Title: Supplement to "Punch, Or The London Charivari."—October 14, 1914
Author: Various
Release date: March 13, 2009 [eBook #28324]
Language: English
Credits: Produced by Neville Allen, Malcolm Farmer and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
"Blow it, Bill! We can't be expected to fight a lot o' lubberly swabs like him. We'll kick 'em, if that'll do."
Bismarck (reads from 3,000 Citizens of Cologne). "In view of the miserable condition of the country, in view of a civil war, with its attendant sufferings and fearful calamities ... we couch a solemn protest against engaging in such a war...."
King of Prussia. "What is that? Dare my subjects object to be slaughtered! What next, I wonder?"
Bismarck. "Pardon, mon ami; but we really can't allow you to pick up anything here."
Nap (the Chiffonnier). "Pray don't mention it, M'sieu! It's not of the slightest consequence."
Emperor Napoleon: "I-a-have made an offer to my friend here, and...."
The Man in Possession: "No, have you, though? I rather think I was the party to apply to."
Emperor Napoleon: "Oh, Indeed! Ah! Then in that case I'll—but it's of no consequence."
Justice (to Bismarck). "Your Client was assaulted, and you ask that the defendant 'shall be bound over to keep the peace for many years.' But I cannot sanction a demand for exorbitant securities."
"I speak of peace, while covert enmity,
Under the smile of safety, wounds the world;
And who but 'Bismarck,' who but only I,
Make fearful musters and prepared defence."
Henry the Fourth, Part II. (Induction.)
[The German Emperor is reported to have said, "It was impossible for me to anticipate the rejection of the Army Bills, so fully did I rely upon the patriotism of the Imperial Diet to accept them unreservedly. A patriotic minority has been unable to prevail against the majority ... I was compelled to resort to a dissolution, and I look forward to the acceptance of the Bills by the new Reichstag. Should this expectation be again disappointed, I am determined to use every means in my power to achieve my purpose."—The Times.]
Imperial Artist. "Wish I could have got it done in time for the Royal Academy. Sure to have been accepted."
"The Vossische Zeitung chronicles with satisfaction the recent arrival at Lorenzo Marquez, on board the German East African liner Kaiser, of 1,650 cases of war material for the Transvaal, including a whole battery of heavy guns, and states its conviction that the Transvaal and the Orange Free State are 'determined to maintain their independence.'"—Globe, April 13.
German Officer: "Glad to hear you're going to fortify your sea front. Very dangerous people, these English."
Dutchman: "But it will cost much."
German Officer: "Ah, but see what you save on the Eastern Frontier, where there's nobody but us."
The Kaiser. "What business have you here?"
German Socialist Party. "I too want 'a place in the sun.'"