Punch (93.1887)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. LN°™™ 19, 1887.

THE GLADSTONE BUT.

" As regards Home Eule for Ireland, I may my I am prepared to go as far as Mr. Gladstone's own words warrant," &c., &c.—Times, Nov. 9.

Joe, the Incomplete Angler (to himself). '' I think I'll catch 'em with this !
The Incomplete Anqler singeth:—

It was all very well, when afar from the " swim,
With tackle unready, and plans rather dim,

To go in for splashes and plunges.
Though, whether Lord S-l-sb-ey thought it so well,
I am not quite assured. How the papers did yell

At my whirls, and my whisks, and wild lunges!

But now, on the spot, with the fish all ahout,
The "Waltonian rote, there is not the least doubt,
Befits a diplomatist Angler.

I must not dance war-dances, shy heavy stones,
Or talk in the strident stentorian tones

Of a partisan public-house"wrangler.

I frighten the fish with my shindy 9 No, no!
I will show there's a fisherman's tact about Joe.

I make & fiasco t No, thankee!
I '11 he as discreet as Ptscator could wish,
In a style will enchant the Canadian fish,

And utterly ravish the Yankee.