Inadequate Description Portsmouth and even early telephone systems

and even early telephone systems

touches his hat to little Lord Russell and Mr Gladstone as they pass over the cleanly swept path of Reform

Ixion on the wheel

'The Hare and the Bridge of Crocodiles'

Buckingham House and Somerset House

Inadequate Description Portsmouth and even early telephone systems'Inadequate Description', 1906. Dougal (to shooting tenant, who has brought out a dog recently purchased at auction, and is now trying to whistle it back from the hill opposite): Hoo was't they describit him in the catalogue, did ye say?. Tenant: It only said, 'From Stranraer'. Dougal: They might ha' said, 'To and from Stranraer!'. Illustration from Punch, or The London Charivari, (15 August 1906).