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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 18, 1893, by Various, Edited by Francis Burnand This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 18, 1893 Author: Various Editor: Francis Burnand Release Date: July 24, 2007 [eBook #22133] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOL. 104, FEBRUARY 18, 1893*** E-text prepared by Matt Whittaker, Juliet Sutherland, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 22133-h.htm or 22133-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/2/1/3/22133/22133-h/22133-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/2/1/3/22133/22133-h.zip) PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI VOL. 104. FEBRUARY 18, 1893. PHANTASMA-GORE-IA! _Picturing the Various Modes of Melodramatic Murder._ (_By Our "Off-his"-Head Poet._) NO. IV.--THE "OVER-THE-CLIFF" MURDER. [Illustration] It may be this--that the Villain base Has insulted the hero's girl; It may be this--that he's brought disgrace On a wretchedly-acted Earl. I care not which it may chance to be, Only this do I chance to know-- A cliff looks down at a canvas sea And some property rocks below! You say, perhaps, it is only there From a love of the picturesque-- You hint, maybe, that it takes no share In the plot of this weird burlesque; But cliffs that tremble at every touch, And that flap in the dreadful draught, Have something better to do--ah, much! Than to criticise Nature's craft! The cliff is there, and the ocean too, And the property rocks below. (These last, as yet, don't appear to you, But they're somewhere behind, I know.) The cliff is there, and the sea besides (As I fancy I've said before), And yonder alone _the_ Villain hides Who is thirsting for someone's gore! And now there comes to the Villain bold The unfortunate Villain Two.
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