Punch Vol LXXXII (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...which one ought to be on the bosom of Father Thames. They surrendered themselves, therefore, to the whim of the moment, for Pleasure was the sole target at which they aimed, and a few fleeting hours found them mooning at Marlow, wandering at Wargrate, spooning at Shepperton, chatting at Chertsey, dawdling at Datchet, flirting at Formosa, bathing at Bisham, fishing at FairFord, paddling: .at Pangbourne, swimming at Sonnino, walking at Walton, smoking at Sukbiton, talking at Twickenham, or revelling at Richmond. Our Trio agreed that no one could se- Life In London without a day on the River, which has found its own painter in Keelky Halswelle, and its limner in Leslie, while what says Ashby-sterry, the Laureate of the Thames, in his poem on" Blankton Weir," a title which Young Bob said always reminded him of bad language. We have taken some small liberties with the verses: --"Oh, jolly July afternoons, when leaving borei and bills, We rowed with pantaletted peU in furbelows and frilU: We brimmed the beaker with champagne and crowned the cheerful cup, And heard her gentle accents eay, ' Now, Job, do " liquor up " ' Come back those days of curls and girls, and flirting without fear, As show these rhymes of spoony times about old Blankton Vir " While "on the river,1' Tom, Jebry, and Young Logic of course "did Henley," and the two former were loud in praise of the pleasant old town and of the famous Regatta, which.as Bob truly said, might be held to resemble an aquatic Ascot. For there the fashionables congregated intent on the races provided for their amusement, whether it was the Grand Challenge Cup, or the Steward's, the Silver Goblets, or the Diamond Sculls, the Ladies' Challenge Plate, or the Visitors' Cup. It ...