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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102,
May 7, 1892, by Various, Edited by F. C. Burnand
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VOL. 102
MAY 7, 1892
[Illustration: Our 'Arry Laureate.]
DEAR CHARLIE,--Spring's on us at last, and a proper old April we've 'ad, Though the cold snap as copped us at Easter made 'oliday makers feel mad. Rum cove that old Clerk o' the Weather; seems somehow to take a delight In mucking Bank 'Oliday biz; seems as though it was out of sheer spite.
When we're fast with our nose to the grindstone, in orfice or fact'ry, or shop, The sun bustiges forth a rare bat, till a feller feels fair on the 'op; But when Easter or Whitsun