Punch (62.1872)

June 8,1872.] PUNCH. OR THE LONDON CHARIVAEI. 233

THE BEST OF IT ! "

First Gentleman Farmer. "Why, these goes that artful Rogue, Billy
Giles ! Is he at his old Tricks still ?"

Second Ditto. " He has Cheated everybody down about here, Sir,
except me ! He tried it on this Winter, but 1 was too Clever for
him ! Sold me a Cow, and—(triumphantly)—I made him take it back at

Half-price//" The Confessional, tne bhoy

NATIONAL NURSERY LAW.

Johnny Bull to drink ought not
Wine, beer, spirits, ought he ?

Naughty, naughty pewter-pot!
Naughty bottle, naughty !

Liquors strong like punch, you know,
Are not good for Johnny ;

Make him reel about and go
Walking zigzag, funny.

Shut let nasty places be

Where such liquors bought are.
Let a Johnny drink his tea :

Give him milk-and-water.

Stint a Johnny, anyhow,

In his cups on one day.
Open public-house allow

Shorter time on Sunday.

Goody-goody try and make

Johnny by coercion ;
Go to church instead of take,

Fie, paw-paw, excursion!

Better, doesn't Johnny think,
E'en from swipes to stop him,

Than, if Johnny too much drink,
Take him up and pup him ?

Pythagorean Patriots.

Three Frenchmen, sentenced to death for participa-
tion in the Communist rebellion, were shot the other
morning at Satory. "They died crying ' Vi>e la Com-
mune."" Fancy yourself caring to cry Vive anything
when yourself about to mourir. Those martyrs to Com-
munism must have had a very strong faith, indeed, not
only in that creed, but also in the doctrine of Pythagoras
affirming the re-embodiment of souls.

Irish Secresy.

Won't the Ballot my work do,
Laudlord, when I'm hghtin' you !
You'll have Tenants vote and lie.
Secret voting I defy.
Whoo ! — beeause 1 can employ

to hear. Ca1 the Yowes. Who, indeed, but a Scotchman of ears

BAGPIPES AT BALMORAL. familiar with all the bagpipe minstrelsy of his native land, does not

„0 v, , . ' , , ,, „ w, 1 eel curious, knowing that to be one of its beauties, to hear what

She shall have music wherever she goes." Who ? Why, the ( V tf)£ YJweg h llke_ It is of course, a chorus. Englishmen,

Queen to be sure, stupid! Shall not the National Anthem be sung eyeu Cuckneys are aware that - Ca' " in broad Scotch is pronounced

when and wheresoever Her Most Gracious Majesty is pleased to as caw>„ Vagine this musical word "caw "in all varieties of

present herself i unless, indeed, when:- concord, and key, and musical contrast and combination, sung at

" The Queen hath strictly charged the contrary." the top of their voices by the whole Crathie choir. Also the equally

y,„ v 1 c ■ t a ™qtt if not more musical word, " yowes." Conceive the choral effect of

liWW Si how?vefr'> «e Case?,' wherei* °™ Sovereign Lady may „ „ d „ „ ^ f gled. The " yowes" must have been

S£jZ T % fJe noise so much that she may desire no m euphonious. Perhaps they reminded Her Majesty of

W™™U » +h 6YferJ Jef,Royal ef,rs T,e8*lei Wlth/^ the speech of another Qtoe*nt nipp6lyto of the Amazons to wit;

harmonies as those which greeted them on the last return of one he ^ ghe desmbes tu her' Lurd Theseus, the sort of music she

whereof many happy returns to her.

" On Friday, Her Majesty's birthday, the Craithie Choir came to Balmoral
Castle in the morning, and sang the following selection of music."

Wherefrom it may suffice to cite the piece first on the list of per- Which tuneful animals so exerted their vocal powers that:
formances, entered as :— " " The skies, the fountains, every region near

once heard :-

" When in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear
With hounds of Sparta."

«<wi , „ lr . „ -ii Seemed all one mutual cry: 1 never heard

Wake, wake, May Morning (Flotow), a hundred pipers, specially So musical a discord, such sweet thunder."

arranged. ' .. ,, „ n

But that was all "yowes." It was minus caw." Our Queen

iancy the combination of sweet sounds which must have been had the advantage of hearing "caw" and " yowes" together; of

produced by a specially arranged band of a hundred pipers. The which the effect must have exceeded that of a rookery in concert

mere imagination of it is almost too thrilling for any sensitive ears, with a kennel. What a fugue Sik Stehndaxe Bennett, if he

That is, as regards the instrumental part of the concert alone ; but, were a Scotchman and composed for the bagpipes, might construct

m a newspaper, we are besides informed that:— out of GV the Yowes ! Another subject very suitable to be set by a

"Three of the pieces, Farewell to the Forest, Ca: the Yoives, and Auld competent Scotch composer is Caw Me, Caw Thee. It would make

Lang Syne, were sung by special request of Her Majesty." an excellent catch.

The last of the songs above mentioned, being popular, can well

be conceived pleasing also to the Oueen; there are associations a contkaijiciiojn.

which no doubt have rendered the first of them likewise pleasing : It was the observation of a foreign and puzzled spectator^that a

the intervening one curiosity may have made Hek Majesty anxious Cricket Match has only just commenced when it is all " over."

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