Punch (71.1876)

July 22, 1876.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVAEI. 27

as in providing poor people with refreshment for their eyes and
spirits in the shape of window and honse gardens, is by subscribing
liberally to the funds of the Commons Preservation Society for legal
resistance to the attempts at enclosing common lands, made by Lords
of Manors accustomed to shut their eyes to the wants around them,
and "live," as Me. Gladstone said, " for themselves alone "—like
too many gentlemen of " propputty " whom it were easy but invidious
to name.

condemnation of the Admiralty. If anything can be trusted to
teach Me. Waed Hunt " not to do it again," this should.

Wednesday.—Liquor was in the ascendant. Had it been a vote
for the introduction of " cups " into the House, Punch would have
felt more sympathy. The Government, in spite of the heart-stir-
ring eloquence of the Major, has knocked under to Me. Smyth, and
granted a Second Reading of his Bill for the closing of Irish public-
houses on a Sunday, in accordance with the Resolution which Me.
Smyth carried some short time back. Me. Gladstone supported

the Second Reading, on the plea of legislating in accordance with 0(jR 'SQUIRE ON SPORT AND SCIENCE.
Irish ideas. But is this an Irish, idea r Is it not rather the idea of

a certain minority of active Irish enthusiasts, under knowing {Old Air

priestly influence ? t^rpHE Fox jumped

Then the Sitting was talked out on the Scotch Intoxicating Liquor ^^^^^->^^^^ over the

Bill, for transferring the holding of licences from those sinners, the ^^^l^^ffl 1 i i^jjljlfo. , .,

publicans, to the municipalities of towns above a certain population, ^'M^H turnpike

.in the Swedish system. Punch would gladly see the experiment Mf v^f$"^\SsiHiBi gate,

tried, though he doubts its success in the liquorish land ayont the v V Jsk\ ^i^^Hl And the '

Tweed. \ jfflil§P" hounds did

Mr. Maeten opposed the Bill on the doubtful plea that drunken- \'^fcr^SsEPK after him.

so.'

ness has nothing to do with the number of public-houses.

The Government opposed, and the Lord Advocate, of course, did Y^;' ^^Hf || And" we after

not see his way to the experiment. / v& N^^^^^p J fi P '+

Me. Oee Lwing, maintaining the original thesis that " Scotland - U "'" 5^||8tjr 1 m ,a.

was not a bit drunkener country than England, but that Scotchmen " '" ^ r. \ j ^§tj§f - ~\ \ spanking

took their drink in a form that made them lively, Englishmen in a /- vTl**-^' , /' . ^saSSy ,. _^ j) rate,

way that made them stupid," talked the Bill out of a sweltering (JM X y %||§^ . i^' * b_"j J' And after him

House, which all this talk about drink must have influenced to the x/„ 7. ^. I ^Sn'^'iv- ~ •. also,

thirstiest pitch. _ - ' fa^y* ^mk \ ^ wiPv 'J 1 ■• ^ No higher pur-

(Meanwhile the Teetotallers were triumphing on pop and ginger /NJflsh^ -x/t^^^K-^ Vv ) * suit I know,

cordial at the Crystal Palace, and Dr. Richaedson was on the point
of letting off a fiery oration against alcohol, in which the spirit of
enthusiasm was imperfectly tempered with the cold-water of
common-sense.)

Thursday {Lords).—Dies non. Essence evaporated by the heat.
Their Lordships, depressed, perhaps, by the victory of the Commons
over the Hereditary Legislators at Wimbledon by seven points.

{Commons.)—Little digs from those experienced Scotch raspers,
BAXTEEand Andeeson, on the Bulgarian atrocities, and the Sullivan
case. Me. Waed Hunt admitted that the Captain's half-pay had
been diminished, owing to his removal from his ship (or " dismissal"
was it ? Punch begs Me. Waed Hunt's pardon, but he can't, for
the life of him, remember the difference), and that Chaplain
Penny had been in private correspondence with a Lord of the
Admiralty during his ritualistic squabble with his Captain. The case
seems to grow more fishy the more it is looked into.

In Committee on Education Bill, vain attempts at indirect com-
pulsion. Little Hodges and Gileses are to be excused from school
for six weeks for hopping and harvest work, and other light and airy
agricultural employments, where time is, as the lawyers say, "of
the essence" of the crop.

POSIES FOE THE POGE.

The Duke and Duchess of Westminster might find something
else to do with their wealth than distributing any of it among suc-
cessful competitors in a Children's Elower-Show, like that held in
the Gardens of Grosvenor House the other Monday afternoon, when,
in a tent on the lawn, between thirty and forty little florists, the
eldest aged only fifteen, received prizes in money from the hands of
the Duchess herself, with the not unnecessary admonition "to be
sure and not lose it." It would be quite possible for their Graces—
as Mr. Gladstone, seconding a vote of thanks to them moved by
Loed Shaftesbury, observed—" to shut their eyes to the wants
around them, to shut their ears to the cries for help, and to live for
themselves alone."

But every one to his liking, and if persons of rank and riches
derive any gratification from contributing to the happiness of others,
great or small, why they pay their money for that purpose, and they
take their choice. As the Right Honourable orator already quoted
pointed out—

" To go back in our history no long time—a century—we reached a period
when every human being was in reach of the country ; now every one at this
time had the advantage of parks and squares ; but London now covered such
a space that many persons were being gradually removed from contact with
Nature. The value of it was apparent from the eagerness with which it was
pursued. In the manufacturing districts, however, where for miles and miles
there was nothing but dirt and smoke, and where the products of toil covered
the whole face of Nature, and changed the very appearance of the people,
there was no opportunity of enjoyment in parks and gardens. So much the
more important was it then that the cultivation of flowers should be encou-
raged by window and house gardens. The need was increasing, and the
opportunity he hoped would be improved."

Another way in which they may lay out money to the same effect

For pastime

here below:
'For all my
fancy dwells
upon Nancy;
Yoicks, sing
Tallyho!"

The Fox went far, and the Fox went fast,

Till at length the Fox went slow.
He ran himself out of breath at last,

Could run no more, and so

He turned him against the foe,

And game to the last did show.
And all my fancy dwells upon Nancy ;
Yoicks, sing Tallyho !

AVe came in at the death with a rush, my boys.

The Fox at our feet lay low ;
And we cut off the Fox's brush, my boys ;

To the hounds did the rest of him throw.

And they hauled him to and fro,

And didn't they tear him, 0 !
And all my fancy dwells upon Nancy' ;
Yoicks, sing Tallyho!

If Sport with Science you compare,

You liken high to low.
I never a tadpole's tail would pare,

That wiser I might grow.

No knowledge let us owe

To an animal's grief and woe !
But all my fancy dwells upon Nancy,
Yoicks, sing Tallyho!

If fox or hare you should compare

With brutes no runs that show,
A wrong you do the former to,

That for gentleman's sport do grow.

But tadpoles do not so,

Nor cats and dogs, as I know-
Hence my objection to Vivisection,
Yoicks, sing Tallyho !

Raal Irish Pitaties.

Somebody sends Mr. Punch a Cork Constitutional, with the fol-
lowing advertisement:—

T7IOR SALE, Six Acres of POTATOES that can speak for themselves.
J- —Apply, &c.

We knew that potatoes had eyes, and so may be presumed able to
see for themselves. But potatoes with tongues are a purely native
growth of Ireland. The existence of such a variety of the tuber
only shows how widely the gift of eloquence is diffused m the Green
Isle. The very pratees can talk, and should be called praters.

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