Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 2nd, 1893

by Various

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Punch, or the London Charivari

Volume 105, September 2nd 1893

edited by Sir Francis Burnand

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LETTERS TO ABSTRACTIONS.

TO FAILURE

Ecce iterum! Well, why not? So long as I do not exanimate you with my letters, I remain content. Besides, I have not yet fully-developed all my theories. Let us, therefore, continue to chat together for a little.

I cannot proceed for ever by the negative method. No doubt I might in the end, exhaust the list of those who are not your subjects, but the process would be long, and, I fear, tedious. No; I must come to the point and produce my cases. What shall we say of them, then? Hood declares that—