F. O. Langley, Punch, Volume 147, Issue 3816… (19th and 20th century)
“ No one does, my boy; you are what we refer to as a something civilian. You must forgive us, Bill; it is one of the too few pleasures in the life of the mobilized Territorial. Has that rosy, well-groomed body of yours ever sought repose on the tessellated floor of a public hall? ”
F. O. Langley, Punch, Volume 147, Issue 3816… (19th and 20th century)
“ In fact, my hobby in life is other people's feet; I have fitted a hundred pairs of them with socks and with boots, and I have assisted personally at the pricking of their blisters, and the trimming of their excrescences. What a fall from our intellectual heights! ”
F. O. Langley, Punch, Volume 147, Issue 3816… (19th and 20th century)
“ Their scepticism may be due to a certain music-hall comedian who used to declare as follows:—"And if, gentlemen, this glorious old country of ours shall ever be involved in war, I know, I say, gentlemen, that I know, there is not a man in this hall to-night who will fail to turn out and see the troops off." ”
