Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, December 31, 1887
Part 3
I didn't think it worth while to tell him that I had only been in Brussells two days, and that it rained all the time, as I was told it amost always does there, hence so many Brussells Sprouts, but I at wunce made up my mind to strike up a closer acquaintence with one of our yung French Waiters to himprove myself in his tung, and himprove him in ours. And I'm getting on quite wunderfool. Why, ony yesterday a forren gent said to me, "Encore de Pulley, Gasson!" to which I at wunce replied, "Be hanged! Mossoo," and took him some. I was a good deal emused at his calling me a boy, but my young French friend told me as it was only their way, and didn't mean no offense, so I forguv him. But wot a langwidge! to encore a biled chicking as if it was a comick song! Of course I sumtimes makes mistakes, who woodn't? Last Munday, for instance, a forrener asked me for some raisins, and of course I took him some and some armonds with 'em, but he larfed quite artily, and kindly sed, "I sink as you calls 'em grapes," but wot ignorance, not to know one from the other!
I find too, werry much to my discumfort and worry, that I am xpected to bussel about jest as if I was the mere boy as the French gents calls me, witch is of coarse so werry different to what I have for so many years bin akustomed to in the dear, old, quiet, respecktable City, that I sumtimes wunders whether I shall be able to stand it for long. Another thing too as I misses terribly, is the hutter habsence of Toastes. No loyal Toastes, nor no Army and Navy and Wolluntears, and no blushing Churchman's helth, nor no Lord Mayor's helth, but dreckly as they've dun their dinner away they goes to the Play or some such frivolus emusement, insted of setting for ours and ours over their wine, and lissening with rapshure to the long speaches, as full of wit as they is of wisdom, which has made us what we are, the sollemest, and the most respectablest, and the most diningoutest peeple in Urope, and the best frends to the pore hardworking Waiters of any other nation.
What a glorious free-drinking race we must have bin in days gone by! How one's respect rises up when one hears of a digneterry of the Church who lived to the green old age of 80, becoz he always drunk a bottle of old port every day of his life from his youth upwards. How artily I wish I coud afford to foller his brillyant xampel! and so gain the profound admiration of my fellow men, as he did. Why, to such a man his dinner must have bin to him the one great object of his life, as it ort to be to every reel Gentleman. My son WILLIAM, who is a good calculator, tells me that this trewly reverend Diwine must have drunk a hole Pipe of Port ewery two years of his life! What a time of it his rewerend Butler must have had! ROBERT.
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SWIVELLERIANISM.
From the Police Reports we have discovered that there is a Society called "The Social Trumps." What a Swivellerian title! The dispute which made these trumps Police Court Cards turned on a question of money, and the Magistrate, Mr. LUSHINGTON (could there have been a more significantly appropriate name for a justice having to decide a Swivellerian case?) recommended the Social Trumps to settle their little difficulty amicably among themselves. We hope the Trumps went and had a jolly blow out together, enlivened with songs about "The Rosy" and "Glorious Apollo," and sentiments to the effect that none of them "might ever want a friend or a bottle to give him." The "Social Trumps" must be enjoying their Christmas festivities. Their Christmas, of course, is The King of Trumps.
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CHRISTMAS CRIMES.
(_Dedicated to the unfortunate Concocters of Sensational Leading Articles._)
"A merry Christmas! And why not a Merry Christmas, we should like to be informed? Is it not far better to be joyous and mirthful than to be----" (&c. Supply vigorous epithets here). "A black-souled tyrant like CÆSAR BORGIA could, no doubt, spend his Yule-tide in----" (&c., &c. Invent some revolting anecdote about CÆSAR B.) "Yet even those insufficiently clad progenitors of ours, the ancient Druids, seem to have understood as though by instinct the solemn nature of the season which to-day ushers in, and in what Mr. FREEMAN----" (or was it Lord TENNYSON? Never mind--chance it!)--"calls the 'dateless dawn of history,' they first employed the mistletoe bough for ritual, and perhaps even for osculatory, purposes, and habitually gave themselves an extra coat of paint on the 25th of each recurrent December. And who can blame them?" (Recollect that interrogatories, addressed to nobody in particular, add force to a style.) "What though our modern Yule-tide ceremonies are a mere survival of----" (Here bring in anything you know about the Roman Saturnalia, say something pretty about holly being Scandinavian, and that "Waits" were quite common in Athens in SOPHOCLES' time, especially on the stage. Then go on triumphantly and truculently, as if you had proved your point down to the ground)--"What difference does it make? It is the great holiday of the Winter----" (This will be a novel idea to most of your readers.) "For the children, who gather round the cheerful fire, and listen to the ghost-story invented by some eloquently mendacious uncle, the season positively sparkles and scintillates with happiness."
