. Punch . OUR CABINET MAKER. Mr. Punch (Overseer op Works). WELL, PAM, OF COURSE I SHALL KEEP YOU ON,-BUT YOU MUST STICK TO PEACE WORK ! May 4, 1861.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 185 OUR PRIZE CENSUS PAPER. {A Letter just received from our Laziest Contributor, and which only a regard for his young wife and family induces us to print.) her IPonch,—Under-standing that theGovernment intendto give a prize of aHundred-guinea TeaService to the fatherof a family who hasbest filled up his Cen-sus Paper, and feelingperfectly persuadedthat the Tea Serviceis mine, I beg to makeknown to the worldhow I
. Punch . OUR CABINET MAKER. Mr. Punch (Overseer op Works). WELL, PAM, OF COURSE I SHALL KEEP YOU ON,-BUT YOU MUST STICK TO PEACE WORK ! May 4, 1861.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 185 OUR PRIZE CENSUS PAPER. {A Letter just received from our Laziest Contributor, and which only a regard for his young wife and family induces us to print.) her IPonch,—Under-standing that theGovernment intendto give a prize of aHundred-guinea TeaService to the fatherof a family who hasbest filled up his Cen-sus Paper, and feelingperfectly persuadedthat the Tea Serviceis mine, I beg to makeknown to the worldhow I acted in thematter, that my ex-ample ten years hencemay lead to like suc-cess. The first thingafter breakfast onMonday the 8th ul-timo, I called my wifeand family togetherin my smoking-room,which, as I often takea nap in it, I some-. Seated in my largest chair, and assuming a majestic Head-of-House-placed the family Bible imposingly before me, opened at the flyleaf times call my studyhinting deportment, which contains the dates of birth. After an amusing little skirmish with my wife, whodeclared that, as I had but little brains to boast of, and very seldom meddled with familyconcerns, I ought by rights to call her the real Head of the Family, 1 chronicled my name,condition, sex and age last birthday, only deviating (by accident) one twelvemonth fromthe truth. Private Gent and Public Writer—conscientiously described my rank oroccupation, though my wife thought it might expose her to being charged with bigamy, asit appeared to her to indicate a duality of persons. Having however calmed her fears uponthis head, there next came the puzzling query, Where had I been born ? Having neg-lected to apply for my certificate of baptism, I wrote that Meddington in Slopshire in mybelief was honoured by having been my birthplac
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