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Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 23, 1892

Author: Various

Release Date: December 3, 2004 [EBook #14250]

Language: English

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PUNCH,

OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

VOL. 102.

January 23, 1892.

THE COVENT GARDEN MASQUE.

Mumming--masking--masquerading;
Fanning--fun--fanfaronading;
Dancing--duncing--deft disguises;
Singing--supping--strange (sur) prizes;
Galloping and gallivanting
Couples much in need of BANTING;
All the customary make-up
CLARKSON's customers can fake up;
All the little childish raiment,
Fatties don--for sylph and fay meant;
Tally-hos and Hey-no-nonnies:
Jackies--Jillies--Jennies--Johnnies--
Barber's blockhead--nothing dafter--
Heralding "Before and After":
"Auntie's Bottle Hot"--a phial
Only for external trial--
Gems of London--gems of Paris--
Arid gusts--AUGUSTUS HARRIS--
Splitting mirth--some garbs that split, too--
Aching heads next morning, ditto!

* * * * *

TO BE AVOIDED.--An Intemperate tone by a Temperance lecturer.

* * * * *

[Illustration: _Benevolent Stranger_. "ALLOW ME, SIR, TO OFFER YOU A
DRINK!"

_Unfortunate Sportsman_ (_just out of Brook_). "THANKS; BUT I'VE HAD A
DROP TOO MUCH ALREADY!"]

* * * * *

RESPECTABILITY.

["What is Respectability?"--_Daily Telegraph, Jan. 12._]

It's having money at the Bank.
It's being a personage of rank.
It's having spent three years at College
With great, or little, gain of knowledge.
It's going to Church twice every Sunday,
And keeping in with Mrs. GRUNDY.
It's clothes well-cut, and shiny hat,
And faultless boots, and nice cravat.
It may be Law, or Church, or Ale,
Or Trade--on a sufficient scale.
It's being "something in the City."
It's carefully to shun being witty.
It's letting