"How exquisitely pleasant it is to hear the childish voices," &c., &c. (to any amount).
"Even for the elders, too, there is a mirth and joy about the Sacred Season, as they calmly retire to their beds just when the row down-stairs is becoming unbearable, and locking their doors, look carefully round the room to see that the jug is filled in readiness for the midnight serenaders of this blissful time.
"When DICKENS drew his immortal picture of----" (&c., &c. Here gush at length about _Gabriel Grubb_, _Tiny Tim_, and anybody suitable, from _The Christmas Chimes or Carols_), "or when WASHINGTON IRVING depicted the more than feudal merry-makings at"--(&c., &c. Try to cook up as much about _Bracebridge Hall_ as you think the public will stand. Perhaps a few practical words at the end would be advisable, as follows):--
"And after our traditional Yule-tide offerings are over; after the preposterous claims of the postman and the lamp-lighter have been liquidated by liquor or satisfied by sixpences; then can we forget that besides this private bounty we also have a duty to our country? Lives there the man with soul so dead, Whose heart within him has not bled, And who, quite promptly has not fled, at mention of that grandest of Nineteenth Century inspirations, the Jubilee Imperial Institute? The Imperial Institute is----" (Here mention what it is. If you don't quite know, you can count upon none of your readers being any the wiser. Then add appeals for cash, a few more Yule-tide common-places, and a general and genial wind-up.)
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When a judgment is re-versed, ought not the original to have been in rhyme?
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ABSURD to a Degree, 13
Actor's Progress (The), 203
Adam Slaughterman, 88
Addio, Adelina! 286
Advice Gratis, 246
Albert Hall Concert, 244
All in Play, 49, 88, 100, &c.
All the Difference, 82, 222
"All the Talents," 300
Almost too Good to be True, 251
Alteram Partem, 278
Amen! 253
American China, 146
American Chorus, 249
Another "Butler;" or, A Thorne in his side, 301
Another Chance for Joe and Jesse, 215
Arms and the (Police) Man, 17
'Arry at the Sea-side, 111
'Arry on Angling, 45
'Arry on his Critics, 280
'Arry on Law and Order, 249
'Arry on Ochre, 169
Artist's Holiday (The), 94
At Hawarden, 226
At Home with Atoms, 114
At the Lyceum, 26
At the Naval Review, 30
At the Oval, 61
Autumn Lay (An), 189
BABES in the Christmas Wood (The), 267
Backing Baco, 126
Bacon Again, 288
Bacon v. Shakspeare, 286
Bad News for Tea-Drinkers, 192
Ballade of the House (A), 82
Ballade of the Timid Bard, 185
Ballet (The), 97
Bard at Henley (The), 5
Barr Drink (A), 137
Bartlett's Baby, 214
Battle of the Way (The), 157
"Bearing of it lies in the Application" (The), 219
Bicyclists of England (The), 145
Big Work and Little Hands, 184
Bishop and Port, 254
Black Affair at Hayti (A), 217
Blessings in Disguise, 29
Bob Sawyer Redivivus, 179
Bogey in Bond Street, 190
"Bon Voyage!" 93
Bounties to Foreigners, 205
Boy and the Bear (The), 142
Brigand's Doom (The), 129
Burly Gentleman (A), 232
Burning Question (A), 96
By a Canterbury Belle, 69
By George! 231
CASE-o'-my-Banker, 118
Chairs to Mend, 190
Change, 75
Change of Name, 106
Channel Talk, 81, 191
"Charles our Friend," 222
Chess-shire Cheese (A), 58
Chimes (The), 294
Christmas Crimes, 310
"Christmas is Coming!" 243
Circular Note (A), 293
Circus Performances, 117
Clear as Crystal; or, All about it, 29
Cloud of Yachts (A), 193
"Cold id by Doze," 196
Complaint of the Cockney Clerk (The), 167
Confessor's Costume (A), 244
Conscientious Apparition (The), 298
Conventional Politeness, 210
Cornet and Piano, 301
Correct Card (The), 62
Country Cousin's Vade Mecum (The), 46
Court Circular (The), 40
Crossing the Bar, 165
Cry from the Counting-house (A), 285
DARK Look-out (A), 17
Day Out (A), 26
Dear Departed (The), 298
Derby and Gladstone, 203
Despatch with Economy, 38
Difficult Navigation, 54
Disputed Will (A), 273
Doll-ce Domum, 309
Down-y Philosopher (A), 261
Dramatic Oratorio (A), 269
Drury Lane with Pleasure, 113
Duke's Motto (The), 123
Dustman and the Barge-Owner (The), 239
'EAT of Discussion (The), 145
Echoes from St. James's Palace, 178
Elegant Extracts by Eminent Men, 61
End of the Jubilee (The), 62
End of the Summer (An), 133
Epitaph (An), 40
Essence of Parliament, 11, 23, 35, &c.
