Volume 25 — SOMETHING OUTRAGEOUS.
Reading edition
"Mr. Punch, Sir,
"What next? Have you read the servile inscription on Marlborough House Gates?—
"'The public is respectfully informed, that admission is to be procured,' &c.
"'Respectfully informed,' Mr. Punch! Hity-tity! Well. This is something! Respectfully! And this is by a body of officials, and stuck on a house which is the property of a Royal Prince! The brewers and bakers and candlestick-makers are respectfully informed. Tag, rag, and bobtail are respectfully informed. The swinish multitude is respectfully informed by its own servants that it may see something it has paid for. I cannot trust myself to write. Times are changed, Mr. Punch, or officials are strangely altered from what they were in the time of
"Yours respectfully(!)
"Hampton Court.
An Old Official."
TAKEN FOR GRANTED.
We doubt whether the Great Metropolis can parallel the following choice specimen of composition, which we find in the Morning Advertiser of the 16th:—
As Good Housemaid, in a small Family, where a Footman is kept, who is a good needlewoman, who can attend on a lady, with a good character. Direct A. B. &c., Brompton.
We have seen footmen who were justly proud of their "pins", but never yet saw a footman who was a good needlewoman. But we quite approve of the advertiser's caution. Being a "good" housemaid, she will serve nobody but "a lady with a good character". This is very proper, and in consideration of the virtuous principle displayed, one can forgive the author's Random Recollections of Lindley Murray.
Flirting. (By an old Hand at it.)—Flirting is a most amusing game. It is true there is nothing gained by it, but then there is nothing staked. In fact you may call it, "playing at cards for love."