Punch: Punch (82.1882)

April 29, 1882.]

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIYARI.

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THE UNLEARNED PIG.

Showman Smith [to partncr Salisbury). “ If I can only teach him this Tp.ick, and if he’ll Dance to your Tune, WE CAN GO j
round the Country with our Opposition Show, and t ’others won’t have a chance.”

heeded them not: he saw creepers on the wall: then ghastly figures
chased one another as in some fantastic pantomime : he heard the
soiind of bells, and saw a long lanky figure, shrieking and struggling
;j as _it approached him, crying, “ The bells, the bells! ” And so, after
i yainly trying to hide itself behind a sapling in a Yeronese garden,
it passed on, and disappeared into the dread ohscurity of a tomb.
As the terrible _ feeling came over him that the world and all its
objects were slipping away, his brain reeled as though it were
danoing in Scotland, and he threw himself on the marble fioor.
******

“lou’ve had a bad time of it,” observed Don Agnostico when
-Nglesant awoke, “ I thought a few weeks ago you had joined the

Jumpers. You mustn’t go to the Lyceum again, and for the next
six months I forbid you all heavy suppers, and all spirits.”

Inglesant groaned and turned restlessly on his couch as the
breath of the early morning soothed his fevered brow.

“ And.,” continued Don Agnostico, “ I think a month at Malvern
would be advisable.”

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JExtract from a letter of Dr. Aqnostico’s to Sir W-lfr-d L-ws-n.
—Inglesant has taken the pledge. You may tell II. E. Card.
M-nn-ng that he is now an exemplary Teetotaller.

[This certainly explains much that is difficult in Mr. Shorthcuse'S
John Inglesant.—Ed.]