An ensign who thought he would wake up another ensign for a lark—But he mistook the tent.
From the "Graphic."—By A. C. Corbould.
SELECTED BY MR. LOUIS WAIN.
There are not many pictorial comedians with a larger following than Mr. Louis Wain, who tells us:—
"I like one of Corbould's drawings best which appeared in the Graphic of some eighteen years back. A subaltern with a broom over his head was hitting out at a military tent with it where there appeared to be a protuberance. A second picture showed a fat general sitting up in bed rubbing his head and looking furiously mad. (He had had the broom on it.) This drawing has kept me happy through many a gloomy period, and set my own work going again."
The Moustache Movement.—Old Mr. What's-His-Name: "Egad, I don't wonder at moustaches coming into fashion; for—eh? What? By Jove, it does improve one's appearance."
By John Leech in "Punch's Almanack," 1857.
SELECTED BY MR. CHARLES HARRISON.
"With a pretty extensive knowledge of all the Continental and American artists," writes Mr. Charles Harrison, one of the regular contributors to Punch, "I think I have derived more amusement from John Leech than anyone else. In certain things he is, and so will ever remain, absolutely unapproachable, and I enclose what I consider one of his funniest efforts. At least, there is no effort in it, which is one of the charms in all Leech's work."