The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

Punning Made Easy

Anonymous. "Punning Made Easy." Vanity Fair, June 23, 1860, 411.
Electronic Source Available
Type
magazine
Genre
illustration
Abstract

Another in the series on puns. This piece explains the art of the pun as applied to two of the masters, Lamb and Hood, as well as a failsafe way to deal with a man who interrupts a true punster in media res.