E-text prepared by Chris Curnow, Eric Skeet, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 38056-h.htm or 38056-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/38056/pg38056-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38056/38056-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See http://www.archive.org/details/abrahamlincolnth00walsrich Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). The oe-ligature is represented by [oe] or [OE]. ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE LONDON PUNCH [Illustration: THE AMERICAN JUGGERNAUT] ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE LONDON PUNCH Cartoons, Comments and Poems, Published in the London Charivari, During the American Civil War (1861-1865) Edited by WILLIAM S. WALSH Author of "A Handbook of Literary Curiosities," "Curiosities of Popular Customs," "Faust, the Legend and the Poem," etc. New York Moffat, Yard and Company 1909 Copyright 1909, by William S. Walsh New York Published March 1909 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE The American Juggernaut _Frontispiece_ Divorce A Vinculo 12 The American Difficulty 14 The American Gladiators 14 Naughty Jonathan 20 How they went to take Canada 20 A Family Quarrel 20 King Cotton Bound 22 The Genu-ine Othello 26 Over the Way 28 The Wilful Boy 33 A Likely Story 34 Look out for Squalls 40 A Bad Case of Throwing Stones 42 Waiting for an Answer 42 Columbia's Fix 42 Boxing Day 46 "Up a Tree" 46 Naughty Jonathan 48 Oberon and Titania 50 The New Orleans Plume 52 The "Sensation" Struggle in America 54 The Latest from America 56 One Good Turn Deserves Another 58 "Not up to Time" 60 Lincoln's Two Difficulties 60 More Free than Welcome 60 The Overdue Bill 62 Abe Lincoln's Last Card 64 Latest from Spirit-Land 64