CROESUS.]

(3.) SIR,--I have saved £4 5s. 2d. during the last twenty years, and

now send it to you in the Automatic Toast and Muffin Distributor Co.,

which I see guarantees a return of 500 per cent., with an anticipated

increase of 200 per cent. from the sale of concessions in suburban

districts. "The Muffins," you say, "will always be kept at toasting

point, and, by a novel and ingenious arrangement, a perpetual supply

of the best butter will spread itself over every Muffin as it is

distributed to the Public." I like this very much. Pray, therefore,

place me on toast to the enclosed amount.

Yours,

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