Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, April 21, 1920 by Various
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the cause of the trouble?'"--_The Fruit-Grower._ It must be a dreadful thing to have a mind like that. * * * * * [Illustration: MANNERS AND MODES. THEN AND NOW. [_From an Early-Victorian pocket "Etiquette for Gentlemen."_--"During the morning hours a gentleman visitor who neither shoots, reads, writes letters nor does anything but idle about the house and chat with the ladies is an intolerable nuisance. Sooner than become the latter he had better retire to the billiard-room and practise cannons by himself."]] * * * * * TELEPHONE TACTICS. It is now some months since the great autumn offensive was conducted with the idea of biting off an awkward salient in my circumstances--in brief, of obtaining the necessary telephone to enable me to commence an ordered existence. For many, many days my voice had been unheard crying in the wilderness that I was a poor demobilised soldier, that I had once had a telephone and had given it up at my country's call, and please couldn't they give me back even my old, old telephone again? I have already told how in response to these very human appeals I at length got only a request for |
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