Initial "H" — Rout out of a Robber's Den.
Wood engraving
Punch 29 (6 October 1855): 137
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Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham
Here is the inventory as published by the Moniteur, of the naval and military goods and chattels left behind by the Russians at bastopol [sic]:
"Cannon, 4,000: Ditto Balls, 50, 000; Hollow Projectiles, a few; Grape, a large quantity; Gunpowder, a great amount; Copper, 25,000 kilogrammes [sic]; Steam engines, 36-horse power, two; Blindages, a considerable number.
As the items above enumerated are to pistols, pistol-bullets, bullet-moulds, slugs, jemmy, centre-bit, picklocks, lucifer-matches, and black vizards, so is Sebastopol to the den of a burglar, and so is the EMPEROR OF ALL THE RUSSIAS to BILL SIKES [an unflattering allusion to the thuggish housebreaker and villain of Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist.]
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