Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 24, 1892 by Various
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Is watching the poor sulphur-swiggers, a-gargling and going it blind. Oh, the sniffs and sour faces, old fellow, the shudders and shivers, and sighs; The white lips a-working like rabbits', the sheepish blue-funk in their eyes! Old Pump Room's a hoctygon building, rum blend like of chapel and bar, With a big stained-glass winder one side, hallygorical subject! So far As I've yet made it out, it's a hangel a-stirring up somethink like suds. "A-troubling the waters," I 'eard from a party in clerical duds. You arsk, like you do at a bar, for the speeches of lotion you want. _Some_ say; you git used to the flaviour, and _like it_! Bet long hodds _I_ shan't. I've sampled the lot, my dear CHARLIE, Strong Sulphur and Mild, Cold _and_ 'Ot; And all I can say is, the jossers who say it ain't beastly talk rot. You jest fox their faces! They enters, looks round, gives a shy sort of sniff, Seem to contemplate doing a guy, brace their legs, keep their hupper lips stiff; Take their tickets, walk up to the counter, assumin' a sham sort of bounce, And ask, shame-faced like, for their gargle, 'as p'r'aps is a 'ot |
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