MR. PUNCH'S PARALLELS. No. 4.
SIR W. V. HARCOURT AS FALSTAFF.
"There's no more valour in that Goschen than in a Wild Duck.".... "A plague of all Cowards still say I!" Henry the Fourth, Part I., Act ii, Scenes 2 and 4.
Mrs. Ram, at this time of year, takes a great interest in the state of the weather, and studies the daily Meteorological chronicle. She says that she always reads the reports from Ben Nevis's Observatory. She hopes that, one of these fine days, this learned astronomer will be made a Knight. Sir Benjamin Nevis would be, she considers, a very nice title. "Of course," she adds, "judging by his name, he must be a Jew. They're such clever people. And, let me see, ain't there a proverb, or something of that sort, about 'the Jew of Ben Nevis'?"