Punch (90.1886)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

[Apeil 3, 1886.

ALL FOR HIM: OR. GRANDMOTHERLY LEGISLATION.

Working Man. "Werry kuto, I'm sure ! Between 'em both I oughter be 'appy. Any'ow, they wont

put my Pipe out !

Laodicean Labouring Man loquitur :—

They 're icerry kind, I'm sure! It reglar
seems

As though the lot of 'em was my dry-
nusses.

The parson preaches, and the poet dreams,
The spouter cackles, and the scribbler
fusses,

All—all along o' me .' From year to year.

They neyer drops me, they are always at it.
It's werry kind; hut wot seems rayther
queer,

I'm blessed little better for 'em, drat it!
My fault o' course. I'm sech an orkerd lot,

I am. Don't drop into their ways, not nicely.
They 'd tuck me snugly in my little cot,

But then, you see, I'm not a kid—percisely.

That's where it is, I 'spose. Us working chaps
Are more than seyen, take us one with
t'other.

Don't cotton quite to baby'pats and paps,
"Which wexes them as comes the Old Grand-
mother.

Ungrateful, ain't it P Ought to be all right,
With wotes, and'tracks, and (Kyrleys and
cheap clarets