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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'S AFTER-DINNER STORIES


Progress.—"I maintain that the race has improved in physique since those days. Now we couldn't get into that armour!"
MR. PUNCH'S AFTER-DINNER STORIES
WITH 155 ILLUSTRATIONS
BY
JOHN LEECH, CHARLES KEENE, GEORGE DU MAURIER, PHIL MAY, L. RAVEN-HILL, J. BERNARD PARTRIDGE, F. H. TOWNSEND, REGINALD CLEAVER, LEWIS BAUMER, A. S. BOYD, TOM WILKINSON, G. D. ARMOUR, AND OTHERS
