Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 135

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Excerpt from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 135: July-December, 1908Mr. Asom'm, the Prime Minister, was in the 'bus. He had a long white beard and wore a Glengarry cap and a kilt. He was very like a Scotch piper I had seen in Parliament Street that afternoon, but he had left his pipes behind. He winked at me very deliberately, and, the 'bus having by this time passed completely over me, I found myself at Paddington Station, where, after a dispute with a cabman, who had been driving me for more than an hour, I entered a train at Platform No. 5. My wife was already in the carriage. She smiled at me and continued to feed our youngest daughter, a ed four, on marmalade and Shetland shawls. I sai You know that is not good for the child, and she said, I had to buy Whiteley's new hippopotamus: he was so cheap. I realised that this explained everything.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.