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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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arrel—much. Let a prize be offered for a Poem on the Fire (with no Phoenix),and announce that it will be recited on the top of the Monument, byCaptain Shaw. Let processions be arranged, which, on the threedays, shall perambulate the streets occupying the site of those whichwere destroyed. Flame-coloured banners, badges, and cockades. TheFire Brigade to attend at the intervals of service elsewhere, bringingnew engines. The Floating Engines to play on the City at statedhours—inhabitants to be at liberty to stay in-doors or carry umbrellasat pleasure. Mb.. Vining might be induced to have his House-on-Firescene enacted every hour during the Festival. Dinners and speechesas matter of course. Perhaps the Duke of Sutherland would kindlyact as President. Really, such an occasion for a National Observanceshould not be overlooked by those who like opportunities of being inevidence, and their name is Legion. A Leading Article.—A Blind-mans Dog. PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI—May 5, 1866.
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\ REST, AND BE VEBY THANKFUL. Bmtakkia. «< YOU VE BEEN SO GOOD .A BOY, JOHNNY, THAT I HOPE YOU WONT GET INTO SUCH ANOTHER MUDDLE! Mat 5, 1866.J PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 191 A FINE ANTI-CLIMAX. aikest Blanche, or what-ever your name, fair reader,may be, you have perhapsseen in a book, or heard aman mention, the word anti-climax. If so, you may havewondered what an anti-climax was, if you everwonder at anything. Well,now here is an example ofan anti-climax:— The Judges at St. PaulsCathedral. — Yesterday after-noon, the first Sunday in Easterterm, Her Majestys Judges andSerjeants-at-law attended divineservice in state at St. PaulsCathedral, the Judges wearingscarlet gowns, bands, full-bot-tomed wigs, and ermine tippets,and the Serjeants scarlet gowns,bands, full-bottomed wigs andknee-breeches. Lovely one, there is an anti-climax in the foregoing newspaper para-graph, that is to say, distinct portion of a column. Distinct portionmeans a bit separate from the rest. The anti-

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