Punch (89.1885)

August 29, 1885.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 107

INTERIORS AND EXTERIORS. No. 17.

THE INS AND OUTS AT THE SPEAKER'S LEVEE. A RETROSPECT.

look forward to at the end of every year, which, would most likely
enable us to put by a few pounds for a rainy day.

We are told that though you devote yourself principally to fun
and good-natured chaff, that on serious matters you can be as
serious as Parson himself, and this is a very serious question indeed
for thousands of us poor fellows, which we ask you to Be kind enough
to answer. Signed for self and friends,

A Agricultural Laisouber.

Mr. Punch's Reply.

Fellow Labourers 1

Mb. Punch is much pleased that you should have sought his
advice under the peculiar circumstances^ in ■which you are placed.

Mr. Punch eschews mere Party Politics. _ But your questions soar
into a far higher region, namely, the consideration of the compara-
tive prosperity and contentment of the millions of men who devote
their lives to the cultivation of the soil of our beloved country. An
ordinary Judge generally declines to give his reasons for his judgment,
but as Mr. Punch is the one Judge from whose decisions there is no
appeal, he gives his unanswerable reasons for his irrevocable
judgment.

1st. If not only your Squire, but all the Squires in the United
Kingdom were to be made Members of Parliament, they would be
utterly unable to put a Tax upon the Food of the People without
creating a revolution.

So your Squire's statement is mere bunkum, and is not therefore to
be believed.

Secondly. Mr. Punch has inquired into the interesting account
of the experiment of the Patriot Kino, and has every reason to
believe in its truth. And as what he has done, others, under

similar conditions, can do, the Stranger, if elected, will, it is to be
hoped, imitate the example he has praised so highly, and go and do
likewise.

If, therefore, your inquiries lead you to place implicit trust in the
Stranger, then there can be no question as to which way your true
interest should prompt you to vote.

(Signed)

85, Fleet Street.

Mem. for Holiday Makers.

Do you wish pale London waifs shall, for a season,

By the sea or midst the meadows green be sunned ?

Lose no time then in dispatching cash—in reason—

Unto " The Children's Country Holiday Fund."

Mr. Samuel A. Barnett, will himself, I
Am persuaded take your money with delight;

So to No. 1 in Adam Street, Adelphi,

Let each kindly children-lover send his mite.

Odde and Even.

It was wired from Christiania that Mr. Gladstone had arrived at
Odde, and visited the " Sjaggedalsfors." What is the pronunciation
of this word in Norwegian As She Is Spoke ? Very Odde-looking.
But no doubt, with his usual love of impartiality, our Mr. Glad-
stone turned his attention to both sides, and, having exhausted the
Sjaggedals/ors, ga.ve'up an equal amount of time to the "Sjaggedals-
againsts," and reserved his judgment.