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106 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [August 29, 1885.

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A NEW CAREER

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Officers retired from the Arm

Visitor (at the Northsea Hotel). " How is this, "Waiter ! Can't I have m
Waiter. "Very sorry, Sib. 'The Boots' being away for his 'Olida-1
Visitor (losing patience). "Confound the General !—he overcooked my
Waiter. "Master says, Sir, as the General is a ruinin' of us !—He

the dook—he can't wait at table, 'cause he will taik '—then maste

the Spoons an' spoils the Silver, an' now there's your Boots."—(A era
the 'All-Lamp—I do believe he's gone an' broke "

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gdala and others concerting measures for the employment of
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y Boots properly Cleaned here !"

r, the Retired General Officer "

Chop yesterday—but does he Clean the "

comes 'ere with a fus'-rate recoymendation from
r gives him the plate to clean, but he scratches
his heard.)—"There, Sir! I left him a scrubbin'

\Rushes off !

THE AGRICULTURAL QUESTION. tidngfe*

Mr. Punch, Sib, cultivation
Several of my friends and. me has just got votes for the fust choose two
time, and as we don't know what on earth to do with 'em, we have he stocked
all agreed to write to you, as the People's true friend, to ask for your on the Fart
kind advice on the matter. _ the rent, aj

There's two gentlemen a coming round among us, as polite as you stocking th
please, and a telling of us that it all depends upon us, and such as us, them; and
whether we are all to be so much better off than we was afore, or golden sovc
ever so much worse. The first one is our Squire, and he tells us that he has sine
the late Government has brought things to that pass that all the Land- And he say
lords and many of the Farmers of the Country is all a being ruined, that " no i
and that the only thing to save them and enable them to raise our And we all
wages, is toput a taxupon Foreign Corn and Foreign Meat. But when mortal ma
we labourers gets a talking together, we don't see as there's much believe tha
Bigns of ruin up at the Hall, and if our wages are only a going to be should Agr
raised if bread and meat is to be made dearer, we don't tee that we a sort of a
shall be much bettered by that, but we think we see who will. Then once that t
comes the other Gent, who's a stranger to us, and he tells us that up Now the]
to the present time the Landlords have had all the plums out of the what these
pudding that our labour makes the land produce, and left us only for Squire
just enough of the remainder to keep body and soul together, which our wages
we know by bitter experience to be about true, and that if the land for our br
will not produce three profits, of which the Landlords have the for the stra
Lion's share, it will certainly produce two, of which the Labourer proving oui
must have one, for though it is quite possible to do without Landlords, the land wi
it's quite impossible to do without us. And he tells us something as willinger It
makes us open our eyes as well as our ears, and that is, that a Mr. they are n

ried a experiment on a Farm in "Wiltshire, which is some-
his. He took a Farm of about 400 .'acres, that was out of
at about 18/«. per acre rent, and he let the Labourers
of their number to manage the Farm with his Bailiff, and
the Farm for them, and he told them that the first charge
n Bhould be their wages, and the second charge should be
id the third charge should be a fair interest on the cost of
e Farm, and that anything left should be divided among
at the end of the year they each of them received seven
reigns, and each had his goose for Michaelmas Day! And
e taken another Farm to be managed on the same terms,
s that the whole secret of his success lies in this one fact:
nan will work for a master as he will work for himself."
says, one and all, that truer words was never spoke by
1! It's common sense and it's human nature. We all
; men don't do it in any other condition of life, and why
icultural Labourers at say 14|s. a week be expected to set
lgelic example to all the rest of the world ? "We say at
ley don't, and we may as well add that they won't,
i, Sir, we wants you to tell us whether we can trust that
two gentlemen tells us is true. 1st. Whether if we votes
he will, by getting a tax on Foreign corn and meat, get
raised higher than the increased price we shall have to pay
ead and meat and beer. Secondly. Whether, if we votes
nger gent, we shall ever have the opportunity of so im-
condition, by getting, besides our wages, a share of what
11 produce in consequence of our harder and heartier and
ibour, as to make our lives much more worth living than
ow, by the knowledge that we shall have something to