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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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st week, that a kind woman, who took acrow-bar into Horsemonger Lane Gaol, to help a friend to escape fromtrouble, had not violated the rule which prohibited the introduction of any article or thing. It was contended that a crow-bar was not athing. The learned Council did not urge that it was Capital, thoughthis might have been held from the case of the two American financierswho said they were going south to open a bank, and being askedwhat their capital was, replied, a crow-bar. Nor did he say that it wasequivalent to a feather or a fan, as might be gathered from the Irish-mans declaration that he had been so astounded at something that you might have knocked him down with a crow-bar. It was simplycontended that a crow-bar was not a thing. Our great PhotographicJudge, whose philosophic pursuits have cleared his vision, rejected theBerkleian theory, and remitted the kind woman to gaol. Motto for the Dumb Asylum.— Dumb vivimus vivamus. PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.—May 12, 1866.
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CONSULTING THE ORACLE. Italy. MYSTERIOUS POWER, SHALL I DRAW?Oracle. Hi-m-m-ii ! Mat 12, 1866.) PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 201 LOVES MARTYR AT THE OLYMPIC. These are certain elements and condiments, such as salt, pepperand vinegar, onions, cream, eggs, a good stock, and a block of Parmesancheese, by help of which any capable cook ought to be able to makeelderly horse savoury, or old shoe palatable. So there are certaindramatic spices and condiments of stage-effect, by aid of which anydecent dramatist ought to be able to make improbability acceptable,extravagance thrilling, and vulgarity amusing. loves Martyr is a dish in which these well-known, but never-failingelements have been used in the dressing of a dramatic plat, in which,though we seem familiar with revery flavour, Mr. British Public stillacknowledges the potency of the old spices, and swallows them, notonly without wry faces but with apparent satisfaction. Take a dying old lady, a will, a dose of laudanum, a gossiping nu

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