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[Punch's Almanack for 1848]
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1848.
1
Stuff a Cold and
Starve a Cough.
ABOUTtkis time coughs
and coids are prevalent.
If you are troubled with
a cough, go to the work-
house ; if with a cold,
get invited to the Lord
Mayor's Feast, and imi-
tate your company.
Shameful Ignorance.
Lately, a daughter of
Mrs. Malaprop sent her
first-born to Madam i:
Tussaud's, to have the
little thing waxittuted.
NOVEMBER.
DECEMBER.
All Saints lffllfa
Mich. T. b.
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[Guu. r.
rb.:
Martin
21 s.a.l'mn.
Br. C.T.d.m
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Huyh, B.Lin.\
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111
Cure for a Dreadf
Cold."
How often it is that a
young lady, when pressed
for a song, is afflicted
with a sudden cold. The
best cure for this is to
ask her sister to sing.
The Shortest Day.
The day before that on
which you have a bill
becoming due, which you
are unable to meet.
XXX. DAYS. X3^gg& |§g Jlfl§|? \ XXXI. DAYS.
How Tbtje !—A fat
man has no friends in an
omnibus.
The Month's Sport Made Earnest. ff-fo Prize Animals.
GUYS. .
" Thirty days halh November," but who can remember
Any ten of the thirty that threw aside
That dank yellow density, which wraps this immense city
In a fog, which, the French say, breedo suicide ?
No ground the report has ; e'en November its sport has :
France may talk, the true Briton will never say die :
He '11 go out every day, a-hunting his way,
And at least, on the Fifth, will find game—ia a Guy.
Poetry of the Seasons.
WINTER.
There is a stoppage in the currency
Of all the streams, which cannot liquidate
Their tribute to the sea. The frozen soil,
Hard up, no more repays the husbandman.
Each object, crusted o'er with rime and snow,
Seems whitewashed. Of their furniture the
trees
Are stripped; and everywhere Distringas
reigns.
On one vast picture of Insolvency
AVe gaze around ; and, did we not, repose
In Mother Earth's resources confidence,
Should see no prospect of a dividend
Of sixpence in the pound.
Fallacies
JL That Ireland is the
"First gimof the sea."
That the Irish are
the finest pisantry in ; .<
the world.
_ That they have a ||
right to be idle, and , M p.,
that England has a \}WM* v V ZJPI^Ti^V. Jia
right to support them S^Pl| j|JLT
in their idleness. —\ %4§liF
That Repeal ever \ \ \ s
will be carried. \ ,\\ iv \ Jsfc
That any Irish Mem- \ U U> X- ^L"
bcr will die on the floor
of the House of Commons.
That they won all the battles of the English.
That the English are at all opposed to them, or not anxious to
assist them.
Bacon said very justly, that learning makes a full man; and
if the same rule applies to the inferior animals, the Learned Pig
ought to be the fullest and fattest in the whole cattle-show. Our
own learning and that of our dog Toby is beginning to tell upon
both of us ; so that we shall be shortly qualified for exhibition, if
we continue to undergo the constant enlargement that is the
consequence of our erudition.
is
Things to be Remembered.—A crossing-sweeper on a muddy
day, and a wraterman at a cab-stand.
moon;
For sailing, the Folkstone boats start every noon ;
Upon your own credit there's very nice skating,
With the duns mark'd as "dangerous" who've been
lhat the English like lending—or rather, giving—them money, jgfcJV long waiting
^ f and being abused for it afterwards. gggk Then ^ ,g ^ {qi mQney by hook or by ,
====== t^nafi|7> And, for making your own, meeting other folks' boot
the earliest winter fashions. f^~2> U£ IT C™g0rS ™^ , „ p
» u -j j , i j i ,. ,™. . WjStJk What drag s like a debt, and what dog like a dun t
Adam may be considered to have set the very earliest Y\ inter For the ch°ase is the chase, be its game hares and foxes,
hashion, for the only coat he wore was a bare skm. -*f|[9§!? Christmas bills, Christmas books/or Christmas-boxes.
The Month's Sport Made Earnest.
all sorts.
^ To suit peoples' fancies of every sort,
Each month, we have seen, has its separate sport;
But, " Multum in parvo," the last is the best;
For December includes all the sports of the rest.
The crack shot, in arrear, may go shooting the
ts£s\f
1
Stuff a Cold and
Starve a Cough.
ABOUTtkis time coughs
and coids are prevalent.
If you are troubled with
a cough, go to the work-
house ; if with a cold,
get invited to the Lord
Mayor's Feast, and imi-
tate your company.
Shameful Ignorance.
Lately, a daughter of
Mrs. Malaprop sent her
first-born to Madam i:
Tussaud's, to have the
little thing waxittuted.
