or laughter are
rendered unnecessary, as, from a long course of practical
experience, the moment of cachinnation is always judiciously
selected.

N.B. The worst Jokes laughed at, and rendered successful. Old Joes
made to tell as well as new.

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COMIC CREDENTIALS.

T.R.C.G.

Sir,--I feel myself bound in justice to you and your invaluable
laughter, as well as to others who may be suffering, as I have
been, with a weakly farce, to inform you of its extraordinary
results in my case. My bantling was given up by all the faculty,
when you were happily shown into the boxes. One laugh removed all
sibillatory indications; a second application of your invaluable
cachinnation elicited slight applause; whilst a third, in the form
of a _guffaw_, rendered it perfectly successful.

From the prevalence of dulness among dramatic writers, I have no
doubt that your services will be in general requisition.

I am, yours, very respectfully,
J.R. Planche.
C---- C----.

Sir,--I beg to inform you, for the good of other bad jokers, that I
deem the introduction of your truly valuable cachinnation one of
the most important ever made; in proof of which, allow me to state,
that after a joke of mine had proved a failure for weeks, I was
induced to try your cachinnation, by the use of which it met with
unequivocal success; and, I declare, if the cost were five guineas
a _guffaw_, I would not be without it.

Yours truly,
Charles Delaet Waldo Sibthorp (Colonel).

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"MY NAME'S THE DOCTOR"--(_vide_ Peel's Speech at Tamworth.)

The two doctors, Peel and Russell, who have been so long engaged in
renovating John Bull's "glorious constitution!" though they both adopt the
lowering system at present, differ as to the form of practice to be
pursued. Russell still strenuously advocates his _purge_, while Sir Robert
insists upon the efficacy of _bleeding_.

"Who shall decide when doctors disagree?"

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PUNCH'S INFORMATION FOR THE PEOPLE.--NO. 1.

BEING A VERY FAMILIAR TREATISE ON ASTRONOMY.

Our opinion is, that science cannot be too familiarly dealt with; and
though too much familiarity certainly breeds contempt, we are only
following the fashion of the day, in rendering science somewhat
contemptib