Punch (69.1875)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [August H, 1875.

HAYMAKING IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE, 1875.

" Wriij, I can't say as I Thinks this yer 'At'll bbe Good for much when wis do Catch 'ist !! "

TRIBUTE TO AN AGITATOR.

TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND.

Fellow-Countrymen, - s

The Irish have been "celebrating" what they call a
"Centenary" festival in honour of Daniel O'Connell. / It is de-
scribed as a " tribute to his memory," and a pretty addition it is to
the tribute which he used to receive under the name of " Rhint."
I have never had any tribute whatever paid me. My '' Cente-
nary" occurred in 1862, but nobody then proposed to pay any
" tribute " to my memory. Why, then, have the Irish been paying
tribute on tribute to Dan O'Connell ? " 0 ! " they say, " because
be was our Great Liberator! " Was I not your Great Liberator,
and a Liberator a precious deal Greater than theirs, though, to be
sure, people never called me a Big Biggarman ? Were not my
writings and speeches the original means which in the end liberated
you from the borough-mongers ? I shall be told that my Centenary
has gone by, but that is all the more reason why a tribute which
has been long owing to my memory should now be paid. What
tribute do I want ? Not a statue, wbich is a tribute only fit for
such a fellow as Shakspeare, or such another fellow as Byron.
No; pay me a tribute more durable than a thing made of brass,
which will, by-and-by, turn to verdigris. Let your tribute be the
publication of a handsome edition of my works, which everybody
who has read them acknowledges to be the most useful and best
written in the English language. _ That is the'only sort of tribute
for me.' Pay me that, and, in so doing, you will render an imperish-
able and everlasting tribute to the memory of

Hades, August 7, 1875. William Cobbett.

Appropriate Music.

Last week a dinner was given at the Mansion House in honour of
Her Majesty's Ministers. The band of the Coldstream Guards
attended. To those jaded Members of the Houses of Parliament
who were present, the last piece in the programme must have
suggested the most delightful anticipations—it was the galop " Up
and Off!"

EASTWARD HO! OR, PITY A POOR PRIEST!

{See Mr. Mackonochie's Letter to the Bishop of London.)

There were Wise men of old, and they came'from the East

To worship. Alas for the latter-day Priest!

For the. poor Western Wiseacre, Bishops to gall,

Must turn to the East, or not worship at all:

0, what can he do for a peace-seeking soul,

" With a Surplice alone, Sir,—not even a Stole .'"

Since he holds that his holiest rite's of no worth

If he '8 robbed of his vestments, and " Btands to the North."

A Philistine laic may laugh at this rumpus

Concerning one point in the Clerical Compass ;

But how if the " pastoral care " of the nation

Depends on the practice of " Orientation" ? _

What hope of preserving the flock from perdition.

Without due regard to the " Eastward position " ?

Where to worship aright—so they tell us, at least'—

We must stand, like fire-worshippers, facing the East,

Midst rites that are formal, and lights that are garish,

And led, in full dress, by the Priest of the Parish ?

" Please the Pigs."

GOOD HOUSE TO LET, with Accommodation for Pigs.

This advertisement is sure to attract a considerable amount of
attention. There are too many people living like pigs to whom such
an offer of accommodation will be. irresistibly tempting.^ The ad-
vertisement may also be regarded in another light, as an interesting
example of increasing refinement in the use of the English language.
Now-a-days it is evidently thought improper to mention such a
vulgar thing as a pig-stye: in its stead we are taught to say accom-
modation for pigs."_______

A Necessity for Shipowners.— You must draw the (load) line
somewhere. '• •

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