Punch . out hindrance or check, No fear of a halter slippedround his nate neck. He goes to his Lodge, ravesagainst Englands Crown,And there they fall out and he knocks his friends down,With his Office of Centre, and Circle so green. To business returning, when homeward he goes,Subscriptions pour in, and he pockets all those, With his Office of Centre, and Circle so meets with a Yankee, who, grinning a smile,Cries, Wal, I 3ay, Pat, I conclude youve struck ile,To the bar then they go, liquor up after that,And you next in his carriage reclining see Pat, With his Office of Centre and Circ
Punch . out hindrance or check, No fear of a halter slippedround his nate neck. He goes to his Lodge, ravesagainst Englands Crown,And there they fall out and he knocks his friends down,With his Office of Centre, and Circle so green. To business returning, when homeward he goes,Subscriptions pour in, and he pockets all those, With his Office of Centre, and Circle so meets with a Yankee, who, grinning a smile,Cries, Wal, I 3ay, Pat, I conclude youve struck ile,To the bar then they go, liquor up after that,And you next in his carriage reclining see Pat, With his Office of Centre and Circle so green. Clear the country, I say, that gave Patrick his birth,Clear the land of the oak and the neighbouring earth, Erom the Office of Centre, and Circle so the Eenians clean off the banks of the Shannon ;They may plant in New York or Chicago their and dished, at Disloyaltys shrine,May the Irish Republic in vapour decline, With its Office of Centre, and Circle so green!. ACCOMMODATION FOE, IRELAND. (To the Editor of Punch.) Sir, At a numerous and influential meeting of noblemen, merchants,and capitalists, the other day in Dublin, it was unanimously resolvedthat Government ought to aid the development of Railway enterprisein Ireland, by lending Irish railway companies money at a low rate ofinterest in order to relieve them from the load of debt which they areat present burdened with. This proposal excites the ridicule of the selfish and cold-hearted Saxon. Sir, the expectation of poor old Ireland, when every now and thenpecuniary difficulties come about her, to be lifted out of her embarrass-ments and liberated from her obligations by a little advance out of thepockets of her wealthier sister, what is it, after all, more than anygentleman, that wants to maintain himself as such, naturally expectsat the hands of his rich relations ? Whenever he gets into troublehe applies to them for assistance, and, if they are of the right sort, theygive it hi
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