(Sydney Punch, 1867)
Tag: 1867
Getting the measles
(Sydney Punch, 1867)

Intimate matter
“My daughter, we are wrong. The telegraph tells us that in London, in Berlin, in Paris, and in Vienna bread is more expensive.”
“Well, that’s the cholera… of the stomach.”
(Gil Blas, Madrid, 1867) (Let’s assume I’m missing some word play here.)


