they haunted together for
the sport. After Leech's death Haydon contributed nothing more, as it
was only during his spare time and out of friendly feeling that he made
his sketches. He was, on the other hand, the subject of several of
Keene's angling drawings, which were also done for the most part at
Whitchurch. Such is the sketch in the Almanac for 1885, wherein the
"Gigantic Angler" is an excellent portrait of Haydon, while Leech's
drawing of August 11th, 1860, was a record of an incident that happened
while the friends were fishing the same water. From that extremely
promising young artist, M. J. Lawless, who was doing some of his best
designs for "Once a Week," there came between May, 1860, and the
following January, six drawings; but he was already a dying man when
they were done, and he left little proof in them of the greatness of his
talent. He was still contributing, however, when, on September 28th,
1860, there was sent into the office a drawing from the hand of one of
the most brilliant of _Punch's_ lights--George du Maurier.

FOOTNOTES:

[55] See Mr. Layard's "Life and Letters of Charles Keene," p. 387.

[56] Speech at Royal Academy Banquet, May 2nd, 1891.

[57] English humour is under a great debt to the English Church. Not
only, of course, are Sydney Smith and "Tom Ingoldsby" of immortal
fame--to name no others--in the front rank of our wits, but _Punch_ has
received the homage of "Cuthbert Bede," Dean Hole, the Rev. W. F.
Callaway, Canon Ainger, and the Rev. Anthony C. Deane. The Irish
Catholic priest Father James Healy, by the way, indirectly contributed a
number of capital jokes.

[58] It is to be observed, however, that there is no mention of these
engravings in Mr. Swain's "_Punch_ Cut Book."

CHAPTER XXI.

_PUNCH'S_ ARTISTS: 1860-67.

Mr. G. du Maurier's First Drawing--The "Romantic Tenor"--Polite
Satire--His Types and Creations--His Pretty Women--And Fair
American--"Chang," "Don," and "Punch"--Mr. du Maurier as a _Punch_
Writer--Mr. Gordon Thompson--Mr. Stacy Marks, R.A.--Paul Gray--Sir
John Millais, Bart., R.A.--Mr. Fred Barnard--First Joke Refused as
"Painful"--Mr. R. T. Pritchett--Initiation by Sir John
Tenniel--Fritz Eltze--His Amiable Jocularity--Mr. A. R.
Fairfield--Colonel Seccombe--Fred Walker, A.R.A.--Mr. J. Priestman
Atkinson ("Dumb Crambo")--C. H. Bennett--Mr. W. S. Gilbert
("Bab")--His Classic Joke--G. B. Goddard--Miss Ge