Punch,  15 (1848), 133.

Our Committee on the Public Business in the House of Commons

Mr PunchToby

Genre:

Reportage, Spoof

Subjects:

Invention, Breeding, Government, Steam-power, Animal Husbandry, Politics


    Suggests applying Mr Cantelo's steam-hatching apparatus to parliamentary committees, whose 'incubations' lead to only 'half-a-dozen Reports, more or less unreadable'.



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