Violent and unmanageable Punsters, who interrupt others when engaged in conversation, with Puns or attempts at the same, shall be deprived of their Joseph Millers, and, if necessary, placed in solitary confinement.

"A confirmed punster is as great a bore as a patronizing moralist.

Hook was a disgraceful punster, and a successful one.

There is no greater nuisance in society than a dull and persevering punster.

A gentleman having received a shot in the Temple, Mr. Theodore Hook remarked that it was a legal wound; an inveterate punster who overheard this never forgave himself for not replying on the spot, "As it was not fatal, it could only have been a Gray's Inn (grazing) wound.

"The Mistral it appears," said one pitiful punster, "has been incarnated in a poem.