Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, November 26, 1887Various
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, November 26, 1887
Various
English wit and humor -- Periodicals
Don't you fancy the "Hunemployed," bunkum has nobbled me; not sech a
mug!
And as fer O'BRIEN and his breeches, I'm glad the fool's fairly in
jug.
No, no, Law and Horder's my motter, but wen a spree's on 'ARRY'S
there;
And I thought, like a lot of the Swells, I should find one that day
in the Square.
Lord Mayor's Day with a scrimmage chucked in is a hopening too
temptin' to miss.
More pertikler wen all in "the Cause"--Law and Horder, I mean,
mate--like this.
I despises the Poor and the Spouters; to see their 'eds jolly well
broke
Is fun, but a bash on one's own--well, there, somehow it spiles the
whole joke.
The Perlice wos too dashed hinderscriminate, that's where it wos, my
dear boy;
Wich they couldn't take _me_ for a Paddy or 'umbugging "Out of
Employ."
Wen that cop got his hand on my collar he ought to 'ave knowed like a
shot,
By the Astrykan only, that _I_ wasn't one o' the Socherlist lot.
I 'ate 'em, dear CHARLIE, I 'ate 'em! They wants to stop piling the
pelf,
Wen that is wot every dashed one of us wants to be piling hisself.
No, Wealth is wot _must_ be kep up and pertected, wotever goes wrong;
And to talk of abolishing Millionnaires, CHARLIE, is coming it strong.
They are like prize Chrysanthemums, CHARLIE; for, if you want them,
don'tcher see,
You must nip off some thousands of buds to let one or two swell and
grow free.
Jest you turn a lot loose in yer garden, and _that_ ain't the way as
they'll grow;
But if 'undreds weren't sacrificed daily to one, you would not get
no Show.
That's Life in a nutshell, my bloater! All wants to be fust, but they
can't;
Most on us is wasters; the game of the snide un's to be a Prize Plant.
Then you're mugged up to-rights and made muck of, but, oh, you must be
a big ass,
If you fancies as daisies is dealt with like horchids, and grown under
glass!
Ask Gentleman JOE. _He_ knows better, he's finding it out more and
more,
And his Radical rot about "ransom" won't turn up agen; it don't score.
"Law and Horder's" the tip I can tell yer. I'm on to it fairly for
one,
And there's ony one thing I finds fault with; they _do_ rayther
bunnick up Fun!
If heverythink's on the Q.T., and a Peeler is always at 'and--
And _that's_ Law and Horder you bet, as beknown to the rich and the
grand--
It's O.K. for the 'olders of ochre, who, if they've a mind for a
spree,
Can always palm-oil Mr. Peeler, and do it _upon_ the Q.T.
But hus, CHARLIE, hus? I likes Horder, and likeways I'm partial to
Law,
Wen it means keeping _my_ swim all clear, and a muzzling my henemy's
jaw.
Wy, nothink could easy be nicerer, then, don'tcher see, dear old pal;
But supposing that game interferes with _my_ larks, or _my_ lush, or
_my_ gal?
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