Punch
My name is SMALLUN HALFBOY, a curious name for an old fellow like me, who have been battered and knocked about all over the world from Yorkshire to South Africa. I'm not much of a hand at writing, but, bless your heart, I know the _Bab Ballads_ by heart, and I can tell you it'...
What words avail to honour friends departed, Gone from the gatherings which so long they graced? What phrase seems fit when comrades loyal-hearted Mourn a loved presence late by...
5. Chapter 5It is unnecessary to go through the details of our marvellous escape from the lowest dungeon of the royal Palace of SURVAN TSAUL, where for months we were immured on a constant...
2. Chapter 2I was staying with my old friend Sir HENRY HURTUS last winter at his ancestral home in Yorkshire. We had been shooting all day with indifferent results, and were returning home...
3. Chapter 3We were in Mariannakookaland. We had been there a month travelling on, ever on, over the parching wastes, under the scorching African sun which all but burnt us in our _treks_....
4. Chapter 4"Oh, wanderers from a far country, I am She-who-will-never-Obey, the Queen of the Mariannakookas. I rule above, and in nether regions, where there is Eternal Fire. Behold my Wor...
1. Chapter 1My name is SMALLUN HALFBOY, a curious name for an old fellow like me, who have been battered and knocked about all over the world from Yorkshire to South Africa. I'm not much of...
7. Chapter 7_P.M.G._ (_in effect_). I am delighted that you are such good fellows. Your conduct in owning that you were wrong in refusing to work after regular official hours, almost efface...
6. Chapter 6