Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, ill, À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856 · London : Pub. at the Punch Office · leaf 323
be brought out, whenM. Arago has predicted dry weather, andwhen the barometer accordingly stands at much rain. You will, therefore, notfail to borrow—j-ou know what I mean bythat—an umbrella wlien you go to the firstnight of your friends tragedy. If thepiece be damned, as most hkely it will,you… … P. S. Good heavens ! would you believe it ? I was out at supper last night, at Whiffens—good fellow Whiffens—never knew a drop of British brandy within his doors. Wehad something to drink of course—eifxht glasses, or sometrifle thereabouts, and I left his place to come home as soberas a judge ;…
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