Posts Tagged ‘Humour’
It’s never too late for a hobby!
A joke backfires, and a hobby begins as a result
Read MoreAlice’s adventures underground
Alice has tumbled down a rabbit hole where she encounters a world of wonderful characters and amazing adventures. In this extract she finds herself in a mysterious garden…… A large rose tree stood near the entrance of the garden: the roses on it were white, but there were three gardeners at it, busily painting them…
Read MoreA matter of taste. Episode 2
Once safely at home, Ella hastened upstairs to her own room, where, if the truth must be told, she employed the half-hour before dinner in unintermittent sobbing, into which temper largely entered. ‘He has spoilt it all for me! How _could_ he–oh, how could he?’ ran the burden of her moan. At the dinner-table, though…
Read MoreA matter of taste. Episode 1
It is a little singular that, upon an engagement becoming known and being discussed by the friends and acquaintances of the persons principally concerned, by far the most usual tone of comment should be a sorrowing wonder. That particular alliance is generally the very last that anybody ever expected. ‘What made him choose her,of all…
Read MoreWeighty Thoughts
Waiting to be served offers an opportunity for some light-hearted thoughts
Read MoreTea
James Cushat-Prinkly was a young man who had always had a settled conviction that one of these days he would marry; up to the age of thirty-four he had done nothing to justify that conviction. He liked and admired a great many women collectively and dispassionately without singling out one for especial matrimonial consideration,…
Read MoreA Tragic Actor
It was the benefit night of Fenogenov, the tragic actor. They were acting "Prince Serebryany." The tragedian himself was playing Vyazemsky; Limonadov, the stage manager, was playing Morozov; Madame Beobahtov, Elena. The performance was a grand success. The tragedian accomplished wonders indeed. When he wascarrying off Elena, he held her in one hand above…
Read MoreThree men on the Bummel
Three men on the Bummel** The following extract is from a chapter of Jerome K Jerome’s humorous novel about 3 friends who embark on a cycling trip in the Black Forest region of Germany.The novel has many humorous insights into how the English are viewed by the ‘Continentals’ (as they were referred to in Jerome’s…
Read MoreA bird in the hand
Konrad Earl II. lost his crown and became a king in exile when Megalia became a republic. He was the victim of an ordinary revolution which took place in 1918, and was, therefore, in no way connected with the great war. Konrad Karl was anxious that this fact should be widely known. He did not…
Read MoreThe fortune teller episode 2
III It was the same afternoon. Balsamo stared calmly at a young dark-browed man who had entered his sanctuary with much the same air as a village bumpkin assumes when he is about to be shown the three-card trick on a race-course. Balsamo did not even ask him to sit down. "Why do you come…
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