MrPunch's history of modern England . eton, carries onthe satire in this fashion : — Six hares alive were taken out Each in its canvas sack ;And five as dead as mutton, in The same were carried back. The battue of hares at Stowe during; the Princes visit tothe Duke of Buckingham in January, 1845, is the subject ofanother derisive ballad modelled on John Gilpiji, and of a car-toon showing the Prince shooting down the tame quarry point-blank from an easy chair. The grand climax to this raillery,however, was reached during the Royal visit to Germany inSeptember, when the stag hunt at Gotha was sc
MrPunch's history of modern England . eton, carries onthe satire in this fashion : — Six hares alive were taken out Each in its canvas sack ;And five as dead as mutton, in The same were carried back. The battue of hares at Stowe during; the Princes visit tothe Duke of Buckingham in January, 1845, is the subject ofanother derisive ballad modelled on John Gilpiji, and of a car-toon showing the Prince shooting down the tame quarry point-blank from an easy chair. The grand climax to this raillery,however, was reached during the Royal visit to Germany inSeptember, when the stag hunt at Gotha was scarified withpen and pencil. In two parallel cartoons of CourtPastimes are contrasted the bear-baiting under Elizabeth withthe butchery of stags under Victoria; and the hand ofThackeray is unmistakable in the Sonnick, sejested by Prince 173 Mr. Punch s History of Modern England Halbert gratiously killing the Staggs at Sacks-Cobug-Gothy: — Some forty Ed of sleak and hantlered dearIn Cobug (where such hanimmles abound) ^^l:k3±:SxB^. ELIZABETH Were shot, as by the nusepapers I hear, By Halbert Usband of the British Crownd. Britannias Queen let fall the purly tear;Seeing them butchered in their silvn prisns; Igspecially, when the keepers, standing round,Came up and cut their pretty hinnocent whizns. Suppose, instead of this pore Germing Saxn wenison which he shoots and baggs, 174 stag Slaughter at GotJia Our Prins should take a turn in Capel Court And make a massyker of English Staggs of Hengland ! Were the Untsman at you, What avoc he would make and what a trimenjus battu ! Jeams.
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