M^r. Punch's "Animal Land"

"M^r. Punch's"

ANIMAL LAND

·DRAWN & WRITTEN BY·
·E. T. Reed.·

·maker of "PREHISTORIC PEEPS."

:BRADBURY, AGNEW & C^o:
·LONDON·

[PREFISS.]

There is two kinds of prefisses one if it is by yourself and the other if you get a swell riter to do it for you. I'm going to do it by myself because I have done the talk undeneath the picktures so nice that I think people would be greviously diseppointed if M^r. Andrew Lang or someboddy was to do it instead like he did for Sybil Corbetts book (thats the other little girl what started "Animal Land"). He did it awfull nice of course and then you can get such nice things into it about your grate tallent and your emaggynation if he does it. He is so lerned and drags in illusions to other grate authers but when you can auth as nice as what I can there isnt realy no need. If you do it yourself you must appolergise for it all (they allways do) and say it shall not accurr again. I am quite at the openning of my corea (I saw that in the papers) so I want ellowances made for my stile and imperfect penship—I want it all put down to yewth.

I have done allmost all the most knowtable Animals—you cant do evryboddy when youve got musick and depportment to do too.

(I never thaught I would get to riting a Preffiss but it is abserdly easey.)

P.S. I lernt to draw off the Veenus of Mealo and that doesnt help you very much with these picktures. They are mostly a diffrent stile of art alltogether.

Contents.

The Hark

N^o 1.
(Sir William Harcourt.)

Jugging by his exspresion I should say he has just heard of some millyonnares that is past recuvry.

The Hark

This Animal lives in a Resess in the Forest and eats Orkids and Primroses. When there is Krisisses and things about he chuckles ——

He has a Party but it is mostly not there.

The Balph

N^o 2.
(Mr. Arthur Balfour.)

Why. Ive left out his unkle who is a moddle of peliteness to foriners. He goes in for "Peace with—anything."

The Balph

This fascinating Animal lives chiefly in a "bunker" and feeds on stymies, cleeks, and voats of censure it is very clever and has no ennemies but it simply wont.

The Shuv

N^o 3.
(Mr. Chamberlain.)

This is not a flattring likness but there is a great fassination about its rite eye if you look close

The Shuv

This Animal is a caution. It gets the best of it. It likes to live in hot water and has a nasty bite. It is better to go the other way

The Oom

N^o 4.
(President Kruger.)

I wonder why they say this is "mannifessly inflewnced by Landsere at his best."

The Oom

This strange old Animal is a wily one. He is very clever and disslikes strangers. Its not a bit of good to try to coax him he only says rude things and then prays and sings hyms. The Shuv has tried him all round but he only grunts and goes on praying

The Mailyphist
or
Gossplespredda

N^o 5.
(Prince Henry of Prussia.)

The "Kyow Chyow Vissitors List" says "this is probelly a remarkable peece of portritcher." It is all theyve seen of him yet. His voige is certenly somwhat pretracted.

The Mailyphist or Gossplespredda

This queer little animal lives on the sea as there is not room for two of them in Germany It crawls about trying to get to China to fetch some laurels and to plant shields and cathedrils and things. If you have such a thing as a little coal about you it will be very much obliged. It will get there some day I seppose.

The Pawkywit

N^o 6.
(Lord Rosebery.)

I have been rather seccessfull in getting the eger hopeful look into the futesher in his eyes havnt I

The Pawkywit

This dear little Animal likes to run on the turf and that makes the good ones start praying for him. It does not like the Hark and has a dainty little way of hiding itself among books and then it waits and waits and waits ——

The Jook

N^o 7.
(Duke of Devonshire.)

The backround of this pickture is considered by some to be my masterpeace. They say it is just like a Corrow. I daresay it is.

The Jook

This Animal is very trustworthy but he is always fast asleep. He would much rather you did it if you dont mind.

The Benchiboss

N^o 8.
(Lord Halsbury.)

Oh! I forgot all about the Marquises—they come first. That is an ovasite! What a funny little dumpy he is!

The Benchiboss

This funny little Creature is very kind and never forgets a friend. He lives on a Woolsack and gives away things ——He has got a Earlship for been so good and clever so he comes next after the Joox.

