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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 3, 1917Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 3, 1917There is no truth in the rumour that the Imperial Government is trying to secure from KING ALFONSO an agreement that German prisoners shall not escape on Sundays or in batches of more than fifty...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, September 26, 1917Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, September 26, 1917After spending a one-pound Treasury note on cakes, chocolates, fish and chips, biscuits, apples, bananas, damsons, cigarettes, toffee, five bottles of ginger "pop" and a tin of salmon, a Chatham boy told a policeman that...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, September 5, 1917Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, September 5, 1917Some commotion was caused in the Strand last week when a policeman accused a man of whistling for a taxi-cab. Later, however, the policeman accepted the gentleman's plea that he was not whistling, but that...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, September 19, 1917Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, September 19, 1917Someone has stolen the clock from St. Winefride's Church, Wimbledon. We hope that the culprit has responded to the universal appeals in the newspapers which urged him to put the clock back on Sunday last....
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, September 12, 1917Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, September 12, 1917The Cologne Gazette is of the opinion that the American troops, when they arrive in France, will be hampered by their ignorance of the various languages. But we understand that the Americans can shoot in...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 22, 1917Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 22, 1917"A POULTRY-FANCIER, HEARING THAT DEFENCES AT THE FRONT ARE SOMETIMES DISGUISED AS HEN-HOUSES, DETERMINED TO REVERSE THE PROCESS. BEING A BIT OF AN ARTIST HE DISGUISED HIS HEN-HOUSE BY GIVING IT A WARLIKE APPEARANCE. THE...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 11, 1917Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 11, 1917"It is more dangerous to be a baby in London than a soldier in France," said Mrs. H. B. IRVING at the National Baby Week Exhibition. The same disabilitynamely, middle-agehas prevented us from taking up...
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John Leech's Pictures of Life and CharacterJohn Leech's Pictures of Life and Character ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number: 9531 Author: Thackeray, William Makepeace Release Date: Dec 1, 2005 Format: eBook Language: English
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 4, 1917Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 4, 1917"He do be mentioned in despatches, do our Billy, by Sir DOUGLAS HAIG himself. If it hadn't a-been for him, where'd the Army been? he says. I knowed him ever since I come to these...
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William Tell Told AgainWilliam Tell Told Again [Transcriber's note: William Tell Told Again is two children's books in one. One is a picture book--16 full-color illustrations by Philip Dadd described in verse by John W. Houghton. The other is a humorous novel by P. G. Wodehouse, based...
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The Hohenzollerns in AmericaThe Hohenzollerns in America - With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities The most exalted form of introduction is seen in the presentation of Mr. Tomkins, American tourist, to H.E. the Viceroy of India. An aide-de-camp in uniform at the foot of a...
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Moonbeams from the Larger LunacyMoonbeams from the Larger Lunacy The prudent husbandman, after having taken from his field all the straw that is there, rakes it over with a wooden rake and gets as much again. The wise child, after the lemonade jug is empty, takes the lemons...
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Idle Ideas in 1905Idle Ideas in 1905Charmed. Very hot weather weve been having of lateI mean cold. Let me see, I did not quite catch your name just now. Thank you so much. Yes, it is a bit close. And a silence falls, neither of us being...
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George CruikshankGeorge Cruikshank Accusations of ingratitude, and just accusations no doubt, are made against every inhabitant of this wicked world, and the fact is, that a man who is ceaselessly engaged in its trouble and turmoil, borne hither and thither upon the fierce waves of...
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John Leech's Pictures of Life and CharacterJohn Leech's Pictures of Life and Character We, who can recall the consulship of Plancus, and quite respectable, old-fogyfied times, remember amongst other amusements which we had as children the pictures at which we were permitted to look. There was Boydell's Shakspeare, black and...
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Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and AstrologerIsaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer Of the relations between Steele and Addison, and the origin of Steele's "Tatler," which was developed afterwards into the "Spectator," account has already been given in the introduction to a volume of this Library, * containing essays from the...
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The Angel and the Author, and OthersThe Angel and the Author, and OthersI had a vexing dream one night, not long ago: it was about a fortnight after Christmas. I dreamt I flew out of the window in my nightshirt. I went up and up. I was glad that I...
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The Second Thoughts of an Idle FellowThe Second Thoughts of an Idle FellowIm sure I dont know what I do want now. I had made up my mind a minute ago, and now its all gone againoh yes, I remember, the red. Yes, Ill have the red. No, I dont...
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Songs of a SavoyardSongs of a SavoyardI shipped, dye see, in a Revenue sloop, And, off Cape Finisteere, A merchantman we see, A Frenchman, going free, So we made for the bold Mounseer, Dye see? We made for the bold Mounseer! But she proved to be a...
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More Bab BalladsMore Bab BalladsIm old, my dears, and shrivelled with age, and work, and grief, My eyes are gone, and my teeth have been drawn by Time, the Thief! For terrible sights Ive seen, and dangers great Ive run Im nearly seventy now, and my...
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