PROVERBS APPLIED.

A "FAT and greasy citizen," having made a ridiculous motion in the

Common Council, observed afterwards at a select _dinner party_, (or

rather _party dinner_,) that he was afraid he should be _hauled over the

coals_ for it. An alderman present observed, "_Then all the fat would be

in the fire._"

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