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Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI

VOL. 102

MAY 7, 1892

'ARRY ON WHEELS.

[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 Whitsuntide's 'andy, and outings all round is
in train,
It is forty to one on a blizzard, or regular buster of rain.

It's a orkud old universe, CHARLIE, most things go as crooked as Z.
Feelosophers _may_ think it out, 'ARRY ain't got the 'eart, or the
'ead;
But I 'old the perverse, and permiskus is Nature's fust laws, and
no kid.
If it isn't a quid and bad 'ealth, it is always good 'ealth and
_no_ quid!

'Owsomever it's no use a fretting. I got one good outing--on wheels;
For I've took to the bicycle, yus,--and can show a good many my
'eels.
You should see me lam into it, CHARLIE, along a sm