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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
rounded the Isle of Dogs in gallant style, and made Blaekwall Reach, ! chickens "—in poulterers' bills. Dozens of gooseberry wine in tin-foil night-
caps will be pressed into the foreign service, and bottled porter will grow
stout by the mere application of Guinness's paper plaisters
Numerous swells will have numerous relations seriously ill about
Hampstead-heath and Highgate, and be obliged to decline going to Epsom
with Lord Peltoverall, who swore in round-hand at the bottom of his note
that he wouldn't take a denial.
Gentlemen who are short of hampers, and object to carrying pro
vender in a blue bag or a hat-box—especially upon a race course—will
commence their inquiries about the probable location of friends who are
attended by a commissariat. Husbands who are desirous of visiting the
Downs " without encumbrance " grow particularly solicitous of the health
of their wives' mothers, and set apart Wednesday as a proper time for
filial pilgrimages, accompanied by promises of marital generosity, such as
a fashionable watering place. I " standing the 'bus," &c.
our keel not once informing us by grounding that the dangerous shoals off i Tuesday—ditto, only with rather more excitement. Horses not to be
Woolwich Marshes were to be avoided.
" The struggle was now painfully intense between the two vessels : the
Runumdown's ' prow was sometimes even with our own, at others but a
few feet aft our stern. We were in the narrow channel called the
Plaistow Roads. There was not room for two abreast in this contracted
berth. Suddenly our commander shouted—
" ' Stop her !'
"' Stop her ! ' issued from the mouth of the youngster at the
engine hatchway.
" It was like an electric shock ! Was the captain mad, to give up the
race now at the critical moment of high-pressure ? No, no ; he was iloL
mad; for 11is consummate steam-man-ship was soon evident. The enemy, to
avoid running foul of us and damaging her own figure-head, was obliged to
swerve from her course. Ha ! ha ! ha ! ha ! ha ! ha-a-ah ! She was
had for " love nor money," unless the latter commodity be produced in
very large quantities. Tailors will hunt up missfits, and gentlemen, who
like ourselves have a " fall in the back," will wonder, upon looking into
the glass, where the deuce it nas gone to. Middle-aged bachelors, with
inflated peripheries, will gasp m the embrace of washable satin waistcoats,
and be trussed in Newmarket coats that on them look like a tumbler's fly
jacket. Friends who have promised to "make one " in a phaeton-and-
pair suddenly beg to be excused, and the person who has offered to be
" responsible " begins to see that he is likely to have the conveyance and
the expenses all to himself.
True once-a-year sportsmen " don't go to bed all night, in order to be
up early ;" and genteel caterers rehearse " His first Champagne " with a
bottle of Gooseberry, which usually turns out a failure. Mrs. Jones sends
to Mrs. Brown to borrow half-a-dozen knives and forks and two or three
fast embedded in the Plaistow Shoal ! ! ! tumblers, as she's afraid of losing her own. Articles intended to be for-
" But the rapture caused by this was of but short duration. The sudden i gotten in the morning are packed with scrupulous care, and placed in situ-
stoppage of the vessel beam-ended as many of the passengers as had room
to tumble down, whilst some for the want of it fell overboard. I heard a
ations where everybody must tumble over them. Those who go to bed won't
get to sleep till five in the morning, and having ordered the servant to
well-known shriek ! Again, another ! Mv eye floated over the mass of I call them at half-past ditto, will rise exceedingly fatigued and very much
many-coloured bonnets that strewed the stream, to select the yellow one. ! afraid that they are not going to enjoy themselves.
Ah,''tis there, just under our lee. My coat is off. I am in the gulf below. ! Wednesday.— Ostlers, in very capacious small-clothes and linen
I grasp that fairy figure, which weighs me down !—down !!—down till jackets, will be seen leading, driving, and riding horses of all " ages,
am at the bottom of the Thames, but she is still within my grasp. My colours, and performances," with vehicles to match. Young gentlemen
struggles are ; who have conceived themselves own brothers to Chifhcy," begin to
to be continued. : waver in their opinions when their feet enter the stirrup-irons, and would
willingly compound with the stable-keeper for " half forfeit," if it were
I not for the fear of being laughed at. Ostlers who receive a shilling, beg
1 of the donors not " to hurry the hoss on the stones, but walk him as far
as the Helephant," and likewise to keep "a good wav hoft' the race-hosses
SPORTING ANTICIPATIONS. when they start> m case the hanimals thy're on'should bolt into the
__ ruck, and—win the Darby."
As our sheet will be at press (although not issued to the public) many
hours after the running of the Derby, we do not hesitate to publish the
following
^iruirttone concerning JBpsom iSares
Blind Alley, Saturday, May, 1842.
