Punch . ng. But all the more class-rule he hates—Middle-class rule the more hed leaven— Letting hand-workers through the gatesThat close the entrance of St. Stephen, April 14, 1866.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 159 Through which to place and power you pass,The more Punch holds those legislators Who d let the millions in en masseTo swamp all voice but theirs, as traitors. And therefore Punch must wait to see How seats are marked for distribution,Ere oer the Franchise Bill hes free, To cry Reform! or Revolution!The Law that lets each class be heard. Admits each classs truths to weighing,That
Punch . ng. But all the more class-rule he hates—Middle-class rule the more hed leaven— Letting hand-workers through the gatesThat close the entrance of St. Stephen, April 14, 1866.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 159 Through which to place and power you pass,The more Punch holds those legislators Who d let the millions in en masseTo swamp all voice but theirs, as traitors. And therefore Punch must wait to see How seats are marked for distribution,Ere oer the Franchise Bill hes free, To cry Reform! or Revolution!The Law that lets each class be heard. Admits each classs truths to weighing,That law has Punchs best good-word, Gainst all abuse, and all gainsaying. But down with any law—whoeer Its party god-father or mother-Units Dy thousands that would scare, And all voice but one classs fair fall those who dare defy Hard names from John Bright and his organsEre such a Bill they pass, at cry Of Demagogues or Demogorgons. TESTIMONIALS. THE HORSE AND THE FROG. {A Fable or Fact ?). he Northern DailyExpress relates awonderful storyof a horse be-longing to a gen-tleman at New-castle, and labour-ing under anillness whichwas attributedto the presenceof worms, butturned out tohave been causedby a large livingfrog which thehorse was sup-posed to haveswallowed whendrinking. Ofcourse, this so-called frog, hav-ing been duly at-tested, has beenso preserved inspirit, that any-body who wishesmay be able tosatisfy himselfthat it is notsome sort of polypus. There is some little difficulty in supposing that reptiles arecapable of existing as Entozoa. Everybody, to be sure, has heard offrogs and toads that have occupied the interiors of old women, or thoseof persons into whom old women have conjured them; but these allegedcases of toads and frogs in possession of the human stomach, formerlyascribed to witchcraft, have in later times been generally imputed toWalker. Batrachians, during the Parliamentary recess, are oftenfound, according to the statements of most of our c
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