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Title: Punch
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Lemon, Mark, 1809-1870 Mayhew, Henry, 1812-1887 Taylor, Tom, 1817-1880 Brooks, Shirley, 1816-1874 Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), 1836-1917 Seaman, Owen, 1861-1936
Subjects: English wit and humor English wit and humor, Pictorial
Publisher: (London) : (Punch Publications Ltd., etc.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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swain, at, the Voldrogue, aim straight at her port beam.And when she strikes, back engines, clear of the wreck to slue,And then stand by, to lower the boats and save the floating crew. Go half-steam past Port Picolet, give it em hot and hot,And if they give the same they get, and I should catch a shot,Heres Way, my Pirst Lieutenant, has his epaulettes to win;He knows the chart, he 11 con you out, as I have conned you in. We took shot, grape, and rifle-balls at half-speed and short range;Our ship was hulled, our men went down, but we gave em back their change: By the mark, six! the leadsman sung, .but, afore another cast,Twas shoal-water at two fathom, and the ship stuck hard and fast. As far aft as the main rigging we lay in shells and sand, For the Voldrogue, artful varmint, had shifted near the land: Twas Start tanks, blow out fore-boilers, port-guns aft, get on the strain, Back engines, lay stream-cable out astarn! but all in vain. PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI—January 27, 1866.
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ADMIRAL PUNCH DOES JUSTICE TO CAPTAIN WAKE. AND HERES THREE CHEERS FOR CAPTAIN WAKE, AND WHILE WE SAIL THE SEA.,MAY BRITISH BULL-DOGS ALWAYS FIND CAPTAINS AS STOUT AS HE,THAT S ALL FOR BITING WHEN THEY BITE, AND NONE FOR BARK AND BRAG,AND THINKS LESS ABOUT COURT-MARTIALS THAN THE HONOUR OF THE FLAG! January 27, 1866.) PUNCH. OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 39 There we lay for to be peppered—Lord, how the darkies cheered!For they saw we couldnt float her, and they thought that we was queered. I know a game worth two o that, says Captain Wake, says he.How Bull-dogs bite, when they cant budge, well let these niggers see. A shell apiece from our Long Tom, and down they went like stones,The Voldrogue and her consorts, to the claws o Davy Jones. Now shut up them land-lubbers, their big guns and their small,And hot and hot we sarved it out, till the night began to fall. We d three hours ammunition left, our crew was spent beside,We d done our best to get her off—no more was to be tried: Afore I

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