Punch: Punch (100.1891)

June 6, 1891.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 273

ROBERT AT THE DARBY.

By sum strange cohincidenee as I ain't the least abel to account
for, the annual buthday of my much better half fell this year on the
grate Darby Day! and so we both agreed as weed have one more jolly
happy day together, ewen if so be as we never had another. So off I
sets, and I takes two box seats houtside a homnibus and four spank-
ing Bays, I think they calls 'em, coz they was such a butiful dark
brown colour, and for which I paid no less than 12s. 6d. a peace, and
with our pockets pretty well stuffed full of sanwiches, and jest a nice

CHILD'S CHIT-CHAT.

[Possibly written for proposed insertion in certain of Mr. Punch's
Feminine Contemporaries.)

Deadest Lena,—"We are now back from Heme Bay, where, staying

at Mrs.-'s* Boarding House, we met some of the smartest people.

If ever you visit this delightful watering-place, mind you look

Mrs.-up. She is a most charming creature, and the poulet roti

au sauce pain at the table d'hote, is simply charming. Her terms,

considering the company you meet, are very reasonable. Now, I I little flarsk of summut nice, never mind what, off we sets for the
know you want to learn all about my new gowns. Well, the Pater [ City at nine a clock, hay hem, and at nine forty by the church clock

insisted that I should send to the- Clothing Company, of-, \ off we starts on our perrylus journey, reddy, as the Poet says, to dash

for patterns. He says (dear old boy !) that we should '' patronise i through thick and thin.

British Industry." I got, amongst other delightful notions, the As it appened it was fortunet as we was so prepared, for, strange
cleverest idea possible in stripes, and intending to be very economical, to say, we hadn't got so werry far from Lundon Bridge, when, by

bought a paper pattern from- in - Street. Well, I turned j sum mistake of the Clark of the whether, as our jolly Coachman told

out, all by myself, a most stylish frock, which Isabelle says suits us, it began for to rain, but he said as how as he knowd as much
me to the ground. But the task exhausted both my intelligence and ; about the Darby wether as most men, as he'd driven there about

industry. The rest of the materials I took to Madame -..of -I twenty times., in the larst duzzen years, and what we was a having

Street, and she is simply making___was ony a parsing shower. How

them lovely ! I think I told you ^ ^.^^pag^ it was I coudnt quite undustand,

that Madame - is supplying m j^0?^^^>'^^^t\ "flll'-l^k* ^or wntther we druv fast or

most of the dresses that will be W ^^*^\ ^S^v- whether we druv slow, doose a bit

worn at Jessie Jones' (you know, \ \V AffiF*^^ coud we get away from that

the daughter of Lady Jones) wed- \ fflfa? \ $m parsing shower. However, tho'

ding. Lady Smith will look \ fUr^ /^jps^, is we ^ both get jolly wet, we had

simply superb in rhubarb-tart \ my ISlptt /ar 8um caP^al fun, for we seed no

satin, and the Countess of Col- \ wf wlIsP <wm ^ess than coaches and four

holebobough has a wonderful ^IHL___wf^Mr upset in the road, and to see the

gown made of squash - beetled \M Poor Passen&er8 a^ a standing in

coloured velvet slashed with green, y\ M^f§/8um the mud, which it was about

that is sure to be the talk of the \ MW^^^a^ amost up to their nees, and a

Ptow until the end of the Season! V iH^^^^^B wundering what time they shood

Of course, we have been to all h» jWnE~5s!zlnt ^ ^° ^e Darby, was more than

the Private Views. We miss the MBL.__ MmWB§£^k enuff to console us, and we all

Grosvenor very much, for the New x&ZZZZtXSw tBSff&m larfed artily and left 'em. Such

is scarcely a substitute. However, \^Sfflgr jSg^&sBm is human Natur !

I saw several smart people at the \ 4!!§tU!&m Before we both got quite wet

latter place—some of them ladies \ gaj^ppajlL " through, I got my best beloved a

of title, my dear. At the door I d^BaSa 7^S*~ZP Eea^ ^ns^e» and> strange to say,

found standing one of ■--'s, of // / / PPmI ' ~~ although she was werry much

Street, victorias. They are /^/Zy^^ scrowged, she axshally prefurrd

very nice, and, as they can be ■ Hms cHf ^5^2^^' ^ ^° se^'n^ ou^ ^n tne ra^n al°D?