The Labb

N^o 9.
(Mr. Labouchere.)

I thought this would be baught for the town-hawl at northamten but some malline influense must have been at work

The Labb

This queer little Creature does not like roads nor peers. It likes to get into shady places and drag things out into the light. If you pretend the Hess is coming it will run into Wesminster Abbey or anywhere

The Bujjit-Hatcha
or
Hicksybeech

N^o 10.
(Sir M. Hicks-Beach.)

He does look a little bare and draughty. He would have looked better with his surplus on I think.

The Bujjit-Hatcha or Hicksybeech

This Animal is always trying to balance things with a little over to one side. It is very nice and plainspoken. It comes up to every front-door just to see how you are getting on and get a little something in the pound ——It lives on beer and tobacco and tin-tackses

The Wheedlepat

N^o 11.
(Mr. Gerald Balfour.)

The criticks say this is "a life-like pressenment" and the "flesh-tints are remarkeble for there lewminosserty".

The Wheedlepat

This gracefull and culcherd Creature has a very skillful way of getting on the right side of people. They thought at first it was a fish out of water but that was quite wrong. It looks awfull solemm and poetick but that is wrong too. It is very kind and goes into every shanty and cracks jokes and pats the pig. It has got a most bewtifull bill coming which works like majick

It lives on shammrocks and stetististicks with a few batons sometimes —for rellish

The Goash

N^o 12.
(Mr. Goschen.)

You should hear his riddle about when a lock-out is not a lock-out. It is screemingly funny and evrybody has to give it up!

The Goash

This odd little salt-water Animal is very good at sums and gets on pretty well with the Esstimits. But if you ask him anything very dificult he runs under the gallery to get the answer. When strikes is on he is very kind and doesnt expeck no ships finished—he looks the other way

The Leck

N^o 13.
(Professor Lecky.)

It seems a grate risk for this one to ventcher out into a rough rude world. I wonder how he gets over the crossings.

The Leck

This gentle Creature is very kind and winsome so everybody likes it. It has a wonderfull brain and knows a lot. When it sees a Artiss about it folds up and tries to look like part of the Dado. It is almost a sin to make its picture.

The Stagynite

N^o 14.
(Sir Henry Irving.)

Some people considder this riting very rude—it certenly is not foolsome in its prays.

The Stagynite

This funny Creature gets up things very nicely. When people go to see it it makes the queerest noises and stamps on the floor and drags itself about. I expect he says it all right but you cant tell

The Ruddikipple

N^o 15.
(Mr. Rudyard Kipling.)

They say I have idellised him rather but I cant help it if I have.

The Ruddikipple

This little Animal is very strong and viggrous and knows everything. If anybody tries to beat it it brings out a fresh tail and then nobody cant touch that either. It stirs everybody up so it would make a pew-opener want to die for his country. If a Lorryit shews his nose it just squashes him flat.

The Bobbz

N^o 16.
(Lord Roberts.)

This is quite a battle-pickture. The handling seggests mysonnyer. I seem wonderfly versytial.

The Bobbz

This tiny little Animal is all pluck and is full of beans, but he does not try to spread himself like some do. Directly an ennemy shews his nose he has a neat little way of "pulling it off." All soldiers like him though he took them very long walks sometimes. He has got such a lot of meddles he has to leave most of them in the cloakroom.

The Showt

N^o 17.
(Mr. John Burns.)

This is another full-face pickture. I cant do many more of them!

The Showt

This little Animal is very honest and likes to fight. It has a very big voice on both sides—whichever it likes. It likes to get on a waggon in the Park and call out about wellth and capicklists and things. It sounds better out of doors.

The Painticheef

N^o 18.
(Sir E. J. Poynter.)

I have heard he thaught the droring of this very deaft and mastelly. I should have thaught it was a oppertewnety for the Chantrey Fun but I have herd nothing as yet.

The Painticheef.

