Punch . cattle plague, and the possibleReform Bill, the Government just now have quite enough work ontheir hands, and may safely trust the nation with the launching of itsLife-boats. So, ye gentlemen of England, including all , pray lend a handto save your fellow creatures from the seas. Give your five or tenpounds yearly, or say better still guineas, to the Nations Royal Life-boat Institution, if you please. On a Dramatic Author. Yes, hes a plagiarist, from Tom this fell, As to his social faults, Sir, one excuses em ; Cos hes good natured, takes a joke so well. True, cries an author, He
Punch . cattle plague, and the possibleReform Bill, the Government just now have quite enough work ontheir hands, and may safely trust the nation with the launching of itsLife-boats. So, ye gentlemen of England, including all , pray lend a handto save your fellow creatures from the seas. Give your five or tenpounds yearly, or say better still guineas, to the Nations Royal Life-boat Institution, if you please. On a Dramatic Author. Yes, hes a plagiarist, from Tom this fell, As to his social faults, Sir, one excuses em ; Cos hes good natured, takes a joke so well. True, cries an author, He takes mine and uses em. FOR THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY. A Fast young lady on being shown a tobacco plant, at Chatswortb,asked if it was the genealogical tree of the Cavendishes. The Mystery of Milk.—Some people wonder that, under existingcircumstances, the price of milk in London has not risen. _ But theRinderpest does not affect the Cow with the Iron Tail. March 3, 1866.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI 93. THE TURF AND THE CLOTH. he Lord Bishop ofWinchester has, ofcourse, perused thefollowing statementin the SportingIntelligence con-tributed by Argusto the MorningPost:— An interesting littlework has just been com-piled for private circu-lation, entitled Dane-bury Statistics which,gives a return of thenumberof horses trainedin the great southernstable, as well as theamount of their win-nings from 1832 to author of this littlework is the Rev. WalterBlount, the esteemedlandlord and domesticchaplain of John Day,and he has executedhis task with care, cor-rectness, and ability. Certainly the Bishop op Win-chester must make an example of the Rev. Gentleman above-namedby Argus. That is to say, the Rev. Gentlemans Bishop, surely, willnot fail to hold him up as affording a pattern to other Clergymen indedicating his leisure to the collection of useful information, insteadof abusing it in the composition of Essays and Reviews, or criticalremarks on the Pentateuch, calculated to u
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