THE CLOAK AND THE BONNET!
By the Author of Jacob Faithful, Peter Simple, &c. &c.
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THEATRICALS EXTRAORDINARY.
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READER,—Allow us to solicit your kindness so far as to
give publicity to the following announcement, by buying up and
distributing among your friends the whole of the unsold copies of
this number. The success of this undertaking will prove so
advantageous to the public at large, and of so little benefit to
ourselves, that we fear not your compliance in so good a cause.
Yours obediently, PUNCH. | VIVANT KANT ET TOMFOOLERIE. THEATRE ROYAL PERIPATETIC, WELLINGTON-STREET SOUTH, STRAND. Conducted by the Council of the Fanatic Association established for the full encouragement of Timber Actors and Wooden-headed Dramatists. |
ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC;
OR, PUNCH BLOWING HIS OWN TRUMPET,
The general National feelings of the British Public are proverbially interested in every endeavour to obtain “a blind alley, and no Fantoccini.” Compelled by the New Police Act to move on, and so present our high tragic composition by small instalments (in effecting which, nevertheless, regard has been had—This parenthesis to be continued in our next), we hope for such kind consideration as may be due, when it is remembered that the law for the out-door PUNCH and the law for the in-door PUNCH is not one and the same law. Oh, law!
On SATURDAY, the 28th of AUGUST, will be presented,
(Interspersed with Drum and Mouth Organ),