Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 7, 1891

'Twas in Ninety One, d'ye see, Brave boys! With SOLLY I did sa-a-a-ail, When one Monday night We went out--_not_ to fight, But we went for to catch a Whale. Brave boys! We went...

All things are fair that are not dark; Yet all are dark that are not fair. And the same cat that slays the lark, Itself is often killed by care.--BOHER.

AND now began for SONOGUN a time of moral stress and torture such as he had never anticipated. It is an old saying, and perhaps (who knows?) a truism, that virtue is its own rew...

Ah me, how shall we know the true, How mark the old, how fix the new? Or teach the babe in arms to say, "Base, bold, bad boys are cheap to-day"?

In the meantime, SONOGUN's cousin, ACIS ARRANT, generally known to his jocular intimates as Knave ARRANT, had been living in luxury with his cousin's weak mother, whom he had co...