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
THE PUNCH CORRESPONDENCE. In presenting the following epistle to my
readers, it may be necessary to apprise them, that it is the genuine
production of my eldest daughter, Julia, who has lately obtained the
situation of ladys-maid in the house of Mr. Samuel Briggs, an
independent wax and tallow-chandler, of Fenchurch-street, City, but who
keeps his family away from business, in fashionable style, in Russell-
square, Bloomsbury. The example of many of our most successful literary
chiffonniers, who have not thought it disgraceful to publish scraps of
private history and unedited scandal, picked up by them in the houses to
which they happened to be admitted, will, it is presumed, sufficiently
justify my daughter in communicating, for the amusement of an
enlightened public, and the benefit of an affectionate parent, a few
circumstances connected with Briggs family, with such observations and
reflections of her own as would naturally suggest themselves to a
refined and intelligent mind. Should this first essay of a timid girl in
the thorny path of literature be favourably received by my friends and
patrons, it will stimulate her to fresh exertions; and, I fondly hope,
may be the means of placing her name in the same rank by those of Lady
Morgan, Madame Tussaud, Mrs. Glasse, the Invisible Lady, and other
national ornaments of the feminine species.[PUNCH. Russl Squear, July
14.
Dear PA,I nose yew will he angxious to ear how I get on sins I left the
wing of the best of feathers. I am appy to say I am hear in a very
respeckble fammaly, ware they keeps too tawl footmen to my hand; one of
them is cawld John, and the other Pea-taw,the latter is as vane as a P-
cock of his leggs, wich is really beutyful, and puffickly
streightthough the howskeaper ses he has bad angles; but some pipple
loox at things with only 1 i, and sea butt there defex. Mr. Wheazey is
the ass-matick butler and cotchman, who has lately lost his heir, and
cant get no moar, wich is very diffycult after a serting age, even with
the help of Rowlands Madagascar isle. Mrs. Tuffney, the howsekeaper, is
a prowd and oystere sort of person. I rather suspex that shes jellows
of me and Pea-taw, who as bean throwink ships is at me. She thinks to
look down on me, but she cant, for I hold myself up; and though we
brekfists and ts at the same board, I treat with a deal of hot-tar, and
shoes her how much I dispeyses her supper-silly-ous conduck. Besides
these indyvidules, theres another dome-stick, wich I wish to menshun
particlarwich is the paige Theodore, that, as the poat says, as bean
contrived a double debt to pay,
A paige at nighta tigger all the day.
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