Punch: Punch (100.1891)

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PUNCET, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

[February 28, 1891,

THE WATER BABIES AND THE ROYAL GODMOTHER."

BRAVO, BAGSHAWE!

A Lady of Bedford, despotic and rash,
Tried to force her poor groom to shave off his moustache

QUEER QUERIES.

ElVglish Hxstokt.—I have heen reading several hooks on this
subject, and am rather puzzled. Are the English people, as existing
Jndge Bagshawe the wise, made her pay for her prank. j noio, Teutons, or Danes, or Celts, or what? Can we be Teutons

This makes one inclined to sing, " I know a Bank," \ when the aborigines of these islands were not Teutonic t 1 feel that

Where Bagshawe might bring common-sense, for a change ; ! my own genius—and I have a lot—is Celtic; at the same time I

have always prided myself on my Norman blood; yet from my
liking for the sea, which never makes me sick, at least at Heme
Bay, I fancy I must be descended from a Scandinavian Viking.
What is the ethnological name given to a person who is an amalga-
mation of such heterogeneous elements ?—Inquirer.

They 're worse than the Lady of Goldington Grange,
These Banking Bashaws with three tails, who must clip
Nature's health-giving gift from a clerk's chin or lip.
Bah ! What are they fit for, these stupid old rules ?
To be shaped hy rich tyrants, obeyed by poor fools !