Mr. Punch Awheel

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Editor

Hammerton, J. A. (John Alexander), 1871-1949

Title

Mr. Punch Awheel: The Humours of Motoring and Cycling

Credits

E-text prepared by David Edwards, Neville Allen, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( www.archive.org)

Language

English

LoC Class

PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

Subject

Cycling -- Anecdotes

Category

Text

eBook-No.

29022

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29022

Release Date

June 1, 2009

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.E-text prepared by David Edwards, Neville Allen, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( http://www.pgdp.net ) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( http://www.archive.org ) — TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE. — PUNCH LIBRARY OF HUMOUR — Designed to provide in a series of volumes, each complete in itself, the cream of our national humour, contributed by the masters of comic draughtsmanship and the leading wits of the age to "Punch," from its beginning in 1841 to the present day. — Edited by J. A. Hammerton — MR. PUNCH AWHEEL — MR. PUNCH AWHEEL.
2. 2.THE HUMOURS OF MOTORING AND CYCLING. — AS PICTURED BY — THE EDUCATIONAL BOOK CO. LTD. — The Punch Library of Humour — EDITOR'S NOTE.
3. 3.MR. PUNCH AWHEEL — ENTERPRISING PRO-MOTOR.
4. 4.MOTOR QUESTIONS — FICKLE FORTUNE — IN DORSETSHIRE
5. 5.HINTS FOR BIKING BEGINNERS
6. 6.A QUESTION OF ETIQUETTE — Wheel and Woe .—A Brooklyn inventor has patented a cycle-hearse. — Unlicensed Pedallers .—Cyclists.
7. 7.TO MARIE, RIDING MY BICYCLE
8. 8.THAT BICYCLE LAMP — A STORY WITHOUT WORDS — SAVING THE SITUATION
9. 9.OUR BARTERERS — Scene — A remote district in the Wolds.
10. 10.THE CYCLING GOVERNESS
11. 11.WOE ON THE WHEEL.
12. 12.WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS
13. 13.SHOULD MOTORISTS WEAR MASKS?
14. 14.THERE WAS A NEW WOMAN
15. 15.THE PACE THAT KILLS
16. 16.WONDERS ON WHEELS — FLATTERY—WITH AN OBJECT
17. 17.THE SCORCHER
18. 18.RHYME FOR RECORD-MAKERS
19. 19.BROKEN ON THE WHEEL — MOTORING PHENOMENA—AND HOW TO READ THE SIGNS
20. 20.THE MORAL BIKE — THE MILTONIC CYCLIST
21. 21.WAKE UP, ENGLAND!
22. 22.THE MOTORS' DEFENCE UNION — HOW NOT — TO DO IT
23. 23.SONG OF THE SCORCHER.
24. 24.SUGGESTED ADDITIONAL TAXATION
25. 25.MY STEAM MOTOR-CAR. — MY STEAM MOTOR-CAR.
26. 26.MODERN ROMANCE OF THE ROAD
27. 27.URBS IN RURE — SIMPLE ENOUGH
28. 28.CYCLES! CYCLES!! CYCLES!!! — SOMETHING ABSOLUTELY NEW
29. 29.THE PERFECT AUTOMOBILIST
30. 30.THE LAST RECORD — THE MOTOR-BATH
31. 31.A SONG OF THE ROAD — "FACILIS — DESCENSUS!" — OUR ELECTION—POLLING DAY
32. 32.THE MOTOCRAT
33. 33.MOTOR CAR-ACTERISTICS — ADDING INSULT TO INJURY — THE RECKLESS ONE — AN INOPPORTUNE TIME
34. 34.CRAZY TALES — BROTHERS IN ADVERSITY — QUITE RESPECTFUL
35. 35.THE SCORCHER
36. 36.THE MUGGLETON MOTOR-CAR; OR, THE WELLERS ON WHEELS — SOUR GRAPES — GROTESQUERIES — SO INCONSIDERATE
37. 37.BROWNING ON THE ROAD. — "IF DOUGHTY DEEDS MY LADY PLEASE"
38. 38.A WISH
39. 39.THE BIKER BIKED — "WHERE IGNORANCE IS BLISS," &c. — MISUNDERSTOOD
40. 40.REFLECTIONS OF A MOTOR-RACER — THE INTERPRETATION OF SIGNS — AFTER THE ACCIDENT — QUITE A LITTLE HOLIDAY — WHATS IN A NAME?
41. 41.PROTECTION AGAINST MOTOR-CARS — SLOW AND SURE
42. 42.HOW THE MATCH CAME OFF
43. 43.MOTOROBESITY — LOVE'S ENDURANCE — NOTE TO THE SUPERSTITIOUS
44. 44.WAITING FOR
45. 45.BIGGER GAME
46. 46.LOVE IN A CAR — SORROWS OF A "CHAUFFEUR"
47. 47.MY MOTOR CAP
48. 48.LINES BY A REJECTED AND DEJECTED CYCLIST

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