Punch, Volume 230Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman Punch Publications Limited, 1956 - English wit and humor |
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Page 312
... husband soon finds himself falling into line with the others and discarding our early passion for the exotic in favour of potatoes . Potatoes , he says enthus- iastically after a conversation with seasoned Talkingtonians in the Tube ...
... husband soon finds himself falling into line with the others and discarding our early passion for the exotic in favour of potatoes . Potatoes , he says enthus- iastically after a conversation with seasoned Talkingtonians in the Tube ...
Page 313
... husband has not planted enough . However he is proud of himself as a bountiful supplier of plain English fare at not more than shop prices . And the wife comforts herself that the allotment shows no actual loss and that it gives the husband ...
... husband has not planted enough . However he is proud of himself as a bountiful supplier of plain English fare at not more than shop prices . And the wife comforts herself that the allotment shows no actual loss and that it gives the husband ...
Page 337
... husband grumbles about the instalments on the new machine , and then suddenly there are two novels to be typed or ten sweaters to be knitted , and the wives and their exhausted husbands are kept busy far into the night casting on ...
... husband grumbles about the instalments on the new machine , and then suddenly there are two novels to be typed or ten sweaters to be knitted , and the wives and their exhausted husbands are kept busy far into the night casting on ...
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