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Punch / Almanack — 1846

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PUNCH'S ALMANACK FOE 1846.

SONG OF MARCH.

(apteb braham.)

March, March ; daisies and buttercups
Put forth their petals in exquisite order.

March, March ; crocuses springing up.
Give a gay aspect to bed and to border.

Little birds fly about; turkeys' eggs lie about,
And the broad daylight gets broader and
broader.

Boreas goes about; everything blows about;

Bonnets and hats are in dreadful disorder.
March, March ; daisies and buttercups

Put forth their petals in exquisite order.
March, Maroh ; crocuses springing up,

Give a gay aspect to bed and to border.

Survey.

i. CAUDLE COULD GO OUT AND ENJOY HIMSELF

it sort of
ick looks
you look
a-omen—
can they
for hus-
;he kettle

hear me,
hat fly or.
i go out f
ited to go

own your
I'm going
:pect me ;
3 all.

1! Arn't
, if you'd
3 for 'em.
anything

" The fact is, Mrs. Caudlk. I've indulged you too much. I've made a fool
of you. No, I hav'n't t Well, then, who has ? If I hav'n't, somebody has,
it's plain. Going out, indeed .' I've no opinion of any woman who wants
to go out at all. Women were never intended to go out; only the fact is,
we've let you have your own way. Ha ! they manage these matters much
better in the East.

"I'm generally a pretty quiet man, Mrs. Caudle, and you know it.
Nevertheless, I have a little of the liou in me; just a little. Don't rouse
it, that's all.

" There you are, with the pocket-handkerchief again. Always hoisting
that signal of distress. No. no : I'm not made of sugar, like a twelfth-cake
image ; I'm not to be melted with tears ; let them be as many and as hot as
they will. Besides, as I any, you can all do it when you like—every mother's
soul of you. But I'm not to be washed off my legs by any river of the
sort.

41 All I say to you is,—stay at home. You've a needle and thread
haven't you? and I '11 tie sworn for it, plenty of things to make or to mend.
And if you haven't, cut holes, and sew 'em up again.

" Now, see when I come home that my portmanteau's ready. What's

o'clock ? You want five minutes to -? No doubt: the old story ; you're

always wanting something."
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