Identifier: punchv40lemo (find matches)
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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re none of the so-reckoned educated classes who let offsquibs and roman candles without looking who were near them, or ifthey looked, perhaps picked out a place for the discharge where Crino-line did mostly congregate ? Of course their plea would be, that theydid it for a lark, and had no intention to injure anybody. But isthis plea, do you think, a reasonable excuse for frightening womeninto fits, and burning upwards of a score of them ? And if personsdont know better how they should conduct themselves when there arewomen present, dont you think it reasonable that they ought to betaught, albeit they belong to the educated classes ? The Ribbon Conspiracy. We never like to be rude to good folk, but just now we should feeiinclined to send all charitable souls to Coventry; and although a firmfriend of peace, law, and order, we should not object to see Bib-bonism in the ascendency in England. Hats off, Ladies, and bonnetsto the rescue! 36 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. (January 26, 1861.
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THE CLERICAL BEARD MOVEMENT. We do not for one moment presume to say whether it is right or wrong,—only, if this sort of thing is to prevail, whats to become of Captain Heavyswell? EEOST AND THAW. It was hard King Frost and soft Queen Thaw, Came lately to a tussle,Where the King he prevailed, with his hands ice-mailed, And his iron strength of muscle.And with scornful mien, he bespake the Queen, Who strove to invade his dominions,With her languid sighs, and her weeping eyes, And her soft and drooping pinions— Quoth he, Begone to the snivelling South, Where the mist hangs hot and heavy:There bid parched air from steaming earth Its toll of moisture levy.Go, slacken the hold of the slight Spring-cold, And melt the April rime,But leave to me black Januarie, And the bitter New Year time. I crack the tire, I rive the rail, I mock the might of iron,Make brittle the bone, and shatter the stone, And the mountains with ice environ.A touch—the mattock and spade are still, The trowel and ho

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