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Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101
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Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, July 11, 1891
Author: Various
Release Date: August 24, 2004 [EBook #13270]
Language: English
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PUNCH,
OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
VOL. 101.
July 11, 1891.
VOCES POPULI.
MORE _POT-POURRI_ FROM THE PARK.
SCENE--_The Park, near Cumberland Gate, on almost any fine afternoon. Behind the rails separating the turf from the paths, Orators, Preachers, and Reciters are holding forth, for the delectation of small groups, who are mostly engaged in discussing some totally different subject. A set debate, with a time-limit, and a purely ornamental Chairman, is in progress between a Parnellite and an Anti-Parnellite. The reader will kindly imagine himself to be passing slowly along the line._
A Youthful Socialist (_haranguing the usual crowd of well-to-do loungers, and working himself up to the requisite white-heat of factitious fury_). And what are these Capitalists? I'll tell yer. Jest a lot o' greedy gobblers and profit-mongering sharks, as eat up the smaller fry. And what are _you_? Why, you're the small fish as eat mud--and let yourselves be gobbled! (_The crowd acce