(_From the German of Claudius_.)
"Friend Ass," said the Fox, as he met him one day,
"What can people mean?--Do you know what they say?"
"No, I don't," said the Ass; "nor I don't care, not I."
"Why, they say you're a GENIUS," was Reynard's reply.
"My stars!" muttered Jack, quite appall'd by the word,
"What can I have done that's so very absurd?"
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_Dedications_ (No. 17. p. 259.).--In Villaneuva's Dedication to the Duke
of Medinaceli of his _Origen Epocas y Progressos del Teatro Español_
(Madrid, 1802, sm. 4to.), the enumeration of the names, titles, and
offices of his patron occupies three entire pages, and five lines of a
fourth.