Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, Jan. 2, 1892 by Various
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so of girder-bridges across the canal between this and the Ri-alto,
and run an elevator up the Campanile--but this ain't what you might call a _business_ city, Sir, and that's a fact. (_To Miss T. as she appears._) Hello, MAUD, the ice-water cool down your face any? _Miss T._ Not _much_. My face just made that ice-water boil over. I don't believe I'll ever have a complexion again--it's divided up among several dozen mosquitoes, who've no use for one. But it's vurry consoling to look at _you_, Mr. CULCHARD, and feel there's a pair of us. Now what way do you propose we should endeavor to forget our sufferings? _Culch._ Well, we might spend the morning in St. Mark's--? _Miss T._ The morning! Why, Poppa and I saw the entire show I inside of ten minutes, before breakfast! _Culch._ Ah! (_Discouraged._) What do you say to studying the Vine and Fig-tree angles and the capitals of the arcades in the Ducal Palace? I will go and fetch the _Stones of Venice_. _Miss T._ I guess you can leave those old stones in peace. I don't feel like studying up anything this morning--it's as much as ever I can do not to scream aloud! _Culch._ Then shall we just drift about in a gondola all the morning, and--er--perhaps do the Academy later? _Miss T._ Not any canals in this hot sun for me! I'd be just as _sick_! That gondola will keep till it's cooler. |
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