Comic History of England

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of the nineteenth century, the history of Great Britain has

erpraise and silly and mawkish sentiment, reside in a foreign country, or be so situated that he may

, in what he may say, guard carefully against permitting t

rt of money centre, and thither came the Pho

HE DISCOVERY OF

CAESAR CROSSI

th straw. They had no currency and no ventilation,-no drafts, in other words. Their boats were made of wicker-work plastered with clay.

ain. To spear an enemy with one of these harpoons, and then, after playing him for half an hour or so, to land hi

AESAR TREATING W

lent storm came up. The great emperor and pantata believed he was drowning, so that in an instant's ti

cked unicorns, and much improve

rsed with every kind of domestic and imported fertilizer in cunning little hillocks just bursting forth into fragrance by the roadside, then the va

h I may now and then drop as

eturning his team and flogging a Druid with whom he had disagreed rel

ests, judges, chiefs of police, p

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no one could be a Druid who could

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rning could have been seen going out behind the bush to sacrifice

r. They worshipped almost everything that had been left out overnight, and t

. For uttering such sentiments as these the Druids declared his life to be forfeit, and set one of their num

scussed as in later times, and Caesar could no

ENT OF AGRICULTURE,

a place of idolatrous worship and assassination. On Giblet Day people came for m

o soften and refine the people. Among them came General Agri

GRICOLA ENCOURAG

his chapped and soil-kissed feet and wipe them on the grass before retiring, t

unior year,-that she got her Britons together, had a steel dress made to fight in comfortably and not tight under the arms, then she said, "Is there any one here who hath a culverin with him?" One was soon found and fired. This by the Romans was regarded as a

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n warriors kissed the dust. As she waved her sceptre in token of victory the hat-pin came out of her crown,

t the time, she burst into tears just on the eve of a

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f his works entitled "Half-Hours with Crowned Heads" and "Thoughts o

d in England if any inaccuracy be permitted to creep in, even through the illustrations. It is disagreeable to fall out thus early with one's artist, but the writer knows too well, and the sting yet burns and rankles in his soul where pierced the poisoned dart of an English clergyman two years ago. The write