An American paper tells us of a woman named Dobbs, who was killed in a
preaching-house at Nashville, by the fall of a chandelier on her head.
Brett's Patent Brandy poet, who would as soon make a witticism on a cracked
crown as a cracked bottle, has sent us the following:--
"The _light of life_ comes from above,"
Old Dingdrum snuffling said;
"The _light_ came down on Peggy Dobbs,
And Peggy Dobbs was _dead_."
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A man in Kentucky was so absent, that he put himself on the toasting-fork,
and did not discover his mistake until he was _done brown_.
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