Punch,  51 (1866), 95.

Artemus Ward in London  [1/8]

Artemus Ward, pseud.  [[Charles F Browne]] *

Genre:

Letter, Spoof, Serial

Subjects:

Exhibitions, Amusement, Magic, Collecting, Animal Behaviour


    The narrator boasts about his exhibition of 'startlin' curiositys, wax works, snaix' and describes the mishaps caused when he hired a 'young man of dissypated habits' to masquerade in a show as 'A real Cannibal from New Zeelan'.


Reprinted:

Browne 1870


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