Punch Volume 66-67 1874 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ...connection with any other Cirque than that under the direction of Widdicomb Junior, known as THE GRAND ROYAL CIRCUS, where he appears every evening at 8"30 precisely, in his celebrated Banjo-and-Boney-part Act on the Bare-Backed Steed of the Boundless Prairie. "FURTHER NOTICE.--If James Marky Du Crow sees his Nephew, Misteh Gammon, late of the Spinnidge Observatory, in the Pit, hissing, he hereby gives him warning that he has given orders to have him summarily and forcibly ejected, and proceeded against with the utmost rigour of the Law. "(Signed) James Marky Du Crow." The other ran thus: --"Gammon to Jim Crow. "You 're a pretty sort of an Uncle, you are You 're an old fool. You ought to know better than to be capering about on horseback at your age. You 've ' given orders' about me, have you? You 're always ' giving orders.' No one would come and see you if you didn't. Shut up and go home. u QAMM0f4- The Traveller in a low voice uttered these words--" It is a family war." Then he took out a soiled pocket-handkerchief, dusted the saddle, and whisked it suddenly under his left arm. The Host murmured to himself, "Now I feel sure I am speaking to a waiter." The Horseman continued, " Which of the two has the best of it?" "The Marky so far. It is a better Circus. Besides, as luck would have it, when the Marky arrived he was able to offer higher terms to the Acrobatic family who had been engaged by the French Cirque Republicain, under Gammon, which, then, lost its chief attraction. This does make them very wild. They are determined to get back the Acrobatic Children at all hazards. That is what they are fighting about." "Ah How long does it take to get to Tristesse?" "Two h...