Punch
Eighty-eight policemen were bitten by dogs in 1913, but only forty-four in 1915, says _The Daily Mail_, and quotes a policeman as saying that "dogs are not half so vicious as they used to be." The true explanation is that policemen no longer taste as good as in the old rabbit-...
Eighty-eight policemen were bitten by dogs in 1913, but only forty-four in 1915, says _The Daily Mail_, and quotes a policeman as saying that "dogs are not half so vicious as th...
3. Chapter 3"Khartum has the reputation of being a very hot place this time of year. But last June must have been fairly damp if the meteorological statistics published by the 'Sudan Times'...
2. Chapter 2["The Town Clerk of Colwyn Bay informs us that the fish caught there the other day by two youths was a dogfish and not a shark, as reported, and that its size was much overestim...
4. Chapter 4When a warm-hearted and law-abiding gentleman, who has kept open-house for many guests, suddenly discovers that these guests have plotted against him, have read his private corr...