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    Mr. Punch in the Highlands
    Mr. Punch in the Highlands
    Mr. Punch in the Highlands
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    Mr. Punch in the Highlands

    By Various Various, John Alexander Hammerton, others and Charles Keene

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Title: Mr. Punch in the Highlands

      Author: Various

      Editor: J. A. Hammerton

      Illustrator: Charles Keene

      and others

      Release Date: October 30, 2011 [EBook #37882]

      Language: English

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      MR. PUNCH IN THE HIGHLANDS

      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.

      THRIFT

      Highlander (he had struck his foot against a stane). Phew-ts!—e-eh what a ding ma puir buit wad a gotten if a'd had it on!!

      MR. PUNCH IN THE HIGHLANDS

      WITH 140 ILLUSTRATIONS

      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

      NORTHWARD HO!

      Scotsmen—Highlanders and Lowlanders—have furnished Mr. Punch with many of his happiest jokes. Despite the curious tradition which the Cockney imbibes with his mother's milk as to the sterility of Scotland in humour, the Scots are not only the cause of humour in others but there are occasions when they prove themselves not entirely bereft of the faculty which, with his charming egoism, the Cockney supposes to be his own exclusive birthright. Indeed, we have it on the authority of Mr. Spielmann, the author of "The History of Punch, that of the accepted jokes from unattached contributors (to Punch), it is a notable fact that at least 75 per cent. comes from north of the Tweed. As a very considerable proportion of these Scottish jokes make fun of the national characteristics of the Scot, it is clear that Donald has the supreme gift of being able to laugh at himself. It should be noted, however, that Mr. Punch's most celebrated Scottish joke (Bang went saxpence"), which we give on page 153, was no invention, but merely the record of an actual conversation overheard by an Englishman!

      In the present volume the purpose has been not so much to bring together a representative collection of the Scottish humour that has appeared in Punch, but to illustrate the intercourse of the Sassenach with the Highlander, chiefly as a visitor bent on sport, and incidentally to illustrate some of the humours of Highland life. Perhaps the distinction between Highlander and Lowlander has not been very rigidly kept, but that need trouble none but the pedants, who are notoriously lacking in the sense of humour, and by that token ought not to be peeping into these pages.

      Of all Mr. Punch's contributors, we may say, without risk of being invidious, that Charles Keene was by far the happiest in the portrayal of Scottish character. His Highland types are perhaps somewhat closer to the life than his Lowlanders, but all are invariably touched off with the kindliest humour, and never in any way burlesqued. If his work overshadows that of the other humorous artists past and present represented in this volume, it is for the reason stated; yet it will be found that from the days of John Leech to those of Mr. Raven-Hill, Mr. Punch's artists have seldom been more happily inspired than when they have sought to depict Highland life and the lighter side of sport and travel north of the Tweed.

      MR. PUNCH IN THE HIGHLANDS

      SPORTING NOTES

      The following are the notes we have received from our Sporting Contributor. I wish we could say they were a fair equivalent for the notes he has received from us, to say nothing of that new Henry's patent double central-fire breech-loader, with all the latest improvements, and one of Mr. Benjamin's heather-mixture suits. Such as they are we print them, with the unsatisfactory consolation that if the notes are bad they are like the sport and the birds. Of all these it may be said that bad is the best.

      North and South Uist.—The awfully hard weather—the natives call it soft here—having rendered the chances of winged game out of the question, the sportsmen who have rented the shootings are glad to try the chances of the game, sitting, and have confined themselves to the whist from which the islands take their name. Being only two, they are reduced to double dummy. As the rental of the Uist Moors is £400, they find the points come rather high—so far.

      Harris.—In spite of repeated inquiries, the proprietress of the island was not visible. Her friend, Mrs. Gamp, now here on a visit, declares she saw Mrs. H. very recently, but was quite unable to give me any information as to shootings, except the shootings of her own corns.

      Fifeshire.—The renters of the Fife shootings generally have been seriously considering the

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