“What sort of doctor is he?

Oh, well, I don’t know very much about his ability;

but he’s got a very good bedside manner!”

(Punch)

John Lentell

August 23rd, 1968

“Nearly all our best men are dead! Carlyle, Tennyson, Browning, George Elliot! – I’m not feeling very well myself.”

(Punch 1893)

John Lentell – Barum & Sarum

“Here was an old owl liv’d in an oak

The more he heard, the less he spoke;

The less he spoke, the more he heard

O, if men were all like that wise bird!”

(Punch 1875)

John Lentell – Barum & Sarum