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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 3, 1892
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Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 3, 1892
Author: Various
Editor: Francis Burnand
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PUNCH,
OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
VOL. 103.
December 3, 1892.
THE MAN WHO WOULD.
III.--THE MAN WHO WOULD GET ON.
"I dreamed," said the Scotch Professor, "that I was struggling for dear life with a monstrous reptile, whose scaly coils wound about my body, while the extremity of his own was lost in the distance. At last I managed to shake myself free, and setting my foot on his neck, I was preparing to cut his throat, when the animal looked up at me with an appealing expression, and said, 'At least you might give me a testimonial!'"
This professional nightmare (for the labours of a Scotch instructor consist, to a great extent, in writing testimonials, or in evading requests for them), suggested to one of his audience the history of SAUNDERS MCGREGOR, the Man who would Get on. In boyhood, SAUNDERS obtained an exhibition, or bursary, to t