قراءة كتاب Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour
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are no trifle,
And they're windy and cold,
So your wish you'd best stifle,
Or buy, and be—sold.
GOOD NEWS
'Arry. "T'aint no good miking a fuss about it, yer know, guv'nor! Me and my pals must 'ave our 'd'y out'!"
Foreign Fellow-traveller. "Aha! Die out! You go to die out? Mon Dieu! I am vairy glad to 'ear it. It is time!"
FORCE OF HABIT; OR, CITY SUSPICIONS
'Arry (who is foraging for his camping party). "Look here, my good woman, are these cabbages fresh?"
Little Dobbs. "Hullo! what's that? Looks like a mowing machine."
Hairdresser (who does not appreciate "chaff"). "No, sir, 'tain't a mowin' machine. It's meant to give gentlemen fresh hair."
BITING SARCASM
Gentleman with the Broom (who has inadvertently splashed the artist's favourite shipwreck). "Ow yus! I suppose yer think ye're the president o' the Roy'l Acadermy! A settin' there in the lap er luxury!!"
FOREIGN COMPETITION
British Habitual Criminal. "Well, if these 'ere furrin aliens is a-goin' ter take the bread out of a honest man's mouth—blimey if I don't turn copper!"
Very Appropriate.—Says 'Arry, "Regular good place for a medical man to live in is 'Ill Street, Berkeley Square. But why don't he cure it and make it Quite Well Street?"
COMMENT BY A COCKNEY
Bad-Gastein! Sounds more fit than nice, and yet
They say most healing waters there are had.
Strange, though, that people fancy good to get
By going to the Bad!
'Arriet read from a daily paper, "Navigation in the Ouse." "I s'pose," said 'Arry, "as the members are goin' to 'ave a 'ouse-boat this season. Which 'ouse? Hupper or lower? Whichever's to steer? The Speaker or Lord 'Igh Chancellor?"
Two Distinct Classes.—The aristocracy and the 'Arry-stocracy.
