Find Yarmouth yacht-owners
furious with Hickling's Lord of Bad Manners. Say "closing the Broads
will ruin them." Very likely, but it'll help the foreign hotel-keeper.
Glad to see they've started a "Norfolk Broads Protection Society,"
subscriptions to be sent to Lloyd's Bank. "I know a Bank"--and all
lovers of natural scenery and popular rights ought to know it too, and
help in giving the Hickling obstructionist a "heckling," when he takes
the matter (also the Manor) into Court.
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[Illustration: INANITIES OF THE DRAWING-ROOM.
"SEEN THE _ENFANT PRODIGUE_, MR. SOFTEY?"
"NO; WAITING TILL THEY DO IT IN _ENGLISH_!"]
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A TRIPLE ALLIANCE.
(_A SCENE OF TO-DAY, IN A SHAKSPEARIAN SETTING._)
_Mr. Punch_. "How now, my hearts! Did you never see the picture of
'_We Three_?'"
_Emperor_. Marry, forfend, _Mr. Punch_! Well quoted indeed, and,
pertinently, from the Swan! "A mellifluous, voice, as I am a true
Knight!" But talk not of things triune too openly, lest quidnuncs
overhear, and L-B-CH-RE devise thereanent fresh heckling
interrogations for the Treasury Bench.
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