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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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our waiters call an ontray is a stale scrap oftough chicken, or a brace of lukewarm oysters lying buried in a tombof cold and leaden crust. Hardly envying you your dinners at this gay time of year, remem-bering how many public ones you are condemned to, for public dinnersare, 1 fancy, even worse than table dhotes, Believe me, yours serenely, Solon Epicurus Smith. The Scoundrels of the Stock Exchange. Scoundrels, that gamble in bank shares, By swindling sales cause wreck and ruin.We call this kind of rascals Bears; A gross reflection upon Bruin.These rogues, who break bank after bank, Have their abettors in the CityFor an unchecked career to thank. Have they not, Stock Exchange Committee ? social reelection for a jester. He must be a heartless man, who, having met with a poor old jokeseveral times, afterwards cuts it in society. Why are the ladies of the Ballet very kind to their relations ?Because they are so fond of their giand-pas. 268 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. (Juke 23, 1866.
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A GUILTY CONSCIENCE. Country Parson (to hard-drinking Old Paivper). Wht, surely, Mcggridge, you were Relieved last Week from the CommunionAlms! Muggridge. Communion Arms, Sir! S trues I Stand here, never vas inside the Ouse in all my Life, Sir! Never HEERD OF IT, SlR ! PITY THE POOR BEAR! There was a time when the cruel pastime of Bear-Baiting wasreckoned among the manly sports of Old England. So was Bull-Baiting.Both these amusements are now contrary to the statute against crueltyto animals. The latter has been for a long time entirely discontinued ;the former is in a sense and in a measure occasionally practised still.Bulls, indeed, are never baited ; but an attempt has lately been madeto get up a baiting of Bears on the Stock Exchange. As yet, however,those Bears have only been baited morally, and of course such animalsare insensible to any but a physical baiting. Up to the present time,however, they have none of them actually been tied to a stake andworried by dogs. But neverthele

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