A Little Tea Party Finish:Stretched The cartoon is accompanied by

The cartoon is accompanied by a poem of the same name in which Punch makes the point that the Irrepressible Donkey

it was fastest in the eliminating trials for that year's race

omnibuses and carriages

The Death of Cleopatra

A Little Tea Party Finish:Stretched The cartoon is accompanied by'A Little Tea Party', 1858. Britannia asks: A little more gunpowder, Mr. China?, (a play on words as gunpowder is also a kind of tea. China replies: O no tan ke mum, in a somewhat xenophobic parody of a Chinese person speaking English. Towards the end of 1856, British troops had been on their way to the Far East as fighting had broken out between China and Britain. As a number of French citizens had been brutally murdered, France came into the