. Punch . im,smilingly, (so says the account,) As to you, An, I shallgive you nothing—Whereupon, Marshal Soult, suitingthe ministerial action to the royal jeu desprit, presented tothe poor Arab the Cross of the Legion of Honour. Wehope the forty Immortals of the French Academy, in thenext supplement they publish to their Dictionary, will availthemselves of their royal masters new definition of theword Nothing. Here it is for them :— Rien—Un mot qui exprime literalement, selon un bonmot de Sa Majeste Louis-Philippe, la valeur duueCroix de La Legion dHonneur. One Hundred Hares a Minute! Might we
. Punch . im,smilingly, (so says the account,) As to you, An, I shallgive you nothing—Whereupon, Marshal Soult, suitingthe ministerial action to the royal jeu desprit, presented tothe poor Arab the Cross of the Legion of Honour. Wehope the forty Immortals of the French Academy, in thenext supplement they publish to their Dictionary, will availthemselves of their royal masters new definition of theword Nothing. Here it is for them :— Rien—Un mot qui exprime literalement, selon un bonmot de Sa Majeste Louis-Philippe, la valeur duueCroix de La Legion dHonneur. One Hundred Hares a Minute! Might we recommend to Prince Albert, instead of firingwith a common double-barrelled gun, to have made for hima portable Perkins Steam Gun ? The advantage wouldbe immense, for with one shot he could kill ten times theamount of hares and pheasants it now takes him a good hourto dispatch. Only think, a whole preserve might be wingedby one pull of the piston ! 58 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. MORE TOM
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