bought on the three years' hire r^iff '-^^^^fe^-- °^ me- may have bin thorts

system, most convenient. The —" S^^^^^^^^^^^R^^^['^^^^^^^^^ °* ^-er new Bonnet. Such agane

pictures at the Academy struck < /fy *8 numan Natur I Luckily, jest

me as rather dull this year. Of %J,///'A/^^^^^^^^^^^p^^^^^H^^^^m^^^^^ after she left me, one of our

course, everybody is much struck W/f/k y^Ww^^^^M^^^^^^^' '^^M4W9Sk w!^r^^ wheels sunk down in a werry

with Mr. Fildes' " Doctor" By WMiii^jffi -; fffifcjlllll ^eeP °^e> anc^ a^ on us on mY

the way, if the poor little patient »>' "~3S| slllll^ IflM B^wBS^B side had to get down into the

is suffering from influenza (as I b^«l^^^b^^fe^^^H K fin B»4fl%ff WF^&9m\ fearful mud, and wait till our

fancy he is), he would have ob- K -w 888 r> ^P^B gallant steeds pulled it out again,

tained immediate relief by taking 8^—---JP%<pB mWW^^^m an<^' im^uc^^7) one as pulled

-'s —-. But leaving medical HV'j^y^v^^^^^m mF~lM uS^BBm^M^tfz dm hardest, let his foot slip, and sent

subjects out of the question, there Mlo^Ai 3^ ' i^lB K ^^^^^Kmt>^^^a reglar shower of whity-brown

are other gloomy pictures—besides Bf:rJ"-i riajfl'^f^""-^^B w^^^l^^LW^^^^^^^^M^Mm mut^ all over me from top to toe,

patients, heaps of prisoners, and Wk/i JSrW^^^^ ^^MPIP/^ frg^ jr^r ifWj^ or rayther, from At to Boots, and

lots of paupers. Fortunately, most mm/wff WwZzcM^^^^ ^ was *n "ttLa't orful state that all

of these last are "skied," which Kvf ^« our set, Coachman and all, acshally

is a blessing! I hear that the W W ^O^^m^M^/ ViBmiS^^un^m^^^^^^^^mi //tK roare(l lifter. Such again,

Academicians have bought Mr. _lySimmO^^' vf/TO"vV^- ^OtUMw^N m i''m\^ ^vv-\\\ ,\W t/> zz^i I fears, is human Nature !

Caldeeon's picture out of the u peace " When we got to the Darby, in

Chantrey Bequest. So selfish to 0 _ course our fust thort was lunch,

deprive the public of the chance! Statue op the Eight Hon. Arthur Golpour. but afore l coud get beyond laying

However, as the subject is a little (°M< °fihe Academy.) the cloth, there came such a reglar

buster of an ail storm that we was all drove hunder the homnibus
for shelter, and when it leaved off, and I went on the roof, the table

ritque, perhaps it is just aa well that it should be buried in the
Diploma Gallery.

The usual gaiety last week. Mrs. Pabagraeh Pbesscuttebby

gave a magnificent Ball at-Square. The whole of the garden

was covered in by Messrs. -, of - Street, and the massed

Bands of the Cavalry Brigade at - supplied the Music. The

supper (furnished by Messrs. —-, of _-Street), was served in the

Lawn Cricket Saloon, and the gigantic apartment was crammed the
whole evening. I know you like recipes. I extract the following
from-'s Quide to Grub, a capital brochure published at a shilling.

" Pick, wash (in plenty of -water), and drain 2 lbs. of crab-shells without
bruising them. Pare and core some well shaped apples. "When these are
well heated, add the spinach. Cut into neat slices a dish of lamb's fry, and
fry it a nice brown in the bacon liquor. Boil all together till the syrup is
reduced to half the quantity, then lay the lemon peel on the apples, and pour
the syrup over them."

It is a Russian dish, and is called BooBh. You must tell me what
you think of it. Ever your most loving friend, Syxxie.

* Names and addresses of tradespeople, &c, editorially suppressed until
arrangements have been oompleted in the Advertisement Department.

cloth was about three inches thick with round ale stones ! Ah, that
was a difficult lunch that was, and beat all my xperience in that line.

I didn't see much of the race, I didn't, for as it pored in torrents
all the time, I had to seek for a shelter, and under a omnibus is not
a werry favrabel place to get a good view of a horse-race, but ewery
body seemed to speak of it as a werry common one, whatever that
may mean. However we was hamply reckompensed by the most
wunderful site as praps was hever seen in the shape of humberellers.
Heverybody had one, and heverybody put it hup, so, as my better
harf poetically expressed it, it was xacly like a most butiful field of
henormous mushrooms a hopening out theirselves to the morning hair 1
We was remarkably fortnate in cumming back, as it didn't rain
near so much as it did in the morning, and quite left off jest as we
got home. My sweet darling didn't grumbel a bit at me for giving
her such a reglar damper for her birthday, but the werry larst thing
as she did say that night was, "Thank you, Robebt dear, for your
little holliday, but I think that we won't spend my next buthday at
the Darby 1" Robebt.