. Punch . NEW EDITION (I860), With Great Alterations and Improvements, and ai INDEX of G5,MW Names. Sold by all Booksellers. Demy 9vo, Price Iffy with( 30 Illustrations by ONE OF THEM. BYCHARLES LEVER. [DecembersChapman & Hah, 193, Piccadilly. For Families and Emigrants.—14th Edition,Price 10s. Gd., mACAULAYS MEDICAI Jw* DICTIONARY, containing Directioutfor Administering Medicines, the Regulation 0 .Diet, and the Management of the diseases of Womeiand Children. Edinburgh: A. & C. Black, and all Booksellers. This day. Price 3s. Gd., STANDING OEDEES 01S W THE ORGANIZATION AND INTIRIOR ECONOMY OF
. Punch . NEW EDITION (I860), With Great Alterations and Improvements, and ai INDEX of G5,MW Names. Sold by all Booksellers. Demy 9vo, Price Iffy with( 30 Illustrations by ONE OF THEM. BYCHARLES LEVER. [DecembersChapman & Hah, 193, Piccadilly. For Families and Emigrants.—14th Edition,Price 10s. Gd., mACAULAYS MEDICAI Jw* DICTIONARY, containing Directioutfor Administering Medicines, the Regulation 0 .Diet, and the Management of the diseases of Womeiand Children. Edinburgh: A. & C. Black, and all Booksellers. This day. Price 3s. Gd., STANDING OEDEES 01S W THE ORGANIZATION AND INTIRIOR ECONOMY OF VOLUNTEER CORPSCompiled by Viscount Bury, late Scots Fusili*Guards; Civil Service Regiment of Vclunteers. Published with the Approval of thSecretary of State for : John W. Parker and Son, West Strani Janoaey 12, 1861.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 11. TESTATORS ALL ALIVE O! he amiable and decoroushabit in which certain jour-nals indulge, of sending apenny-a-liner to rummageout the Wills of personsrecently deceased, in orderto the publication of thecontents of such documents,is now gaining ground sofast, that Mr. Punch, everanxious to be a-head of hisage, has made his own ar-rangements for adding anew feature to proposes to leave it tohis inferiors to visit Doc-tors Commons, and to take,furtively, forbidden noteswhen the jealous clerksare not looking, nor has heany idea of making surrep-titious arrangements withneedy officials to sell information which they have no right to partwith. He, according to his custom, takes a bolder course. Heintends to furnish to an eager public particulars concerning Willswhile the Testators are still alive. For this purpose he has organiseda staff of reporters, whom he means to call the Paul Pry Brigade, and henatters himself that their researches into private papers will enablehim to gra
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