Ah, wot a change has suddenly cum over the hold Copperation! From
sitch recepshuns of Kings and Queens, and Princes and Princesses, and
Royal Dooks and Dutchesses, and Zarrowitches and setterer, and all in
their werry best clothes, too! as I never witnessed before nor since,
to cum suddenly upon nuffin but Gog and Magog, is a strikin fac
indeed. As the Rite onerabel Lord MARE werry propperly said, "Ah wot a
fall is here my Country-men!"
And what a blooming staggerer it was to finish off with the King and
Queen of DENMARK! of all people in the World! Why I has allers been
tort to bleeve, from what I have seen at the Play, that neether on em
wornt not werry great things as regards behaviour to the poor _Prince
Hamblet_, but BROWN says as that's all over long, long ago, and isn't
to be spoke of no more, no, not for ever! and so we must drop it. I
think, upon the hole, as I likes the PRINCE OF WALES the best of all
on em, he does allers seem to enjy hisself so much.
We had him in the City wunce at Church, and twice at Gildall to
dinner, all in about a munth, and that ain't so bad for a near
aparrent. And he does seem allers so much atome. Why I acshally
overherd him say to our Blushing Town Clark, after dining the King of
DENMARK, "How well you have dun it all, but you allers do it well at
Gildall!"
I wunder how many hundred sentries it will be before he says ditto to
the Cheerman of the Country Counsel, poor feller! after sitch a dinner
to sitch a company? Praps about another 700! ROBERT.
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[Illustration: AN UNEARNED INCREMENT.
_Our Irish Curate (persuasively)._ "NOW, DOCTOR DEAR, HERE 'S THE VERY
THING. YE'VE BEEN GIVING A TENTH OF YOUR INCOME, LIKE A MAN. WELL,
NOW, TIMES ARE BAD. DOUBLE IT, AND GIVE A TWENTIETH!"]
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OFF AND ON.--She had been longing for a new dress. At last the extra
money was saved, and she bought it. "It's off my mind now," she
exclaimed, "and, which pleases me more, it's on my body."
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