Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 6, 1890 by Various
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his feet, she flatters him as only a woman can flatter a preacher, and
having eventually married him, she helps him to found a new religion during the intervals that she can spare from the foundation of a considerable family. Warned by her own experience, she will never allow her daughters to be seen without their sewing or their knitting. Her sons will all be forced to learn useful trades, and it is quite possible that as time passes she may irritate even her husband, by constantly holding herself up to her somewhat discontented family as a pattern of all the domestic virtues. * * * * * NURSERY RHYME. (_TRADE'S UNION VERSION._) Bah! bah! Blackleg! Have you any pluck? Backing up the Masters when the Men have struck! You're for the Master, we're for the Man! "Picket" you, and "Boycott" you; that is BURNS's plan! * * * * * The Waterloo Monument at Brussels, in the suburban cemetery of Evère. _Motto_:--"For Evère and for Evère!" * * * * * PRIZE EPITAPH. |
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