On the Monday preceding the Derby several old hacks, who will visit
Smithfie d with the expectation of retiring to sand-carts or the knackers,
wi I suddenly find themselves installed at a west-end livery-stable, and be
gratified during the day at hearing themselves introduced to several
young gentlemen in green, as " real good 'uns to go, tho' rum 'uns to
look at."
Sundry old tilburys,buggys, gigs, and dog-carts, which have been on their
last wheels for a long time, and suffer under an asthmatic creaking of the
springs, will again be referred to as " elegant turn outs," and « verv spicy-
concerns." Tailors' houses will be besieged throughout the day by ser-
vants of all denominations, from the " boy as cleans the knives for sixpence
a-week and his breakfast," to the second-hand gentleman u who walets
my lord, and can't drink beer, in case he gets too big for his master's
waistcoats."
coming in for the plate.
Tax-carts will now be found capable of containing twelve full-grown per-
sons, a little boy, and a bull-dog. Time-worn vehicles, designated as
" Prime Turn-outs," seem likely to justify their names by capsi»ng their
occupants; and highly dressed gentlemen grow exceedingly irate at the
very antique character of their equipages. Numerous persons are surprised
at the difficultv of getting change for a shilling at the Kennington Gate ;
and ambitious jehus, in one-horse chaises, boldly essay to drive over
coaches-and-four. Punch takes his seat in a donkey-cart, having de-
spatched his theatre by the herculean Snozzles, and, amidst the cheers of
assembled thousands, proceeds to kiss hands with the Queen on Epsom
Downs!
BRETHREN o* THE IiROSH.
hosiers will find an immense demand for blue bird's-eye cravats, and
young gentlemen who never missed a Derby for the last two years, will
look at nothing unless it be " very sporting "
-Myriads of tongues will find themselves in hot water, and venerable
fowls, which recently rejoiced in a green old age, will go down as - tine
HO RATH OI'ERa.
•' 1 wonder why barristers generally live in inns ?" said a briefless Junior to Horace
Twiss, a* the latter was correcting a proof-sheet of the Life of Lord Eldon. Horace
looked indignant at being interrupted in his national undertaking, and then said,
" Why, it's as plain as this portrait of Lord Kldon :" (The junior acknowledged tht
plainness of the reason advanced.) " There can be nothing singular in barristers livinf
in inns, when their whole life is passed at the bar."
London. Bradbury it Evant. Primers Whi u-f r iars.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
rounded the Isle of Dogs in gallant style, and made Blaekwall Reach, ! chickens "—in poulterers' bills. Dozens of gooseberry wine in tin-foil night-
caps will be pressed into the foreign service, and bottled porter will grow
stout by the mere application of Guinness's paper plaisters
Numerous swells will have numerous relations seriously ill about
Hampstead-heath and Highgate, and be obliged to decline going to Epsom
with Lord Peltoverall, who swore in round-hand at the bottom of his note
that he wouldn't take a denial.
Gentlemen who are short of hampers, and object to carrying pro
vender in a blue bag or a hat-box—especially upon a race course—will
commence their inquiries about the probable location of friends who are
attended by a commissariat. Husbands who are desirous of visiting the
Downs " without encumbrance " grow particularly solicitous of the health
of their wives' mothers, and set apart Wednesday as a proper time for
filial pilgrimages, accompanied by promises of marital generosity, such as
a fashionable watering place. I " standing the 'bus," &c.
our keel not once informing us by grounding that the dangerous shoals off i Tuesday—ditto, only with rather more excitement. Horses not to be
Woolwich Marshes were to be avoided.
" The struggle was now painfully intense between the two vessels : the
Runumdown's ' prow was sometimes even with our own, at others but a
few feet aft our stern. We were in the narrow channel called the
Plaistow Roads. There was not room for two abreast in this contracted
berth. Suddenly our commander shouted—
" ' Stop her !'
"' Stop her ! ' issued from the mouth of the youngster at the
engine hatchway.
" It was like an electric shock ! Was the captain mad, to give up the
race now at the critical moment of high-pressure ? No, no ; he was iloL
mad; for 11is consummate steam-man-ship was soon evident. The enemy, to
avoid running foul of us and damaging her own figure-head, was obliged to
swerve from her course. Ha ! ha ! ha ! ha ! ha ! ha-a-ah ! She was
had for " love nor money," unless the latter commodity be produced in
very large quantities. Tailors will hunt up missfits, and gentlemen, who
like ourselves have a " fall in the back," will wonder, upon looking into
the glass, where the deuce it nas gone to. Middle-aged bachelors, with
inflated peripheries, will gasp m the embrace of washable satin waistcoats,
and be trussed in Newmarket coats that on them look like a tumbler's fly
jacket. Friends who have promised to "make one " in a phaeton-and-
pair suddenly beg to be excused, and the person who has offered to be
" responsible " begins to see that he is likely to have the conveyance and
the expenses all to himself.
