various contributors, Punch, Volume 147, Issue 3811… (19th and 20th century)
“ My wife—for I'm as fond of home life as any ordinary man, and we have a little baby—my wife used to worry terribly. She'd expect me to come home on a stretcher. But I never happened to choose that conveyance, and she don't fret any more. ”
various contributors, Punch, Volume 147, Issue 3811… (19th and 20th century)
“ And even if I was ill Jimmy couldn't do it. Jimmy's got as good a punch as the next man, I'll say that for him. If he gets it in it would fell an ox: But can he get it in? Not next Thursday. "Now, see here, you're not going to draw any words from me about the coming fight. You may draw others. I refuse. Let's get right of this fight and on to other things. ”
