OH, HOW DREADFUL!
Alas, Blue Ribbon Army ! Take off your "badges and trample them in the dust ; weep tears of lemonade, and wring your hands in cold water, for your Queen has presented to her grandson, on attaining his majority, not a Bible, nor a toast and water jug, but a silver punch bowl ! His Royal Highness also received on the same auspicious occasion a silver-^ilt cup, three large silver tankards, two silver-gilt bowls, a silver-gilt claret jug, a silver kettle and spirit stand, silver covered tankard, and a silver flask. Anti-tobacco-nists, cry shame ! This lloyal youth is to be sacrificed to the god Nicotine, for he has been presented with a silver cigarette case, an oak cigar cabinet, silver-mounted leather cigarette case, another silver cigarette case, and a silver cigarette box. Society for the Dissemination of Pure Literature, close your doors ! for the Earl of Hardwicke has thought it becoming to present to his future Sovereign ten volumes of the works of Fielding.
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Observer, Volume 7, Issue 236, 21 March 1885, Page 3
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164OH, HOW DREADFUL! Observer, Volume 7, Issue 236, 21 March 1885, Page 3
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