E-text prepared by Malcolm Farmer, William Flis, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 15439-h.htm or 15439-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/4/3/15439/15439-h/15439-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/4/3/15439/15439-h.zip) PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI VOL. 103 OCTOBER 1, 1892 "STUMPED!" (_A WOULD-BE LAUDATORY ODE. BY JINGLE JUNIOR._) [The young Indian Gentleman, Mr. H. RANJITSINHJI, has "secured his century" at Cricket no less than eleven times this season.] O H.S. RANJIT--(spelling a wild venture is!) Wielder of willow, runner-up of "centuries"! What's in a name? A name like RANJITSIN-- (_Can't_ finish it, was foolish to begin!) How many miles was it you ran, O RAN-- (Bowled out again. Am sorry I began!) In running out those hundreds, RANJITSINGHJ-- (A man were a patched fool, a perfect ninny, Who'd try to spell that name, Ask _Bully Bottom!_) With such a name to carry, how you got 'em, O RANJ--(that sounds like Orange!)--those same "notches" Is quite a wonder. Were they "bowls" or "cotches" That got you out at last, those times eleven? (Where is GRACE now? He has not scored _one_ even, This season, though as close as ninety-nine to it.) Applause has greeted you; let me add mine to it, O RAN-JIT-SIN-HJI! (Those last three letters What _do_ they spell?) Orthography's cold fetters Shan't chill my admiration, smart young Hindoo! Say, did you smite a sixer through a window, Like Slogger THORNTON in _his_ boyish prime, O RANJITSINHJI? Got it this time! That is, it _spelt_ all right. E'en admiration Shan't tempt me to attempt _pronunciation_! Eleven centuries we to Indian skill owe! Will the East lick the West at its own "Willow?" Here's luck to India and young RAN--Och, murther! RAN-JIT-SIN-SIN--How's that! _Out_? Can't get further! * * * * *