Punch . htley for fun; With a Pakingtons forty-bore power of prosing,A Manners to read old Young Englands fond dream; With a Henleys attorney-like gift for opposing,A Lytton to spout, and a Bateson to scream— Its hard, but we 11 manage to talk out the Session,Drive Gladstone, perforce, into shunting his Bill; The Chapter of Accidents—candid confession!—Is the gospel of fools, and we 11 trust in it still. A Round for the Ring. BY AN When Goss hits MaceA cut in the face,Where his proboscisSoft as moss is,This act, by the member badly mauled,Would, could he speak, be rightly calledIn parliam
Punch . htley for fun; With a Pakingtons forty-bore power of prosing,A Manners to read old Young Englands fond dream; With a Henleys attorney-like gift for opposing,A Lytton to spout, and a Bateson to scream— Its hard, but we 11 manage to talk out the Session,Drive Gladstone, perforce, into shunting his Bill; The Chapter of Accidents—candid confession!—Is the gospel of fools, and we 11 trust in it still. A Round for the Ring. BY AN When Goss hits MaceA cut in the face,Where his proboscisSoft as moss is,This act, by the member badly mauled,Would, could he speak, be rightly calledIn parliamentary phrase, I spose, A Teller on the side of the Noes. The Saddle on the Right Horse. That the Reform Bill stops the wayThe angry Opposition storm, And all the while, behold tis theyWho stop the way of poor Reform. Q. If Promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, noryet from the south, where does it come from PA. Horse Guards, PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.—June 23, CLEARING THE BARRICADE. {See TO LIE IN COLD OBSTRUCTION, AND TALK NOT.) June 23, 1866.] PUNCH. OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 265 HAPPY THOUGHTS. [Collected in Happy Hours: including some instructive facts in NaturalHistory, and other domestic and rural information.] Thoughts in Town during the hottest days.—How delightful it must beto live in the country. On such a day as this, 75° in the shade, onewould have all the windows looking on to the lawn open during dinner,luncheon, and breakfast. Go out and throw bread to gold-fish in apond. There must be gold-fish. In the hottest part of the day lie outon the grass with a book, or go to sleep sub tegminefagi. Or pulloneself in a boat, very gently, to a shady cool nook, beneath the boughsof a drooping tree, and there lie down, read, and smoke the soothingpipe. Croquet when it is cooler: or feed the gold-fish. The more I thinkof it, the more certain I am that no country-house is perfect withoutgold-fish. A visit to the farm, in the ear
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