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June 20, 1891, by Various

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Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, June 20, 1891

Author: Various

Release Date: September 10, 2004 [EBook #13422]

Language: English

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PUNCH,

OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

VOL. 100.

June 20, 1891.

ON THE RIVER.

[Illustration]

A light canoe, a box of cigarettes,
Sunshine and shade;
A conscience free from love or money debts
To man or maid;

A book of verses, tender, quaint, or gay,
DOBSON or LANG;
Trim yew-girt gardens, echoing the day
When HERRICK sang;

A Thames-side Inn, a salad, and some fruit,
Beaune or Hochheimer;--
Are simple joys, but admirably suit
An idle rhymer.

* * * * *

A 'BUS 'OSS'S MEMS.

(_KEPT DURING A RECENT SOCIAL CRISIS._)

_Saturday, June 6_, 11 P.M.--Home after our last turn. Fancy from
several drinks had on the way, and the pace we had to put into that
last mile and a half, that something's up. Turned into stall nice and
comfortable, as usual.

_Sunday_.--Something is up with a vengeance. Hoorooh! We're on strike.
I don't know the rights of it, nor don't care, as long as I have my
bit of straw to roll in, and a good feed twice a day. I wonder, by
the way, if the fellow who looks after my oats is "off." Past feeding
time. Feel uneasy about it. Hang it all, I would rather work for _my_
living, than be tied up here doing nothing without a feed! Ha! here he
is, thank goodness, at last. However, better late than never. Capital
fun this strike.

_Monday_.--Am sent out in a loyal omnibus. Hooted at and frightened
with brickbats. Felt half inclined to shy. Halloa! what's this? Hit on
the ribs with a paving-stone. Come, I won't stand this. Kick and back
the 'bus on to the pavement. All the windows smashed by Company's men.
Passengers get out. Somebody cuts the traces, and I allow myself to be
led back to the stabl