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March 5, 1892
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PUNCH, OK THE LONDON CHARIVAEI.
[March 5, 1892.
A TRAGEDY ON THE GREAT NORTHERN.
Scene—A Third-Class Carriage. Time—Three Hours before the next Station. Dramatis Persons—Jones and Robinson,
"It's the Last !—and it's a Tandstickor. It'll only Strike on the Box !"
"Strike it on the Box, then;—but for Heaven's sake, be careful !"
"Yes ; but, like a Fool, I've just pitched the Box out of AVindow !"
TTSWXrnr CiV T> A ~rt t A M"tf "NTT i Chaplin always looms large on whatever horizon he may appear.
,r^TT/£ , | To-night, standing at Table introducing Small Holdings Bill, he
EXTRACTED FKOM THE DIARY OF TOBY, M.P. ' 8eemea to swell wLibly before onr eyesf Prince Arthur early in
House of Commons, Monday, February 21.—" What a day he is progress of the speech observed precaution of moving lower down
having to be sure! " murmured the Squire of Malwood, looking ; Bench. By similar strategic movement, Henry Matthews drew
across the table at the other eminent country gentleman who is nearer to Gangway. Thus Chaplin was, so to speak, planted out in
our First Minister of Agriculture
Truly a great occasion for Chaplin, and he rose to its full height.
Just the same man he was six years ago when he from same
place, drew lurid picture of the Empire staggering to its doom over-
weighted with Small Holdings. Now he is bringing in a Bill to
establish Small Holdings, and recommends the expedient to
Small Holding exclusively his own.
House anxious to hear particulars of Government measure,
Chaplin, remembering old times when they used to jeer at his
sonorous commonplaces uttered below Gangway, took a pretty
revenge. Out of oration of fifty-five minutes duration, he
appropriated twenty-five to general observations prefacing ex-
House as crowning edifice of Empire's prosperity. At such j position of clauses of Bill. Just the same kind _ of pompous
a crisis some men would have blushed, however entirely foreign ! platitude conveyed in turgid phraseology, at which, in old times,
to their habit the pretty weakness might be. Chaplin, on contrary, 1 Members used to laugh and run away. But Chaplin had them now.
made out in vague, but luminous, manner that he had been right in : Like the wedding guest whom the Ancient Mariner button-holed—
both instances. Indeed, the anxious listener had conveyed to him 1 though as Plunket reminds me, the A. M. was meagre in frame, and
the conviction, still vague but not less irresistible, that this direct Chaplin is not—the House could not help but hear. Once, when the
contradiction was peculiarly creditable to the Eight Hon. Gentleman 1 orator dropped easily into autobiographical episode, described himself
addressing the House, displaying a flexibility of genius not common | strolling about the fields of Lincolnshire, turning up a turnip here,
to mankind. [ drawing forth a casual carrot there, meditating on the days when
PUNCH, OK THE LONDON CHARIVAEI.
[March 5, 1892.
A TRAGEDY ON THE GREAT NORTHERN.
Scene—A Third-Class Carriage. Time—Three Hours before the next Station. Dramatis Persons—Jones and Robinson,
"It's the Last !—and it's a Tandstickor. It'll only Strike on the Box !"
"Strike it on the Box, then;—but for Heaven's sake, be careful !"
"Yes ; but, like a Fool, I've just pitched the Box out of AVindow !"
TTSWXrnr CiV T> A ~rt t A M"tf "NTT i Chaplin always looms large on whatever horizon he may appear.
,r^TT/£ , | To-night, standing at Table introducing Small Holdings Bill, he
EXTRACTED FKOM THE DIARY OF TOBY, M.P. ' 8eemea to swell wLibly before onr eyesf Prince Arthur early in
House of Commons, Monday, February 21.—" What a day he is progress of the speech observed precaution of moving lower down
having to be sure! " murmured the Squire of Malwood, looking ; Bench. By similar strategic movement, Henry Matthews drew
across the table at the other eminent country gentleman who is nearer to Gangway. Thus Chaplin was, so to speak, planted out in
our First Minister of Agriculture
Truly a great occasion for Chaplin, and he rose to its full height.
Just the same man he was six years ago when he from same
place, drew lurid picture of the Empire staggering to its doom over-
weighted with Small Holdings. Now he is bringing in a Bill to
establish Small Holdings, and recommends the expedient to
Small Holding exclusively his own.
House anxious to hear particulars of Government measure,
Chaplin, remembering old times when they used to jeer at his
sonorous commonplaces uttered below Gangway, took a pretty
revenge. Out of oration of fifty-five minutes duration, he
appropriated twenty-five to general observations prefacing ex-
House as crowning edifice of Empire's prosperity. At such j position of clauses of Bill. Just the same kind _ of pompous
a crisis some men would have blushed, however entirely foreign ! platitude conveyed in turgid phraseology, at which, in old times,
to their habit the pretty weakness might be. Chaplin, on contrary, 1 Members used to laugh and run away. But Chaplin had them now.
made out in vague, but luminous, manner that he had been right in : Like the wedding guest whom the Ancient Mariner button-holed—
both instances. Indeed, the anxious listener had conveyed to him 1 though as Plunket reminds me, the A. M. was meagre in frame, and
the conviction, still vague but not less irresistible, that this direct Chaplin is not—the House could not help but hear. Once, when the
contradiction was peculiarly creditable to the Eight Hon. Gentleman 1 orator dropped easily into autobiographical episode, described himself
addressing the House, displaying a flexibility of genius not common | strolling about the fields of Lincolnshire, turning up a turnip here,
to mankind. [ drawing forth a casual carrot there, meditating on the days when