DOI Heft:
November 1, 1873
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16937#0191
November 1, 1873.]
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
179
THE CANZONET OF THE COLLIER.
Companions, come, toss off your glasses,
And pnt round the bottle of “fizz.”
By way of a treat for all classes
Now coals is in price agin riz ;
In course, for a precious good reason
Every j ackass can quite understand :
The more, now comes on the cold season,
Supply must fall short of demand.
And so things will go on together
Alike, both in country and town ;
Coals keep goin’ up, whilst the weather
In the scale-glass to zero gges down.
The poor of this prosperous nation
From fires will he forced to abstain,
And have to put up with privation,
Whilst we shall get drunk on champagne.
The women and children a-eryin’
Will grieve feelin’ ’arts to behold,
And likewise the aged folks, dyin’,
As they ’re knocked off, like fun, by the cold.
Them shiverin’ creeturs may huddle
Together for warmth, as do swine ;
No reason why we shouldn’t fuddle
Ourselves over jolly good wine.
We ain’t without pity for others,
Considerin’ we causes their grief;
But, much as we feels it, we smothers
The wish for to yield ’em relief.
No more than we choose we won’t labour,
Nor let none besides in our stead,
Whatever becomes of our neighbour,
Whose grate can’t no longer he fed.
UNNECESSARY OFFICIOUSNESS.
Covimissionnaire. “ Keb ? or Kerridge, Sir ? ”
A THIEVES’ HYMNAL.
Question was raised at the Surrey Sessions as to whether prisoners should be
allowed to sing in chapel. It was thought that ingenious vocalists might manage,
under. pretext of psalmody, to give one another information, or signals. The
objection, however, was overruled, and the evil ones are to he permitted to sing.
One of them is preparing the Criminal Hymnal. We have been favoured with
an early proof of one of the hymns, and it may he imagined that such words,
sung ‘ ‘ with intention,” and varied at need, might he of great use to a delinquent.
i.
{Loud.) 0 how kind of fellow-creatures
Thus to give us books and pews,
And such nice and gentle teachers !
To be good we can’t refuse.
{Soft.) 0 my pal! we We sent for trial,
We must do the best we can,
Tell your wife to smash the phial,
And to square old Squinting Dan,
{Very loud.) Yes, how kind of fellow-creatures, &c.
ii.
{Soft again.) Tell her, too, when she have spotted
That young swell as see the job—
She must get the cove garotted,
Or Sam Patch might crack his nob.
{Loudest.) Truly kind of fellow-creatures, &c.
hi.
(T ery soft.) Them two kids as called you robber
Knows no nature of a hoath:
Still, let Paddy the pig-jobber
Walk ’em off to Dubling both.
{Bellowing.) Bless you, kindly fellow-creatures,
Thus to give us books and pews,
And such nice and gentle teachers !
To be good we can’t refuse.
No doubt hut ’tis thought very cruel,
In union for us to conspire,
So causin’ a famine of fuel,
And misery for want of a fire.
But self is a consideration
As must be the first for ns all;
If we was to cease combination,
The wages of labour might fall.
Give up our dog-fightin’ and drinkin’,
We won’t to save nobody’s soul,
That’s shudderin’ and starvin’ and sinkin’
From havin’ to go without coal.
Here’s a health to the Friends of the Collier,
For to strike who have rendered us free,
And what Workin’ Men will be jollier
In the depth of cold winter than we ?
Classical Compliment.
“ The two Graces have left Southampton for Melbourne.”—
Daily Telegraph, Oct. 24.
Which two, and who has been left behind to look
after Southampton ? Is the tarrier Euphrosyne, Aglaia,
or Thalia? No matter, and it -would he no matter,
indeed, if they had all three gone, for they would scarcely
be missed from among the very numerous pretty girls in
the birthplace of Dr. Watts.
[This paragraph has electioneering affinities. Hush ! ]
Shakspeare Again.
When shall anything happen whereof Jacques Pierre
hath not writ ? Mark this. We extract from the
Standard!s Paris letter :—
“Here, as far as we can judge by outward signs, it is plain
enough that the great majority are convinced that the Monarchy
is as good as made. In the shops you see advertised ‘ Cham-
bord bracelets,’ ‘ Chambord cravats,’ and 1 Chambord pocket-
handkerchiefs.’ The fashionable milliners exhibit ‘fusion
bonnets,’ and the theatres are following suit.”
