Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 7, 1891 by Various
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no matter! Only, to quarrel with your old pals, and then go about
a-sneerin' and a-jeerin' at them for wot you yerself wos a party to, _I_ call 'hitting below the belt'"! (_Comments of the I.B.H. "Bosh! 'Honest JOHN' is a shrew, and not a Practical Pug. Is one prizefighter never to criticise another's style because he's once been in the same Company with him? Might as well say he must therefore never improve his own style. Besides, any stick is good enough to beat the Grand Old Pug-dog with!"_) III.--_REJOINDER OF THE "BRUMMAGEM BANTAM."_ "'Itting below the belt be jolly well blowed! Honest JOHN don't believe a word 'e sez--it's ony his narsty spite. Makes hisself the wiaduck for the 'Arwarden Gang's witrol and winegar, _e_' do. In course I wos one o' the Old 'Un's Company, wus luck! But I've larned a bit since then. Wot do _you_ think? When I larruped my old pals, and called 'em mugs, messers, and muddlers, in corse I included myself, tacit-like. _But there was no call for to say so!_ As to not showing of 'em up acos I wos one of 'em--Wal_ker_!!! If _that's_ the Newcastle Nobbler's 'theory' of fair-play, 'e may jest go 'ome and eat coke!" (_Comments of the I.B.H. "The B.B. is quite right. If a Pug may not round on his old pals for doing what he helped them to do, it follows that he himself must never try to do better. Which is absurd! Go it, JOE!"_) IV.--_SURREJOINDER FROM "HONEST JOHN."_ "My 'theory' ain't a bit wot the B.B. says it is. My 'theory' is that |
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