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PUNCH LIBRARY OF HUMOUR
Edited by J. A. Hammerton
Designed to provide in a series of volumes, each complete in itself, the cream of our national humour, contributed by the masters of comic draughtsmanship and the leading wits of the age to "Punch," from its beginning in 1841 to the present day.
MR. PUNCH ON THE CONTINONG
THE STEAM-LAUNCH IN VENICE
("SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI")
'Andsome 'Arriet. "Ow my! If it 'yn't that bloomin' old Temple Bar, as they did aw'y with out o' Fleet Street!"
Mr. Belleville (referring to Guide-book). "Now, it 'yn't! It's the fymous Bridge o' Sighs, as Byron went and stood on; 'im as wrote Our Boys, yer know!"
'Andsome 'Arriet. "Well, I never! It 'yn't much of a Size, any'ow!"
Mr. Belleville. "'Ear! 'ear! Fustryte!"