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Punch takes one of the journal's regular digs at the absurd world of ladies' fashion with a look at the spirit of competition between two young women

Alfred the Great in the Neatherd's Cottage

A man - possibly John Bull

by William George Armstrong and Henry Stroud (London

'The Crested Cockatoo' mb-width 5068 Punch takes one of theOrnithological study of a Sulphur crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) native to Australia. Plate 26 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales by John White (J. Debrett, London, 1790). The accompanying text states that: 'The bird seems liable to great variation both as to size and colour; the white in some being of much purer appearance than in others, and the yellow on the crest and tail more predominant. All the varieties agree in having the beak