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"Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete"

--Whack! whack!
COACHMAN.--Come up, you varmint!
OFF-SIDE HORSE--Varmint! and to me! the nephew of the great Lottery! O
Pegasus! what shall I come to next!
NEAR-SIDE HORSE.--Alamode beef, may be, or perhaps pork sassages!
* * * * *
The old woman was so long in that house where she stopped, that I was
obleeged to toddle home, for my wife has a rather unpleasant way of taking
me by the scruff of my neck if I ain't pretty regular in my hours.
Yours, werry obediently, TOBY.
* * * * *

COURT CIRCULAR.
Communicated exclusively to this Journal by MASTER JONES, whose services
we have succeeded in retaining, though opposed by the enlightened manager
of a metropolitan theatre, whose anxiety to advance the interest of the
drama is only equalled by his ignorance of the means.
* * * * *
Since the dissolution of Parliament, Lord Melbourne has confined himself
entirely to _stews_.
Stalls have been fitted up in the Royal nursery for the reception of two
Alderney cows, preparatory to the weaning of the infant Princess; which
delicate duty Mrs.


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