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Burlesques

CHAPTER XXIV
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G.' "This caused all the bystanders to laugh excep my pore Mary Hann, who pull'd a very sad face.
"The good-naterd feller presently said, 'he'd have another trile;' and what d'ye think was the answer?
I'm blest if it wasn't-- "'P.

A.P.' "He was eating pap! There's for you--there's a rogue for you--there's a March of Intaleck! Mary Hann smiled now for the fust time.

'He'll sleep now,' says she.

And she sat down with a full hart.
***** "If hever that good-naterd Shooperintendent comes to London, HE need never ask for his skore at the 'Wheel of Fortune Otel,' I promise you--where me and my wife and James Hangelo now is; and where only yesterday a gent came in and drew this pictur* of us in our bar.
* This refers to an illustrated edition of the work.
"And if they go on breaking gages; and if the child, the most precious luggidge of the Henglishman, is to be bundled about this year way, why it won't be for want of warning, both from Professor Harris, the Commission, and from "My dear Mr.Punch's obeajent servant, "JEAMES PLUSH." THE TREMENDOUS ADVENTURES OF MAJOR GAHAGAN..


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