True once-a-year sportsmen " don't go to bed all night, in order to be
up early ;" and genteel caterers rehearse " His first Champagne " with a
bottle of Gooseberry, which usually turns out a failure. Mrs. Jones sends
to Mrs. Brown to borrow half-a-dozen knives and forks and two or three
fast embedded in the Plaistow Shoal ! ! ! tumblers, as she's afraid of losing her own. Articles intended to be for-
" But the rapture caused by this was of but short duration. The sudden i gotten in the morning are packed with scrupulous care, and placed in situ-
stoppage of the vessel beam-ended as many of the passengers as had room
to tumble down, whilst some for the want of it fell overboard. I heard a
ations where everybody must tumble over them. Those who go to bed won't
get to sleep till five in the morning, and having ordered the servant to
well-known shriek ! Again, another ! Mv eye floated over the mass of I call them at half-past ditto, will rise exceedingly fatigued and very much
many-coloured bonnets that strewed the stream, to select the yellow one. ! afraid that they are not going to enjoy themselves.
Ah,''tis there, just under our lee. My coat is off. I am in the gulf below. ! Wednesday.— Ostlers, in very capacious small-clothes and linen
I grasp that fairy figure, which weighs me down !—down !!—down till jackets, will be seen leading, driving, and riding horses of all " ages,
am at the bottom of the Thames, but she is still within my grasp. My colours, and performances," with vehicles to match. Young gentlemen
struggles are ; who have conceived themselves own brothers to Chifhcy," begin to
to be continued. : waver in their opinions when their feet enter the stirrup-irons, and would
willingly compound with the stable-keeper for " half forfeit," if it were
I not for the fear of being laughed at. Ostlers who receive a shilling, beg
1 of the donors not " to hurry the hoss on the stones, but walk him as far
as the Helephant," and likewise to keep "a good wav hoft' the race-hosses
SPORTING ANTICIPATIONS. when they start> m case the hanimals thy're on'should bolt into the
__ ruck, and—win the Darby."
As our sheet will be at press (although not issued to the public) many
hours after the running of the Derby, we do not hesitate to publish the
following
^iruirttone concerning JBpsom iSares
Blind Alley, Saturday, May, 1842.
On the Monday preceding the Derby several old hacks, who will visit
Smithfie d with the expectation of retiring to sand-carts or the knackers,
wi I suddenly find themselves installed at a west-end livery-stable, and be
gratified during the day at hearing themselves introduced to several
young gentlemen in green, as " real good 'uns to go, tho' rum 'uns to
look at."
Sundry old tilburys,buggys, gigs, and dog-carts, which have been on their
last wheels for a long time, and suffer under an asthmatic creaking of the
springs, will again be referred to as " elegant turn outs," and « verv spicy-
concerns." Tailors' houses will be besieged throughout the day by ser-
vants of all denominations, from the " boy as cleans the knives for sixpence
a-week and his breakfast," to the second-hand gentleman u who walets
my lord, and can't drink beer, in case he gets too big for his master's
waistcoats."
coming in for the plate.
Tax-carts will now be found capable of containing twelve full-grown per-
sons, a little boy, and a bull-dog. Time-worn vehicles, designated as
" Prime Turn-outs," seem likely to justify their names by capsi»ng their
occupants; and highly dressed gentlemen grow exceedingly irate at the
very antique character of their equipages. Numerous persons are surprised
at the difficultv of getting change for a shilling at the Kennington Gate ;
and ambitious jehus, in one-horse chaises, boldly essay to drive over
coaches-and-four. Punch takes his seat in a donkey-cart, having de-
spatched his theatre by the herculean Snozzles, and, amidst the cheers of
assembled thousands, proceeds to kiss hands with the Queen on Epsom
Downs!
BRETHREN o* THE IiROSH.
hosiers will find an immense demand for blue bird's-eye cravats, and
young gentlemen who never missed a Derby for the last two years, will
look at nothing unless it be " very sporting "
-Myriads of tongues will find themselves in hot water, and venerable
fowls, which recently rejoiced in a green old age, will go down as - tine
HO RATH OI'ERa.
•' 1 wonder why barristers generally live in inns ?" said a briefless Junior to Horace
Twiss, a* the latter was correcting a proof-sheet of the Life of Lord Eldon. Horace
looked indignant at being interrupted in his national undertaking, and then said,
" Why, it's as plain as this portrait of Lord Kldon :" (The junior acknowledged tht
plainness of the reason advanced.) " There can be nothing singular in barristers livinf
in inns, when their whole life is passed at the bar."
London. Bradbury it Evant. Primers Whi u-f r iars.