Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 31, 1917 · Chapter 13War-Time Tags from "julius Cæsar."
This chapter is not translated yet. You are reading the original.
"I'll about,
And drive away the vulgar from the streets;
So do you too, where you perceive them thick."—Act I. Sc. 1.
"Good night, then, Casca: this disturbéd sky
Is not to walk in."—Act I. Sc. 3.
"For my part, I have walked about the streets...
Even in the aim and very flash of it."—Act I. Sc. 3.
"But wherefore art not in thy shop to-day?"—Act I. Sc. 1.
"Is this a holiday?
What dost thou with thy best apparel on?"—Act I. Sc. 1.
"Till then, my noble friend, chew upon this."—Act I. Sc. 2.
Announcement by a French publisher:—
"Vient de paraitre:—'M. Britling commence à voir clair.'"
"MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
A Large Quantity of Old Bricks for Sale."—Dublin Evening Herald.
Do not shoot the pianist. Throw a brick at him instead.
Regarding a certain judge:—
"Hence so many reversals by the Court of Appeal that suitors were often more uneasy if they lost their case before him than if they won it."—Irish Times.
We assume that they were Irishmen.
"Elderly Lady Requires Post, as companion, Secretary or any position of trust, would keep clergyman's wife in Parish, etc."—Church Family Newspaper.
But the difficulty with the parson's wife in some parishes, we are told, is just the reverse of this.
"Duck and drake (wild) wanted; must be tame."—Scotsman.
We dislike this frivolity in a serious paper.
Grandfather. "JUST HAD A TOPPING BIT OF NEWS, OLD DEAR. GERALD'S WANGLED THE D.S.O."
Granny. "ABSOLUTELY PRICELESS, OLD THING. ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT CHILD WAS SOME NIB."