_Punch_ lays about Him--Assaults the "Morning Post"--The Factitious "Jenkins"--Thackeray's Farewell--Mrs. Gamp (the "Morning Herald") and Mrs. Harris (the "Standard")--_Lese Majeste!_--The "Standard" Fulminates a Leader--The Retort--His Loyalty--Banters the Prince Consort--Tribute on the Prince's Death--_Punch's_ Butts: Lord William Lennox--Jullien--Sir Peter Laurie--Harrison Ainsworth--Lytton--Turner--A Fallacy of Hope--Burne-Jones--Charles Kean--S. C. Hall as "Pecksniff"--James Silk Buckingham and the "British and Foreign Destitute"--Alfred Bunn--_Punch's_ Waterloo: "A Word with Punch"--Bunn, Hot and Cross--A Second "Word" Prepared, but never Uttered--Other Points of Attack 209 CHAPTER X. _PUNCH_ ON THE WAR-PATH: COUNTER-ATTACK. Satire and Libel--Mrs. Ramsbotham Assaulted--Attacks of "The Man in the Moon" and "The Puppet-Show"--H. S. Leigh's Banter--Malicious Wit--Mr. Pincott--_Punch's_ Purity gives Offence--His Slips of Fact--Quotation--And Dialect are Resented--His Drunkards not Appreciated by the U. K. A.--"_Punch_ is not as good as it was!" 234 CHAPTER XI. ENGRAVING AND PRINTING. Mr. Joseph Swain supersedes Ebenezer Landells--His Education as Engraver--Head of His Department--Engraving the Big Cut: Then and Now--Printing from the Wood-blocks--Leech's Fastidiousness--Impracticability of Keene--Thackeray's Little Confidence--A Record of Half a Century 247 CHAPTER XII. _PUNCH'S_ WRITERS: 1841. Mark Lemon--As Others Saw Him--His Duties--His Industry--His Staff and their Apportioned Work--Lemon as an Editor--And Diplomatist--A Testimonial--And a Practical Joke--Henry Mayhew--His Great Powers and Little Weaknesses--Disappointment and Retirement--Stirling Coyne--Gilbert Abbott a Beckett--His Early Career--Tremendous Industry--A Beckett and Robert Seymour--Appointed Magistrate--Locked in--Agnus B. Reach 254 CHAPTER XIII. _PUNCH'S_ WRITERS: 1841. H. P. Grattan--W. H. Wills--R. B. Postans--Bread-Tax and Tooth-Tax--G. Hodder--G. H. B. Rodwell--Douglas Jerrold--His Caustic Wit--The "Q Papers"--A Statesman _pour rire_--His Sympathy with the Poor and Oppressed--Wins for _Punch_ his Political Influence--Ill-health--"_Punch's_ Letters"--The "Jenkins" and "Pecksniff" Papers--"Mrs. Caudle"--Jerrold's Love of Children, common to the Staff--He Silences his Fellow-wits--And is Routed by a Barmaid--He sends his Love to the Staff--And they prove theirs 282 CHAPTER XIV. _PUNCH'S_ WRITERS: 1841-2.