Volume 25 — THE MOUSTACHE AND BEARD QUESTION.
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"Mr. Punch,—I have been, I may say from my birth—leastwise since I could stand upon a stool—a barber. I've brought up a large family (and am married again) upon shaving. To be clean shaved was the prerogative of a Briton. And now there is a movement for German beards and Cossack moustachios, which, if permitted, farewell to the British Constitution. When we look like Roossian slaves and Austrian panders, we shall feel and act like 'em. Anyways, if beards come in, barbers must go out, in which case I ask for 'demnification.
"Yours, &c."
"Sibthorp Suds."
"The Colonel—(my parent was a Lincoln voter and barber)—is my godfather; which happened when the Colonel used to go, I'm told, with as clean a face as any in the county."
Doctor Wiseman.
On his departure from Golden Square, the subjoined notice, written in the Doctor's own hand, was affixed outside his door—"Gone to Rome; will be back for mass in Westminster Abbey."