Punch Volume 80-81

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...and wuss, To sell for pennies to the folks as goes outside a buss; But them as rides in carridges did always use to boast They took a more expensive print--the genteel Morning Post. All fashionable noos was there delightin' you and me, With sometimes verses by a Lord--his name was Winchelsea 1 And Mister Jenkins did nis best to keep it com-il-fo; But what on earth can we read now? that's what 1 want to know! These social dimmocrats will find as Lords is up to snuff, They won't 50 and demean themselves with buying penny stuff: Why even Licensed Wittlers beats the Peerage now, they'll say, They have an orgin of their own that's thruppenoe every day! A Most Miserable Business. Herb Most has been sentenced to sixteen months' hard labour. In his most wretched paper, and in most wretched articles, he advocated the cowardly assassination of those more than most unhappy persons whose misfortune it is to be called kings. The Judge who tried him spoke of imprisonment with hard labour for the most part as if he had experienced it himself. Either the Judge's English was most wretched or his sermon was most wretchedly reported; and whether Most got the least or the most punishment that could be given, it was a most miserable business altogether. Litera-chewer At The Munching House. It was very kind of the Lord Mator to ask us, and to provide a number of noble Lords to talk prettily to us after dinner) but many of us would prefer to be poor old Doctor Johnson, eating his food behind a screen, than a crowd of nobodies honoured for nothing by a public banquet. THE LYCEUM PROGRAMME. Tax Belle's Stratagem, and the Bells without the Stratagem. Quite a Casus Belli. Why not finish with Jingle t "It 'b diffioult enough to pick out a 'winkle with a pin," said an unsucce...