Punch
A CRITERION OF MORALS.--Astutely doing "The Puff Preliminary" in a letter to the papers before the production of _The Fringe of Society_ (i.e., _Le Demi-monde_ freely adapted), Mr. CHARLES WYNDHAM observes that "there is no such class, in any recognisable degree, as the _demi-...
Thus BO PEEP lost her sheep, leaving these fleecy tail-bearers to come home solitary to the accustomed fold. She did but humble herself before the manifestation of a Wessex nece...
1. Chapter 1A CRITERION OF MORALS.--Astutely doing "The Puff Preliminary" in a letter to the papers before the production of _The Fringe of Society_ (i.e., _Le Demi-monde_ freely adapted),...
5. Chapter 5Thus she sat for some time in the suspended attitude of an amiable tiger-cat at pause on the edge of a spring. A rustle behind her caused her to turn her head, and she saw a str...
3. Chapter 3"Where be BONDUCA?" said ABRAHAM, shifting his body upon his chair so as to bring his wife's faded tints better into view. "Like enough she's met in with that slack-twisted 'hor...
2. Chapter 2In our beautiful Blackmoor or Blakemore Vale, not far from the point where the Melchester Road turns sharply towards Icenhurst on its way to Wintoncester, having on one side the...
4. Chapter 4Meanwhile BONDUCA PEEP--little BO PEEP was the name by which the country-folk all knew her--sat dreaming upon the hill-side, looking out with a premature woman's eyes upon the r...