THE TOURIST'S ALPHABET

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(Railway Edition)

A is the affable guard whom you square:

B is the Bradshaw which leads you to swear:

C is the corner you fight to obtain:

D is the draught of which others complain:

E are the enemies made for the day:

F is the frown that you wear all the way:

G is the guilt that you feel going third:

H is the humbug by which you're deterred:

I is the insult you'll get down the line:

J is the junction where you'll try to dine:

K is the kettle of tea three weeks old:

L are the lemon drops better unsold:

M is the maiden who says there's no meat:

N is the nothing you thus get to eat:

O is the oath that you use—and do right:

P is the paper to which you don't write:

Q are the qualms to directors unknown:

R is the row which you'll find all your own:

S is the smash that is "nobody's fault:"

T is the truth, that will come to a halt:

U is the pointsman—who's up the whole night:

V is the verdict that says it's "all right."

W stands for wheels flying off curves:

X for express that half shatters your nerves:

Y for the yoke from your neck that you fling,

and Z for your zest as you cut the whole thing!


STARTLING

STARTLING!

Constable (to nervous passenger, arrived by the Ramsgate train). "I've got yer"—("Ger-acious Heavens!" thinks little Skeery with a thrill of horror. "Takes me for somebody that's 'wanted'!")—"a cab, sir."]


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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