Punch: Punch (101.1891)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [Octobek it, 1891.

JUST CAUGHT THE POST!

Sir J-m-s F-rg-ss-n loquitur :—
Just in time to catch the Post!

Pheugh ! But the Pats would have "had me on toast"
(As 'Akry would say in his odious slang),

If I had been but a little bit later.
Out o' breath as it is. Ah, hang
This hurrying business! My mouth 's like a crater,
Dreadfully dry, and doosedly hot.
Rather a downer, this is, for Scott's lot!

Feared Mrs. Manchester might just say
(In the popular patter of my young day)
" It is all very icett (with a wink and a jeer),
But you, Master Fergusson, don't lodge here ! "

All right now, though ! Saved my bacon.

My defeat might the Cause have shaken.
Just in time. There ! Popped it in!
Awfully glad it conveys a Win;
Although One Fifty ain't much to boast,—
'Twixt you and me and the (General) Post!