Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892 by Various
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in train,
It is forty to one on a blizzard, or regular buster of rain. It's a orkud old universe, CHARLIE, most things go as crooked as Z. Feelosophers _may_ think it out, 'ARRY ain't got the 'eart, or the 'ead; But I 'old the perverse, and permiskus is Nature's fust laws, and no kid. If it isn't a quid and bad 'ealth, it is always good 'ealth and _no_ quid! 'Owsomever it's no use a fretting. I got one good outing--on wheels; For I've took to the bicycle, yus,--and can show a good many my 'eels. You should see me lam into it, CHARLIE, along a smooth bit of straight road, And if anyone gets better barney and spree out of wheeling, I'm blowed. Larks fust and larks larst is _my_ motter. Old RICHARDSON's rumbo is rot. Preachy-preachy on 'ealth and fresh hair may be nuts to a sanit'ry pot; But it isn't mere hexercise, CHARLIE, nor yet pooty scenery, and that, As'll put 'ARRY's legs on the pelt. No, yours truly is not sech a flat. Picktereskness be jolly well jiggered, and as for good 'ealth, I've no doubt |
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