SPORTING.

A wit said of the late bishop of Durham, when alive, “His grace is the

only man in England who may kill game legally without a stamped license:

if actually taken with a gun in his hand, he might exclaim in the words

of his own grants--‘I _Shute_, by divine permission.’”

[77] Dr. Aikin’s Athenæum.

~March.~

“STOP AND READ.”

We have seen this requisition on the walls till we are tired: in a book

it is a novelty, and here, I hope it may enforce its claim. For _thy_

sake, gentle reader, I am anxious that it should; for, if thou hast a

tithe of the pleasure I had, from the perusal of the following verses, I

expect commendation for bidding thee “stop and read.”