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“AWFULLY JOLLY BOOK. ‘PUNIANA, or Thoughts wise and otherwise.’ 3,000 best Riddles, 16,000 outrageous puns, 100 fanciful drawings. Toned paper, cloth, 7s, 6d; gilt and coloured, 8s. 6d.
‘Enormous Burlesque – unapproachable and pre-eminent. We venture to think that this very queer volume will be a favourite. It deserves to be so; and we should suggest that, to a dull person desirous to get credit with the young holyday people, it would be good policy to invest in the book, and dole it out in installments.’ – Saturday Review, 30th Nov.
London, John Camden Hotten, Nos. 74 and 75, Picadilly, London.” – The Times, London, England, 21 Dec 1867

“PUNS BY THE QUANTITY

A volume, entitled ‘Puniana’, has just been published in London, which is filled with jokes – good, bad and indifferent, the last two classes predominating. The following are among the least disreputable:
How do we know Lord Byron was good tempered? Because he always kept his choler down.
If a tough beefsteak could speak, what English poet would it name? Chaw-sir.
What author would eye-glasses and spectacles mention if they could speak. You see by us (Eusebius).
Why is the letter D like a squalling child? Because it makes ma mad.
Why is a water-lily like a whale? They both come to the surface to blow.
Why is a goose like a cow’s tail? Because they both grow down.” – Nashville Union and American, Nashville, Tennessee, 15 Dec 1867