Punch (90.1886)

April 10, 1886.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

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THE GRAND OLD MAN PROPOSES," AND —

{After Sir E. Landseer's "Man Proposes," <bc)

three thowsand pounds for a little bit of it, beooz it was a little bit
like his Grandfather, but the Barbers, like true artists as they is,
declined with thanks.

Then there was the Plate! amost all of it given by Kings and
Queens. "Wot a story sum of it tells of the days of old, ah, and of
the nites too. Fansy a punch Bole given 'em by Queen Ann, all of
sollid silver, and big emiff for a Bath for a Baby, and so hewy that
I coud scarcely lift it. And then there's a lovely Gold square Cup
that holds about a pint, with four bells hanging at the four corners,
and at a certain time of the Bankwet every gest had to fill it with his
favrite drink and empty it at a draft, and then soberly ring the four
bells, and this was guv 'em by that reel lover of wedded life, Enery
the hayth!

There was a Major Joseph Suhbody, I didn't quite ketch his other
name, and in course I shoodn't have named it if I had done so. who
must have got just sitch a seller of Port Wine aslshood like to have.
I herd him tell his estonished naybur, a old Common Couselman as I
has known a werry long time, that the werry yungest Port in his
seller was '47! _ The only remark as his nayber made was, Ar! but
there was a twinkle in his grey eye that was equal to a hole wollum

of "Gammon! " The Chairman was a Major as well as a Barber,
and guv out his Toasts like flashes of Hartillery, and without won
shuperflous word. And wot with the hinteresting All, and the old
pieters, and the old Plate, and the old "Wine, it was one of the nicest
hevenins as I've waited at for a long time, and so all the werry gentle-
manly looking Barbers and their gests seemed to think, Robert.

NOTHING IF NOT CLASSICAL!

{Extraordinary Conversation, heard outside the Steele Exchange.)

"I sat, Charley, you did not turn up yesterday, and so lost your
two guineas."

"I don't think it worth my while to cross my roof [meaning
threshold] for such a trifle."

" I say! I didn't know you were quite such a Cassius [meaning
Croesus] as that."

" Oh yes; I take Epaminondas [meaning Epicurus] for my model,
and think pleasure to be the only real good." , „

" A regular Stagirite, [meaning Sybarite,] I do declare! Ta, ta.