Punch, Volume 220Punch Publications Limited, 1951 - English wit and humor |
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Page 577
... never given enough of his life to literature , and so I had to go round and read Gibbon's Decline and Fall by his bedside . Day after day in my holidays I had to waste , reading all that dreary rubbish aloud to him . " Read that bit ...
... never given enough of his life to literature , and so I had to go round and read Gibbon's Decline and Fall by his bedside . Day after day in my holidays I had to waste , reading all that dreary rubbish aloud to him . " Read that bit ...
Page 664
... never attained motorist status ; and if you do know somebody at County Hall you may not feel certain that he will give you a leg over the fence without first side- tracking you into the L.C.C.'s own exhibition , whose gay enticements to ...
... never attained motorist status ; and if you do know somebody at County Hall you may not feel certain that he will give you a leg over the fence without first side- tracking you into the L.C.C.'s own exhibition , whose gay enticements to ...
Page 776
... never to have any active life of one's own , never to be able to say " I'll post the letters for you , " that was what was awful about being blind . She could , of course , have adopted the nerve - straining business of a white stick ...
... never to have any active life of one's own , never to be able to say " I'll post the letters for you , " that was what was awful about being blind . She could , of course , have adopted the nerve - straining business of a white stick ...
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