Punch (99.1890)

62 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [August 9, 1890.

Ahoard the Yot "Placid," bound for
Dear Editos, Copenhagen {I hope).

Yotj told me when I set sail (I didn't set sail myself, you
nderstand, but the men did it for me, or rather for my friends,
Mr and Mrs. Skippeb, to whose kindness I owe my present position
—which is far from a secure one,—but no matter), you said to me,

FROM OUR YOTTING YORICK, P.A.

Yosick Yotting has no buffoonery left in him? I too, who was
once the life of all the Lifes and Souls of a party I Where is that
party now ? Where am If What is my life on board? Life!—
say existence. I rise early; I can't help it. I am tubbed on deck:
deck'd out in my best towels. So I commence the day by going to
Bath. [That's humorous, isn't it ? I hope so. I mean it as suoh.]

"Send me notes of your voyage to Sweden and* Norway, and rthe
land of Hamlet-. You '11 see lots of funny things, and you '11 take
a humorous view of what isn't funny; send me your humorous
views." Well, Sir, I sent you " Mr. Punch looking at the Midnight
Sun," pretty humorous I think (" more pretty than humorous," you
cabled to me at Bergen), and since that I have sent you several
beautiful works of Art, in return for which I received another
telegram from you saying, "No 'go.' Send something funny."
The last I sent (" The < hurch-going Bell," a pretty peasant woman
in a boat—•" belle," ytu sse) struck me as very humorous. The idea

Then breakfast. Then lunch. Then,dinner. No drinking permitted
between meals: to which regulation I am gradually becoming
habituated. It is difficult to acquire new habits. Precious difficult
in mid-ocean, wheTe there isn't a tailor. [Humorous again, eh ?]
I now understand what is the meaning of " a Depression is orossing
the Atlantic.",) k There's an awful Depression hanging about the
Baltic.

I send you a sketch of^Elsinore, as I thought it would be, and
Elsinore as it is. Elsinore'is like the Pumpin? Works at Barkine
Creek. And I've come all this wav to see this!! Elsinore! I'd

of people going to » ^___ rather go Elsewhere-

Chnroh in a boat! *°" P / —-—S > inore,—say, Margate.

What was I to do[? .J-L, v ( Think I shall put

Well-here at last I Eg: ✓O^—*\ V /-^w\ this in a bottle, cork

send you something FjgS" ^ ' . ) \ r-' 3 ^—- it up, and send it

which must be l$fi*&-X>) 0 S *^ > Vrs. --V ^ overboard, and you'11

humorous. It looks M^fS^,^- —v f > ~"---V--"----' get it by Tidal Post,

like it, Mr. Punch x-ir~ Vm - -> / \ \ .Si Whether I do this or

driving m Norway, m^^^^^^^^jA ^V,4____ \ iej^J^i_ not depends on cir-

ln a cariole. Mr. uyf/l/T/\7m7^___ ' "l^111'*11 S3=ag^ n-..^ . cumstancesoverwhich

Punch anywhere is V|/VV\(l ( \^J=Sp*=~=5««~_.— f —---—-— ■ — I may possibly have

humorous; and with , \\V~^-^y^__^__^ V _-;----_„ no control. Anyhow,

Toby too; though I V. v -« H/.--^---at dinner-time, I shall

am perfectly aware —s __— ~—' \ ^r* ^t^t^, m . auk for the bottle.

that Toby, M.P is \ , \ / When you ask for it,

in his place in the itins~rv~**. lU^of ^ (L+**>^**^ J see that you get'it. Yours truly, Jetsam
Toby™ ubar -t I <7 W<3~ . 0____——-"'^ (or Yottin9Artist in Black and White).

That's8 funnv isn't —'N U ^ —iq a m_ Swedish time. 9'5 in English miles. Longitude

ft p_Bee " baTk'" sub- ^—--" 4 ft. 8 in. in my berth. Latitude, any amount of.

stituted for "biq," the original word being "ubiquitous." This is =======-

the sort of "yiirdtwistren" at which they roar in Sweden. Aw Excellent Rule.—We are informed that "extremeugliness"

It 'a all tris bien (very well) but how the deuce can you be funny and "male hysteria" are admitted as "adequate disqualifications"

in the Baltic ? Why call it Baltic ? For days and nights at sea, for the French Army. If the same rule only applied to the English

sometimes up, more often down, and a sense of inability coming House of Commons, what a deal of noise and nonsense we should be

over me in the middle of the boundless deep. Alas, poor Yoeick 1 spared!