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Two upper class gentlemen, garbed in peasant smocks, greeting a group of startled ladies in the street. The elderly lady looks severely disapproving! Engraved illustration from Punch's Almanack for 1882, published by Punch, London, in 1881. Punch was a British magazine newspaper founded in 1841, famous for its humorous and satirical cartoons which were created by some of the foremost illustrators of the day. The Almanack was a supplement.