Punch, Volume 236Punch Publications Limited, 1959 - English wit and humor |
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Page 56
... Five golden plovers Four colly birds • By " colly bird , " I pause here to say , it is generally supposed that blackbirds are meant , colly ( i.e. " coaly " ) being , in fact , a local name for that bird . This seems to me too simple an ...
... Five golden plovers Four colly birds • By " colly bird , " I pause here to say , it is generally supposed that blackbirds are meant , colly ( i.e. " coaly " ) being , in fact , a local name for that bird . This seems to me too simple an ...
Page 160
... five other cleaners were keen and arrived at a quarter to . They came by bus from distant corners of Birmingham . They all had large families and had to " get Ted off , " so the phrase " I was up at half - past five this morning , what ...
... five other cleaners were keen and arrived at a quarter to . They came by bus from distant corners of Birmingham . They all had large families and had to " get Ted off , " so the phrase " I was up at half - past five this morning , what ...
Page 380
... five , but might have been forty - five . There were some ten around him , " feeling his presence " ; ELVIN they thought they could go on for another six months with the light that his presence exuded to them . This giant was courteous ...
... five , but might have been forty - five . There were some ten around him , " feeling his presence " ; ELVIN they thought they could go on for another six months with the light that his presence exuded to them . This giant was courteous ...
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