Identifier: punchv50lemo (find matches)
Title: Punch
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Lemon, Mark, 1809-1870 Mayhew, Henry, 1812-1887 Taylor, Tom, 1817-1880 Brooks, Shirley, 1816-1874 Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), 1836-1917 Seaman, Owen, 1861-1936
Subjects: English wit and humor English wit and humor, Pictorial
Publisher: (London) : (Punch Publications Ltd., etc.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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e for ever. Isabel. Your manner frightens me, but j et I have strength to protest.Violence is not argument. Augustus. I am not violent. But I will give you one proof that I ama man to be trusted, and, if this fails, farewell for ever, loveliest butmost sceptical of angels. Isabel (agitated). Speak, speak, Augustus! Augustus (solemnly). I am a regular and diligent student of Punch. Isabel. I am yours. Augustus. Ecstasy! Isabel. But, my own one, for my own character as a Huxleian, Imust even; have this proved. May I question you on the contents ofhis last six numbers ? Augustus. Willingly. But it must not be a Competitive Examina-tion. Have I a rival ? Isabel. Dearer to me for that doubt, for once accept an unsupportedallegation. You have no rival, except Tattebs. Now, Sir. (The curtain falls as Isabel, seated close beside Augustus, (Tattebsgrowling horribly,) points out the last Cartoon, and smilinglydesires him to explain its merits. 144 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. (Apeil 7, 1866.
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CHILDREN AND FOOLS SPEAK TRUTH. Mamma. Now, is there Anything Else I want ? Alice (who has watched the toilet proceeding with interest and curiosity). The Body, Mamma. MITTIMUS EXTRAORDINARY. A Policeman disguised in plain clothes lays violent hands on agentleman whom he mistakes for a thief, and is himself mistaken for athief by that gentleman, who stabs him, acting, as he supposes, in self-defence. The gentleman is taken to Greenwich.Police-court, remandedfor six weeks, and (finally committed for trial, at the Old Bailey, byMr. Traill, who makes a speech, wherein he says that :— From the time of the first hearing his opinion was, that the case was of suchgeneral public importance that it ought properly to be sent to another Court, andthis should be done in order that some expressions of the Judge before -whom it■would have to be tried might be elicited in reference to the employment of police-men in plain clothes ; for until this were done there would be no alteration. Of course

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