And down the van he gently stole
Thinking—he’d better go.
Punch, 1848.
This refers to a meeting held at Kennington in connection with the Chartist agitation, when certain reforms were demanded, which were then ridiculed as revolutionary, but which have since either been granted, or else have come within the scope of practical political discussion.
Josh Hudson’s Feast.
’Twas at the dinner given, the prime tuck-out,
By Josh, the boxer stout:
Aloft the worthy sat,
His corpus lin’d with fat,