PUNCH,

OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

VOL. 101.



August 15, 1891.




A TERRIBLE TALE.

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Alas! it had of course to be!
For weeks I had not left my room,
When one fell day there came on me
An awful doom.

A burly rough, who drank and swore,
Without a word--I could not shout--
Attacked me brutally, and tore
My nails right out.

Then, dragging me out to the air--
No well-conducted conscience pricked him--
He mercilessly beat me there,