Euthanasia, 203
Eviction, 74
Extra Special, 246
FATHER of the Man (The), 123
Ferdinand and Ariel, 76
"Finis Coronat Opus," 76
Fire and Water, 78
First in the Field, 112
Fishers (The), 219
Fistic Crack, Smith (The), 286
Fling at Fair Traders, 277
Floreat Maschera! 3
Fly and the Farmers (The), 106
For an Irish Trip, 118
Foreign Language Competition, 70
Forest Talk, 166
Foul is Fair, 40
Founded on Fact, 291
Four Noble Burglars (The), 216
From a Country Cousin, 303
From Mr. Henry Irving's Note-Book, 201
Furnishing Fictionists, 292
Future Position of the Army (The), 276
GARDEN, Lane, and Market, 5
Garden Talk, 153
Gentle Johnny Bull, 208
Gentle Shepherd! 173
"Gesta Grayorum," 16
Gladstone Bait (The), 230
"Glass Falling!" 66
Gog and Magog at the Ball, 9
Gold and Steel, 158
"Good Gun" (A), 90
Grandolph's Teachings, 21
Grasp your Thistle, 161
Great News for the Impecunious, 141
Great Thirst Land (The), 40
HAVOC! 61
Hazard of A-dye (The), 66
Heavy Lightning, 145
Henry Mayhew, 53
Hibernia to the Queen, 9
Hints for the Unemployed, 202
Hint to the Howlers (A), 113
His First Appearance at the Café des Ambassadeurs, 218
Holiday Hints, 105
"Homes in the Hills," 102
"Home, Sweet Home!" 12
House and Home, 129
How Then? 166
How to Escape the Fog, 258
Humility, 221
Hydropathic Art, 278
Hygienic, 153
IMPERIAL Institutors, 204
Important Summing-Up (An), 255
In Convocation, 24
Infant Phenomenon (The), 306
Ingratitude of Grandolph (The), 227
Insurer's Phrase-Book (The), 77
In their Crackers, 297
In the Nick of Time, 292
Invitation (An), 87
Irish Net Profit, 108
"Irish Prosecutions," 183
JACK'S Response, 38
Jaw-holding, 220
Jenny Lind, 219
Jest in Earnest, 63
Jills in Office, 4
Joe's Jaunt, 189
Jupiter Tonans! 102
KEPT In, 250
Knight Thoughts, 197
LADIES' Law, 65
Lady Godiva and her Portraits, 14
Laissez-Faire, 110
Land Measure, 73
Lane and Garden, 33
Larks and the Roses (The), 261
Larks for Legislators, 34
Last of the Go-he-cans (The), 221
Last (Signal) Man (The), 162
Last Visit (but One) to the Academy (The), 9
Latest Addition to Fairy Land, 250
Latest and Best from Berlin (The), 270
Latest from Lord's (The), 2
Latest Street Improvement, 15
Lawful (?) Latitude, 84
Lay of Lawrence Moor! 292
Learned Protest (A), 297
Learning the Language, 117
Legion of Dishonour (The), 182
Lesson for the Day (The), 242
Lesson of the Royal Review (The), 28
Letter-Bag of Toby, M.P., 173, 184, 196, &c.
Lichfield House of Call (A), 180
Light from the Wind, 133
Lighting the Dublin Beacon, 258
Line for Browning (A), 237
Literary Find (A), 252
Loaded with Presents, 174
"Long expected come at Last!" 5
Lord Mayor's Day in Dublin (A), 170
Lord Salisbury's Shakspeare, 273
Lords and Ladies, 21
Lost Record (The), 130
MAGAZINES in Bulk, 205
Making it Easy, 42
Manners and Customs of the City of London, 228
Marble Arch (The), 73
"Margarine," 34
May in November, 242
Measure for Measure, 96
Medical New Year's Day (The), 166
Messenger of Peace (The), 186
"Mi Lor Maire," 240
Mixed Pickles; or, A Very Late Party, 14
More Advice Gratis, 130
More Jills in Office, 17
More Realism, 221
More Reminiscences, 232
Morning's Reflections (The), 157
Mr. Gladstone on the Fifth of November, 208
Mr. Punch's Manual for Young Reciters, 25, 37, 64, &c.
