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Mr. Punch on Tour 22The Seven Ages of Luggage

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Mr. Punch on Tour 22

The Seven Ages of Luggage

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Baby. Perambulator, bottle, robe, fingerless gloves and woollen shoes.
Schoolboy. Bat, ball, and aids to education.
Lover. Guitar, music-book, writing materials, and fur-lined overcoat.
Justice. Capon in basket, robes, and treatise upon ancient saws and modern instances.
Soldier. Sword, uniform case, standard work upon Reputation.
Pantaloon. Sausages, property red-hot poker, costume of motley, slippers and spectacle case.
Veteran. Travels without luggage.
A GREAT TRAVELLER.--Dr. Watts was evidently in the habit of making pedestrian excursions on the Continent, for in one of his noblest lines, he expressly says--
"Whene'er I take my walks abroad."
INNOCENT ABROAD.--You are misled in your view that the Cours de Cuisine, mentioned in the prospectus of a French school, means the run of the kitchen.
IN THE SWISS HIGHLANDS.--Brown. "This is rather a pretty figure. You start on the left foot, cut a drop three--then----" (Bump)
Little Girl (unmoved). "Oh, that's why it's called a drop three, Mr. Brown!"
AT THE CELESTIAL RESTAURANT.--Customer (indignantly). Hi! waiter, what do you call this soup?
Waiter (meekly). I not know, sir, but ze padrone tell me to describe 'im Cockstail!
NOTE BY OUR TRAVELLER--At a station on the Elham Valley Line, "Kentish Pianos" are advertised. Are these adapted for playing only dance tunes, and therefore specially serviceable in a "Hop" county?

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Anonymous — Mr. Punch on Tour (Anonymous) (author lived 1871–1949). Public Domain. Anonymous, Mr. Punch on Tour; public domain in the US; text from Project Gutenberg #36177. Source

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Mr. Punch on Tour 23

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