J ust. so, and how wrote J. P. f—
“ Harry the Fifth is crowned. Up, Vanity 1 ”
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
179
THE CANZONET OF THE COLLIER.
Companions, come, toss off your glasses,
And pnt round the bottle of “fizz.”
By way of a treat for all classes
Now coals is in price agin riz ;
In course, for a precious good reason
Every j ackass can quite understand :
The more, now comes on the cold season,
Supply must fall short of demand.
And so things will go on together
Alike, both in country and town ;
Coals keep goin’ up, whilst the weather
In the scale-glass to zero gges down.
The poor of this prosperous nation
From fires will he forced to abstain,
And have to put up with privation,
Whilst we shall get drunk on champagne.
The women and children a-eryin’
Will grieve feelin’ ’arts to behold,
And likewise the aged folks, dyin’,
As they ’re knocked off, like fun, by the cold.
Them shiverin’ creeturs may huddle
Together for warmth, as do swine ;
No reason why we shouldn’t fuddle
Ourselves over jolly good wine.
We ain’t without pity for others,
Considerin’ we causes their grief;
But, much as we feels it, we smothers
The wish for to yield ’em relief.
No more than we choose we won’t labour,
Nor let none besides in our stead,
Whatever becomes of our neighbour,
Whose grate can’t no longer he fed.
UNNECESSARY OFFICIOUSNESS.
Covimissionnaire. “ Keb ? or Kerridge, Sir ? ”
A THIEVES’ HYMNAL.
Question was raised at the Surrey Sessions as to whether prisoners should be
allowed to sing in chapel. It was thought that ingenious vocalists might manage,
under. pretext of psalmody, to give one another information, or signals. The
objection, however, was overruled, and the evil ones are to he permitted to sing.
One of them is preparing the Criminal Hymnal. We have been favoured with
an early proof of one of the hymns, and it may he imagined that such words,
sung ‘ ‘ with intention,” and varied at need, might he of great use to a delinquent.
i.
{Loud.) 0 how kind of fellow-creatures
Thus to give us books and pews,
And such nice and gentle teachers !
To be good we can’t refuse.
{Soft.) 0 my pal! we We sent for trial,
We must do the best we can,
Tell your wife to smash the phial,
And to square old Squinting Dan,
{Very loud.) Yes, how kind of fellow-creatures, &c.
ii.
{Soft again.) Tell her, too, when she have spotted
That young swell as see the job—
She must get the cove garotted,
Or Sam Patch might crack his nob.
{Loudest.) Truly kind of fellow-creatures, &c.
hi.
(T ery soft.) Them two kids as called you robber
Knows no nature of a hoath:
Still, let Paddy the pig-jobber
Walk ’em off to Dubling both.
{Bellowing.) Bless you, kindly fellow-creatures,
Thus to give us books and pews,
And such nice and gentle teachers !
To be good we can’t refuse.
No doubt hut ’tis thought very cruel,
In union for us to conspire,
So causin’ a famine of fuel,
And misery for want of a fire.
But self is a consideration
As must be the first for ns all;
If we was to cease combination,
The wages of labour might fall.
Give up our dog-fightin’ and drinkin’,
We won’t to save nobody’s soul,
That’s shudderin’ and starvin’ and sinkin’
From havin’ to go without coal.
Here’s a health to the Friends of the Collier,
For to strike who have rendered us free,
And what Workin’ Men will be jollier
In the depth of cold winter than we ?
Classical Compliment.
“ The two Graces have left Southampton for Melbourne.”—
Daily Telegraph, Oct. 24.
Which two, and who has been left behind to look
after Southampton ? Is the tarrier Euphrosyne, Aglaia,
or Thalia? No matter, and it -would he no matter,
indeed, if they had all three gone, for they would scarcely
be missed from among the very numerous pretty girls in
the birthplace of Dr. Watts.
[This paragraph has electioneering affinities. Hush ! ]
Shakspeare Again.
When shall anything happen whereof Jacques Pierre
hath not writ ? Mark this. We extract from the
Standard!s Paris letter :—
“Here, as far as we can judge by outward signs, it is plain
enough that the great majority are convinced that the Monarchy
is as good as made. In the shops you see advertised ‘ Cham-
bord bracelets,’ ‘ Chambord cravats,’ and 1 Chambord pocket-
handkerchiefs.’ The fashionable milliners exhibit ‘fusion
bonnets,’ and the theatres are following suit.”
J ust. so, and how wrote J. P. f—
“ Harry the Fifth is crowned. Up, Vanity 1 ”