CO-PARTNER WANTED, by a highly respectable Man, aged 30,
member of Spurgeon's. A gentlemanly person required, a believer
with about L50, and who can travel.--Address, &c.
Hm! In the first place a gentlemanly person would not wish to hear his
partner talk in that exceedingly curt way of their minister and his
flock. "Member of Spurgeon's." "One who regularly attends the
ministrations of the Reverend C. H. SPURGEON, B.M." would be more
gentlemanly language. Nextly, "a believer with about L50" reads rather
Mammonish. It suggests that a sceptic with about L75, or a positivist
with about L100, would not be unacceptable. Thirdly, "who can travel."
Who _can't_ travel with about L50? MR. COOK will give you a
return-ticket for the Pyramid for about that. Fourthly, the "and" is
abominable English. We wish our esteemed friend the _Christian World_
would edit its advertisements. We really can't be always doing it.
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=Dignity for Doctors.=
IT is suggested that a fitting honour to be conferred on meritorious
Physicians and Surgeons would be that of the Order of the Bath. Nothing
could be more suitable; but should the Bath be the Hot-Bath or the Cold?
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[Illustration: GENEROSITY.
_Noble Lord_ (_whose Rifle has brought to a scarcely untimely end a very
consumptive-looking Fallow Deer_). "TUT--T, T, T, T, TUT! O, I SAY,
STUBBS!--(_to his Keeper_)--YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE LET ME KILL SUCH A POOR,
LITTLE, SICKLY, SCRAGGY THING AS THIS, YOU KNOW! IT POSITIVELY ISN'T FIT
FOR HUMAN FOOD! AH! LOOK HERE, NOW! I'LL TELL YOU WHAT. YOU AND MCFARLIN
MAY HAVE THIS BUCK BETWEEN YOU!!!"]
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