Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 16, 1841 by Various
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page 22 of 67 (32%)
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ANSWER TO THE SAME _Albany_. You be d--d, _Backstitch_. PENTWISTLE PINK. (Thirdly.) From a constituent in the country, being a creditor "upon promises," to a returned member of Parliament in town. _Bumbleton Butts, April 1, 1841_. DEAR SIR,--The enthusiastic delight myself (an humble individual) and the immense body of your enraptured constituents felt upon reading your truly patriotic, statesman-like, learned, straightforward and consistent speech, may be conceived by a person of your immense parliamentary imagination, but cannot be expressed by my circumscribed vocabulary. In stating that my trifling exertions for the return of such a patriot are more than doubly recompensed by your noble conduct, may I be allowed to suggest the earnest wish of my eldest son to be in town, for the pleasure of being near such a representative, which alone induces him to accept the situation of landing-waiter you so kindly insisted upon his preparing for. You will, I am sure, be happy to learn, the last baby, as you desired is christened after:--"the country's, the people's, nay, the world's member!" |
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