M., Agamemnon Collumpsion Applebite placed a plain gold ring on the
finger of Miss Juliana Theresa Waddledot, being a necessary preliminary to
the introduction of our hero, the "Heir of Applebite."
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EPIGRAM.
"I wonder if Brougham thinks as much as he talks,"
Said a punster perusing a trial:
"I vow, since his lordship was made Baron Vaux,
He's been _Vaux et praeterea nihil!_"
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THE TWO FATAL CHIROPEDISTS.
Our great ancestor, Joe Miller, has recorded, in his "Booke of Jestes," an
epitaph written upon an amateur corn-cutter, named Roger Horton, who,
"Trying one day his corn to mow off,
The razor slipp'd, and cut his toe off."
The painful similarity of his fate with that of another corn
experimentalist, has given rise to the following:--
EPITAPH ON LORD JOHN RUSSELL, WHO EXPIRED POLITICALLY, AFTER A LINGERING
ILLNESS, ON MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 30, 1841.
In Minto quies.
Beneath this stone lies Johnny Russell,
Who for his place had many a tussel.
Trying one day _the corn_ to cut down,
The motion fail'd, and he was _put_ down.
The benches which he nearly grew to,
The Opposition quickly flew to;
The fact it was so mortifying,
That little Johnny took to dying.
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SHALL GREAT OLYMPUS TO A MOLEHILL STOOP?
Some difficulty has arisen as to the production of Knowles's new play at
the Haymarket Theatre.
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