Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 24, 1841Various
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 24, 1841
Various
English wit and humor -- Periodicals
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
lady's-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
streight--though 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 can't get
no moar, wich is very diffycult after a serting age, even with the help of
Rowland's Madagascar isle. Mrs. Tuffney, the howsekeaper, is a prowd and
oystere sort of person. I rather suspex that she's jellows of me and
Pea-taw, who as bean throwink ship's i's at me. She thinks to look down on
me, but she can't, for I hold myself up; and though we brekfists and t's 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,
there's another dome-stick, wich I wish to menshun particlar--wich is the
paige Theodore, that, as the poat says, as bean
"--contrived a double debt to pay,
A _paige_ at night--a _tigger_ all the day."
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