A great "Punch" editor, being the life, letters, and diaries of Shirley Brooks . tical cartoons of the world. Instinctwith the fiercest passion and indignation, it yet perhapsstirs us more by its sublimity and pathos. The IndianMutiny, the massacre at Delhi, the siege and the terribleand just retribution taken by Colonel Neill, the reliefof Lucknow by Colin Campbell, the unspeakablehorrors of Cawnpore are all matters of history. Whocan ever forget the awful description of the last by oneof the officers ? * I was directed, he wrote, to the house where allthe poor miserable ladies had been murde
A great "Punch" editor, being the life, letters, and diaries of Shirley Brooks . tical cartoons of the world. Instinctwith the fiercest passion and indignation, it yet perhapsstirs us more by its sublimity and pathos. The IndianMutiny, the massacre at Delhi, the siege and the terribleand just retribution taken by Colonel Neill, the reliefof Lucknow by Colin Campbell, the unspeakablehorrors of Cawnpore are all matters of history. Whocan ever forget the awful description of the last by oneof the officers ? * I was directed, he wrote, to the house where allthe poor miserable ladies had been murdered. . .The place was one mass of blood. I am not exagger-ating when I tell you that the soles of my boots weremore than covered with the blood of these poor wretchedcreatures. Portions of their dresses, collars, childrenssocks and ladies round hats lay about saturated withtheir blood ; and in the sword cuts on the woodenpillars of the room long dark hair was carried by theedge of the weapon. . Their bodies were after-wards dragged out and thrown down a well outside 156. Reproduced by kind permission of the Proprietors o] Punch TiiK lions ^by Sir Jo
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