1. Publican: you want a glass of ale? Be good enough to answer the following question:— Have you travelled 600 miles since the morning ? What is your fighting weight? What is your christian and surname in full? How many nobblers does it take to make you intoxicated? Have you any birth-marks? Are you married ? And What is your income ?' " ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Melbourne Punch (Vic. : 1855 - 1900), Thu 11 Jan 1877, Page 9
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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