Punch: Punch (100.1891)

126 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHAMVAKL [March 14, 1891.

"CES AUTRES"

(HEARD AT CHURCH-PARADE.)
Captain Bergamot. " Are ant of your Brothers in the Service, Miss de Bullion?"

Miss de Bullion. "Yes; One in the Guards, and—a—" (icith disgust)—"the Rest in the Common Army, you know."

" ADVANCE, AUSTRALIA ! "

A Sons of Sympathy.

[Some Way after a celebrated Boating Seng.)

[" Sir Henry Parkes concluded by declaring
that if the Colonies continued separate they must
become hostile communitiei, and, in order that
they might prevent that, it was for the whole
people to join in creating one great Union Govern-
ment."—Reutbk.]

Mr. Leo Britannicus, an Old Blue, and a
tympathetic on-looker, loquitur:—

Capital boating weather!

Ay, and a favouring breeze !
Oars upon the feather !

Sun of the Southern Seas!
Brave boys ! S wing together,

Your bodies between your knees!

Pheugh! How old memory rushes

Oyer me I—Pulled indeed!
Though Leo seldom gushes,

And these be of Leo's breed,
The blood of an Old Blue flushes

At the Young Blues' power and speed !

Coach them, or patronise them ?

Nay, I've no call for that.
To cheer them, not to advise them,

I'm on this path,—that's pat!
Affeotion admiringly eyes them :—

Onoe in a boat I sat!

Palled my weight at a pinch,
For odds cared never a " cuss; "

No stern-chase caused me to flinch,
But—always detested fuss.

Strain the last ounce, and inoh !
E-aees are won, boys, thu$ !

Look a most likely lot,

Lionlets lithe and young.
Pace ? They will make it hot.

Few can have feathered and swung
Better. Tall talk is rot;

Bat, hang it! I must give tongue !

There's "Queensland" and "New South
" Australia South" and " West," [ Wales,"

" Victoria,"—each one scales
Good weight, and with girth of che3t;

" New Zealand's " zeal prevails,
He '11 swing in time with the rest.

The hero born of Thetis

Had pluck enow. What then ?

Each hero here, whose meat is
"Hard steak and harder hen,"

As stalwart and as fleet is
As the Greek first of men !

" Stroke " sets it long and steady;

That gladdens a true Old Blue.
There's nothing hot and heady

In sturdy Number Two.
There are ooxens sharp and ready

In the Land of the Kangaroo!

Go it, lads ! Swing together !

Push elders from their stools ?
Pooh ! I fhall moult no feather ;

Old boys are not always old fools.
Out upon jealous blether !

You've learnt in the best of schools.

I want to see you win, lads ;
Old Leo loves his cubs.

If cynics growl or grin, lads,

We '11 drive them back to their tubs.
Do you think my blood 's so thin, lads,

I'd diet upon cold snubs ?

The cynics think they 're clever";

Beshrew their big bow-wow!
Boys, swing together ever,

Steady from stroke to bow;
One chain shall sever never—

The love-links round us now!

WHAT'S IN A NAMEP
WiXL someone gifted with the nous,
Explain the " why " of Spinning House P
Is it to strike with wholesome fear
The thoughtless maiden whose career
Looks like a sinning one ?
And thus the Judge her conscience wakes,
Since he, when passing sentence, takes
Good care to name a Spinning one P
Or is it that in such a habitation,
Herself a spinster more at home might feel;
And in a Spinning House find occupation,
Provided with a decent spinning-wheel;
But there,—no matter whence it came,
Or what's the meaning hidden in its name,
About its destination there's no fear ;
And judging from a noted recent case,
The Spinning House will,—it is pretty clear,—
Itself be soon sent spinning into space.

"Is a husband worth having?" asks
Woman. One reply would be, " Well, that
depends on whose husband it is." But, by the
way, this view was not under consideration.