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EBOOK PUNCH ***
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PUNCH,
OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
VOL. 100.
June 20, 1891.
ON THE RIVER.
[Illustration]
A light canoe, a box of cigarettes,
Sunshine and shade;
A conscience free from love or money debts
To man or maid;
A book of verses, tender, quaint, or gay,
DOBSON or LANG;
Trim yew-girt gardens, echoing the day
When HERRICK sang;
A Thames-side Inn, a salad, and some fruit,
Beaune or Hochheimer;--
Are simple joys, but admirably suit
An idle rhymer.
* * * * *
A 'BUS 'OSS'S MEMS.
(_KEPT DURING A RECENT SOCIAL CRISIS._)
_Saturday, June 6_, 11 P.M.--Home after our last turn. Fancy from
several drinks had on the way, and the pace we had to put into that
last mile and a half, that something's up. Turned into stall nice and
comfortable, as usual.
_Sunday_.--Something is up with a vengeance. Hoorooh! We're on strike.
I don't know the rights of it, nor don't care, as long as I have my
bit of straw to roll in, and a good feed twice a day. I wonder, by
the way, if the fellow who looks after my oats is "off." Past feeding
time. Feel uneasy about it. Hang it all, I would rather work for _my_
living, than be tied up here doing nothing without a feed! Ha! here he
is, thank goodness, at last.
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