Mafeking Night Phil May cartoons from Punch magazine

Mafeking Night. (Or rather 3 am the following morning.) Voice (from above). "Good gracious, William! Why don't you come to bed?" William (huskily). "My dear Maria, you know it's been the rule of my life to go to bed shober - and I can't posh'bly come to bed yet!"

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Mafeking Night. (Or rather 3 am the following morning.) Voice (from above). "Good gracious, William! Why don't you come to bed?" William (huskily). "My dear Maria, you know it's been the rule of my life to go to bed shober - and I can't posh'bly come to bed yet!"