Text: C. F. Briggs (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), February 1, 1845, vol. 1, no. 5, p. ??

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PUNCH’S SNAPDRAGON. Farmer & Daggers, 30 Ann Street.

Some two or three hundred years hence, Punch will be looked upon as a veritable personage, and learned lecturers will read essays before Village Lyceums on his life and times. One half the good things attributed to Rabelais are as old as Herodotus; but there seems to be a disposition with the world to father upon one individual all its jokes and smart sayings. Punch's Snap-Dragon, as republished, is a rich two shillings’ worth of fun and satire