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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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nfortunate Surgeonwho, by an error in judgment, has destroyed the life that he did his bestto save. But the offence of knowingly and wilfully supplying uselessstuff under the name of a remedy, to be employed as such for the cureof diseases which that remedy may be requisite to prevent from killing,is surely about as great a crime as any that can deserve capital punish-ment. The Committee on that subject has omitted, in its Report, tosay whether, in its opinion, criminals guilty of adulterating or counter-feiting medicine on whose purity life may depend, ought to be hanged,or only condemned to penal servitude for life and periodical flogging. On a Late Canard. Lord Russell out! Stuff! When hes put his footDown on the Bill ? A fight he 11 brave, and win it! Are you quite right P On the Bill put his foot PShould you not rather say, put his foot in it ? a real scotch joke.What *s the next wine to Golden Sherry P Sillery. (Siller—eh P) March 10, 1866.) PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 105
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(On the Wiltshire Downs.)- A FORWARD YOUTH. -Master George, wishing to be a Hunting Man, discards his Crupper, and finds in consequencethat there is suca a Thing as being a little too Forward. HAIR-TRAPS. What endless ingenuity has been exercised in constructing traps forcatching heirs ! Our exalted Grandmammas employed powder as wellas hair-triggers at a punctilious period when heirs stood much on forms.Neither Bramah nor Chubb could show such complicated locks asthose with which belles were formerly fitted up. An inartificial sim-plicity now masks the spring of these terrible engines. Every day wehear of captives being taken by Italian bands, and once caught, beassured, their freedom is forfeited, beyond possibility of ransom. Some time ago hair-traps with long twisted pendulums attached, andcherry-coloured bows, were extensively exhibited, and set. Rude peoplemade small sport of them, and we doubt whether they ever brought togrief a heir that was worth a shilling. More recently a C

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