Mr. Punch On Tour

About this eBook

Editor

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

Title

Mr. Punch on Tour: The Humour of Travel at Home and Abroad

Credits

Produced by Neville Allen, David Edwards and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

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

Subject

Voyages and travels -- Humor

Category

Text

eBook-No.

36177

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36177

Release Date

May 20, 2011

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE. — PUNCH LIBRARY OF HUMOUR — MR PUNCH ON TOUR. — Mr. and Mrs. Jones's Walking Tour. . — MR. PUNCH ON TOUR — THE HUMOUR OF TRAVEL AT HOME AND ABROAD — PUBLISHED BY ARRANGEMENT WITH THE PROPRIETORS OF "PUNCH" THE EDUCATIONAL BOOK CO. LTD. — THE PUNCH LIBRARY OF HUMOUR
2. 2.THE HUMOUR OF TRAVEL
3. 3.MR. PUNCH ON TOUR
4. 4.HINTS TO TOURISTS — TACTFUL SYMPATHY
5. 5.TRAVELLERS' TALES
6. 6.A HAPPY HOLIDAY
7. 7.IMPRESSIONS FROM ABROAD — THE RULING PASSION — INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS — "DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES" — Foreign Hotels. — The Last Thing Out. — The Personal Equation. — "EASIER SAID THAN DONE" — DESPAIR!
8. 8.VIATOR'S VADE MECUM — THE WATER CURE — THE HOT WEATHER — Up country Joys In India.
9. 9.THE TRAVELLERS' PROTECTION LEAGUE — A TIGHT FIT — "WHEN A MAN DOES NOT LOOK HIS BEST"
10. 10.MR. PUNCH'S COUNTRY RAMBLES — "BY THE CARD" — MUCH PLEASANTER FOR ALFRED — SOMETHING FROM THE PROVINCES — ON THE COLONIAL TOUR — EVOLUTION EXTRAORDINARY
11. 11.THE IDEAL HOLIDAY — "THE VALET OF THE NILE" — "CAUTION! THIS HILL IS DANGEROUS!"
12. 12.TO ABSENT FRIENDS — TRIPPERS — ENGLAND AND GERMANY — SNUB FOR A SNOB — MISPLACED SYMPATHY — WHERE IGNORANCE IS BLISS. — BASHAN, NEAR BARMOUTH — Geology. — Music on the Waters. — The Comforter. — A Moot Point. — Bad Habits Grow Apace.
13. 13.THE TRAVELLERS TRICKED — NOSÉ IN EGITTO; OR, AUTOMOBILITY IN THE LAND OF THE SPHINX. — A question of Proportion.
14. 14.THE SKELETON TOURIST'S VADE MECUM — A Continental Trip. — On The Grand Tour. — THE FAULT OF THE FOWL — Corrected. — YOUNG AUSTRALIA
15. 15.A SENSATIONAL DRAMA IN THREE ACTS AND FIVE TABLEAUX.
16. 16.FOR A CHANGE — "JOINT OCCUPATION" — PHILLIPOPOLIS
17. 17.NOT SO PRETTY IN ENGLISH
18. 18.A WHITSUN HOLIDAY.
19. 19.BY A SEA-SICK PASSENGER — Dartmoor Way. — Halcyon Prospects. — PERAMBULATORS NOT ADMITTED
20. 20.TWO LAST WORDS TO SWITZERLAND — LUSUS NATURÆ — OUR BORES, NATIVE AND FOREIGN — A SCENE AT THE "LUCULLUS"
21. 21.TO A WELSH LADY.
22. 22.THE WALKING ENGLISHWOMAN ON THE ALPS — Scene — Verandah of Swiss Hotel — CAUTIOUS
23. 23.The Seven Ages of Luggage — In the Swiss Highlands.
24. 24.EASTER HOLIDAYS — "THE CHURCH-GOING BELL"
25. 25.TO MY AIRSHIP — The American Rush. — Cold Comfort.
26. 26.OVER THE SEA. — AN APPRECIATION
27. 27.SUMMER RESORTS — A Pleasant Uncertainty. — A SLIGHT "MALONGTONGDEW" — Honeymooning in Paris. — Quid Pro Quo. — 'Arry Abroad.
28. 28.BY THE SILVER SEA — Philological. — A Nice Prospect. — Things one would rather have left Unsaid. — ÆSTHETICS — THE JOYS OF TOURING — Cheering. — MIND AND MATTER-OF-FACT — Modern Accomplishments. — Filial Anxiety. — OVERDOING IT — "Carry your trunk, sir?" — THE TOURIST SEASON. HOTEL BRIGANDAGE
29. 29.DE GUSTIBUS——
30. 30.The Brown Family Resolve To Spend Their Vacation Each After His Own Fashion, Instead Of en Famille . — The Antiquary. — A Pastoral Rebuke.
31. 31.TIPS FOR TRAVELLERS — Introduction made Easy.
32. 32.A MOUNTAIN RAMBLER — The Festive Season. — Our Compatriots Abroad. — AGGRAVATING FLIPPANCY — NEARING THE ENGLISH COAST — On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners. — Our Countrymen Abroad. — UNANSWERABLE — " It's an Ill Wind ," &c. — An Epicure.
33. 33.A COWES WEEK EXPERIENCE — THE EXCURSION. — CAUSE AND EFFECT — THE OLD WORLD AND THE NEW — "IN PERIL OF PRECIPITATION"— Coriolanus , iii. 3. — Detected.
34. 34.HOLIDAY FARE IN CORNWALL

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