Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 17, 1917 by Various
page 17 of 53 (32%)
page 17 of 53 (32%)
|
MORE SEX PROBLEMS.
From a stock-auction report:-- "THE BULL CALVES. THE BULL CALVES." _Glasgow Herald._ Notwithstanding the repetition of this statement we find great difficulty in believing it. * * * * * "SOLDIERS' CHRISTMAS GIFTS. POSTING DATES FOR EGYPT AND SALONIKA." _Times._ It sounds a little like consigning coal to Newcastle. * * * * * "AIR RAIDS.--Peaceful country rectory, Hampshire, well out of danger zone, can receive three or four paying guests. Large garden, beautiful scenery, high, bracing. Simple life. £10 each weekly."--_The Times._ This enterprising parson seems to have borrowed his recipe for the simple life from GRAY'S _Elegy_:-- Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenner of their way. |
|