The comic almanack ... With ... illustrations by G. Cruikshank. (second series, 1844-1853) / [George Cruikshank].

  • Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
Date:
[1884?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The comic almanack ... With ... illustrations by G. Cruikshank. (second series, 1844-1853) / [George Cruikshank]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE END OP PHEASANT SHOOTING. THE SONG OP THE GAME. Unto the feathered tribe how pleasant No more to he in dread of cartridge; Free is the gay and happy pheasant, And free as air the simple partridge. No more the sportsman’s gun we hear, The laws’ protection we may claim; Defying all who venture near, ’Tis now our turn for making game. We laugh at Lords and Commons too, For now not one of them is able, Wkate’er with others they may do, To lay our bills upon the table. Now occupied in making laws. They show their legislative powers In mutilating many a clause; But they can touch no claws of ours. The Cockneys now, with sportsman’s pride, In shooting gaiters case their legs; Their Mantons they may lay aside, While we aside will lay our Eggs. PATENTS FOR INVENTIONS. Patents will, it is expected, be granted— To Sir Robert Peel ; for a new and most efficacious manner of sweeping by machinery, as exemplified in his very sweeping machinery of the Income Tax. To Lady Sale ; for carrying Britannia metal to a high degree of perfection. To Drs. Newman and Pusey ; for an entirely new method of introducing heat into churches. To Lord Brougham ; for the application of rotatory motion, with a view to obtaining power. To the Chancellor of the Exchequer ; for an extension of the use of the screw, so as to augment its pressure. To the Poor Law Commissioners ; for a new method of diminish- ing pauperism by reducing the number of paupers; and also for an improved process of grinding. To Daniel O’Connell; fora most effectual method of draining Ireland.