Mr. Punch on the Warpath: Humours of the Army, the Navy and the Reserve Forces
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Mr. Punch on the Warpath: Humours of the Army, the Navy and the Reserve Forces
English wit and humor; English wit and humor, Pictorial; Great Britain -- Armed Forces -- Humor
LA FINALE.--Wear round to starboard, passing under your partner's
bows--sight the catheads of craft on your starboard bow--then make sail
into your own berth--your partner passing athwart your bows--now proceed
according to the second order of sailing--to complete the evolutions
shoot ahead and back astern twice, in company with the whole squadron,
in the circular order of sailing.
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[Illustration: WHAT THE "BRITISH GRENADIER" IS INEVITABLY COMING TO
Some talk of Alexander, and some of Pericles,
Of Hector and Lysander, and such old guys as these;
But of all the horrid objects, the "wust" I do declare,
Is the Prusso-Russo-Belgo-Gallo-British Grenadier.
]
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[Illustration: "THE RESERVE FORCES."
_Militia Officer._ "Augh!--a new man. Ah--'ve you been in 'service
before?"
_Recruit._ "Yes, sir."
_Officer._ "Augh--what regiment?"
_Recruit._ "Mrs. Wiggins's coachman, sir!!"]
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[Illustration]
THE END
BRADBURY, AGNEW, & CO. LD., PRINTERS, LONDON AND TONBRIDGE
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