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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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remarkwith gallant gratitude that they exhibit an endless spring. We haveseen La Sylphide surrounded by an infantile troupe to whom she stood(on a sunflower) in the endearing relation of grandmamma. Withsmiling surprise we have also listened to a vocal imperatrice, bringingdown the House as if in haughty scorn of all liability for dilapidationsimposed by the lease, under which she had held it spell-bound for aterm of ninety-nine years. Is there not ample warrant then for charac-terising this as the Age of Lignum Vitse. KING HONESTMANS BEST POLICY. If purblind statecraft Italy deceives, She 11 join the baser of contending thieves, And, to redeem Yenetia, share the theft Of States on false pretence from Denmark reft. King Honestman, be warned! Risk not thy throne! Bide thou thy time—reserve thy blow till then. Now rogues are falling out; soon honest menMay, honesty preserving, win their own. The Rakes Progress.—Over the Flower-beds. 226 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. (Mat 26, 1866.
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OUR ARTIST IS NOT IN THE BEST OP TEMPERS. HE HAS BEEN DISTURBED OFTEN BY BARGES, AND BOTHERED BY THE BLUEBOTTLES, ANDTHEN HES ACCOSTED BY WHAT APPEARS TO HIM IN THIS IRRITABLE MOOD TO BE AN Art-Critic (loq.). The Picture looks Better a Goodish Bit off, Govnour !Artist (maddened). Con—found So do You, Sir ! (Party makes off hastily, not liking the looks of him. FROLICS AND FASHIONS. Mr. Punch, Novuls now-a-days is all the goowi young whimmen. I heerdone o my gals tother day rade a rum passidge out o one of them theresart o books by the neam o Chandos. Rum, I calls ut, though thetipple you 11 find menshund int aint that sperrut. Twas about ayoung ooman, one Flory Delorme, discribun her gwaiuns on wiChandos in the midst or an intoxicatun atmuspheer of pasteels andparfewms, and wines, and crished vlowers, and bruised froots, andglancun tresses, and langwid eyes, and lips fit for the hymns of aCatullus —not much, I take it, like Dr. Wattss. In this herelucksurius higgledy-piggledy, whi

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