MRS. GRUNDY, good woman, scarce knew what to think
About the relation 'twixt Drama and Drink.
Well, give Hall--and Theatre--good wholesome diet,
And all who attend will be sober and quiet!
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SPRING'S DELIGHTS IN LONDON.--"VIA MALODORA"--clearly a lady, "DORA"
for short--wrote to the _Times_ complaining that the result of
the splendid weather for the first ten days of the month was the
reproduction of "summer effluvium rank and offensive" in Piccadilly.
Poor Piccadilly! Oh, its "offence is rank," and Miss DORA might add,
quoting to her father from another scene in _Hamlet_, "And smells so.
Pa'!" West-Enders, in a dry summer, must he prepared to have "a high
old time of it."
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[Illustration: SANCTA SIMPLICITAS.
_Orthodox Old Maid._ "BUT, REBECCA, IS YOUR PLACE OF WORSHIP
CONSECRATED?"
_Domestic_ (_lately received into the Plymouth Brotherhood_). "OH NO,
MISS--IT'S GALVANISED IRON!"]
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