Punch, Volume 256Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman Punch Publications Limited, 1969 - English wit and humor |
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... thing . " I waited tensely , while a bout of coughing rattled through the emaciated rib - cage like the last train pulling out of a condemned station . " Promise me , " he gasped , finally , " you'll never be reduced to writing about ...
... thing . " I waited tensely , while a bout of coughing rattled through the emaciated rib - cage like the last train pulling out of a condemned station . " Promise me , " he gasped , finally , " you'll never be reduced to writing about ...
Page 209
... thing with a brass spat on the end . As the connoisseur will know , there is also an Italian version - a black leg bisected by a thin gold line . But even this has begun to give way to a sort of toboggan undercarriage . All this takes ...
... thing with a brass spat on the end . As the connoisseur will know , there is also an Italian version - a black leg bisected by a thin gold line . But even this has begun to give way to a sort of toboggan undercarriage . All this takes ...
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... thing to have regrets about some famous aspect of the ski world not being what it was . Take slalom ( sliding down hill between im- possibly awkwardly placed sticks ) . I happen to be an expert in that myself , having long been able to ...
... thing to have regrets about some famous aspect of the ski world not being what it was . Take slalom ( sliding down hill between im- possibly awkwardly placed sticks ) . I happen to be an expert in that myself , having long been able to ...
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