Punch, Volume 240Henry Mayhew, Mark Lemon, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman Punch Publications Limited, 1961 - English wit and humor |
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Page 97
... asked where he had been all this time . He said he had been to gaol . " What were you doing there , Mel ? " we asked , and Mel , always literal in famine or surfeit said : " Nothing much . It was one of those gaols where they kept you ...
... asked where he had been all this time . He said he had been to gaol . " What were you doing there , Mel ? " we asked , and Mel , always literal in famine or surfeit said : " Nothing much . It was one of those gaols where they kept you ...
Page 99
... asked Gadd . What burners ? asked Vince . The acetylene burners to get the safe - doors off . Burners on top of a mountain ? said Vince . Do you want us to be like a team of glow - worms in full sight of the county ? I've got some first ...
... asked Gadd . What burners ? asked Vince . The acetylene burners to get the safe - doors off . Burners on top of a mountain ? said Vince . Do you want us to be like a team of glow - worms in full sight of the county ? I've got some first ...
Page 217
... asked to state the " particular denomina- tion . " I knew that Ben and Emily belonged to some Christian persuasion because on Sunday mornings the delivery boy for the local bottle store arrived on his bicycle , donned tattered cassock ...
... asked to state the " particular denomina- tion . " I knew that Ben and Emily belonged to some Christian persuasion because on Sunday mornings the delivery boy for the local bottle store arrived on his bicycle , donned tattered cassock ...
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