Punch, Volume 229Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman Punch Publications Limited, 1955 - English wit and humor |
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Page 448
... thing to get the whole thing in a lump when he finished his work . Maimandi , as delighted as any other Treasury official to find someone fool enough to prefer a promise of future payment to payment now , agreed at once . Firdousi set ...
... thing to get the whole thing in a lump when he finished his work . Maimandi , as delighted as any other Treasury official to find someone fool enough to prefer a promise of future payment to payment now , agreed at once . Firdousi set ...
Page 565
... thing to do . " I thought we'd slip over a nice bundle of woollen goods - fold up very neat . Or windscreen wipers are handy to pack . Big market for genuine British- made windscreen wipers . Or those little thingummies for TV sets ...
... thing to do . " I thought we'd slip over a nice bundle of woollen goods - fold up very neat . Or windscreen wipers are handy to pack . Big market for genuine British- made windscreen wipers . Or those little thingummies for TV sets ...
Page 566
... thing to do is to tell a lie so whopping that no one thinks you would dare be as mendacious as all that , so it must be true . A good deal more important for real success is to do something so apparently improbable , strange , or un ...
... thing to do is to tell a lie so whopping that no one thinks you would dare be as mendacious as all that , so it must be true . A good deal more important for real success is to do something so apparently improbable , strange , or un ...
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