. Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch; cartoons, comments and poems, published in the London charivari, during the American Civil War (1861-1865) . annon Game shows Abe Lincoln playing bil-liards with Jeff Davis. It is the latters shot. Hurrah for Charleston! he cries; thatsanother to me. Abe Lincoln mutters in an aside, Darned if heaint scored agin! I wish I could make a fewwinning hazards for a change. An accompanying article entitled The GreatAmerican Billiard Match is amusing enoughwhen read to-day in the light of the great winning-hazards that were to be made by Abe within lessthan sixty
. Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch; cartoons, comments and poems, published in the London charivari, during the American Civil War (1861-1865) . annon Game shows Abe Lincoln playing bil-liards with Jeff Davis. It is the latters shot. Hurrah for Charleston! he cries; thatsanother to me. Abe Lincoln mutters in an aside, Darned if heaint scored agin! I wish I could make a fewwinning hazards for a change. An accompanying article entitled The GreatAmerican Billiard Match is amusing enoughwhen read to-day in the light of the great winning-hazards that were to be made by Abe within lessthan sixty days. Considerable excitement, it runs, has been caused insporting circles by this long protracted match, which, owingto the style of play adopted by the parties, appears to makebut very little progress toward a finish. The largeness ofthe stakes depending on the contest might be supposed tomake the players careful in their strokes, but few expectedthat the game would last so long as it has done, and no onenow dare prophesy when it will be finished. It having beenresolved to play the cannon game, some anxiety at first was THE LONDON PUNCH G7. 68 ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND not unreasonably felt among the backers of Jeff Davis,the crack player for the South; but the knowing ones, whoknew their man, made no attempt to hedge, notwithstandingwhat was said about his being out of play and, in the cannongame especially, somewhat overmatched. It is needless toremark here that the first strokes which he made quitejustified their confidence, and, indeed, throughout the gamehe has done nothing yet to shake it, so that if he have but afair amount of luck, his backers feel assured that he wonteasily be beaten, and an extra fluke or two might makehim win the match. As for old Abe Lincoln, the champion player of theNorth, his backers, we believe, are as confident as ever thathe is the best man, although at times his play has not appearedto prove it. There is no doubt that he has more strengthat his
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