Identifier: punch08lemo (find matches)
Title: Punch
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Lemon, Mark, 1809-1870 Mayhew, Henry, 1812-1887 Taylor, Tom, 1817-1880 Brooks, Shirley, 1815-1874 Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), 1836-1917 Seaman, Owen
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Publisher: (London : Punch Publications, etc.)
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Cant make a Living? Lor! Why dont you try the Injun Dodge,like me! A STUDY FROM NATURE. The beautiful statue of the Greek Slave, by Mr. Power, has excitedsuch universal admiration, that a companion to it, we understand, willshortly be exhibited by the same artist, under the title of The Ameri-can Slave. It is the figure of a negro, with his hands fastened with achain, on the manacles of which is cut the American Eagle. Round hisback is wrapped the national flag, on which the stripes are conspicuouslydisplayed. The crouching attitude of the figure is most wonderfullydepicted, but the statue is most to be admired for its powerful truth andunaffected simplicity. We have been assured by gentlemen, who havehad onportunities of judging by frequent visits to the Land of Liberty,that they have never seen anything so wonderfully true to nature. 258 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. §t^
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ADDITION PUNCHS SHOW. Mr. Catlin, now or lately of the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, wrote abook about the North American Indians. Mr. Punch, to a certainextent, proposes to take a leaf out of the book of Mr. Catlin. Thelatter exhibited his Ojibbeways and Ioways. Mr. Punch will, if he canmanage it, get up an exhibition of other savages. It is his desire to com-municate to his fellow-citizens some idea of their uncivilised ancestors.By these, he does not mean the woad-painted aborigines, but their rougeddescendants, a kind of later Picts, the somewhat less ancient Britons of acentury ago. That Punchs show will equal the Royal Bal Costume, he cannothope ; but he does hope that it will teach the public, who will notbe admitted to the former sight, what a degraded race of beings weretheir said forefathers. For this purpose, he thinks of taking some rooms,probably at the back of his office, therein to display these savages intheir own barbarous costumes. Being unfortunately unable to wake the

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