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SPIRIT OF PUNCH

... have been, And queerish bed-fellows I've seen, But never aught like this- Then swelled the wrath of Gladstone's tail- To Whigs and pries shall Progress quail ? And Stansfeld was the cry- But Clarendon upreared his head, His cigarette fung by, With ...

AS THE OLD COCK CROWS, THE YOUNG COCK LEARNES

... compass must swell, The more noisy the crowd are; Yet for Lords to throw dirt On the Peerage too bad I call- Lord Russell is Whig, Yiscount Amberley Radical: Goes-in for the masses, - - Would triust to the millions To tool their own drag Without Peers for ...

THE ACCEPTABILITY OF THE DIDACTIC NOVEL

... tionoften find it d~ifficultto graspandrcalise to them. selves 'the scenes and character which it describes. But -n infusion of Whig and Tory, of Church and Chapel, or of Manchester and Oxford, supplies just the avour and consistency which they require. Such ...

GLEANINGS FROM THE OWL

... Ay l there's the rulb For in that Opposition sleep some dream May come, when we have fairly shuffled off This weary eoil of Whigs, to give us pause; For who would bear the scorn of lukewarm friindh The taunts of foes, the goads of Radicals, The pangs of ...

THE MAGAZINES

... 'broA 'lose of the ?? great gullf., H's 'blia th .'dii sjioti~i 'i ithe ' affai ;o the' -Alabaini, -'but't considers ,the- Whigs-'and 'Tories .are equally to .blame' for, the 'foreign policy. which has procured: the ill will , pr con- temapt of ahnsat ...

A REVIEW OF THE SESSION

... have not been filled by the supporters of the Government. Contrast the con-. duct of Sir R. Peel with the small coterie of Whigs. He found a school of statesmen who have handed his name down to this day; and he took them without reference to rank, fortune ...

AYRSHIRE CURLING SONG

... stanes spinnan. Wi' a vhii 'l and a Cllre)e tin they sit roaLn' tier tce. Then hurrah ! c. It's anl uneclilie story ?? beith Whig snd Tory Mlann ayc collyshaugy like dogs osre a bane; And a' denominactions ore seantin' in paticece, For na4l Kirk irillthole ...

EXTRACTS FROM PUNCH

... and the New Peers.) Should auld supporters be forgot, And never brought to mind - Should auld W higs be remembered not By Whigs of auld lang syne I For auld lang syne, my friends, For uuld lang syne; We'll gie ye baith a peerage yet, For auld lang syne ...

POETRY

... swear liko a heathon; BBut colhar Oim fast, I'll engago You'll had that his courage is naething. Last night vwith a feminine Whig, A poet she could Da put faith in, But soon wo grew lovingly big, I taught her, her terrors were nactbing. H1cr Whigship was ...

THEATRE-ROYAL

... exer. tions for the regeneration of Italy-always the en. ?? hope of his life-procured him the intimacy and regard of the great Whig politicians of the day; and, though strongly opposed to the more violent Italian party, with whomhe always refused toscthis ...

SCOTCH EXHIBITORS AT THE SMITHFIELD SHOW

... thing which they had come to believe belonged to them in turn, just as the government of the country belongs in turn to the Whigs and Tories, is as hairy as a bison and as rough as- a Polar bear. He may have delicately formed limbs, but if so they are smothered ...