. Punch . in pulling up and down a longpole a piece Of variegated bunting, which they call an Union constant ascent and descent of this hardly-used piece of Irish manu-facture was long unaccounted for by the outward world ; until verylately a careful observer from the opposite or Howth side of the bay, bydint of a telescope on Lord Rosses principle, observed it was occasionedby a long, thin, hungry-looking Repealer pulling it down, as soon as ashort, stout, well-to-do little Conservative hauled it up. CURE FOR A following prescription has been taken from an old black-letterbo
. Punch . in pulling up and down a longpole a piece Of variegated bunting, which they call an Union constant ascent and descent of this hardly-used piece of Irish manu-facture was long unaccounted for by the outward world ; until verylately a careful observer from the opposite or Howth side of the bay, bydint of a telescope on Lord Rosses principle, observed it was occasionedby a long, thin, hungry-looking Repealer pulling it down, as soon as ashort, stout, well-to-do little Conservative hauled it up. CURE FOR A following prescription has been taken from an old black-letterbook, 1403. We print it forthe benefit of those medical antiqua-rians who are fond of tracing the progress of medicine : — |)utt pout feette (n fiotte toater,3s fitrjDe as rout tsinlirs. fflfflitaotie uour firaDP up in flanncllr,as lotoeas pout epces. JTalte a nuatt of turn tr rjntcltf,Slffiliien in lirDOr, as a oosr. Efflitli a number (out nfnnis&ffiicll tallotoe pout nose. CATTLE SHOW line of the descriptionof the Queen, thePrince, and the Ox,is replete with pathos;and if ./Esop had beenalive he would have,no doubt, hit off avery nice little fableon the subject. After entering the enclosure, the first animal whichattracted the attention of Her Majesty and PrinceAlbkrt, and which hud been removed from the darkcorner it hud previously occupied into the light near theentrance, was the,«Llack polled os of the Scotch breed, iri, ? bred by his ltoyal Highm The reader will remark the extreme slynessof the committee in taking the royal ox out of thedark corner, into which he had been huddled,and bringing him into the light near the entrance, because the illus-trious owner of the snubbed and slighted brute was about to visit theCattle Show. This is a man«euvre worthy of a crafty schoolmaster, whokeeps a clean collar and a hair-brush always ready to rig-out the particu-lar boy whose friends or parents happen to pop in unexpectedly. It isquite clear, that though the j
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