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Title: Punch
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Lemon, Mark, 1809-1870 Mayhew, Henry, 1812-1887 Taylor, Tom, 1817-1880 Brooks, Shirley, 1815-1874 Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), 1836-1917 Seaman, Owen
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Publisher: (London : Punch Publications, etc.)
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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el plied to make him go.Brave, Oxonia, &c. Gross Ingratitude of tne 82 Club. A Mr. John Reilly, of Dublin, has been black-beaned by the 82club for this great offence—he is a tailor! Now when we consider thegreat impetus that has been given to the cause of repeal by the greenuniform of the 82 club—when we reflect that Ireland will be won forIrishmen not by sword and bayonet, but by needle and thread, exercisedupon verdant broad-cloth—when the goose of OReilly, somewhat likethe famous geese of the Capitol, will save Erin from the Saxon—(for allthis, Mr. OConnell has assured us, will be peacefully compassed by 82gentlemen donning the livery of grasshoppers)—we consider OReillystreatment by the club as not only ungrateful, but unnaturally rebellious.It is as if a lot of puppets should cast off their showman. One excuse,however, has been charitably suggested for the 82. It is this. Many ofthem may be endowed with too fine a sensibility to be continually meetingtheir creditor.
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THE PREMIERS FIX. FREE TRADE and AGRICULTURE. PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 177 PUNCHS NOYS MAXIMS. 44. Tlie construction of the law may be altered by the special agreement ofilie parties.—This maxim is more often illustrated by the exceptionthan by the rule ; for though the agreement of the parties may alterthe construction of the law, it is the disagreement of the parties thatcauses the law to have a number of various constructions put uponit. The law is, in this respect, very accommodating, for it allows agood deal of latitude in the constructions it will bear for the partiesto quarrel about. 45. The law regards the intent of the parties and Kill imply their wordstlie.rev.nto.—When parties want to do a straightforward thing, if itis to be legal, the law gives them a roundabout form of doing it.The parties then find that they cannot understand their ownmeaning, when the law again comes in to tell them what they domean, which often terminates in the law attaching to its ownintr

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