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    Mr. Punch's After-Dinner Stories
    Mr. Punch's After-Dinner Stories
    Mr. Punch's After-Dinner Stories
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    Mr. Punch's After-Dinner Stories

    By John Alexander Hammerton and John Leech

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Mr. Punch's After-Dinner Stories - John Alexander Hammerton

      Project Gutenberg's Mr. Punch's After-Dinner Stories,

      edited by J. A. Hammerton

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

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      Title: Mr. Punch's After-Dinner Stories

      Editor: J. A. Hammerton

      Illustrator: John Leech

      and others

      Release Date: October 1, 2010 [EBook #33824]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MR. PUNCH'S AFTER-DINNER STORIES ***

      Produced by Neville Allen, Chris Curnow and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This

      file was produced from images generously made available

      by The Internet Archive)

      TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE.

      Some pages of this work have been moved from the original sequence to enable the contents to continue without interruption. The page numbering remains unaltered.

      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 AFTER-DINNER STORIES

      Progress.—"I maintain that the race has improved in physique since those days. Now we couldn't get into that armour!"

      MR. PUNCH'S

      AFTER-DINNER STORIES

      WITH 155

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      BY

      JOHN LEECH,

      CHARLES KEENE,

      GEORGE DU MAURIER,

      PHIL MAY,

      L. RAVEN-HILL,

      J. BERNARD PARTRIDGE,

      F. H. TOWNSEND,

      REGINALD CLEAVER,

      LEWIS BAUMER,

      A. S. BOYD,

      TOM WILKINSON,

      G. D. ARMOUR,

      AND OTHERS

      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

      POST-PRANDIAL WIT

      There is a sense, of course, in which everything from the pages of Mr. Punch might be regarded as coming into a collection entitled After Dinner Stories. All good stories are really for telling after dinner. Somehow or other one seldom associates wit and humour with the breakfast table, although the celebrated breakfast parties of Rogers, the banker, were doubtless in no way deficient in either. Over the walnuts and wine, when men have feasted well and are feeling on the best of terms with themselves and their fellows, the cares of the day put past and the pleasures of the gas-lit hours begun, that is undoubtedly the ideal time for the flow of wit.

      It must not, therefore, be thought that the present volume is in anywise distinguished from the others of the series to which it belongs in the appropriateness of its contents for the dinner party. No more than any of its companions is it designed to that end; but as it is concerned almost exclusively with the humours of dining, with stories of diners, it will be admitted that its title is not without justification. Private dinner parties, public banquets, the solitary dinner at the restaurant, the giving and accepting of invitations, these and many other phases of dining come within its scope, and if it be noticed that a considerable amount of its humour has something of the fragrance of good old port—to say nothing of the aroma of wines that are bad!—it can only be retorted that Mr. Punch's duty has ever been to mirror the manners of the changing time, and in his early days the wine flowed more freely than it does to-day. For our personal taste we could have wished less of this humour of the bottle, but throughout this library an effort has been made to maintain in some degree a historical perspective, so that, in addition to the prime purpose of entertainment, each of these books in Mr. Punch's Library might be a faithful picture of the manners of the Victorian period in which most of his life has been passed. If to-day these manners seem to us just a trifle coarser than we esteem the social habits of our own day, surely that is a comforting reflection and one not lightly to be lost!

      MR. PUNCH'S

      AFTER-DINNER STORIES

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