“…So well known is Punch, that the sight of the two men, one carrying the show and the other the drum and pipes, passing through the streets, is quite enough to draw after them a group of curious little folk, all on the tip-toe of excitement, wondering when and where the men will stop and pitch the show. …There are some preparations to be made by the showman; so, while they are going on, the man with the drum suspended from his shoulders, and the row of pipes stuck just within the folds of his scarf, tries to swell the crowd by blowing a tune on the pipes, keeping up a rub-a-dub-dub accompaniment on the drum. There is not much music in the noise this musician is creating, but the well-known strains from the pipes soon draw the people around….”

'Uncle Jonathan, Walks in and Around London', 1895 (3 ed.)