Where Ignorance Is Bliss

Where Ignorance Is Bliss

Philip Ebbutt

Fun (22 July 1885): 42

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Fishy Sanitary Inspector: — “Ugh! Really, Ma’am, I should imagine, from the smell of this Water, that it contains Living Animalcules of a highly deleterious nature.”

Householder: — “Lor, Sir, don’t fret yourself; they wouldn’t live for choice in that there Water.”

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