Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 7, 1891 by Various
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page 17 of 46 (36%)
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_Second T._ (_a lady, with the air of a person making a discovery_). How wonderfully small everything looks down below! _Third T._ (_a British Matron, with a talent for incongruity_). Yes, dear, very--_quite_ worth coming all this way for, but as I was telling you, we've always been accustomed to such an evangelical service, so that our new Rector is really _rather_--but we're quite _friendly_ of course; go there for tennis, and he dines with us, and all that. Still, I _do_ think, when it comes to having lighted candles in broad daylight--(&c., &c.) _Fourth T._ (_an equally incongruous American_). Wa'al, yes, they show up well, cert'nly, those peaks do. But I was about to remark. Sir, I went to that particular establishment on Fleet Street. I called for a chop. And when it came, I don't deny I felt disappointed, for the plate all around was just as _dry_--! But the moment I struck a fork into that chop, Sir,--well, the way the gravy just came _gushing_ out was--there, it ain't no use me trying to put it in words! But from that instant, Sir, I kinder realised the peculiar charm of your British chop. _Fifth T._ (_a discontented Teuton_). I exbected more as zis. It is nod glear enough--nod at all. Zey dolt me from ze dop you see Milan. I look all aroundt. Novere I see Milan! And I lief my obera-glass behint me in ze drain, and I slib on ze grass and sbrain my mittle finger, and altogedder I do not vish I had com. _Miss T._ (_presenting CULCHARD to Mr. CYRUS K.T._). I guess you've met _this_ gentleman before! |
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