Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 27, 1841 by Various
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page 36 of 60 (60%)
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HIS TURN NOW. "They say the owl was a baker's daughter." "Oh, how the wheel becomes it."--SHAKSPEARE. That immense cigar, our mild Cavannah, has at length met with his deserts, and left the sage savans of the fool's hotbed, London, the undisturbed possession of the diligently-achieved fool's-caps their extreme absurdity, egregious folly, and lout-like gullibility, have so splendidly qualified them to support. This extraordinary and Heaven-gifted faster is at length laid by the heels. The full blown imposition has exploded--the wretched cheat is consigned to merited durance; while the trebly-_gammoned_ and unexampled spoons who were his willing dupes are in full possession of the enviable notoriety necessarily attendant upon their extreme amount of unmitigated folly. This egregious liar and finger-post for thrice inoculated fools set out upon a provincial "Starring and Starving Expedition," issuing bills, announcing his wish to be open to public inspection, and delicately hinting the absolute necessity of shelling-out the browns, as though he, Bernard Cavanagh, did not eat, yet he had a brother "as did;" consequently, ways and means for the establishment and continuance of a small commissariat for the ungifted fraternal was delicately hinted at in the various documents containing the pressing invitations to "yokel population" to honour him with an inspection. |
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