Puck — November 12, 1879 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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PUCK. Nos, 21 & 28 WARREN STREET. VOR SALE BY ALL NEWS DEALERS. Janus To Susscrinens dn the United States and Canada, PY, one year, or $2 numbers .. On 7 six month Gna Copy th H, C. BUNNER. SFECIAL NOTICES. xfFoiitn a Schwann" ‘We canoot undertake to return rejected communications, and to this rule we can make no exception. Pucx is on Sale Ia Londos Street, FleetiStreet: In Gl Street’ I PUCK'S ANNUAL FOR 1880 has already caused the Presidential issue to become of secondary interest. Lord Beaconsfield will not call the British Parliament together until Puck's Annual is issued—neither will Congress be convened or Christ- mas celebrated, This is trustworthy, as will be clearly seen from the announcement that PUCK’S ANNUAL. will be fired upon an expectant world on or about December Ist. The stories, poems and articles, are all new and ori- ginal, and have already received the highest encomiums from their authors and other gifted individuals. ‘As for the pictures, by Puck's artistic staff, they must be seen to be believed in. The price of Puck’s Annual for 1880 will be 25 cents currency. CONTENTS. sop, Freawoonts in Aumnica— ‘of English Humor, ‘With Him—poem, or Marriage and Divorce! Pucw’s Patent Circular Batler— iMlas, Our Governor. Before the M London“ Fu akspere bro. An Journey—illus. phes (poem).— Arthur Lot A Handel Festival—illus, (poem) —Earl An 5 tudies.—John Al-| Axcure Gascorna—John Fraser Puck's Excnanons, promising Infant—i PUCK’S AESOP. ANEW RENDERING OF AN OLD FABLE, dog, having had a Difference with a Mastiff, and being obliged to Bolt, sought out the Stork, and made friends with them, The Stork, being in need of assistance, said to the Bull-dog: “If you will refrain from Scratching my candidate, I will make it all Right with you.” Where upon the Bull-dog apply’d himself with Diligence to serving the Stork, and succeeded in making himself very useful and Numerous, to that Extent that the Stork got his man in, and was in some Degree consoled for Canonchet. Then, when the elec- . tion was over, and everything was lovely, the * Bull-dog went to the Stork and said: “ Where is my Whack at them Spoils?” And the Stork ¢" chanc’d once upon a time that a Bull- are the mummified bones Of a party named Samuel ‘Tilden, Whose middle name, properly filled in, Is Jones. His light ‘neath a bushel was hid: He expired of chagrin and dejection, At the last Presidential Election, He did. He was nursed in the ages’ lap; Dodged his taxes, until he got caught in it—| And, in short, was a very unfort'nit Old chap. While dropping a pitying tear, Permit us to make the suggestion ‘That the venerable party in question Was queer. |And excuse us if, e'en we weep ‘That his spirit o'er Styx has been ferried, We remark: it is time he was buried— | And deep. | Yet to lose him would brim sorrow's cup, We will tic him so tight he won't wobble, If the World will please turn its old Obble- Lisk up. And wouldn’t it look just first chop— ‘Yo see that old obelisk inverted, With the corpse of the Great Disconcerted On top? replied blandly: ‘Step right In and help yourself, John.” “But,” complained the Bull- dog: ‘they are in a Receptacle where you alone can put your Little Bill in; and I am Left, av ye Plase.” ‘Ah, that,” said the wily Stork, as he dipped into the Rewards of Victory, “is what you should have looked out for Earlier.” Morat.. When you have Forty ‘Thousand Intelligent Voters in your pocket, it is better to discount your Stake before Election, and then leave the Purchaser to make it all Right for Himself. SPECIMENS OF ENGLISH HUMOR. PREPARED BY MR, W. S, GILBERT DURING IIS VOYAGE TO THIS COUNTRY, At dinner, on one occasion, when the des- sert, composed of pie and tart, was brought on, Mr. Gilbert, imitating the rhythm of “Good-bye, Sweetheart,” dryly and senten- tiously said, “ Good pie, sweettart, good pie!” which created immense laughter. Another evening the Captain came down with the rib- bon of the Legion of Honor in the lapel of his coat. A French passenger remarked that the Captain was decoré, . “ Yes," Mr, Gilbert said quickly, ‘ Quarter- deck-oré."—. Y. Herald. Some friends came off to bid the visitors welcome, and as they came shouted, ‘ Did you meet any cyclones?” ““We don't move in those circles,” promptly replied Mr. Gilbert.—. Y. World, “Tue Bothnia brought $550,000 gold.” — M. Y, Times, We wonder Messrs, Gilbert and Sullivan carried so much gold with them, But perhaps it is for the purpose of buying out all the Pinafore companies at present stumping the country. Puckerings. Major Reno is the Un-Ovated Valentine Baker of the Plains, Captain Wittias says he is unkindly treat- ed; and threatens to pout. Isn't the Kepublican rooster raising rather a muffled and melancholy ker-whoop over his recent victory? Wantep—A good collector, persuasive and accustomed to deal with Republicans. Apply to J. K., Tammany Hall, 14th St, N. Y. Amon the numerous charms of babyhood, perhaps the one that most forcibly appeals to the bachelor adult is its temporariness, so to speak. Pouiticat. principles change, kingdoms are overthrown and religions alter; but four aces hold an undisturbed preéminence in their own peculiar line, We would not for the world cast any impu- tation upon Mrs. Hayes’s fidelity to her mat- ronly duties; but isn’t it about time that her husband put on his ear-muffs? Tuts season appears to lack fixed metcoro- logical principles; but it keeps up a pretty fair catarrhal pressure, with areas of influenza in the north and east, and precautionary chest- protector signals ordered all along the coast. We learn from a poem by Mr. Halleck that “an hour passed on, the Turk awoke;” and we conjecture, from the exasperated vivacity of his subsequent movements, that he was aroused by the performance of his native ‘‘Re- veillé” on a hand-organ, g $