Puppets at Large: Scenes and Subjects from Mr Punch's Show — John Shaqi
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
_Confused Murmurs._ Would you put "Portico Lodge, Camden Road, or only
London?"... Here, I'd better sign for the lot of you, eh?... They
_might_ provide a better pen--in a _cathedral_, I _do_ think!... He
might have given all our names in full instead of just "And party!"...
Oh, I've been and made a blot--will it _matter_, should you think?... I
never _can_ write my name with people looking on, can _you_?... I'm sure
you've done it beautifully, dear!... Just hold my umbrella while I take
off my glove, Maria.... Oh, why _don't_ they make haste? &c., &c.
[_The_ STODGY SIGHTSEER _fumes, feeling that, while they are
fiddling, his chops are burning._
The VERGER. Now, ladies and gentlemen, if you will please to follow me,
the portion of the building where we now are is part of the original
hedifice founded by Ealfrytha, wife of Earl Baldric, in the year height
'undred heighty-height, though we 'ave reason to believe that an even
hearlier church was in existence 'ere so far back as the Roman
occupation, as is proved by a hancient stone receptacle recently
discovered under the crypt and hevidently used for baptismal purposes.
A SPECTACLED S. (_who feels it due to herself to put an intelligent
question at intervals._) What _was_ the method of baptism among the
Early Christians?
The VERGER. We believe it to 'ave been by total immersion, Ma'am.
The SPECT. S. Oh? _Baptists!_
[_She sets down the Early Christians as Dissenters, and takes
no further interest in them._
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