MrPunch's history of modern England . ELIZABETH Were shot, as by the nusepapers I hear, By Halbert Usband of the British Crownd. Britannias Queen let fall the purly tear;Seeing them butchered in their silvn prisns; Igspecially, when the keepers, standing round,Came up and cut their pretty hinnocent whizns. Suppose, instead of this pore Germing Saxn wenison which he shoots and baggs, 174 stag Slaughter at GotJia Our Prins should take a turn in Capel Court And make a massyker of English Staggs of Hengland ! Were the Untsman at you, What avoc he would make and what a trimen
MrPunch's history of modern England . ELIZABETH Were shot, as by the nusepapers I hear, By Halbert Usband of the British Crownd. Britannias Queen let fall the purly tear;Seeing them butchered in their silvn prisns; Igspecially, when the keepers, standing round,Came up and cut their pretty hinnocent whizns. Suppose, instead of this pore Germing Saxn wenison which he shoots and baggs, 174 stag Slaughter at GotJia Our Prins should take a turn in Capel Court And make a massyker of English Staggs of Hengland ! Were the Untsman at you, What avoc he would make and what a trimenjus battu ! --^N ,.v;.V^V VICTORIA Even more lacerating- is the use made in the same numberof the comment of a loyal eye-witness quoted by the Standard:— TEARS AT GOTHA The Standard gives the following extract of a letter from Gothato a gentleman in London :— This (the deer killing) was very shocking. The Queen wept1 In reference to the then prevalent mania for railway speculation. Mr. PimcJis History of Modem E^tgland I saw large tears in her eyes: and Her Majesty tells me that shewith difficulty kept the chair during what followed. When theQueen saw the otter hunt in Scotland, the pity that she naturallyfelt at the death of the animal was counterbalanced by a knowledgeof his propensities, so that it is almost as meritorious to destroyan otter as it is a snake; but this was a totally different case; noris Her Majesty yet recovered. For the Prince, the deer were toonumerous, and must be killed. This was the German method;and no doubt the reigning- Duke will distribute them to his people,who
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