{"product_id":"2940148339724","title":"Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 109, August 10, 1895 (Illustrated)","description":"Tell me not, in Summer numbers,\u003cbr\u003e\"Holidays are but a dream!\"\u003cbr\u003eIf you hold that vacs are slumbers,\u003cbr\u003eWell—things are not what they seem.\u003cbr\u003eCook is real! Gaze is earnest!\u003cbr\u003eAnd the earth's end is their goal;\u003cbr\u003e\"Bust\" thou art, and \"bust\" returnest,\u003cbr\u003eSing they to the tripper's soul.\u003cbr\u003eNot enjoyment—rather, sorrow\u003cbr\u003eGreets the tourist on his way;\u003cbr\u003eHis to toil, that each to-morrow\u003cbr\u003eFind him farther on his way.\u003cbr\u003eTours are long, and Time is fleeting,\u003cbr\u003eWhile we dire discomfort brave;\u003cbr\u003eIn globe-trotting, record-beating,\u003cbr\u003ePleasure surely finds its grave.\u003cbr\u003eLet us, still, each town be \"doing,\"\u003cbr\u003eSince \"tow-rowing\" is our fate—\u003cbr\u003eThen, half-dead with guide-pursuing,\u003cbr\u003eBrag o'er those at home who wait!\u003cbr\u003e\"Forwood Boys.\"—Sir Arthur Forwood, the new Baronet, observes the Day-by-Day-istical writer in the Daily Telegraph, \"is not to be confounded with his brother, Sir William Forwood.\" Why not? Why interfere with the liberty of speech on the part of some Radicals, who might say \"Confound 'em both!\" Or, in the words of the National Anthem, \"Confound their politics.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOmitted from the Gracious Speech of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales at the opening of the Southampton New Dock.—\"I appear here as the Judge, at whose word the prisoner is to be let into the dock, and, subsequently, let out again. Ladies and gentlemen, the prisoner is—the water.\" (Cheers.)","brand":"Lost Leaf Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47067798274288,"sku":"2940148339724","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148339724_p0.jpg?v=1763702174","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148339724","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}