Punch (1841) (14789553813) - Public domain book illustration

Identifier: punch08lemo (find matches)

Title: Punch

Year: 1841 (1840s)

Authors: Lemon, Mark, 1809-1870 Mayhew, Henry, 1812-1887 Taylor, Tom, 1817-1880 Brooks, Shirley, 1815-1874 Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), 1836-1917 Seaman, Owen

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Publisher: (London : Punch Publications, etc.)

Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Those who have an objection to be what is technically termed up totheir ankles, when promenading in the city, may possibly be disposed tofollow the example of the honourable member, and the stilt may becomeas important a part of the chaussure as the patten used to be in the daysof our forefathers—or, rather, our fore-mothers ; for we cannot supposethat our forefathers, odd as they were in some of their ways, were ad-dicted to walking about in pattens. We should recommend turning Temple Bar into a stilt-station, wherefoot-passengers might be accommodated with a pair of stilts ; on the sameprinciple as that adopted by the lessors of skates, during the frost, on thebanks of the Serpentine. A Strange Trutb. Q. Reader, did you ever see a little dog—a pestilent little varmint—whenever a high-spirited horse passed it, run into the road, and followyelping at the noble animals heels ?—A. I have seen such a dog. Q. And what was the dogs name ?—A. Roebuck.

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STAND AND DELIVER! PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 115 PUNCHS FAIRY TALES, (with obtrusively obvious morals,) For the New Generation.Once upon a time there was an old king, whose name was King Dan.This king had been very rich and powerful; but, as he grew old, hisrevenue dwindled and dwindled away, and his hereditary bondsmen de-serted him one after another, till at last he was left alone in his palace, bythe sea-shore, with his three sons and one old servant. This old servanthad been the court fool, and was called faithful Tom, or sometimes TomSteel : not from his being sharp, for that he certainly was not, but becausehe was true to King Dan, as the needle to the pole—or as the Pole himselfto the neighbourhood of Leicester Square. To add to the poor old Kingsmisery, (for he had been a very merry old king, and had loved good cheer,when other peoples money paid for it,) he was prevailed upon by his fatherconfessor to register a vow somewhere that he would never drink anythingstronger

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