Punch (90.1886)

62 PUNCH, OB THE LONDON CHARIArAEI. [February 6, 1886.

MUZZLING THE GREEK DOG.

N.B.—The newspapers said " there is a paused in tho action of Gr
Observe " tho paws in the action of Greece," as shown by our Artist.

Evert dog has his day, and I thought mine was come';
But Hope s promise once more turns out only a hum.

Oh, bother the blue-eyed deceiver!
Bow-wow! All their plaguy "precautions" and stuff
Against what they call madness are simply enoughj

To put a poor tyke in a fever.

Sheer rabies indeed! What an insolent error!
Fact is, though they 're big, they are frantic with terror

At me and my shining incisors.
See how they all cluster and clamour around me !
Long since, if they could, they'd have hanged me or drowned me

My soi-distant " friendly advisers."

Cave Canem ? Oh, yes! There'd be pretty fine work,
If I once got my teeth in the calf of the Turk,

The bloated, burglarious old noodle!
He.has robbed and ill-used me for ages, and now
Must they check me as soon as I raise a bow-wow ?

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'Twould "put up " the veriest poodle !