This Animal is wonderfull clever and lerned and plays at marbles with the Tadd. He stands at the top of the stairs in among the plants and goes on shaking hands with them all as they come up untill he falls back exorsted. Then they prop him up with ferns and collums and things and he just bows till daylite. He has got two awfull nice possitions to stand in too. He keeps a warn comfitable home in Traffalger Square for old worn out masters of schools that are shut up. He is dredfull particular who he takes in. He wont have them if they have gone cracked. (I shall send this pickture to the Accaddermy—he may like to put it on the line in the Blacking-White Room)

The Tadd

N^o 19.
(Mr. Alma Tadema.)

I cant help it if this did make Mister Briton Rivvyare go green with envy. It must be ennoying to see an outsighder do it so nice.

The Tadd

This little Animal is awfull good at marbles. Nobody cant do it like him. He knows all about the ancients and what kind of boots they wore on sundays and just how they use to sit about and throw roses and make refflections on things in genneral. They didn't do much else according to him. You can always tell where one of his picktures is by the crowd of artisses round it—all putting their noses agenst it and then steping back and striking silly atetudes. He has got such a big voice that as fast as they stick the picktures up, it shakes them all down again

The Zolafite

N^o 20.
(M. Emile Zola.)

This is diseppointing as a work of Art

The Zolafite

This Animal is very bold and currageous. He is very clever at his work but he gets very broad in places. The lower down things are the harder he tries to get them out. The Troof is buried very deep just now and that is what he is looking for. So they are all dancing with rage and say he is a Itallian

The Woolz

N^o 21.
(Lord Wolseley.)

Sybil Corbett must be awfuly mad to see me droring as good as this. There is hardly a trase of the ammerchewer.

The Woolz

This brilliant little Creature is a fearfull fiter he is all over glory and titals and ilectrick-lights He likes to have his battles ready overnight then he does them in the erly morning before the milkman calls when everyone else is in bed and asleep. He gets all the powder and baynits and cammerers and repporters ready and it can all be in the papers the same day. Then he prases everyboddy else for fiting so nobbly—it sounds just like Waterlew—but somehow there is not so very many killed though it does look so terrible in the lime-lite. That is his cleverness I expeckt. Parlyment allways thanks him for it—he certanly does make a neat job of it and he has such a nice way of bringing home umbrellas and torture-chambers and things to show he has really been there. If he does anything else he will have to be made a Jookdom.

The Klark

N^o 22.
(Sir Edward Clarke.)

This is a study in teckstchers and keeraskewroh—and a speaking likeness as well

The Klark

This clever little Animal is a terror to fight. He covers himself up in silk and horsehair every day and then he runs along passages and pops into all sorts of diffrent cases one after another and draws a nice little screw out of them too. There isnt no need to be hanged while you can get him (I think this is nicer drawn than most of my picktures—I do hope he'll like it)

The Jappypote
or
Lytervaysha

N^o 23.
(Sir E. Arnold.)

I hear he has a lovly shrine to write in at the Daly Tellegraff office and the offise-boy burns Joss-sticks at him every harf hour. It helps him to write nicer.

The Jappypote or Lytervaysha

This little Animal writes such nice potery. He is found at all swarries with his chest smotherd all over with stars and krisanthenums and rising suns and other ornaments. He has heard the East a calling so he doesnt like London there is not enough houris and dymios and things about. They say he is growing a pig-tail—he feels so orientle

The Reed
or
Bildaphleet

N^o 24.
(Sir E. J. Reed.)

He says he did send his son to Harrow what more could he do! Spelling must have been an "extrer" I should think It is a distressing site to see the way he does it.

The Reed or Bildaphleet

This splendid but desining Animal is awfull good at shipps. He has a curious little taste for liking them to keep on the surfiss and flote the right way up which was very annoying to the ammerchures who mannage these things for us so nicely in parlyment. He is full of strength and boyancy and stebbility there isnt no one quite like him I think—so is his shipps they seem to last for ever as good as new. He writes such viggrous letters that is a moddle of riting and he is a good powett to. It is a grate pity he didnt teach his son how to spell he seems to get worse and worse—he is a perfeckt dissgrase.

The Sullivan

N^o 25.
(Sir Arthur Sullivan.)

I had the esistents of the leading musickle exspurts in aranging the musick on him

The Sullivan