Punch
Some idea of the financial straits in which English people find themselves may be gathered from the statement that the first forced strawberries of the season fetched no more than ten shillings a pound. The Germans proudly point out that their forced loans fetched more than that.
"Is ut _con_scription ye mane? Shure, 'tis like this. Furst of all there was inlistment be groups. Himself tould me all about it. Over there, there was no inlistin' as there was...
1. Chapter 1Some idea of the financial straits in which English people find themselves may be gathered from the statement that the first forced strawberries of the season fetched no more th...
2. Chapter 2"Quite the tit-bit of the evening was the little interlude in the duet from 'Faust' taken by Mr. H---- as Faust and Mr. B---- P---- as Mephistopheles. 'His Satanic Majesty' sings--
4. Chapter 4I am like Mr. JACOBS' _Night Watchman_; it's very hard to deceive me. I had read only a few pages of Miss UNA SILBERRAD'S _The Mystery of Barnard Hanson_ (HUTCHINSON) when I gue...