Rough Humour.
If you want a book that will make you laugh till you are tired set Mr. Pett Ridge's " Minor Dialogues." an illustrat-v.-inrvio iHil'Uvlv'i] by Mr. Arrowsmith. of Bristol. It abounds in the best of fun and humour. The thirty sketches which fill it are as diverting as anything that has been published for many a day. Mr. Ridge hits off to perfection the rough humour of cabbies, the oddities of openair oratory, the style of uncultivated talkin picture galleries, and other places of popular resort. " Down w r ith drink. That's the advice I give you. Down with it," exclaims a reclaimed tippler, who is haranguing a crowd. " 'Ow can we, when the pubs, ain't open ?" some humorous punster in the crowd growls out. Then there is the free-thinking orator, with his slimy, smug, complacent manner " Allow me to inform you (with elaborate politeness) that I (taps chest) don't believe in the existence of a hell." " You wait till you g-et there, mister," remarks an elderly working man. There's some confusion, after which one of the freethinker's supporters says, " Suppose you was a clergyman, and T. as a sensible man, comes to you." " T should never know you, matey," remarks the elderly working man. Some of the dialogues inside and outside omnibuses are the best in the collection.
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2280, 29 September 1899, Page 6
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