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l him." _May_ 17, 1865. "Du Maurier was presented with a son and heir on Saturday, so we baptized the infant in a bumper of Champagne." _December_ 20, 1865. "While the Great Cut is being hatched, Burnand, du Maurier, and Silver all make little cuts of their initials on the _Punch_ table. Henry Silver between William Thackeray and John Leech--Burnand where a Beckett sat and du Maurier where Leech." "Miss Bateman retired from the stage (at Her Majesty's) on Friday--she has rather proved herself a one-part actress, and so has Sothern, whom Burnand denounces as a practical joker--most unscrupulous in tongue." "Du M. thinks it harder to write a poem than to paint a picture. But surely there's no comparing them. One mind expresses itself with a pen and another with a brush." _Jan_. 17, 1866. "Du Maurier tells of the gas blow-up at his 91 Great Russell Street on Boxing-day. Girl dressing in the shop for Hairdressers' Ball--turned on two burners and lit one and left it burning. Du Maurier and wife dressing on top floor--bang! like a hundred pounder, and then rattle--smash--crash. 'O! the children!' 'D--n it! They're all right!' first time he ever swore before his wife. Sister tried to jump from window, but Armstrong held her back. Baby crowing in his arms at the fun as he came downstairs. The nursemaids had run away of course. Lucky no one on the stairs, or they'd have been killed." _April_ 4, 1866. "In reference to a Ball on the Haymarket stage--'Would you like to go?' said S.B. to du Maurier. But du Maurier's dancing days are over--only cares for dinners now! Fancy the old fogydom of thirty!" _November_ 7, 1868. "Du Maurier cut down to five cigarettes a day, resolves to ride daily and live frugally: frightened by his eye this summer!!" _February_ 24, 1868. "Tenniel has almost given up smoking! Used to smoke an ounce a day. Can eat a better breakfast now. Nearly all our _Punch_ folk smoke less. Tom Taylor has given up cigars and only takes a pipe occasionally. Du Maurier takes cigarettes four a day in lieu of forty. H.S. never smokes at all after dinner. Only Keene and Mark and Shirley stick to their tobacco." Section 10 Sir Francis Burnand, till recently the distinguished Editor of _Punch_, was du Maurier's senior on th
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