Muse in Manacles (The), 192
"My Lawyer," 26
Mysterious Paper (A), 225
NAPPY Holiday (A), 228
Necessary Explanation (A), 278
Negative Results, 238
Ne Plus Ulster, 191
New, and Bad, "Hatch" (The), 6
New North-West Passage (The), 174
New Quixote (The), 194
New Sixpence (The), 274
Newton and the Apple, 18
New Version, 231
New Wersion of an Old Song (A), 72
New Year Mems, 305
New Year's Card (A), 302
Not a "Deus ex Machinâ," 150
(Not at all) Bad Homburg, 155
(Not so) Bad Homburg, 143
Nottingham v. Sunderland, 201
Novel Reader's Vade Mecum (The), 105
Nu Dikshonary (The), 165
Nuggets in North Wales, 304
O'BRIEN'S Breeches, 274
Obviously, 237
Octopus of Romance and Reality (The), 171
Official Object Lessons, 22
Of the Maske-aline Gender, 28
Old Doggerel Adapted, 22
Oldest Sketching Club in the World (The), 270
"On his Own Hook!" 114
On the Stump, in Two Senses, 141
On the Wing, 138
On the Wrong Scent, 270
Open Question, 264
Operatic Confusion, 1
Our Advertisers, 149, 197, 209
Our Booking-Office, 165, 180, 192, &c.
Our Christmas Booking-Office, 281
Our Debating Club, 245, 268
Our Exchange and Mart, 49, 69
Our Ignoble Selves, 121
Our Theatrical Picture-Posters, 275
PALACE of (Advertising) Art (The), 263
Papers from Pumphandle Court, 241
Parliamentary Ballyhooly (The), 62
Parliamentary Notices, 61
Paving the Way for him, 22
"Paying their Shot," 147
Peccant Member (The), 114
Philosopher's Stone (The), 252
Philosophy at the Popping-Crease, 25
Piccadilly Players, 293
Plea for the Birds (A), 125
Pleasant Traveller's Conversation-Book (The), 73
Plentiful Lac (The), 226
Pluck of Gggrrandddolllmann's Camp (The), 285
Point of Law (A), 161
Poor Old England! 162
Powers that be (The), 245
Pretty Centenarian (A), 122
Pretty Kettle of Fish (A), 154
Price of Support (The), 85
Private Banker's Pæan (The), 77
Privileged Pistols, 73
Pro Bono Publico, 197
Professor at the Dinner-Table (The), 287
Progressive Programme (A), 193
Promenading, 246
Protest (A), 186
QUEEN at Hatfield (The), 26
Quite a Little Holiday, 179, 193
Quite Chrismassy, 281
Quite English, 134
"Quite English, you know," 282
RALEIGH too Bad, 6
Rapture, 93
Rasher Theory of Bacon (A), 278
Rather Mixed, 232
Real Grievance Office (The), 170
Real "Inky Flood" (A), 110
Real Sporting Event (A), 118
Reasons Why, 246
Recent Prize-Fight (The), 303
Regular Cell (A), 137
"Re-Joyce!" 278
Reminiscence of the Naval Review (A), 52
Richard Jeffries, 93
Rise in Balloons (A), 89
Robert at Lillie Bridge, 159
Robert at Kilburn, 255
Robert at Marlow, 125
Robert at the Academy, 13
Robert at the American Exhibition, 10
Robert at the Guildhall Ball, 33
Robert at the Ministerial Bankwet, 81
Royalty at the Palace, 4
Robert at Spithead, 57
Robert on Lord Mayor's Day, 237
Robert on Luxury, 206
Robert on Spelling, 183
Robert on the French Tung, 309
"Room and Verge," 75
Roses in December, 289
Row in the Gallery (A), 221
SAILOR'S Slip (The), 57
Salubrities Abroad, 65, 76, 86, &c.
