Puppets at Large: Scenes and Subjects from Mr Punch's ShowAnstey, F.
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Puppets at Large: Scenes and Subjects from Mr Punch's Show
Anstey, F.
English wit and humor
FIRST "G." Don't you believe it, Sarah. Why, my married sister bought
one on'y last week!
COSTER (_to an old lady who has repudiated a bunch of onions after a
prolonged scrutiny_). Frorsty? So would _you_ be if _your_ onion 'ad bin
layin' out in the fields all night as long as these 'ave!
FIRST ITINERANT PHYSICIAN (_as he screws up fragments of candy in pieces
of newspaper_). That is Frog in your Froat what I'm doin' up now. I arsk
you to try it. It's given to me to give away, and I'm goin' to _give_
it away--you understand?--that's all. And now I'm going to tork to you
about suthink else. You see this small bottle what I 'old up. I tell you
there's 'undreds layin' in bed at this present moment as 'ud give a
shillin' fur one of these--and I offer it to you at one penny! It
corrects all nerve-pains connected with the 'ed, cures earache,
toothache, neuralgy, noomonia, 'art-complaint, fits, an' syhatica. Each
bottle is charged with helectricity, forming a complete
galvanic-battery. Hall _you_ 'ave to do is to place the bottle to one o'
your nawstrils, first closing the other with your finger. You will find
it compels you to sniff. The moment you _tyke_ that sniff, you'll find
the worter comin' into your heyes--and that's the helectricity. You'll
say, "_I_ always 'eard helectricity was a _fluid_." (_With withering
scorn._) Very _likely_! You _'ave_? An' _why_? Be-cawse o' the hignirant
notions prevailin' about scientific affairs! Hevery one o' these bottles
contains a battery, and to each purchaser I myke 'im a present--a
_present_, mind yer--of Frog in 'is Froat!
SUSAN JANE (_to LIZERANN, before a stall where "Novelettes, three a
penny," are to be procured by the literary_). Shall we 'ave a penn'orth,
an' you go 'alves along o' me?
LIZERANN. Not _me_. I ain't got no time to go improvin' o' _my_ mind,
whatever _you_ 'ave!
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