The poor dear man by being in a pout;—
Besides, she might go walk among the trees,
And not a word of scandal be made out.
She thought a—very—little more upon it,
Then smiled to Sou-chong,—and put on her bonnet.
PUNCH AND THE SWISS GIANTESS!
SHERIFFS’ COURT.—WEDNESDAY.
BONBON versus PUNCH.
[This important cause came on for trial on Wednesday last. That it has not been reported in the morning papers is doubtless to be attributed to the most reckless bribery on the part of the plaintiff. He has, no doubt, sought to hush up his infamy; the defendant has no such contemptible cowardice. Hence a special reporter was engaged for PUNCH. The trial is given here, firstly, for the beautiful illustration it affords of the philosophy of the English law of crim. con.; and secondly on a principle—for PUNCH has principles—laid down by the defendant in his course of public life, to show himself to the world the man he really is. In pursuit of this moral and philosophical object, should the waywardness of his genius ever induce PUNCH to cut a throat, pick a pocket, or, as a Middlesex magistrate (for PUNCH has been upon the bench many a year), to offer for sale a tempting lot of liberty to any competent captive,—should PUNCH rob as a vulgar Old Bailey delinquent, or genteelly swindle as an Aldermanic share-holder,—in each and every of these cases there will, on discovery, be the fullest report of the same in PUNCH’S own paper, PUNCH being deeply impressed with the belief that an exhibition of the weaknesses of a great man [pg 246] is highly beneficial to public philosophy and public morals. PUNCH now retires in favour of his “own” reporter.]