Punch (76.1879)

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHAKIVAKI. [June 28, 1879

S our Collective "Wisdom may almost be said to have spent the week
on the tiles, Punch has immortalised the incident in his initial
Cartoon, which he takes leave to dedicate to Messrs. Hopwood,
Bright, Otway, P. A. Taylor & Co.—"Foes of the Cat, and
trimmers of his Tails."

Monday, June 16 (Lords).—Has Canon Fleming been regularly-
placed in position in York Minster, duly laid, loaded, primed, and
let off ? Is he a good and serviceable great gun, or but a Quaker,
or duffing Canon, having the outward appearance of a £1200-pounder,
but being, in truth, incapable of effective fire ? Nobody seems quite