Ashley Sterne, Punch, Volume 147, Issue 3833… (19th and 20th century)
“ I've done nothing else but read notices ever since I got on this wretched reading-room. I know where I may smoke and where I may not. I know that I must beware of pick-pockets, and I know that I mustn't waggle my arms over the side-rails. ”
Ashley Sterne, Punch, Volume 147, Issue 3833… (19th and 20th century)
“ Pinkerton's personal assurance that his Pills are the Best. If I'd had more time I daresay I should have worked my passage to the notice you refer to. I haven't reached it yet." "Look 'ere," said the conductor, thrusting me into the vacant smoker's seat and pointing with what I at first took to be a saveloy, but which upon closer inspection proved to be his forefinger, "what does that say?— TO AVOID ACCIDENTS PASSENGERS SHOULD REMAIN SEATED WHILE THE BUS IS PASSING UNDER RAIL- WAY BRIDGES. There nar. Some of you blokes never look any farther than the end of your noses." ”
