Punch . y the exhibition of six parsons reading, praying, and preaching againsteach other for a situation ? Does not this competition in surplices looka little too much like jumping in sacks ? Balance of Evils. It is a painful thing, said Jones, who had been deceived, to havepretended friends, and to find them out. Yes, said Brown, butthat can happen seldom. The plague of life is that youarealwajsliable to find them at home. Nuts for Hippopbagists.—The Chestnut and the Cob. Printed by William Bradtmrt, of No. 13, Upper Wobnrn Place, in ihe Parish ot St. Pancras, In the County ot Middlesci, and
Punch . y the exhibition of six parsons reading, praying, and preaching againsteach other for a situation ? Does not this competition in surplices looka little too much like jumping in sacks ? Balance of Evils. It is a painful thing, said Jones, who had been deceived, to havepretended friends, and to find them out. Yes, said Brown, butthat can happen seldom. The plague of life is that youarealwajsliable to find them at home. Nuts for Hippopbagists.—The Chestnut and the Cob. Printed by William Bradtmrt, of No. 13, Upper Wobnrn Place, in ihe Parish ot St. Pancras, In the County ot Middlesci, and Frederick Mnllett Evans, of No. 11. Bouverie Street, in the Precinct ofWbitefnars. <Mty of London, Pr nters, at their Office in L,omti»iru Street, in ihe Precinct |of , City of London, and published by them at No. 85, Kleeti Street, in the Parish of St. BridejOityof London.—Saturday, February 3. 1866. Februaey 10, 1866.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 53 PUNCHS ESSENCE OF See the proud Speaker, re-elected, stand,The great Crown Lawyers upon either hand—Palmer, who edited the Book of Praise,And Collier, who the painters skill them Lord Llanover points doth mootWith Captain Grosvenor, smoking a cheroot. Then see a splendid ring, its centre, Bright,Grimly preparing for Eeform to fight,Twere a good omen should his stubborn willYield to the chain of intellectual Mill,Oer whom Tom Hughes, a man of brains and wit,Still praises Yankeedom, nor heeds its blind, clear-sighted Pawcett means hard knocks,And so does Torrens, he who ousted fiery Roebuck wields his ready lance,And veteran Brougham hurries home from mark Lord Ckanworth with his awful mace,And Clarendon with discontented face,Argylls bright hair, the gallant Granvilles form,And Redcliffe, peering for a coming storm. Major a nunc canamus, Public. Lo !The great Reform Bill stands, a thing of Russell, Gladstone, Goschen, bring,While D
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