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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
VOL. 159.

July 28th, 1920.


CHARIVARIA.
"The public will not stand for increased railway fares," says a
contemporary. They have had too much standing at the old prices.
* * *
A Mile End man writes to _The Daily Express_ to say that one of his ducks
laid four eggs in one day. It seems about the most sensible thing the bird
could have done with them.
* * *
As a result of the recent Tube extension, passengers can now travel from
the Bank to Ealing in thirty-five minutes. It is further claimed that the
route passes under some of the most beautiful scenery in England.
* * *
Mersey shipyard workers have made a demand on their employers for five
pounds ten shillings a week when not working and seven pounds a week when
working. This proposal to discriminate between the men who work and those
who don't is condemned in more advanced trade union circles as savouring
dangerously of capitalism.
* * *
"One evening at Covent Garden," says M.
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