# Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 27, 1890

Author: Various

Genre: Punch

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12262

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Punch%2C+or+the+London+Charivari%2C+Volume+99%2C+September+27%2C+1890+Various&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The Servant of Society is one who, having in early life abdicated every claim to independent thought or action, is content to attach himself to the skirts and coat-tails of the great, and to exist for a long time as a mere appendage in mansions selected by the unerring instinct of a professional tuft-hunter. It is as common a mistake to suppose that all tuft-hunters are necessarily of lowly birth and of inferior social position, as it is to believe them all to be offensive in manner and shallow in artifice. The coarse but honest Snob still perhaps exists, and here and there he thrusts and pushes in the old familiar way; but more often than not the upstart who has won his way to wealth and...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/punch-or-the-london-charivari-volume-99-september-27-1890-12262/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/punch-or-the-london-charivari-volume-99-september-27-1890-12262/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/punch-or-the-london-charivari-volume-99-september-27-1890-12262/chapters/3/index.md)