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Puppets at Large Scenes and Subjects from Mr Punch's Show By: F. Anstey (1856-1934) |
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Puppets at Large Scenes and Subjects
From Mr. Punch's Show. By F. Anstey
Author of "Vice Versa," "Voces Populi," &c., &c. With Illustrations by
J. Bernard Partridge London
Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. Ld., Bouverie St., E.C.
1897 BRADBURY, AGNEW, & CO. LD., PRINTERS,
LONDON AND TONBRIDGE.
CONTENTS. PAGE
Doing a Cathedral 1
The Instantaneous Process 13
In the Cause of Charity 27
The Classical Scholar in Reduced Circumstances 43
Rus in Urbe 51
Catching the Early Boat 61
Society's Next Craze 71
An Ideal Interviewer 83
Saturday Night in the Edgware Road 91
The "Model Husband" Contest 101
The Courier of the Hague 109
Feeling their Way 119
A Testimonial Manqué 131
The Model Democracy 145
By Parliamentary 159
The Farming of the Future 167
A Dialogue on Art 177
The Old Love and the New 189
A Doll's Diary 201
Elevating the Masses 219
Bookmakers on the Beach 231
'Igher Up! 243
At a Highland Cattle Auction 257
The Country of Cockaigne 265
ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE
"What did 'e want to go and git the fair 'ump about?" 11
"What's she got hold of now?" 21
"You have lofty ambitions and the artistic temperament" 37
"They ain't on'y a lot o' sheep! I thought it was reciters,
or somethink o' that" 55
"Mokestrians" 75
"Dear, dear! not a county family!" 125
"Well, he's had a sharp lesson, there's no denying that" 135
"None of your humour here, mind!" 155
"I cann't get nothen done to 'en till the weather's a bit
more hopen like" 171
"They haven't the patiensh for it" 183
"It must be a sort of animal, I suppose" 193
"I see him standing on the very brink of the precipice" 209
"To night is ours!" 225
"Why the blazes don't ye take it?" 239
"Thash where 'tis, yer come on me too late!" 251
"'Ere, Florrie, you ain't croying , are yer?" 271
[Illustration]
DOING A CATHEDRAL. (A SKETCH FROM THE PROVINCES.)
The interior of Dulchester Cathedral. TIME About 12.30. The March
sunshine slants in pale shafts through the clerestory windows, leaving
the aisles in shadow. From without, the cawing of rooks and shouts of
children at play are faintly audible. By the West Door, a party of
Intending Sightseers have collected, and the several groups, feeling
that it would be a waste of time to observe anything in the building
until officially instructed to do so, are engaged in eyeing one another
with all the genial antipathy and suspicion of true born Britons... Continue reading book >>
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