Title:  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 103, September 3, 1892

Author:  Various

Release Date:  February 25, 2005 [EBook #15166]

Language:  English

Character set encoding:  ASCII

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PUNCH,

Or the London charivari.

Vol. 103.

September 3, 1892.

[Illustration:  Happy thought.

Obliging Country Butcher.  “Let me cut it into cutlets for you, ma’am,—­leaving just enough Bone for you to hold ’Em by, while you’re eating ’Em!”]

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Not going away for the holidays.

Cookson Gaze, Q.C. Because Maria votes Eastbourne vulgar, and the girls (sorry now I sent them to that finishing-school at Clapham) laugh so consumedly whenever I open my mouth to address a native if we go to Trouville or Dinard.

C.  Jumper.  Because the Governor thinks three days in the year enough for anybody.

Eastend Dr. Because that fiver will just give little Sally the breath of sea-air she wants, and she’ll never make a good cure unless she has it.

Reg.  Rake.  Because wife says she shall certainly accompany me.

Barmaid.  Because I’ve just been ill for a fortnight from overwork, and the Company say they can’t give any more leave.

Eastend Clergyman (of any church.) Because there are hundreds who want it more than I do, and I must help them to get a change first.

Major Hornblower.  Because MACCRACSHOTT (the only man who has asked me) was in the smoking-room the night I was fool enough to tell that Snipe and Rhinoceros Story of PEYTON’s in the first person.

Quiverful.  Because there’s another pair.

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Epitaph on an old CRICKETER’S Tombstone.—­“Out at 70.”

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Musical notes.

Popping a Question.—­The Daily News, in its last week’s “Music and Musicians,” informs us that “Mr. CHAPPELL has now definitely decided that the season of Monday Popular Concerts shall this year commence on a Tuesday.”  Sure then it must be Mister O’CHAPPELL, the CHAPPELL by the hill-side, who arranges to have his first “Monday Pop” on a Tuesday?  If he be going out shooting