Oh! why, my friend, is a joint stock
Concern like, yet unlike, a clock?
Because it may be wound up; when,
Alas! it doesn't go again.
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THE SEAT OF IMPUDENCE.--A cabman's box.
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SONG OF SUBURBAN HOUSEHOLDERS AWAITING THE ADVENT OF THE DUSTMAN.--"We
_always_ use a big, big D!"
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A FLOATING CAPITAL JOKE.--When may a man be said to be literally
immersed in business?--When he's giving a swimming lesson.
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A CHEERFUL INVESTMENT.--A laughing-stock.
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[Illustration: _Baker._ "I shall want another ha'penny. Bread's gone up
to-day."
_Boy._ "Then give us one of yesterday's."]
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