Re: The Pages of Punch
Gumbud
Sorry you couldn’t read it all. Here is my transcription of the entire cartoon.
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Marry? Why not providing everything is OK?
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Of course she would have to be very piquant -
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and lively –
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and have intelligence –
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though not too much of it. Naturally.
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She’d have to be thoroughly capable -
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and domesticated –
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in more ways than one.
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She’d need to be sporting -
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and reposeful.
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Then she he’d have to do me credit on special occasions –
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have a useful income of her own and be generous with it -
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and when I want a change know how to pack properly
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and unpack it on my return.
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Children? Yes, she’d have to provide a few to look after my comfort when the years begin to tell.