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Title: Punch
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Lemon, Mark, 1809-1870 Mayhew, Henry, 1812-1887 Taylor, Tom, 1817-1880 Brooks, Shirley, 1816-1874 Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), 1836-1917 Seaman, Owen, 1861-1936
Subjects: English wit and humor English wit and humor, Pictorial
Publisher: (London) : (Punch Publications Ltd., etc.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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del of the murderer WilliamGodfrey Yotjngman is now added to the chamber of com-parative physiognomy. The Chamber of Comparative Physiognomywas formerly the Chamber of Horrors. Thealteration is an improvement. People havesupped full of horrors, and, it may be hoped,have got sick of them. Comparative Anatomy isthe anatomy of brutes in relation to that of man.Comparative Physiognomy is the physiognomyof such brutes as the murderer Youngman incontrast with our noble selves. It is a pleasingstudy at least to those whose physiognomydiffers from that of such gentlemen as the mur-derer Youngman. To profit fully by the oppor-tunities of study afforded by the Chamber ofComparative Physiognomy, visitors should takepocket looking-glasses to that exhibition, and,instead of comparing each other with Messrs.Rush, Manning & Co., attentively study theirown features in order to compare them with thelineaments of those celebrities. Kindked Ties.—Frailty and Humanity. LONDON CHARIVARI. (January 5,
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A DANGEROUS SITUATION. Swell (with trepidation). ■Here!—Portar—Here! See me into a First-Class Carriage, there s a goodfellaw/ PAUPER- HUNTING. During hard frost and deep snow, there is nothing to be done inthe way of field-sports except lark-shooting, which is a puerile amuse-ment, and practicable only where the tops of the greens peep throughthe snow, there being elsewhere no larks. Wild ducks may be shot;but wild duck-shooting is rather an aquatic and marine amusementthan a field sport in this weather, all very well for those who like it,but rather too cold work for most people. The only sports that canwell be enjoyed at present, are of a social character, such as hunt-the-slipper ; but there is a species of hunting better than that, and capableof affording capital pastime. It is the game of Hunt the Pauper. Your best plan is to take a clergyman out with you as the keeper ofthe parish which you propose to beat for paupers. His Reverencewill also do the work of pointer and set

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