Punch Volume 112 (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. 1897 Excerpt: ...with FitzSimmons, and now 'e's carried off the "Great Contest in America" with same good old 'orse. No, my boy, I don't want to buy the paper; the news is enough 1 j tion Bill. After one has been rolled a little way up the hill, Prince Arthur drops the closure on it, and away it goes to the bottom. Another is substituted, and same process takes place. Not even the excitement of threatened revolt in Ministerial ranks. Hobhouse occasionally hesitates in doubt; but there is nothing revolutionary about Hobhouse. Courtney more promising of sport. But he labours under disadvantage of being naturally expected to differ from his own side--whichever it may chance to be. The salt of the daily food of the House of Commons is the unexpected. If Courtney would some day agree with the majority of the moment, then would thrill through the House the joy of the unexpected, its one unfailing refreshment. Prince Arthur, bound to the labouring oar, grows fretful. To sit hour after hour listening to Members opposite saying the same thing over again at slightly increased length is a trial to the brazen Mace. For Prince Arthur it is torture. Yet if he followed his impulsOj went out to put his feet on the mantelpiece of his own room for a glad half hour, ho might come back to find the Vice-President of the Council had been "saying things." So he sits it out, and just as when an elderly maiden lady is about to faint she applies her smelling-salts, so Prince Arthur, when state of coma is almost reached, moves the closure. Squire Of Malwood, in happier circumstances, spares himself an occasional hour's attendance. Fortune has given Prince Arthur a big majority, tempered by John o' Gorst. Heaven has put the Squire Of Malwood in a minority, but has blessed him with ...