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M. B. McMULLAN Of dogs in DOGgerel verse I sing, the late emancipation, T'was in the Isle of DOGS they held its jovial celebration, Determined dogs assembled they, each gay as Paddy Carey, Yes,face to face, the canine race, appeared light, brisk and HAIRey. Bow, wow, wow! Each dog, they say, Will have his day, As dogs have now A setter made a SET harangue, but rather too DOGmatical A pointer a more POINTed one - its phrases fine were attic-all, Quoth he, 'should donkey beating brutes with hostile view assail us, 'Before the beaks we'll have the SCAMPS offreedom who'd CURTAIL us.' Bow, wow, wow etc. These verses appear on the front page of the 4th January 1840 issue of the Penny Satirist- a periodical commending itself on its masthead as a 'cheap substitute for a weekly newspaper'. 1 Above them was a cartoon showing disreputable dogs drinking, smoking pipes, lounging about and jeering at ragged men and women with loaded carts and barrows. The 'late emancipation' in the first line of verse, was the coming into force, on 1st January 1840, of section 39 of the Metropolitan Police Act 1839 which prohibited the use of dogs to
The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present – Taylor & Francis
Published: May 1, 1998
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