Punch . ivided sov (bump, and lurch into five lines ahead) Schleswig, Kiel(You look for the word justly again,by way of a landmark). Justly (terrificlurch sends you into another column) , on the other hand, and General Oh, thats about the Fenians! (You determine to read about Fenians). Mr. OMahony and (bump back again into first column) Prussia have satisfied that - and, finally, you give it up as a bad job. Daylight fails, and is succeeded inthe first-class carriage by the cheerfuloil-lamp. You try your paper once exertion of holding it close to youreyes, and as near the l
Punch . ivided sov (bump, and lurch into five lines ahead) Schleswig, Kiel(You look for the word justly again,by way of a landmark). Justly (terrificlurch sends you into another column) , on the other hand, and General Oh, thats about the Fenians! (You determine to read about Fenians). Mr. OMahony and (bump back again into first column) Prussia have satisfied that - and, finally, you give it up as a bad job. Daylight fails, and is succeeded inthe first-class carriage by the cheerfuloil-lamp. You try your paper once exertion of holding it close to youreyes, and as near the lamp as possible,is too much, not to mention that youhave still to attempt some counteractionof the wobbling of the carriage. If youtry to make notes while in the rail-way, the effort to decipher them after-wards will give you a wearying Directors, if you cant stopthe wobbling, at all events you can lightup your carriages, in order that those,who have to run, may also be enabled PUNCHS LEGISLATIVE MYSTERY. HERE YOU AKE, SIR! A Disappointed Candidate asks,apparently with some groundless suspicionthat he has been hoaxed, if we canquote any ipassage from a Latin poetshowing the antiquity of the Shoe-brigade. Of course we can. Curiouslyenough, the line (no doubt) referred towas upon our lips only the other day,when we] heard (an old gentleman, astranger to London, railing [ because he couldnt walk a hundred yards withoutbeing pointed at—pointed at, Sir—by aparcel of dirty rascals, that bawl at youas if you did not know where you was an illustration of the truth thata liberal education softens the manners !If that old gentleman had read his Per-sitjs, it would have touched him to thinkhow the race he was maligning, gazed—probably unabashed—upon a Nero, ashe walked the streets] of Rome; and how the cynical stoic franklyavowed his delight in their little ways and their peculiar cry, whichhave come down to us, unchanged, through eighteen cen
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