'No,' said Froude.

'I wasn't laughing at that.

I was enjoying the joke that appeared in the same relative position in last week's issue.' Now that's the point--the whole point.

The Englishman always laughs over last week's _Punch_, not this week's, and that is why you will find a file of that interesting journal in the home of all well-to-do Britons.

It is the back number that amuses him--which merely proves that he is a deliberative person who weighs even his humor carefully before giving way to his emotions." "What is the average weight of a copy of _Punch_ ?" drawled Artemas Ward, who had strolled in during the latter part of the conversation.
Shakespeare snickered quietly, but Carlyle and Johnson looked upon the intruder severely.
"We will take that question into consideration," said Carlyle.