Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 15, 1890Various
General
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 15, 1890
Various
English wit and humor -- Periodicals
A NEW TRACT FOR THE SALVATION ARMY.--The "General," who is the biggest
BOOTH in the show, announced last week that he had been offered a big
tract of land. Hear! Hear! Where? Where? "Anywhere, anywhere out of
the world "--at least, out of our little world of Great Britain & Co.
Let not "the General" be too particular, but accept the tract,--though
he is more used to distributing tracts than accepting them,--and let
him and his army, his lads and lasses, go away and leave us to enjoy
our Sundays in peace and quiet.
* * * * *
NEW CITY FIRM (_adapted from West End by Our Own Scotchman_).--"SAVORY
AND MAYOR."
* * * * *
[Illustration: SKY-SIGNS IN THE COUNTRY. (AS SEEN BY OUR ARTIST IN
SEARCH OF THE PICTURESQUE.)]
* * * * *
[Illustration: NOSTALGIA.
"YOU SEEM OUT OF SORTS, JAMES, EVER SINCE WE'VE COME NORTH. IT'S THE
CHANGE OF CLIMATE AND SCENERY, I S'POSE!" "IT'S WUSS NOR THAT, MARIAR.
IT'S THE CHANGE OF BEER!"]
* * * * *
VOCES POPULI.
AN EVENING WITH A CONJUROR.
SCENE--_A Suburban Hall. The Performance has not yet begun.
The Audience is limited, and low-spirited, and may perhaps
number--including the Attendants--eighteen. The only people in the
front seats are, a man in full evening dress, which he tries to
conceal under a caped cloak, and two Ladies in plush opera-cloaks. Fog
is hanging about in the rafters, and the gas-stars sing a melancholy
dirge. Each casual cough arouses dismal echoes. Enter an intending
Spectator, who is conducted to a seat in the middle of an empty
row. After removing his hat and coat, he suddenly thinks better--or
worse--of it, puts them on again, and vanishes hurriedly._
_First Sardonic Attendant (at doorway_). Reg'lar turnin' em away
to-night, _we_ are!
_Second Sardonic Attendant_. He come up to me afore he goes to the
pay-box, and sez he--"Is there a seat left?" he sez. And I sez to
'im, "Well, I _think_ we can manage to squeeze you in somewhere." Like
that, I sez.
[_The Orchestra, consisting of two thin-armed little girls,
with pigtails, enter, and perform a stumbling Overture upon a
cracked piano_. Herr Von KAMBERWOHL, _the Conjuror, appears on
platform, amidst loud clapping from two obvious Confederates
in a back row._
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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