Mr. Punch's Scottish Humour

Mr. Punch's Scottish Humour

Designed to provide in a series of volumes, each complete in itself, the cream of our national humour, contributed by the masters of comic draughtsmanship and the leading wits of the age to Punch, from its beginning in 1841 to the present day. An English friend of ours called many years ago at Inverness Post Office for some letters awaiting him there. They were addressed to the Poste Restante, Inverness, N.B. In handing him the letters, an elderly lady who then graced the postal staff remarked: You micht tell your freens that N.B. is quite superfluous. Hoo wad they like us to write London, S.B.? And we dont think that muckle o London up here. Now, whether we use N.B. as meaning North Britain, or Nota Bene, we shall leave you to guess! Unless we are mistaken, we have seen more than once in English papers a suggestion that the Scots are a race devoid of humour. He joked wi deeficulty is, we believe, a reference to a Scotsman. A surgical. But no, we shall not repeat that! Oddly enough, the pages of Mr. Punch, true mirror of our national characteristics, yield an abundant harvest of Scottish humour. Have we not already in this same series made merry with Mr. Punch in the Highlands? And we are now to laugh with him again at this banquet of Scottish humour, which by no means exhausts his store. We have already heard that some seventy-five per cent. of the jokes appearing in Punch contributed by those not on the permanent staff come from Scotsmen; so it is a reasonable assumption that the bulk of the anecdotes in the present collection have originated north of the border, even when they tell against the Scot; for it is not the least of his good points that Sandy is able[6] to appreciate a story that does not present him in the most favourable light. No humour in Scotland! Here is Mr. Punchs reply! ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 49309
Author: Hammerton, J. A. (John Alexander)
Release Date: Jun 28, 2015
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Editor: Hammerton, J. A. (John Alexander), 1871-1949
Illustrator: Keene, Charles, 1823-1891