Punch . e bladed oar. Catch your stroke at the beginning, Then let legs with vigour work:Little hope has he of winning, Who his stretcher loves to your rigid arms, extended, Be as straight as pokers two ;And until the stroke is ended, Pull it, without jerking, through! Thus all disputations spurning, Ye, ere many a year has past,While old Fortunes wheel is turning, Yictory shall taste at some Ministerial Coxen, Finds a cure for Plague of Cattle;Ye shall triumph over Oxon, On your watery field of battle. Argonaut. To a Correspondent. A Gentleman troubled with a short memory h
Punch . e bladed oar. Catch your stroke at the beginning, Then let legs with vigour work:Little hope has he of winning, Who his stretcher loves to your rigid arms, extended, Be as straight as pokers two ;And until the stroke is ended, Pull it, without jerking, through! Thus all disputations spurning, Ye, ere many a year has past,While old Fortunes wheel is turning, Yictory shall taste at some Ministerial Coxen, Finds a cure for Plague of Cattle;Ye shall triumph over Oxon, On your watery field of battle. Argonaut. To a Correspondent. A Gentleman troubled with a short memory having acquired thebad habit of turning down a leaf of a book so as to remember where heleft off, writes to say that he never can recollect a street that hes onlybeen in once. How is he to remedy this defect P Very simply: lethim do as he does with his books, turn down a corner. The Diet oe Worms — Assafoetida and Onions.—See Times of Feb. 10. vol. L. 86 PUNCH. OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [March 3, PUNCHS ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT. AJORA CANAMUS, forSaturday, February18,1866, will be aday to be remem-bered in Parlia-mentary annals. Onthe previous even-ing Governmentdetermined that theHabeas Corpus Actmust be suspendedin Ireland. TheFenian-pest has tobe stamped Queen, Lords,and Commons hadall to unite, and inone day to pass theSuspension Act. The Commons,like the kettle, be-gan it. Sib. GeorgeGrey stated thatthe cessation of theAmerican war hadreleased a greatnumber of IrishAmericans fromservice, and thatmany of these had come to Ireland, in order to promote Fenianism. They wereregularly paid by somebody, were biding their time for an outbreak, and were doingtheir worst to cause disaffection. They were wanted, but to make a generalcapture of the rascals, it was necessary to dispense with the law which forbids arrestwithout warrant, and imprisonment without appeal to the judges; Mr. Disraelisupported the Government, with divers censures, not of weight. He gave, possibly
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