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Title: Punch, Volume 101, Jubilee Issue, July 18, 1891

Author: Various

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PUNCH,

OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

VOL. 101.

July 18, 1891.

MR. PUNCH'S JUBILEE NUMBER.

[Illustration]

"My Reminiscences!" said _Mr. Punch_, replying to a question put by
his Interviewer, ANNO DOMINI EIGHTEEN-NINETY-ONE; "They are already
before the World, in exactly One Hundred Volumes! My first 'Number'
bore date 'for the week ending July 17th, 1841. My memory is indeed
stored with recollections, pleasant, picturesque, pathetic, of the
teeming past, memories of my joyous 'Table,' of my well-beloved 'Young
Men,' of Great Names, of Genial Comrades, of Bright Wits, of Warm
Hearts, of Famous Artists, of Clever Writers, who--in the words of the
greatest of them all--

'Perched round the stem
Of the jolly old tree.'

"How well the words of the wise wit written in 1847 express our
thoughts to-day, Mr. ANNO DOMINI:--

'Here let us sport
Boys, as we sit,
Laughter and wit
Flashing so free.
Life is but short--
When we are gone,
Let them sing on
Round the old tree.

Evenings we knew
Happy as this;
Faces we miss
Pleasant to see.
Kind hearts and true,
Gentle and just,
Peace to their dust!
We sing round the tree.'

It is one of my proudest memories to recollect that THACKERAY's
'Mahogany Tree,' was my Table."

"To have been Amphitryon to _such_ guests must have been the most
pleasant privilege of hospitality," said ANNO DOMINI.

"Very true," responded _Mr. Punch_, "And of all my
Deputy-Amphitryons--if I may use the term--who more fully, fitly,
justly, and genially filled the post than the earliest of them all,
the kindly and judicious MARK LEMON? Had not he and clever HENRY
MAYHEW, and Mr. Printer LAST, and EBENEZER LANDELLS, my earliest
engraver, foregathered first