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Read Ebook: Punch or the London Charivari Volume 156 February 5 1919 by Various
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"What is copra like?" I asked.
"Great," he said. "Like--what shall I say?--well, like Audit ale and Veuve Clicquot mixed. But it got to your head. You had to be careful. I remember one night after a day's bathing at--at Tromo Titonui--"
"Where was that?" I asked.
"Oh, that little village I was telling you about," he said. "I remember one night--"
"Look here," I said, "you began by calling it Tormo Tonitui, then you called it Morto Notitui and now it's Tromo Titonui. I'm going to say again, quite seriously, that I don't believe you ever were in Hawaii at all."
"Of course I wasn't," he replied. "But what is one to do in a railway carriage, with nothing to read, and a drenched world and those two words staring one in the face?" and he pointed to a placard above my head advertising a firm which provided the best and cheapest Motor Tuition.
DEMOBILISED.
Daddy's got his civvies on: In his room upstairs You should have heard him stamping round, Throwing down the chairs; When I went to peep at him Daddy banged his door.... Well, I think I'll hide from Daddy Till the next Great War!
OUR BOOKING-OFFICE.
A half-governess is, we suppose, the feminine equivalent of two quartermasters.
Perhaps they will know too much for her.
The gentleman will doubtless beg a ride on Mr. H.G. WELLS'S "Time Machine" in order to get back in time for the appointment.
To skimp its daily bread for beer Was not this nation's mood; But now with lightened hearts we hear That BEVERIDGE turns to Food.
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