Punch (62.1872)

Ipml 27, 1872.1 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

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ONE OF THE "SYMPATHIZERS."

Jeames. "I'm afraid, me Lady, I'll require to Leave you.'' Lady. "Why?"

Jeames. " Well, me lady, I can't agree with Master's suckasms against that poor persecuted Sir Koger."

EPITH AJjAMIXJM IN GENERAL.

Just now o' mornings with what din of bells resonndeth air !
How are St. George's clergy worked in Hanover's gay Square!
Day after day how long the list of weddings in the Times
Doth strike your eye as your ear is struck by the music of the chimes !

Hey ? What! Has there occurred of late a fall in the price of bread,
That to Church doth make the people rush so furiously, and wed ?
Perhaps ; but there's evermore a burst of the after-Easter tide,
With the Lent-dams down, and the channel free for the bridegroom
and the bride.

What Alps of snow-clad semblance would arise on every hand
If wedding-cakes upon wedding-cakes were piled about the land!
What acres broad might wedding-feasts be spread on o'er each plain,
Chicken and lobster-salad amid rivers of chamjmgne !

What hosts of human beings now each other daily bless!
0 happy thought to estimate their sum of happiness!
How long to last, on all the i>airs around you look, and see,
Young folks, and know ye that as they are now so you will be.

It is a goodly sight to gaze upon a bridal show,

Demonstrating unshaken faith in a Paradise below.

Forefend all fond young couples, Gracious Goodness, from mischance,

May none of them ever come to crave the help of Lord Penzance !

Stuff of the conscience 'tis to fast from wedlock during Lent ;
No time to marry being that which time is to repent.
But marriage, when past Easter, is esteemed the thing to do,
Nowise fearful that repentance of the bargain will ensue.

0 the wedding-bells throughout the land do make a merry noise,
A sound it is which the raptured ear of Sympathy enjoys,
And away with Professor Pumpkins, whose reflection it compels
The more wedding-peals there be rung, the more will be tolled,
hereafter, knells.

CONVERSE DEMONSTRATION.

It is proposed that, before the tyrannical Government Parks Bill
shall have passed the Lords, the middle and upper classes, taking a
lesson from those that constitute the basis of Society, shall assemble
in their thousands, and march through the streets on a Sunday in
procession to Victoria Park, there to hold a demonstration with the
object of enforcing the immediate repeal of the Income-tax. The
demonstrators will comprise a very large number of persons, clerks
and other people of respectability with slender or precarious incomes,
on foot, as well as numerous gentlemen and ladies in carriages and
on horseback ; and they will proceed to and return from their des-
tination with banners emblazoned with coats of arms flying, and
violins and pianos playing; whilst a chorus, with band in attend-
ance, will keep on singing" Viva la Liberia!'" and other appro-
priate operatic selections. By this display of numbers and deter-
mination it is hoped that a section of Society at present subject to
the injustice of inquisitorial confiscation will succeed in obtaining
for themselves the concession of equality before the tax-gatherer.

Well Classed.

In an article headed "The Agricultural Labour Question," we
read, among other news of the "movement," that " the Newmarket
trainers have advanced the wages of their men from 14s. to 16s."
This is the first time we ever saw Newmarket _ trainers figure as
agricultural employers, and their men as agricultural labourers.
But the classification may be defended. If our labourers are serfs,
what are trainers' labourers but adscripti glebce f Isn't their work
altogether of the turf, turfy ?

from our domestic pet idiot.

What is the difference between a Sofa and its fair occupants ?—
About the difference between an Ottoman and a knot-o'-women!