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Punch Magazine Satirising The Agony Column 1887

 

Broken-hearted: We cannot really undertake to advise you as to what is your best course. Yours is a peculiar case. It is rare for any one person to be simultaneously threatened by epilepsy, deserted by her affianced lover after the banns have already been published, bitten by a dog, which has been rendered insane through being led about by a string, expelled from her lodgings for non-payment of rent and thrown out by an active volcano. These events do not often happen together. Do not, at any rate, return the presents your lover gave you. If we were in your place, we should convert them to cash. Then you might take out a County Court Summons against the owner of the dog, also the volcano, and have something left over for a Breach of Promise action.