Punch / Almanack (1847)

The Juvenile Party.—Infant Prodigy dancing: the Polka.

"jnVENILB BALL-ROOM DIRECTIONS FOR JANUARY,
w w eet together your young shoots, and having given them plenty of water,
l over with comb preparatory to final dressing. Sew wherever there is a
• and when all is prepared plant in rows, after a fair amount of drilling.
RL the shoot is obstinate, moisten with ginger wine. When a young plant
' ttiiw on too fast, it is sometimes advisable to graft it on any old stump
M happens to be handy. Keep the young sprigs out of the beds until they
" winning to droop, when they may be dragged up, and with the aid of
"eking can be brought into a right position._

NEW YEAR'S FALLACIES.

That home-made wine may be drunk with impunity during the last week
of January and the first fortnight in December.

That all country cousins are suddenly, at this season, seized with a desire
for barrelled oysters.

THE SIGN OF THE MONTH—AQUARIUS.

You may hear of him there; but fine weather
is rare,

And your seeing him's rather precarious.

The thirsty old Sun, in the month number
one,

Puts up at the sijfn of Aquarius,

CHRONOLOCY.

' 1846.

Thb year commen-
ced with whisperings
and winks extremely
knowing, predicting
Hat the Corn Laws
were going, going,
going. The Dukb
oj Richmond very
much that's out of
date and silly says at
meetings of Protec-
tionists held now and
thenat Willis's. But
perhaps the most im-
portant day of all that
can be reckon'd, is
that of January month
the famous twenty-
itcond, when Parlia-
ment was opened, in
person by the Qiirrn,
and all were quite agog
to know what might
the rumours mean, of
changes in the Com-
lm, or sweeping
themaway; when poor
Sir Robert Pekl got
up, to have, at last his
lay. He said that his
opinions had under-
gone a change, which,
in a politician, was no-
thing very strange;
and so he had deter-
mine he wouldn't
area pin, whether the
measure turned him
out, or helped to keep
™> in; but though
Jeknew 'twould make
"rliimahostof angry
|°es, a measure touch-
'ur Corn Laws he
"rely should propose.
'»consequence of ru-
mours on the recent
e;»t.ons,theI),-kb

*>th sundry expla-
ins, which had

sameeffUcnhey',e
2? ha<l before" 0f

£N to obscurity °a
"Me darkness more

ea s68 f h°Pe* and

„!JL.Proposes, 'mid
', ai'd 'coug
, - cheers;" •miA

>C"Vp?Iause'b,,t

'ah. .rT™8' "'id
and.'.ll'^s,'

opposition Ire, that in
three years from when
he spoke, the Corn
Laws should expire.
1 he poor Protection-
ists of course, their old
devices try on, and do
their best to get a roar
out of the British Lion.
But he, poor brute,
in energy has bug
begun to fail, and
answers with a doleful
wag of his poor tw ice-
told tail: His enemies
he don't alarm, 1 is
friends he but deludes,
and with this little in-
cident the year's first
Month concludes.

Voice of the
Man in the
Moon.

This year, 1847, will
— especially at Tee-
Total Meetings—be a
very stirring year in-
deed, i he Church will
be in awful dagger :
much bad monej being
taken in the holidays
this month at West-
minster Abbey, and
St. Paul's. La the
Bishop of Exktkr
keep a vigilant eye on
the kitchen of his town-
house. — A Puseyite
Policeman visits his
cook. About this ti.i e
—say the 15th — we
may expect strange
news from Rome. The
Pope abolishes ci-li-
bacy from among the
priests ; and in or er
to prove his sincerity,
sends over the offer of
hishand by Careival
Ghizzi to Miss Hur-
dett Coutts. The
Church again in dan-
ger ! A very stormy
meeting at Exeter
Hall. The Rev. Hugh

M'NlKLE, II V 6 h

Stowell, and ether
martyrs, (at the short-
est notice) resolve to
defeat Pius IX., or
" perish in- . the at-