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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI

VOL. 98

JANUARY 4, 1890

[Illustration: PUNCH
VOL 98]








London:
Published at the Office, 85, Fleet Street,
and Sold by All Booksellers.
1890.

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[Illustration: Preface]

It was a Midsummer Night, and Mr. PUNCH in his _sanctum_ dreamed a
Dream! To adapt the Laureate's lay:--

  He read, before his eyelids dropt their shade,
      The _Lusiads_ of CAMOENS, long ago
  Sung by the Lusitanian bard, who made
      Great GAMA'S glories glow.

It was the w