And if a pledge—what pledge—and whence when and where

Is the money to come, that, betwixt bull and bear,

Like a bone of contention will fall?

Punch. January 16, 1875.


A Terrible Tale.

The night it was dark, not a star in the sky,

As the Lord Mayor of London passed nervously by

A charnel-house crammed with the bodies of those

Who had died ’neath grim Radicals’ murderous blows.