EBOOK PUNCH, VOL. 156 ***
Produced by Malcolm Farmer, Punch, or the London Charivari, Sandra
Brown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
VOL. 156.
June 4, 1919.
CHARIVARIA.
"Germany will sign," says an evening contemporary, "because the Allies
hold all the trumps." They also hold all the Manchurian beef, and are
prepared, should the occasion arise, to export it mercilessly.
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A Carmarthen man has been fined 12s. 6d. for shooting an owl in
mistake for a pigeon. Defendant pleaded that in omitting to sound its
hooter the owl was guilty of contributory negligence.
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M. LANDRU, the Parisian Bluebeard (alleged), is said to be very morose
and ill. It is felt that something or other must be worrying him.
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Latest information points to the fact that Jazz has spread to the
Hebrides, where two suspected cases are under observation.
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"Jumpers are to be very fashionable at the seaside this year," says a
fashion paper; and yet lodging-house keepers will keep on assuring us
that their bed-linen is scrupulously clean.
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