PUNCH.—Who? Colonel Sibthorp.
READER.—And who for Chancellor of the Exchequer?
PUNCH.—Mr. Henry Moreton Dyer!
PUNCH’S PENCILLINGS.—No. II.
HERCULES TEARING THESEUS FROM THE ROCK TO WHICH HE HAD GROWN.
(MODERNIZED.)
APOLLODORUS relates that THESEUS sat so long on a rock, that at length he grew to it, so that when HERCULES tore him forcibly away, he left all the nether part of the man behind him.