Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 16th, 1893Various
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 16th, 1893
Various
English wit and humor -- Periodicals
Aperch upon your branch, you carry
A certain likeness to our 'ARRY,
Yet 'tis but slight.
He could not sit, the noisy brute!
And natural music mildly flute,
Till the assembled nymphs were mute
With sheer delight.
He'd want the banjo and the bones,
And rowdy words, and raucous tones,
And roaring chorus.
Urchin, I've done you grievous wrong!
No echoes of Arcadian song
Sound in the screech the holiday throng
Rattle and roar us.
To your shrill flutings I could listen
When on the grass-blades dewdrops glisten,
And morn is ripe.
Could sit and hear your pastoral reed,
In peace, and do myself, indeed
(Fair laden with "the fragrant weed"),
"A Quiet Pipe!"
* * * * *
THE HIGHLAND "CADDIE."
[There has been a strike among the Golf Caddies.]
AIR--"_The Blue Bells of Scotland._"
Oh! where, and oh! where is your Highland "Caddie" gone?
He's gone to join the Strike, and now "Caddie" I have none;
And it's oh! in my heart that I wish the Strike were done!
Oh! what, and oh! what does your Highland "Caddie" claim?
He wants sixpence for a round of nine holes. It is a shame,
And it's oh! in my heart that I fear 'twill spoil the game.
And what, tell me what, are your Highland Caddie's tricks?
He has "picketed the links" just to keep out all "knobsticks,"
And it's oh! in my heart, that I feel I'm in a fix!
Suppose, oh! suppose that all Highland Caddies strike!
I might have to turn up golf, and to tennis take, or "bike,"
But it's oh! in my heart that I do not think 'tis like!
* * * * *
"NAME! NAME!"--In a recent report from the East occurs the
delightfully-suggestive name of "SEYD BIN ABED." Of course he is a
relative to "SEYD IM GOTUP AGEN." Or perhaps he has changed his
name from "SEYD UAD BIN ABED" to "SEYD IMON SOPHA." If "Seyd" be not
pronounced as "Seed" but as "Said," the above titles can be altered to
match. True or not, yet "so it is Seyd." The news in which this name
occurs appears to have reached the correspondent through a person
called "RUMALIZA." Can anything coming from a female styled "RUM
ELIZA" be credible?
* * * * *
OUT OF COURT.--A sharp young lady listening to a conversation about
witnesses being sworn in Court, interrupted with "I don't know much
about kissing the book, but if I didn't like him, I'd soon bring the
kisser to book."
* * * * *
AT THE SHAFTESBURY.
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