NOVEMBER.
DECEMBER.
All Saints lffllfa
Mich. T. b.
iO S.a.Trin
[Guu. r.
rb.:
Martin
21 s.a.l'mn.
Br. C.T.d.m
Marhutut
Huyh, B.Lin.\
22 S.A.Tmn.
Psf.R.b. 1s-)(I
Micb. T. en
22 S.a.TlUN
w
'St. A Ri>■■
* s
1
F
17
S
3 S. in Adv.
2
S
IS
-M
Oxf.M.T. en.
3
s
Advent Su.
111
Tu
4
M
20
W
Ember Keek
5
Tu
21
Ih.St. Thomas
6
w
St. Nicholas
22
F
[Shortest d
7
In
23
S
8
F
Conc.B. VJU
24
s
4 S. in Adv
9
S
25
M
Cukistm. D
in
s
2 S. in Adv.
2'1
Tb
St. Stephen
11
\1
27
\\
St Ju/m
1'2
li
28
Th
Innocents'
13
W
Lucy
29
F
1 1
lii
30
s
r
31
S U S. a. Can
LI
0»iti.M.T.«.H
111
Cure for a Dreadf
Cold."
How often it is that a
young lady, when pressed
for a song, is afflicted
with a sudden cold. The
best cure for this is to
ask her sister to sing.
The Shortest Day.
The day before that on
which you have a bill
becoming due, which you
are unable to meet.
XXX. DAYS. X3^gg& |§g Jlfl§|? \ XXXI. DAYS.
How Tbtje !—A fat
man has no friends in an
omnibus.
The Month's Sport Made Earnest. ff-fo Prize Animals.
GUYS. .
" Thirty days halh November," but who can remember
Any ten of the thirty that threw aside
That dank yellow density, which wraps this immense city
In a fog, which, the French say, breedo suicide ?
No ground the report has ; e'en November its sport has :
France may talk, the true Briton will never say die :
He '11 go out every day, a-hunting his way,
And at least, on the Fifth, will find game—ia a Guy.
Poetry of the Seasons.
WINTER.
There is a stoppage in the currency
Of all the streams, which cannot liquidate
Their tribute to the sea. The frozen soil,
Hard up, no more repays the husbandman.
Each object, crusted o'er with rime and snow,
Seems whitewashed. Of their furniture the
trees
Are stripped; and everywhere Distringas
reigns.
On one vast picture of Insolvency
AVe gaze around ; and, did we not, repose
In Mother Earth's resources confidence,
Should see no prospect of a dividend
Of sixpence in the pound.
Fallacies
JL That Ireland is the
"First gimof the sea."
That the Irish are
the finest pisantry in ; .<
the world.
_ That they have a ||
right to be idle, and , M p.,
that England has a \}WM* v V ZJPI^Ti^V. Jia
right to support them S^Pl| j|JLT
in their idleness. —\ %4§liF
That Repeal ever \ \ \ s
will be carried. \ ,\\ iv \ Jsfc
That any Irish Mem- \ U U> X- ^L"
bcr will die on the floor
of the House of Commons.
That they won all the battles of the English.
That the English are at all opposed to them, or not anxious to
assist them.
Bacon said very justly, that learning makes a full man; and
if the same rule applies to the inferior animals, the Learned Pig
ought to be the fullest and fattest in the whole cattle-show. Our
own learning and that of our dog Toby is beginning to tell upon
both of us ; so that we shall be shortly qualified for exhibition, if
we continue to undergo the constant enlargement that is the
consequence of our erudition.
is
Things to be Remembered.—A crossing-sweeper on a muddy
day, and a wraterman at a cab-stand.
moon;
For sailing, the Folkstone boats start every noon ;
Upon your own credit there's very nice skating,
With the duns mark'd as "dangerous" who've been
lhat the English like lending—or rather, giving—them money, jgfcJV long waiting
^ f and being abused for it afterwards. gggk Then ^ ,g ^ {qi mQney by hook or by ,
====== t^nafi|7> And, for making your own, meeting other folks' boot
the earliest winter fashions. f^~2> U£ IT C™g0rS ™^ , „ p
» u -j j , i j i ,. ,™. . WjStJk What drag s like a debt, and what dog like a dun t
Adam may be considered to have set the very earliest Y\ inter For the ch°ase is the chase, be its game hares and foxes,
hashion, for the only coat he wore was a bare skm. -*f|[9§!? Christmas bills, Christmas books/or Christmas-boxes.
The Month's Sport Made Earnest.
all sorts.
^ To suit peoples' fancies of every sort,
Each month, we have seen, has its separate sport;
But, " Multum in parvo," the last is the best;
For December includes all the sports of the rest.
The crack shot, in arrear, may go shooting the
ts£s\f