Punch . straw how I look in any other eyes than my husbands. Now, Mr. Punch, isnt that the wife for any mans money, if hehasnt much, and has need to make it go as far as he can ? She would VOL. L. C C 260 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [June 23, 1866. be safe for any young doctor, or lawyer, or clerk—a class of men whoreally dare not marry, and must absolutely do without wives, in thesedays of excessive drapery, and all the brougham-hire and other expensesthat follow in its train—by which expression I dont mean a pun. Isay, Sir, though I shouldnt, that any sensible young fellow would findher
Punch . straw how I look in any other eyes than my husbands. Now, Mr. Punch, isnt that the wife for any mans money, if hehasnt much, and has need to make it go as far as he can ? She would VOL. L. C C 260 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [June 23, 1866. be safe for any young doctor, or lawyer, or clerk—a class of men whoreally dare not marry, and must absolutely do without wives, in thesedays of excessive drapery, and all the brougham-hire and other expensesthat follow in its train—by which expression I dont mean a pun. Isay, Sir, though I shouldnt, that any sensible young fellow would findher a regular Angel in the house, and I herewith enclose her photo-graph, which you are at liberty to show to any one whom it would, inyour opinion, be likely to interest. Withal I beg to subscribe myself, Your constant reader, Angelina. The foregoing are this childs sentiments. And yet there is— Nobody coming to marry her,Nobody coming to woo. At the back of my photograph you will see my WHAT WE MAY EXPECT body, shook the Professor violently by the hand, and fiaally hoistinghim upon their shoulders, bore him out of the room into the street, andcarried him in a tumultuous procession about the town. CATEEPILLABS AND CLOWNS. An interesting Lecture was yesterday delivered by ProfessorCrammer before the members of the Loutsfield Sparrow Club, at theYokels Head, on the Uses of Grubs and Caterpillars, and other crea-tures commonly regarded as noxious insects, and branded as learned lecturer told the assembled farmers that it was a mistaketo suppose that either the larvae of insects, or insects in their fullydeveloped state, ever fed much on either cereal or horticultural natural food consisted almost entirely of weeds. The grub ofthe cockchafer, for instance, lived principally on charlock, and that ofthe yellow butterfly devoured, not cabbages, as it was vulgarly be-lieved to do, but fumitory, dock, and dandelions. The wire-worm onlyate such
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