Short Stories - Volume V

Classic from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature language: English abstract: Our Bore IT is unnecessary to say that we keep a bore. Everybody does. But the bore whom we have the pleasure and honour of enumerating among our particular friends is such a generic bore and has so many traits (as it appears to us) in common with the great bore family that we are tempted to make him the subject of the present notes. May he be generally accepted![...] *** Our English Watering-Place In the Autumn-time of the year when the great metropolis is so much hotter so much noisier so much more dusty or so much more water-carted so much more crowded so much more disturbing and distracting in all respects than it usually is a quiet sea-beach becomes indeed a blessed spot.[...] *** Our French Watering-Place Having earned by many years of fidelity the right to be sometimes inconstant to our English watering-place we have dallied for two or three seasons with a French watering-place: once solely known to us as a town with a very long street beginning with an abattoir and ending with a steam-boat which it seemed our fate to behold only at daybreak on winter mornings when (in the days before continental railroads) just sufficiently awake to know that we were most uncomfortably asleep it was our destiny always to clatter through it in the coupe of the diligence from Paris with a sea of mud behind us and a sea of tumbling waves before.[...] *** Our Honourable Friend We are delighted to find that he has got in! Our honourable friend is triumphantly returned to serve in the next Parliament. He is the honourable member for Verbosity - the best represented place in England.[...] *** Our School We went to look at it only this last Midsummer and found that the Railway had cut it up root and branch. A great trunk-line had swallowed the playground sliced away the schoolroom and pared off the corner of the house: which t