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  PUNCH LIBRARY OF HUMOUR

  Edited by J. A. HAMMERTON


  Designed to provide in a series
  of volumes, each complete in itself,
  the cream of our national humour,
  contributed by the masters of
  comic draughtsmanship and the
  leading wits of the age to "Punch,"
  from its beginning in 1841 to the
  present day




  MR. PUNCH AT HOME

  [Illustration: A note at the foot of
  a page]

  [Illustration: A FIRST ESSAY IN HOUSEKEEPING.--_Mr. Jones._ "What
  is it, my pet?" _Mrs. J._ "This rabbit (_sob_)--I've been plucking
  it--(_sob_)--all the afternoon, and it isn't half done yet!"]


  MR. PUNCH AT
  HOME

  THE COMIC SIDE
  OF DOMESTIC
  LIFE

  [Illustration: Maid with broom]

AS PICTURED BY

F. H. TOWNSEND, LEWIS BAUMER, C. SHEPPERSON, DAVID WILSON, FRED PEGRAM,
GUNNING KING, L. RAVENHILL, BERNARD PARTRIDGE, A. W. MILLS, G. L.
STAMPA, C. E. BROCK, A. S. BOYD, PHIL MAY, CHARLES KEENE, GEORGE DU
MAURIER, AND OTHERS

  _WITH 130 ILLUSTRATIONS_

  PUBLISHED BY ARRANGEMENT WITH
  THE PROPRIETORS OF "PUNCH"

  [Illustration: 3 decorative leaves]

  THE EDUCATIONAL BOOK CO.