Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, October 18, 1890 by Various
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page 24 of 40 (60%)
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Pennsylvania will rejoice, but a sort of still small voice
In the ear of Uncle SAM may sound quite handy, O! Wall Street may feel smart shocks at the lowering of Stocks, And _will_ "Tin-plates" comfort Yankee doodle dandy, O? Yankee doodle, Yankee doodle, dandy O! Lower Stocks by raising "Stockings" Ah, methinks I hear the "Shockings"! Of the women-folk of Yankee-doodle dandy, O! Howsoever that may fare, let JOHN BULL keep on his hair, And Miss CANADA with flouts be not too handy, O! Common sense is safe commander, and we need not raise our dander At the Tariff tricks of Yankee doodle dandy, O! Yankee doodle! Yankee doodle dandy, O! And may it ever prove in trade fights, _or_ brotherly love, BULL can keep upsides with Yankee doodle dandy, O! * * * * * "CHARGE, CHESTER, CHARGE!"--The _Times_ reports that at Chester County Court last week, Mr. STAVELEY HILL, Q.C, M.P., Judge Advocate of the Fleet, was summoned for £25--for goods supplied, and that the claim was unsuccessfully contested on the score that it was barred by the Statute of Limitations. Mr. SEGAR, who represented the Plaintiff, said that the Defendant was "wrong in his law," and Judge Sir HORATIO LLOYD assented to the proposition by giving a verdict for the full amount claimed. From this it would appear that there was "no valley" (as a Cockney would say) in the point of the Hill--the Judge Advocate of the Fleet being on this occasion, if not in his native element, at any rate, "quite at sea!" |
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