Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, CompleteVarious
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete
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English wit and humor -- Periodicals
A black man applies Marrens Jet shoe polish to his face. THE REAL BLACK
REVIVER.
Saw a yung salor sitting on the top of one of the maststhort of
Dibdings faymos see-song, and asked if he warnt
The sweet little cherub that sits up aloft?
Man laffd, and said it wor only Bill Junk clearing the pennant
halliards.
1 oclock.Thort formerly that every sailer wore his pigtale at the back
of his head, like Mr. Tippy Cookfind I labored under a groce
mistakethey all carry their pigtale in their backy-boxes. When I beheld
the sailors working and heaving, and found that I was also beginning to
heave-too, I cuddnt help repeting the varse of the old songwhich
fitted my case egsactly:
Theres the captn he is our kimmander,
Theres the bosn and all the ships crew,
Theres the married men as well as the single,
Ken-ows what we poor sailors goes through.
However, I made up my mind not to look inward on my own wose any longer,
so I put my head out of a hole in the side of the shipand, my wiskers!
how she did whizz along. Saw the white cliffs of Halbion a long way off,
wich brought tiers in my i, thinking of those I had left behind,
particular Sally Martin the young gal I was paying my attentions to, who
gave me a lock of her air when I was a leaving of the key. Oh! Lord
Melbun, Lord Melbun! how can you rest in youre 4-post bed at nite,
nowing you have broke the tize of affexion and divided 2 fond arts for
hever! This mellancholly reflexion threw me into a poeticle fitte, and
though I was werry uneasy in my stommik, and had nothing to rite on but
my chest. I threw off as follows in a few 2nds, and arterards sung it to
the well-none hair of Willy Reilly:
Oakum to me33. The nautical mode of writingOh! come to me.PRINTERS
DEVIL., ye sailors bold,
Wot plows upon the sea;
To you I mean for to unfold
My mournful histo-ree.
So pay attention to my song,
And quick-el-ly shall appear,
How innocently, all along,
I vos in-weigle-ed here.
One night, returnin home to bed,
I walkd through Pim-li-co,
And, twigging of the Palass, sed,
Im Jones and In-i-go.
But afore I could get out, my boys
Pollise-man 20 A,
He caught me by the corderoys,
And lugged me right a-way.
My cuss upon Lord Melbun, and
On Jonny Russ-all-so,
That forcd me from my native land
Across the vaves to go-o-oh.
But all their spiteful arts is wain,
My spirit down to keep;
I hopes Ill soon git back again,
To take another peep.
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