Punch's Almanack for 1890

by Various

You must put in the patter O. K., mate, or somehow you come out wrong end.

'Ad a turn at the old Expersition, bid one larst good-bye to the Tower,

And chi-iked lar Rerpooblick a bit for her luck in jest keepin' in power.

The Bullanger boom was a fizzle. They say he's mopped out; I dunnow;

But it wouldn't surprise me, my pippin, to see him yet Bossing the Show.

I had met Mister Punch at Chermooney—he also was out on the scoop,

On a Trip Round the World, so he told me. Sez I, "I'll pal on to your troop."

But he gave me a look from his lamps, and somehow I choked off like a shot,

"Take your own line," sea he, "and my tip; do not swagger, drink deep, or talk rot!"

Should 'ave like to ha' joined him, in course, but he's sech a 'ot 'and at a 'int,