Reginald Rigby

Punch, Volume 147, Issue 3810… (19th and 20th century)

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Reginald Rigby Punch, Volume 147, Issue 3810… (19th and 20th century)

I thought it better to postpone further investigations, and reflected that Honor might be able to enlighten me when I returned home that evening.
"No," she said, when I asked her about it, "I haven't noticed anything exceptionally superior about him."
"Bills any different?"
"No," she said, "they take as long to pay; about as exorbitant as most of the others."
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Reginald Rigby Punch, Volume 147, Issue 3810… (19th and 20th century)

When I passed our butcher's on my way to the station yesterday morning, I noticed outside his shop a placard prominently displayed, which read:—"Williamson's Spring Lamb. So different from the ordinary butchers."
There was no apostrophe before the "s" in "butchers," so the reference was clearly to Williamson and not Williamson's Spring Lamb.
"Is Williamson really different from his rivals?" I said to myself, crossing to the other side of the road to take a general survey of the shop front. No, the same sort of joints seemed to be hanging up as those in other butchers' windows
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