MrPunch's history of modern England . sheepto the slaughter, injured, deluded, derided, only bleating inreturn, and concludes his summary of recent protests fromcorrespondents of The Times with the remark: — Railway accidents, railway frauds, railway impertinence are thestaple of our daily newspaper-reading. Railway chairmen and direc-tors are descending to the knavery, extortion, impudence, andbrutality from which cabmen are rising in the scale of manners andmorals. And, as aforesaid, the British public stands all this withpassive mournfulness, quiet endurance, meek, inactive expostulation. T
MrPunch's history of modern England . sheepto the slaughter, injured, deluded, derided, only bleating inreturn, and concludes his summary of recent protests fromcorrespondents of The Times with the remark: — Railway accidents, railway frauds, railway impertinence are thestaple of our daily newspaper-reading. Railway chairmen and direc-tors are descending to the knavery, extortion, impudence, andbrutality from which cabmen are rising in the scale of manners andmorals. And, as aforesaid, the British public stands all this withpassive mournfulness, quiet endurance, meek, inactive expostulation. The directors of the L. & are severely criticisedfor overworking their engine drivers, d propos of a well-authenticated case of a man who had been on duty for thirty 69 Mr. Punchs History of Modern England hours without rehef or opportunity to rest. If dividendsdemand economy, and economy necessitates the employ-ment of one man to do the work of six, the only thing tobe done for public safety is to get a man with an iron. RAILWAY UNDERTAKING ToUTER : Going by this train, Sir ? Passenger: M? Eh? Yes. ToUTER: Allow me, then, to give you one of my cards, Sir. constitution, and Punch accordingly suggests that the directorsshould provide themselves with engine drivers entirely com-posed of that metal. Complaints of dangerous railways con-tinue to the end of the period under review, and in 1856 Punchis still of opinion that we might take a leaf out of the book of the 70 Bradshaw: A Mystery Russians, who carry surgeons on their trains. Undertakershe had already suggested as a part of the normal equipmentof expresses. A witty bishop once scandalized his hearers by bracketingBradshaw with the Bible as an indispensable book. Brad-shaws Railway Time Tables were first issued in 1839; themonthly guide dates from December, 1841; it was not, how-ever, until 1856 that Punch began to realize the elements ofcomedy underlying that austere document, and utilized themin a little play called
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