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Title: Punch
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Lemon, Mark, 1809-1870 Mayhew, Henry, 1812-1887 Taylor, Tom, 1817-1880 Brooks, Shirley, 1816-1874 Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), 1836-1917 Seaman, Owen, 1861-1936
Subjects: English wit and humor English wit and humor, Pictorial
Publisher: (London) : (Punch Publications Ltd., etc.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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uldnot reach Parnassus by climbing, although they would perform a kindof labour resembling too. much poetry in the peculiarity of beingunproductive. The Frozen-in Bees.The beautiful couplet of the celebrated Dr. Watts :— How doth the little busy beeImprove each shining hour ! is generally supposed to be especially applicable to the merry monthof May, but this year, up to the day whereon these words are re-corded, May, has hardly afforded the unhappy bees a single shininghour to improve. If some improvement would take place in the cloudyhour, the bees, which at present are not busy, but out of work, wouldbe delighted. ADMIRARLY QUALIFIED FOR THE OFFICE. Since most of our Chancellors of the Exchequer have been guilty,or at all events accused, of the crime of profligate expenditure, whynot offer that financial post to the Marquis of Westminster ? forthat is about the last accusation that could ever be laid to thatesteemed noblemans charge. PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI—Mat 18, 1861.
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CJ1SAR IMPERATOR! OB, THE AMERICAN GLADIATORS. Mat 18, 1861.) PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 205 THE BATTLE OF THE BUDGET. Or Paper -versus Tea. The times they were bad, and Gladstone looked sad, As he sat at the seat of Exchequer;And in spite of his pluck he felt down on his luck, And puzzled to keep up his pecker, his pecker, Sore puzzled to keep up his pecker. Behind Whitehall scenes we must find ways and means, Or soon we from office must trudge it;Who twixt surplus and deficit a tertium quid efficit, Is the man to determine our budget, our budget— Is the man to determine our budget. Then to lighten his griefs he summoned the chiefs Of Boards far as Fifeshire from Finland;The Customs due East, by four miles at the least, And the Board of Revenue called Inland, called Inland— And the Board of Revenue called Inland. Thus summoned expressly came grave Mr. Presslet, With no end of returns in his pockets ;And Sir Thomas Fremantle, of his wares brought a hantle, In the shape of a c

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