Punch (62.1872)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

[April 6, 1872.

NEVER MORE!"

She used to Come every Day with her Aunt (" There was no Doubt he was a very Clever Young Man," the Old
Lady had said), and Admire Brown's Sketch of the Jetty ; but one Morning when she sent her Newfoundland Dog into
the Sea. and he Shook himself all over the finished Drawing, our Artist momentarily Forgot himself, and uttered
"Strange Oaths." They left by that Afternoon Express, and he Saw her no more.

ON AND OFF.

Lowe, Treasury-magician,
Exchequer statistician,
Most rare arithmetician!

Whose crisp, curt surname " Bob,"

Alike to swell and snob,

Suggests twelve-pence in one's fob !

Bright thy physog—and who'd smudge it r
Great thy cackle—and who'd grudge it ?-
When delivered of thy budget!

After twelvemonths ta'en to hatch tax—
Though last year produced a Match-Tax
(And that not a Colney-Hatch tax)—

Till, warned by Punch's show-up

And the universal blow-up,

You were glad that tax to throw up :

This year more happy, Bob Lowe,
Thank his surplus, escapes oblo-
'Quy, of stooping thus to rob low,

To saved pounds at last can screw pence
And dock Income-tax the two-pence
Last year added to't as new pence !

And asks Bull's congratulation

For this alleviation

Of the burden of the nation!

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But how can Bull be grateful
For a spoonful less in the plateful,
When the dish is so distasteful ?

Thank you Income-tax for making

More light, by four-pence taking,

Who last year were six-pence " faking " ?

For the two-pence off that's gone,
We '11 be grateful, when you 've shown
By what right you put it on.

Till then Britons must say No,
When bid bow down to Lowe :
Meanwhile, their thanks they '11 owe ;

And at compound interest leave 'em,
Till Bob Lowe—keen to receive 'em—
Of all Income-tax relieve 'em.

Should e'er that millennium come,
Who their gratitude shall sum ?
Till then—patient John—be dumb !

Natural and Manly Response

Sir,—Am sure that the Pityous apeal of the Pore fellow wich is
in Trubble in Newgate will be ansered jenerous by all Hatters of
tirany and opression Sir i rite to say if a Frendly Leed could be got
up at the Monster tavern wich busses pass reglar and is most re-
spective hotell only name most appy to His size or elsewhare no
dout oasts of Simpersizing gents and swells would atend and Chare-
man mout be faced by mr. bajant by inserting wich and oblidge

Your obedt. servt.

Edward Nimmer.