Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, CompleteVarious
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete
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English wit and humor -- Periodicals
FOR MESSRS. MACREADY AND CHARLES KEAN. Take an enormous herowork him up
with improbabilitiesdress him in spangles and a long traindisguise his
head as much as possible, as the great beauty of this dish is to avoid
any resemblance to the tête de veau au naturel.
Profile of a bearded young man's head, face to face with a cow's head on
a platter. A TETE A TETE.
Grill him for three acts. When well worked up, add a murder or large
dose of innocence (according to the palate of the guests)Season, with a
strong infusion of claqueurs and box orders. Serve up with twelve-sheet
posters, and imaginary Shaksperian announcements.
N.B. Be careful, in cooking the heroes, not to turn their backs to the
front rangeshould you do so the dish will be spoiled.
FOR THE ROYAL VIC. (A Domestic Sketch.) Take a young womangive her six
pounds a yearwork up her father and mother into a viscous pastebind
all with an abandoned poacherthrow in a dust of virtue, and a
handful of vice. When the poacher is about to boil over, put him into
another saucepan, let him simmer for some time, and then he will turn
out lord of the manor, and marry the young woman. Serve up with
bludgeons, handcuffs, a sentimental gaoler, and a large tureen of
innocence preserved.
FOR THE SURREY NAUTICAL. Take a big man with a loud voice, dress him
with a pair of ducks, and, if pork is comeatable, a pigtailstuff his
jaws with an imitation quid, and his mouth with a large assortment of
dammes. Garnish with two broad-swords and a hornpipe. Boil down a press-
gang and six or seven smugglers, and (if in season) a boswain and large
cat-o-nine-tails.Sprinkle the dish with two lieutenants, four
midshipmen, and about seven or eight common sailors. Serve up with a
pair of epaulettes and an admiral in a white wig, silk stockings,
smalls, and the Mutiny Act.
OUR CITY ARTICLE. We have no arrivals to-day, but are looking out
anxiously for the overland mail from Battersea. It is expected that news
will be brought of the state of the mushroom market, and great
inconvenience in the mean time is felt by the dealers, who are holding
all they have got, in the anticipation of a fall; while commodities are,
of course, every moment getting heavier.
The London and Westminster steam-boat Tulip, with letters from Milbank,
was planted in the mud off Westminster for several hours, and those who
looked for the correspondence, had to look much longer than could have
been agreeable.
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