This dismal war will bring—
To thee and Eritz, thy valiant son,

it e'er he mount thy throne;
To whom besides, when all is done,

The truth if thou wilt own?

He who, survivor of the war,

Lives, having lost a limb,
That loss what shall repay him for ?

Will glory comfort him ?
What's to console the widow, left

In desolate estate,
And all the fatherless bereft

O what can compensate ?

United Germany ! That's good

Eor all mankind to see,
Thereby if human brotherhood

At all advanced may be.
Meanwhile mankind doth march, not on,

But quite the other way ;
Thy people will be taxed anon ;

That's all that we can say.

Full well and bravely have they fought;

Whereby what will they get?
As far as eye can yet see, nought

Except a load of debt.
The plight of France will be the worse,

Agression's righteous due;
But Germans will partake the curse

Of war, severely, too.

Victorious Germany, of France

Will be avenged, no doubt;
But for her murderous advance

On Denmark gets paid out.
There is a .Nemesis that metes

Out justice, oft, to crime ;
So that some warriors rue their feats

Here, on tins shoal of Time.

O pious Prince, that Heaven dost praise
- Eor thy permitted deeds,
Their meed, perhaps, just Heaven delays

To life which this succeeds.
Eor all thou wilt nceive below

Is that lnipeiial Grown
Thou must, at longest, soon forego,

Thou soon majst have plucked down.

THREE BRITISH BLUNDERS.

We made three great mistakes in our conduct towards
the United Stales Government respecting the Alabama
affair. Lithe first place, we should never have admitted
that we might possibly have been to blame at all. In the
next, on the contrary, we ought to have complained to
them for not having agreed with us to abolish privateering.
In the third, we should have sent them in a tremendous
bill on account of the loss which we had to sustain in
consequence of the Cotton Famine. These are the things
which, had our places been reversed, they would certainly
have done themselves.

Warning to War-Makers.

M. Chatjdokdy has issued, for European perusal, a
circular setting forth in detail the ravage, pillage, con-
flagration, slaughter, insult, and humiliation which the
German troops, acting, he ulleges, systematically under
orders, are inflicting upon France. Horrible atrocities.
Let us hope the French people will never, by abandoning
themselves to Napoleonic ideas, and being led to invade
their neighbours vaingioriously, draw the like upon them-
selves again.____

intellectual treat indeed.

Mrs Malapbop is collecting autocrats, and will be grateful for any specimens 1 If you'd like a first-rate intellectual supper,
of the hand-writing of extinguished characters. 1 To St. James's Hall go, and hear Icpper read 1 upper.