Punch (74.1878)

l2o PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVAE7. [Mabch 23, 1878.

HUMOURS OF THE SCHOOL-ROOM TEA-TABLE.

" do be lp me first, mommy ! do help me first i " " why .should you bb helped first, gerald ? "

" BkcaUSB I'm Waiting so patiently, and haven't Asked !"

MAID OE ATHENS.

(New Version.)

John Bull loquitur—

Maid of Athens, ere we start,
Take my arm—I '11 take your part.
Be my partner. All the rest
Have paired oft' as suits them best.
Hear me swear, before we go,
Zoitj /xov aus ayairw.

Bismarck's bland, but over-kind ;
Gortschakoff would Argus blind ;
Coy Andrassy's coldly cute.
No : such partners will not suit,
You are small, but safe, I trow.

Zur] jj.ov acis ayairw.

Ilobson's Choice ? Oh, not at all!
I've my business at the ball:
What it is I need not tell;
Attic nous should guess right well.
Come ! together let 113 go !

Zoir; /J.OV aus ayairw.

Maid of Athens ! though alone,
Think not, dear, that I '11 be " done."
They've an eye to Istambol,
Fain would leave me in the hole—
Do I mean to let them ? No 1
Zdij fiav eras ayanu.

epitaph on lafitte.

"Ergo pjstque migiaque viri nunc gloria claret."—Ennius, quoted by
Cicero, l)e Senectute.

SOMETHING LIKE A SENTENCE !

{From a Possible Law Report.)

CRIMINAL EXCHEQUER COURT.

(Croion Cases Reserved.)

Before the Lord Chief Justice in Banco.

The proceedings of this Court, which were of the ordinary cha-
racter, and had been carried on with the usual high death-rate
among all concerned, came to a close yesterday, the only remarkable
incident during the course of the sitting being a somewhat severe
sentence passed in a case of aggravated manslaughter at the close of
the day.

The Jury, who were scarcely able to stand, having returned a
verdict of Guilty, the Lord Chief Justice, addressing the prisoner,
said:—

"There is no doubt whatever about your guilt, and as the circum-
stances of the case are of a very heinous character, I have no
hesitation in passing on you the very heaviest sentence which the
law enables me to inflict. You have noticed in the course of this
trial the depressing and asphyxiating effects on mind and body of
the poisonous atmosphere of the Court in which we have all been
condemned to sit; you have seen two boxes of Jurymen carried out on
stretchers, perhaps never to return; you have watched your own
counsel staggering, and at last succumbing on the floor of the Court;
you have heard the Usher cry for water, and listened, I trust not
with unmoved feelings, to my own gasps and groans as I have
struggled to maintain the dignity of the Bench by help of a respi-
rator and a phial of sal volatile. Your crime is, as I have said,
heinous, and I can show you no mercy. Your sentence is that you
be brought up for judgment every day for the space of a whole
calendar month."

The prisoner, who seemed overwhelmed at the announcement, fell
heavily into the arms of two turnkeys, and was removed insensible
—whether from the atmosphere of the Court or the severity of the
sentence did not transpire.