Excerpt from A Jorum of Punch With Those Who Helped to Brew It: Being the Early History of the London The circumstances that led to Mr. Punch's birth, and the surroundings under which he first saw the light, have been obscured by such a farrago of fiction embroidered on to such a fila ment of fact that the little jester's begetting has come to be regarded as a literary enigma as difficult to solve as the personage responsible for the Letters of Junius. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.