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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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n the ground quite motionless. He immediatelysearched the bushes, but failed to find its nest. He wishes to knowwhere they lay, and what colour the Brick-bats eggs are. (The eggs of the Brick-bat are a great rarity in England.—PunchsProf. Nat. Hist.) The best way of catching Bats is to sit on the top of the house atnight, and fish with a fly-rod baited with a beetle. Our Cockney Correspondent is wrong. The study of Horned Owlsdid not originally give the name to the entire science of Horney-Thology. Wopps.—No; Swallows are not the only birds who take three mealsa-day. Middleagibus.—Hawking is still carried on in England, but it is nolonger an amusement. There are plenty of hawkers in Loudon, and onmany a fiae summers afternoon hawking is to be seen in most of thepoorer neighbourhoods of the Metropolis. Jumper.—Hawks are to be found (as every school-boy knows) chieflyin the islands called the Hawkneys. The Race for Wealth.—Jews. PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.—June 16, 1866.
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HONESTY AND POLICY. Britannia. WELL! IVE DONE MY BEST. IE THEY WILL SMASH EACH OTHER, THEY MUST.Nap. (aside). AND SOME ONE MAY PICK UP THE PIECES! June 16, 1866.) PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 255 THE ALEXANDRA PATTERN. H, Paterfamilias !We have muchpleasure in tran-scribing, from theDispatch,— A Paragraph forthe Ladies.—At As-cot, on Tuesday, thePrincess of Waleswore a silk dress ofpink and white inmedium-sized checks,a white lace shawl,and a pink bonnet—sufficiently small tobe fashionable, andyet large enough tobe a bonnet and notmerely a bit of lace —with pink ribbons,and a bouquet of liliesof the valley droopingfrom the top. There is one par-ticular feature ofthe costume abovesketched that in-spires us with ex-treme admiration;with admirationexceeding even allthat we feel for the sensible bonnet which constituted the appropriate head-dressof her Rsyal Highness the Princess of Wales. That is, the silk dress of pinkand white in medium-sized checks. It is not the material o

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