I should prefer as a matter of choice
To write for Punch!
[On a slip of paper found in Sir CHARLES’s envelope, we have the following from our valued contributress—[ED.]:—“DEAR MR. PUNCH,—I am too upset to write—you shall hear from me next week. Tours as devotedly as ever,—LADY GAY.”]
ANECDOTAGE.—Mr. Punch one day was reading aloud from a book of anecdotes when Mr. WEEDON GROSSMITH was present. “What rot!” observed the representative of Lord Arthur Pomeroy. And Mr. Punch agreed with him.
PHANTASMA-GORE-IA.
Picturing the various Modes of Melodramatic Murder. (By Our “Off-his”-Head Poet.)
No. II.—THE POISON MURDER.
