When Cat Meets Cat; or, Kilkenny Aboo!!! mb-code 1619517 View of the Crystal Palace

View of the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park which housed the Great Exhibition in 1851

A raree show was a peep show or puppet show carried around in a box

The City Imperial Volunteers

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When Cat Meets Cat; or, Kilkenny Aboo!!! mb-code 1619517 View of the Crystal PalaceWhen Cat Meets Cat; or, Kilkenny Aboo!!!, 1879. A bunch of cats, each with a tail of a cat o' nine tails, squabble and fight over the Army Discipline Bill. This relates to the debate over corporal punishment in the forces. There were now many MPs agitating for flogging in the forces to be abolished. The Irish contingent in the House, including Messrs Parnell and Callan used the new Obstruction tactics to protract the debate. From Punch, or the London