Sardou and Sara, 258
Scarcely Worth While, 25
Scarletina at Truro, 225
Schoolmaster of the Future (The), 234
Sea-Dreams, 70
Seeing his Way, 39
Shakspeare Up Again, 289
Shakspearian Question (The), 274
Shows Views, 185, 208, 220, &c.
Shrimp Cure (The), 240
Sidonian Shakspeare, 46
Sigh of the Season (The), 106
Social Romance, 304
Society Sibyls, 279
Some More Official Jills, 50
Some Notes at Starmouth, 97, 120, 132, &c.
Something to Swallow, 303
Song by Sir Abel Handy, 24
Songs at Stamboul, 21
Soothing Song for August (A), 69
So Seasonable, you know, 245
Sound Opinion (A), 285
"Special" Reasons, 243
Stable Companion (A), 167
Straight Tip (The), 277
Strange Adventures of Ascena Lukin-glass, 109
Strictly Private, 232
Studies from Mr. Punch's Studio, 41, 204
Summer Boating Song, 58
Summer Soliloquy (A), 108
Suspiria, 229
Swivellerianism, 309
TALE of Terror (A), 110
Testimonial (A), 18
Theatrical Noes to Queries, 168
Theatrical Reciprocity, 277
Theory and Practice, 233
To a Lady Dentist, 195
To his Mistress, 249
Tom Brown & Co.'s Schooldays, 256
Too Clever by Half, 293
Too Much of a Good Thing, 3
"To Tea-pot Bay and Back," 121
To the Incomplete (Political) Angler, 209
To the Modern Men of Gotham, 281
To the Unemployed, 245
Town Mouse's Trials (The), 231
Toying with Truth, 286
Traveller's Vade Mecum (The), 64
Turning to the Left, 169
'Twill Illume, 243
Two Goats (The), 180
Two Canons and Bean-Baggers (The), 258
Two French Presidents rolled into One, 254
Two Voices (The), 198
Tympanum (The), 156
UNCOMMON, 306
Unemployed, 298
VENICE Unpreserved, 98
Verb Sap., 33
Very Annoying, 26
Very like a Wales, 62
Very Pretty Tale by Anderson (A), 124
Vicarious Whipping, 159
Visit to "The Licensed Vistlers", 291
Virtues of Omission 99
Voces Populi, 201, 214, 226, &c.
WAIL of Messrs. Burt and Fenwick, 145
Wail of the Male (The), 126
Wail of the Wire (The), 242
Waiting his Orders, 300
Wanted, a Theseus, 150
Way of the Wind (The), 99
Well Protected, 280
Welsh for the Welsh, 73
What was it? 138
Whistling Relief (The), 106
Whitman in London, 101
Why he Went, 82
Woes of the Water Consumer (The), 250
Words in Season, 123
Worth Cultivating, 290
Worth Mentioning, 14
Would-be "Literary Gent" (A), 274
LARGE ENGRAVINGS.
All the Difference, 223
Chimes (The), 295
Convention-al Politeness, 211
Difficult Navigation, 55
"Final Tableau" (The), 127
"Fire Fiend" (The), 79
"Glass Falling!" 67
"Good Gun" (A), 91
Grand Old Janus (The), 247
Infant Phenomenon (The), 307
Jupiter Tonans! 103
Justice at Fault, 163
Lighting the Dublin Beacon, 259
Making it Easy, 43
Messenger of Peace (The), 187
New "Hatch" (The), 7
New North-West Passage (The), 175
Newton and the Apple, 19
"On his own Hook!" 115
On the Wrong Scent, 271
"Overlooked!" 139
"Quite English, you know," 283
Schoolmaster of the Future (The), 235
Spithead, July 23, 1887, 31
Two Voices (The), 199
Wanted, a Theseus, 151
SMALL ENGRAVINGS.
