M. J. C.

If the _jeu d'esprit_ on the above name be worthy of preservation, the more

correct version of it is as follows:

"My first is the emblem of purity,

My second is used for security;

My whole is a name,

Which, if I had the same,

I should blush to hand down to futurity."

The authorship was ascribed (I believe with truth) to a lady of the name of

Belson.

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