Punch, Volume 235Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman Punch Publications Limited, 1958 - English wit and humor |
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Page 582
... roads programme . We have recently heard a great deal about Parkinson's Law . Why not Watkinson's Law : " Where there is a railway track there is a road " ? To build viaduct roads over our main railway lines may in the end prove far ...
... roads programme . We have recently heard a great deal about Parkinson's Law . Why not Watkinson's Law : " Where there is a railway track there is a road " ? To build viaduct roads over our main railway lines may in the end prove far ...
Page 584
... road between Ambleside and Keswick . He was not surprised . It had been given to his father as a wedding present and had even then been second- hand ; it was , or had been , an Edwardian bicycle . He gazed at the two pieces , grappling ...
... road between Ambleside and Keswick . He was not surprised . It had been given to his father as a wedding present and had even then been second- hand ; it was , or had been , an Edwardian bicycle . He gazed at the two pieces , grappling ...
Page 835
... road . " And please don't let him drink too much , will you ? " Lights came on all along the block , curtains ... road . She was under pain - of - death instructions never to cross this road by herself . If , by chance , her mother was ...
... road . " And please don't let him drink too much , will you ? " Lights came on all along the block , curtains ... road . She was under pain - of - death instructions never to cross this road by herself . If , by chance , her mother was ...
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