Mr. Punch's Railway Book

About this eBook

Editor

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

Credits

Produced by Neville Allen, Chris Curnow 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

Railroads -- Great Britain -- Humor

Category

Text

eBook-No.

35027

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35027

Release Date

January 21, 2011

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE. — MR. PUNCH'S RAILWAY BOOK — PUNCH LIBRARY OF HUMOUR — "READING BETWEEN THE LINES" — MR. PUNCH'S RAILWAY BOOK — WITH 160 ILLUSTRATIONS — BY — THE EDUCATIONAL BOOK CO. LTD. — Punch Library of Humour
2. 2.A WORD AT STARTING
3. 3.RAILWAY JOKES — AN EXCITING TIME — A TRAGEDY ON THE GREAT NORTHERN — "WHAT'S SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE," &c. — A REMINDER — NOTES OF TRAVEL — THE LEVEL CROSSING
4. 4.THE MISSING SPINSTER — MOST OFFENSIVE — A RAILWAY COLLUSION—A HINT TO STATION-MASTERS — CHANGELINGS; OR, A STORY WITHOUT (POLITE) WORDS.
5. 5.UNDERGROUND STUDIES — SMOKING COMPARTMENT — WAIT TILL THE TRAIN STOPS — THIRD CLASS. TO SEAT SIX — THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAYS
6. 6.REPARTEES FOR THE RAILWAY — RAILWAY AMALGAMATION—A PLEASANT STATE OF THINGS
7. 7.METROPOLITAN RAILWAY TYPES.
8. 8.THE THIRD-CLASS TRAVELLER'S PETITION — A CAUTION — THE FIRST "BRADSHAW"
9. 9.THE SLOW TRAIN — A BANK HOLIDAY SKETCH — RAILWAY LUXURIES
10. 10.RAILWAY AND SOCIAL SYNONYMS
11. 11.OUR COUNTRY COUSINS
12. 12.THE TOURIST'S ALPHABET — STARTLING!
13. 13."THE MORE HASTE THE WORSE SPEED" — WHEN IN DOUBT—DON'T! — A DILEMMA — RISKS
14. 14.TO MY "PUFF PUFF" — DIGNITY AND IMPUDENCE
15. 15.TO A RAILWAY FOOT-WARMER — "A LIBERAL MEASURE" — ZOOLOGY — LOGIC — "A MAN AND A PASSENGER!"
16. 16.VOCES POPULI — I — NOT QUITE UP TO DATE — NOTES OF TRAVEL — IN THE UNDERGROUND — LA BELLE DAME SANS "MERCI" — "TOUT VIENT À QUI SAIT ATTENDRE" — A STATION ON THE NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE LINE — TRYING POSITION OF AN ELDERLY GENTLEMAN
17. 17.A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY LONG AFTER STERNE'S — A NON-SEQUITUR — THE TWOPENNY TUBE — HIGHLY ACCOMMODATING — SKYLIGHT VIEW—A RAILWAY STATION
18. 18.IN A SLOW TRAIN
19. 19.RAILWAY MAXIMS — "THERE BE LAND RATS" — AFTER AN EASTERTIDE FESTIVITY—ON THE INNER CIRCLE
20. 20.RAILWAY SCALE OF MANNERS
21. 21.EPITAPH ON A LOCOMOTIVE. — MUDDLEBY JUNCTION
22. 22.TEA IN TEN MINUTES — BEHIND THE SCENES — A LUSUS MACHINER—Æ
23. 23.RAILWAY COMPANIONS — I. — II. — À FORTIORI — "JUST OUT!"—(AT ALL THE LIBRARIES) — RATHER SUSPICIOUS — FROM THE GENERAL TO THE PARTICULAR — A NEW RACE IN AFRICA — A LITTLE FARCE AT A RAILWAY STATION — TWO VIEWS OF IT — INJURED INNOCENCE — "NEM. CON.!" — RECIPROCAL — RAILWAY LITERATURE — SATISFACTORY — AN UNDERGROUND SELL — QUITE UP TO DATE
24. 24.VOCES POPULI — II. — THE BRANCH STATION — A COOL CARD — THAT IT SHOULD COME TO THIS! — ART! — PERMISSIVE SLAUGHTER — BEHIND TIME — "FORCE OF HABIT" — WHY TAKE A CHILL? — QUITE UNIMPORTANT.
25. 25.IN THE HOT WEATHER TOO! — DRAMATIS PERSONÆ — THINGS ONE WOULD RATHER HAVE LEFT UNSAID — A SCENE AT A RAILWAY STATION — A LUXURIOUS HABIT — "THE OTHER WAY ABOUT"
26. 26.THE PORTER'S SLAM — MANNERS AND CVSTOMS OF YE ENGLYSHE IN 1849
27. 27.MR. PIPS HIS DIARY — NARCISSUS — "COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON" — INOPPORTUNE
28. 28.THE TYMPANUM — "THE BLOCK SYSTEM"
29. 29.WONDERS OF MODERN TRAVEL — FOND DELUSION — FOR LADIES ONLY — A DISENCHANTMENT — PATENT FIRST-CLASS COSTUME FOR THE COLLISION SEASON — JUDGING BY APPEARANCES — COLD COMFORT
30. 30."THE NURSERY SALOON ON THE RAILWAY" — RAILWAY PUZZLE — VICARIOUS! — UNDERGROUND RAILWAY — REGULAR IRREGULARITY — "'TIS BETTER NOT TO KNOW" — APPALLING DISCLOSURES OVERHEARD BY AN OLD LADY IN THE CONVERSATION BETWEEN TWO RUFFIANS IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE. — NECESSITIES OF LIFE — A STRIKING ATTITUDE — THE RAILWAY JUGGERNAUT OF 1845 — AFTER A DERBY-WINNER-DINNER — "THINGS ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM" — THE QUESTION SETTLED
31. 31.THE OLD HALL
32. 32.RULES FOR THE RAIL — ABOLITION OF SECOND-CLASS CARRIAGES — "TIME BY THE FORELOCK"! — APRIL 1 — UNNECESSARY REMARKS — "OVERCAST" — A DELIGHTFUL REMINISCENCE OF THE BOAT-RACE — PRIVILEGES OF HIGH RANK — "THE NEWS" — A REAL GRIEVANCE
33. 33.BLACKFRIARS TO SLOANE SQUARE — SO LIKELY! — A SPEEDY RETRIBUTION — A HINT TO RAILWAY TRAVELLERS
34. 34.SOMEBODY'S LUGGAGE — ADJUSTMENT — THE LIMITED MALE. — A DEFINITION WANTED
35. 35.MY SEASON TICKET — AN INQUIRING MIND — MASHONALAND RAILWAY — THE FLYING SCOTCHMAN
36. 36.AT A RAILWAY STATION — SYMPATHY
37. 37.THE ROUGH'S RAILWAY GUIDE — YE RAILWAY STATION DURING YE HOLIDAY TIME IN YE ROMAN PERIOD — "WAR'S ALARMS" — THE MAIDEN'S PRAYER — OBSTRUCTIONISTS IN A SMOKING CARRIAGE
38. 38.TERMINUS TRIOLETS

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