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    Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour
    Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour
    Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour
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    Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour - John Alexander Hammerton

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour, by Various

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      Title: Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour

      Author: Various

      Editor: J. A. Hammerton

      Illustrator: Various

      Release Date: January 15, 2012 [EBook #38586]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MR. PUNCH'S COCKNEY HUMOUR ***

      Produced by Neville Allen, David Edwards and the Online

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

      file was produced from images generously made available

      by The Internet Archive)

      MR. PUNCH'S COCKNEY HUMOUR

      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

      One of Nature's Gallants.

      Loafer (to fair occupant on her way to Court). Ullo, Ethel! All alone?

      MR. PUNCH'S COCKNEY HUMOUR

      IN PICTURE AND STORY

      WITH 133 ILLUSTRATIONS

      BY

      PHIL MAY, CHARLES KEENE,

      L. RAVEN-HILL, TOM BROWNE,

      C. SHEPPERSON, E. T. REED,

      BERNARD PARTRIDGE, J. A. SHEPHERD,

      G. D. ARMOUR, GEORGE DU MAURIER,

      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

      EDITOR'S NOTE

      Cockney humour smacks, of course, of the town and makes up in smartness and shrewdness what it lacks in mellowness. The Cockney is as a rule a conscious humorist; you laugh with him very often, whereas you nearly always laugh at the rustic humorist.

      George Du Maurier concerned himself a good deal with Cockney character, but he was not in sympathy with the Cockney; generally he had an obvious contempt for him, and most of his jokes turn on the dropped H, the mispronounced word, and educational deficiencies. He portrays some of the Cockney's superficial characteristics; he despises him too much to be able to get at the heart of him and reveal his character.

      Take Phil May's pictures and jokes, and the difference is at once apparent. He was fully alive to the Cockney's deficiencies of manner and culture; now and then he quite genially and without the least touch of scorn or self-complacency makes fun of them; but he really gives you the Cockney character. Take, for instance, such a picture as his Politics and Gallantry, his I say, 'Arry, don't we look frights! his Informal Introduction—(the self-consciousness of the girl's expression, and the blatant pride of the man's)—here, and in almost any of his drawings you turn to, you have the absolutely natural Cockney; his types are full of character and so true and free from condescension that not only are we moved irresistibly to laugh at them, but the Cockney himself would be the first to recognise their truth and to laugh joyously at them too. We may say pretty much the same of Charles Keene, of Mr. Raven-Hill, of Mr. Bernard Partridge, and of others of the Punch artists represented here, who illustrate the essential Cockney character, and do not go on the easy assumption that dropped H's and mispronounced words and aggressive vulgarity are the beginning and the end of it.

      Cockney humour smacks, of course, of the town and makes up in smartness and shrewdness what it lacks in mellowness. The Cockney is as a rule a conscious humorist; you laugh with him very often, whereas you nearly always laugh at the rustic humorist.

      George Du Maurier concerned himself a good deal with Cockney character, but he was not in sympathy with the Cockney; generally he had an obvious contempt for him, and most of his jokes turn on the dropped H, the mispronounced word, and educational deficiencies. He portrays some of the Cockney's superficial characteristics; he despises him too much to be able to get at the heart of him and reveal his character.

      Take Phil May's pictures and jokes, and the difference is at once apparent. He was fully alive to the Cockney's deficiencies of manner and culture; now and then he quite genially and without the least touch of scorn or self-complacency makes fun of them; but he really gives you the Cockney character. Take, for instance, such a picture as his Politics and Gallantry, his I say, 'Arry, don't we look frights! his

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