Contributions to punch Etc Author:William Makepeace Thackeray General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1898 Original Publisher: Smith, Elder Subjects: English wit and humor Fiction / Fantasy / General Fiction / Science Fiction / General Fiction / Science Fiction / Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction / Space Opera Humor / General Literary Criticism / European / En... more »glish, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: BRIGHTON BY " PUNCH'S " COMMISSIONER At there are some consumptive travellers, who, by dodging about to Italy, to Malta, to Madeira, manage to cheat the winter, and for whose lungs a perpetual warmth is necessary; so there are people to whom, in like manner, London is a necessity of existence, and who follow it all the year round. Such individuals, when London goes out of town, follow it to Brighton, which is, at this season, London plus prawns for breakfast and the sea air. Blessings on the soa air, which gives you an appetite to eat them ! You may get a decent bedroom and sitting-room here for a guinea a day. Our friends the Botibols have three rooms, and a bedstead disguised like a chest of drawers in the drawing-room, for which they pay something less than a hundred pounds a month. I could not understand last night why the old gentleman, who usually goes to bed early, kept yawning and fidgeting in the drawing-room after tea; until, with some hesitation, he made the confession that the apartment in question was his bedroom, and revealed the mystery of the artful chest of drawers. Botibol's house in Bedford Square is as spacious as an Italian palace; the second-floor front, in which the worthy man sleeps, would accommodate a regiment; and here they squeeze him into a ckijfonniere ! How Mrs. B. anil the four d...« less