Punch (6.1844)

PRIZE PREFACE.

GENERAL TOM THUMB.

" Kings are partial to low Company."—Burke.
This is our Sixth Volume. It is first-rate. It has, perhaps, one fault : it is printed, we guess, in too largo a
type. We shall endeavour henceforth to print it in a type so tarnation small, that it will require rayther quick eyes to see
its face. Having done this, Punch hopes to go ahead, and so, from his extreme littleness, to become an immense favourite
at the Palace.

We have now to give the names of the Reading Committee, with their verdict.

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LORD LYNDHURST,

LORD DENMAN,

LORD COTTENHAM,

LORD CAMPBELL,

SIR J. PARKE, Knt.,

SIR JAMES FOLLETT, Knt.,

SIR JOHN PATTESON, Knt.,

SIR LANCELOT SHAD'WELL, Knt.,

SIR N. C. TINDAL, Knt., SIR J. L. K. BRUCE, Knt.,

SIR T. COLTMAN, Knt., | SIR JAMES WIGRAM, Knt.

"We, the Reading Committee, appointed by Punch to read the Prefaces to his Sixth Volume, sent in by
Candidates for the Prize of One Hundred Guineas, do hereby declare that the writer of the Preface with the quotation,
" Rude am I in speech," is, in our opinion, entitled to the Prize, as containing the greatest amount of swagger in the
fewest possible syllables. In testimony whereof, witness our hands : —

{Here follow the Signatures.)

64 Latvgrove's, Blackwalt, June 20th, 1844."

Upon this, Punch immediately handed over the Hundred Guineas to the fortunate writer, as will be seen from the
subjoined receipt : —