. Punch . the bread of fatpluralists is buttered on both sides. There are also herdsof swine, that grunt and grumble, and may be supposed byRural Deans to express dissent, but such dissenters repre-sent rather a class of farmers who dissent from any andevery doctrine which demands their money. All theserural ideas are associated with Church-Rates by reasonthat the cudgel has been so generally taken up for themby Rural Deans. If the Rural Deans were only RuralBishops, the Right Reverend Colin, and Lubin, andCorydon, and other shepherds, might not only wield anoaken staff with a hook for crosier
. Punch . the bread of fatpluralists is buttered on both sides. There are also herdsof swine, that grunt and grumble, and may be supposed byRural Deans to express dissent, but such dissenters repre-sent rather a class of farmers who dissent from any andevery doctrine which demands their money. All theserural ideas are associated with Church-Rates by reasonthat the cudgel has been so generally taken up for themby Rural Deans. If the Rural Deans were only RuralBishops, the Right Reverend Colin, and Lubin, andCorydon, and other shepherds, might not only wield anoaken staff with a hook for crosier, by hook and crook,as it were, to maintain those ecclesiastical demands, butalso sing the necessity of them in genuine pastorals. TheRural Deans should provide„themselves with Pandean pipes,on which, if Church-Rates are abolished, they may suitablywhistle for them. THE MODERN CHESTERFIELD. What would you wish a tobacconist on his birthday ?Why you stupid, what could you wish him but Manyhappy returns P. CHARIVARI [March 2, 1861. STATUE, HANOVER SQUARE. Street Boy. M, D, double C C, We, I—What does that mean ? Street Boy, No. 2. Why, one o our Rooshan Wictories this ere General won in theCrimea, stupid ! Nobody cant pronounce the name. AN EVIDENT MISPRINT. Who could drink a bottle of hay ? It would be precious dry stuff, we should imagine,that no one would think of touching, unless he had the constitution of a horse. Besides,where would you keep your stock ? Not in the cellar, but in the hayloft, we suppose Por would one have to send down to the Haymarket, supposing any friend, who had a turn fordry humour, called for a bottle of hay. As for ourselves, we do not believe in any suchvintage as would require a pitchfork to open it instead of a corkscrew. We fancy it is amisprint. We suspect it was originally a bottle of Ai, meaning the celebrated Champagneof that name; and that by some desperate Cockney continually bawling out, Here, waiter,bring me another Bottle
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