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    Mr. Punch's Life in London
    Mr. Punch's Life in London
    Mr. Punch's Life in London
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    Mr. Punch's Life in London

    By Various Various and John Alexander Hammerton

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    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Mr. Punch's Life in London - Various Various

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Mr. Punch's Life in London, by Various

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      Title: Mr. Punch's Life in London

      Author: Various

      Editor: J. A. Hammerton

      Release Date: May 15, 2012 [EBook #39707]

      Language: English

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      MR. PUNCH'S LIFE IN LONDON

      PUNCH LIBRARY OF HUMOUR

      Edited by J. A. HAMMERTON

      Designed to provide in a series of volumes, each complete in itself, the cream of our national humour, contributed by the masters of comic draughtsmanship and the leading wits of the age to Punch, from its beginning in 1841 to the present day.

      MR. PUNCH'S LIFE IN LONDON

      [Illustration]

      * * * * *

      [Illustration: Fussy Old Lady. "Now, don't forget, conductor, I want the Bank of England."

      Conductor. "All right, mum." (Aside.) "She don't want much, do she, mate?"]

      * * * * *

      MR. PUNCH'S LIFE IN LONDON.

      [Illustration]

      AS PICTURED BY

      PHIL MAY, CHARLES KEENE, GEORGE DU MAURIER, L. RAVEN-HILL, J. BERNARD PARTRIDGE, E. T. REED, G. D. ARMOUR, F. H. TOWNSEND, FRED PEGRAM, C. E. BROCK, TOM BROWNE, A. S. BOYD, A. WALLIS MILLS, STARR WOOD, DUDLEY HARDY, AND MANY OTHER HUMORISTS.

      IN 180 ILLUSTRATIONS

      [Illustration]

      PUBLISHED BY ARRANGEMENT WITH THE PROPRIETORS OF PUNCH

      THE EDUCATIONAL BOOK CO. LTD.

      * * * * *

      THE PUNCH LIBRARY OF HUMOUR

      Twenty-five volumes, crown 8vo, 192 pages, fully illustrated

      LIFE IN LONDON COUNTRY LIFE IN THE HIGHLANDS SCOTTISH HUMOUR IRISH HUMOUR COCKNEY HUMOUR IN SOCIETY AFTER DINNER STORIES IN BOHEMIA AT THE PLAY MR. PUNCH AT HOME ON THE CONTINONG RAILWAY BOOK AT THE SEASIDE MR. PUNCH AFLOAT IN THE HUNTING FIELD MR. PUNCH ON TOUR WITH ROD AND GUN MR. PUNCH AWHEEL BOOK OF SPORTS GOLF STORIES IN WIG AND GOWN ON THE WARPATH BOOK OF LOVE WITH THE CHILDREN

      * * * * *

      [Illustration: SHAKESPEARE ON THE STREETS

      (See King Henry the Fourth, Act III., Sc. 1.)

      Glendower (to Hotspur). Cousin of many men, I do not bear these crossings.]

      * * * * *

      [Illustration: A SKETCH IN REGENT STREET.—Puzzle—On which side are the shop windows?]

      * * * * *

      ROUND THE TOWN

      In the sixty-six years of his existence MR. PUNCH has at one time or another touched upon every phase of life in London. He has moved in high society; he has visited the slums; he has been to the churches, the theatres, the concert rooms; he has travelled on the railways, in the 'buses and the cabs; he has amused himself on 'Change; he has gone shopping; he has lounged in the clubs, been a shrewd watcher and listener at the Law Courts, dined in the hotels and restaurants, sat in Parliament, made merry in the servants' hall, loitered along the pavements with a quick eye and ear for the wit and humour of the streets, and dropped in casually, a genial and observant visitor, at the homes and haunts of all sorts and conditions of men and women.

      Obviously it is impossible that the fruits of all this adventuring could be gathered into a single volume; some of them are garnered already in other volumes of this series, in books that deal particularly with MR. PUNCH'S representations of what he has seen and heard of Society, of the Cockney, of the Lawyers, of our Domestics, of Clubmen and Diners-out, of the Theatres; therefore, in the present volume, we have limited him in the main to his recollections of the actual civic life in London, to his diversions on the Stock Exchange and in the Money Market generally, his pictured and written quips and jests about London's businesses and business men, with glimpses of what he knows of the variously dazzling and more or less strenuous life that everywhere environs these.

      * * * * *

      [Illustration: SUBJECT FOR A DECORATIVE PANEL.—Road up. Time—in the height of the season. Place—everywhere.]

      * * * * *

      [Illustration]

      MR. PUNCH'S LIFE IN LONDON

      THE CITY ARTICLE.—Money.

      * * * * *

      FROM THE STREETS.—A street conjuror complained the other day that he couldn't throw the knives and balls about, because he did not feel in the vein.

      In what vein? asked a bystander, weakly.

      The juggler vein, of course, stupid! was the answer.

      [The bystander retired.

      * * * * *

      A LIGHT EMPLOYMENT.—Cleaning windows.

      * * * * *

      "The Model Ready Reckoner."—The man with his last shilling.

      * * * * *

      MONEY-MARKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE.—Operators for the rise—aeronauts; likewise anglers.

      * * * * *

      JUST OFF—THE BOURSE.—Stockbroker (to Client who has been pretty well loaded with certain scrip). Well, it just comes to

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