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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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Bridge. He declines to pay his rent on Lady Day, orMichaelmas Day. Lastly, he is about to move for a return of the number of Irish cattlethat have perished of Rinderpest, distinguishing between Protestant andCatholic cows, as he has reason to believe that the Jesuits have beenthe means of introducing the complaint into Ireland, in order to in-crease the disaffection of the country. We think that these evidencesof the Hon. Members religious earnestness ought to go far to removethe impression caused by Mr. Newdegates contemptuous remarks,and ought at all events to screen Mr. Whalley from the ridicule withwhich it seems to have become habitual, on the part of Parliament, toreceive his Protestant efforts. The Royal Edinburgrier. Our Heir Apparents affection for the Cigar endears him to allpersons of taste. But it may not be generally known, because it is nottrue, that Prince Alfred owes his new title to the playful resolve ofhis brother to prevent the Dukes calling him Auld Reekie. H t?3
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►d a Q o W fO oo a W w I—I ► a oo as OS June 9, 1866.) PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 245 THE EAGLES IN CONGRESS. The Eagles of late had to loggerheads got After long living happy together,In a holy alliance of absolute sway Oer the small fry of fur and of feather. Twas but last year the two German heads of the breed Had joined in a grand federationTo dismember a poor Danish cock o the wood, Who objected to Germanisation. In vain lie prayed aid from the Eagle of France, In vain from the bull-dog of Britain;Both promised, but neither would make first advance, So the poor bird was swooped on and smitten. His limbs were apportioned—a drumstick to one, A nice liver-pinion to tother :And psalms were intoned, and Te Deums were sung, The cries of the victim to smother. But in act of apportionment, fairly to fix Six for one to the others half dozen,The Eagle of High Hohenzollern essayed The Eagle of Haps burg to cozen. Tis a way Eagles have, and tis lucky that though In couples they

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