Bound Volumes

They Furnish Fun

A pleasant combination sandwich is to be found in: a shady spot, a long-chair, a lazy feeling, tobacco and a bound volume of some magazine.

The particular magazine in question does not matter so much. But the volume should be ten years old or overtime enough for the women's clothes in the illustrations to look absurd. Otherwise you might remember some of the stories.

A bound volume of Punch or Life —and you can study dispassionately the periodicity of recurrence of all our jokes. Some jokes repeat...

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