Academy Pictures, 9, 13
Alderman's Reason for drinking Champagne, 226
Amateur Vocalist at a Penny Reading (An), 306
'Arry, 'Arriet, and the Indians, 18
Artist and his Rich Patron (An), 94
Artists and School-Board Notice, 46
Aunty and the Policeman, 231
Babes in the Christmas Wood (The), 266
Baby Bottesini (The), 38
Baby Gorilla (The), 214
Birds on the Telegraph Wires, 155
Boatman's Opinion on a Dress-Improver, 126
Bogeyish Pictures, 190
Boulanger-Ferry Duel (The), 63
Brown's Boarhound and the Rabbit, 270
Brown's Experience of Squalls, 118
Bulgar Boy and the Bear, 142
Buying Grouse, 135
Cannibal Uncle (A), 70
Chamberlain and the Gladstone Bait, 230
Children's Day in the Country (A), 30
Chimney-Sweep not in Black, 130
Chinaman on Tricycle (A), 50
Chorister Boys with the Mumps, 217
Churchill at the Battle of the Estimates, 39
Clergyman and the Widow (The), 263
Colour of the Gorse (The), 111
Comte de Paris and his Manifesto, 134
Costumes for the Recess, 143
Country Ladies and Street Boys, 291
Cricket at Lord's, 12, 28
Dachshund's Sore Throat (A), 278
Darwinian Ancestor (A), 265
Débutante's Series of Suppers (A), 222
Disadvantage of being an Aristocrat, 110
Division Lobbies (The), 11
Don Chamberlain Quixote, 194
Duke evicting the Volunteers (The), 74
Dumb Crambo's School-Book Review, 37
East Countrymen on Disestablishment, 219
English and American Yachts, 157
Fag-end of the Session (The), 83
Family Starting for the Seaside, 90
Finding the Law Courts, 129
First Meet of the Season (The), 227
F.-M. Punch's Parliamentary Review, 23
Footman's Opinion of the Unemployed, 243
German Belle's English (A), 62
Gladstone and Jenny Jones, 290
Gladstone's Sale of Chips, 202
Gondolier and the Steam-launch, 98
Good-woodcuts, 48
Grandpapa, Johnny, and the Irish Stew, 298
Grand Parliamentary Cricket-Match, 71
Grouse Prospects, 60
Guest's Departure and the little Trees, 210
Hampstead Ponds (The), 198
Hansom Cab in a Hampstead Pond, 246
Honeymoon Riddle (A), 75
Host treading on Lady's Skirt, 213
House "Up" at Last (The), 131
How We Advertise Now, 262
Hungry Professor at a Pic-nic, 186
Improvised Butler and Distinguished Guest at Dinner-Table, 309
In Lowther Arcadia at Christmas Times, 299
Innings of the Two Bills, 2
"Instantaneous Photography" in Ireland, 238
Irish Waiter and Bow-legged Traveller, 195
Jack and Effie on the Sea-shore, 78
Japanese and the Lady's Feet (A), 267
John Bull and Miss Columbia, 122
John Bull and the Jubilee Gifts, 178
King of the Belgians and Ostend Fishery, 154
Ladies wilfully mistaking Identity, 42
Lady's Long-lasting Voice (A), 82
Laurie growing too rapidly, 159
"London Quite Empty!" 167
Long Sight or Short Arms? 203
Lordly Cecil and his Queen (The), 87
Lord Lytton translated into French, 218
Madame France's Next Fashion, 27
Making Good Use of the Square, 6
Mamma and her Selfish Daughters, 102
Matthews and the Police, 207
McScrew's Glasgow Friends, 179
Minister's Retort on Free Kirk Elder, 251
Missionary who couldn't convert the Sultan, 45
Miss Tomkyn's return from the Concert, 66
Modern Autolycus (The), 182
Money-making Schoolboy (The), 256
Mother-in-law's Return (A), 286
Mr. Punch's Parliamentary Naval Review, 35
Nelson as a Special Constable, 243
New French President (The), 279
Newly-titled Lord and an Old Chum, 225
New Shylock (The), 285
Nizan of Hyderabad and Britannia, 158
Northern Belle and Provincial Masher, 22
Not in Love--this Season, 274
Octopus of Romance and Reality, 171
Old Butler and Her Ladyship's Music, 234
Old Gent and Small Boy on Beach, 137
Old Lady and Cabman, 183
Old Lady forgets where she Dined, 26
Parliamentary Alpine Club, 59
Parliamentary Cattle-Show (The), 275
Parliamentary Harvest (The), 107
Pic-Nic Parties disturbed by Rain, 150
Pigheaded Attack on the Immortal Bard, 273
Pricing an Artist's Masterpiece, 3
Probable Pictures for Christmas, 250
Professional Cricketers, 53
Professor's Opinion on Long Words (The), 255
Public School Boy and his Grandfather, 123
Punch and the Police Recruit, 191
Punch as Apollo, 1
Punch at Portsmouth, 54
Railway Station Puzzle, 93
Record of the Session--Dead Heat, 133
Regretting not having eaten more Oysters, 294
Returning Home from Seaside, 162
Robert and Stingy Old Gent, 81