Punch, Volume 233Punch Publications Limited, 1957 - English wit and humor |
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Page 74
... asked , when at length my first call was answered , " get paid overtime for sleeping ? " The reply made three things clear . First , that the callee had in fact been asleep ( for he made no bones about asking me whether I had woken him ...
... asked , when at length my first call was answered , " get paid overtime for sleeping ? " The reply made three things clear . First , that the callee had in fact been asleep ( for he made no bones about asking me whether I had woken him ...
Page 153
... asked Mr. Pickwick Snodgrass who looked at Oblomov who said " Blake . " " Blake ! " Mr. Pickwick was aghast . He had been informed how someone walking one day into the Blakes ' garden had found them under a tree as Adam and Eve , and ...
... asked Mr. Pickwick Snodgrass who looked at Oblomov who said " Blake . " " Blake ! " Mr. Pickwick was aghast . He had been informed how someone walking one day into the Blakes ' garden had found them under a tree as Adam and Eve , and ...
Page 320
... asked her about and told her things because she Doesn't made them sound amusing . even do that any more . Has to use her position to grind confidences out of them . " " What I can't stand , " said Lady Curle , who had been arguing with ...
... asked her about and told her things because she Doesn't made them sound amusing . even do that any more . Has to use her position to grind confidences out of them . " " What I can't stand , " said Lady Curle , who had been arguing with ...
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