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[pg i] PUNCH or the London Charivari, with a vignette of PUNCH. VOLUME THE FIRST. [pg iii] A group of masked players surround PUNCH. A banner reads INTRODUCTION. A letter T is hoisted in a shipyard. his Guffawgraph is intended to form a refuge for destitute witan asylum for the thousands of orphan jokesthe superannuated Joe Millersthe millions of perishing puns, which are now wandering about without so much as a shelf to rest upon! It is also devoted to the emancipation of the JEW desprits all over the world, and the naturalization of those alien JONATHANS, whose adherence to the truth has forced them to emigrate from their native land.