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    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 16, 1891
    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 16, 1891
    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 16, 1891
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    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 16, 1891

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      Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 16, 1891 - Various Various

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100,

      May 16, 1891, by Various

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, May 16, 1891

      Author: Various

      Release Date: September 1, 2004 [EBook #13348]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PUNCH ***

      Produced by Malcolm Farmer, William Flis, and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team.

      PUNCH,

      OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

      Vol. 100.

      May 16, 1891.

      MR. PUNCH'S PRIZE NOVELS.

      No. XVII.—GASPS.

      (By OLPH SCHREION, Author of Screams, The Allegory of an Asian Ranche.)

      [You will perceive, writes the Author of the following story, that this is allegorical, but it is not by any means necessary that you should understand it. The chief charm of allegorical writing is its absolute freedom from the trammels of convention. You write something large and vague, with any amount of symbols thrown in. The words flow quite easily; you cover scores of pages. Then you read it over again next morning. If you understand it so little as to think some other fellow must have written it, you may be quite certain it is an allegory. When you print it, your public reads into it all kinds of mysterious and morbid religious emotions, and confused misinterpretations of life-problems, and everybody tacks on his own special explanation. That being so, it is quite unnecessary for you to explain things—which saves a great deal of trouble. The plan is an excellent one. Try it.—Yours, allegorically, O.S.]

      CHAPTER I.

      TANT' SANNIE was stewing kraut in the old Dutch saucepan. The scorching rays of the African sun were beating down upon BONAPARTE BLENKINS who was doing his best to be sun-like by beating WALDO. His nose was red and disagreeable. He was something like HUCKLEBERRY FINN's Dauphin, an amusing, callous, cruel rogue, but less resourceful. TANT' SANNIE laughed; it was so pleasant to see a German boy beaten black and blue. But the Hottentot servants merely gaped. It was their custom.

      But in the middle distance Life was playing marbles with the Unknown. And the Unknown said unto Life, Give me an alley-tor. But Life replied, Nay, for the commoneys are lying well, and the thumb of him that aimeth is seasoned unto the stroke. And the Unknown beat his sable wings together, and one black feather flitted far into the breast of the day and fell to earth. And there came a fair-haired Child plucking flowers in the desert with brows bent in thought.

      And Life said unto the Child, Play with me.

      And the Unknown said, Play with me.

      But the Child raised its soft hand slowly and the tender fingers grew apart, and its thumb was poised in thought upon its nose, and it spake not at all. And the feather flitted far, far over the waste, and men came forth and gazed upon it, but it heeded them not.

      Then said Life, I am strong. Kings have need of me and earth is my dominion. But the Unknown gathered up the scattered marbles, concealing them gently, and answered only this—I am a greater than Life.

      And the Child strayed onwards and the feather flitted, and TANT' SANNIE still stewed kraut in the old Dutch saucepan. And BONAPARTE BLENKINS was glad.

      CHAPTER II.

      Cruelty, cruelty, cruelty—all is cruelty! Boys are beaten; oxen are stabbed till the blood bursts forth; happy, industrious, dung-collecting beetles are bitten in

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