I must confess that if compelled
To write for any Journal,
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.”]
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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.
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