SEPTEMBER.

Go out a shooting; but shoot not the moon, unless you find it

convenient. A good month for drinking beer, but avoid salts. Recollect

what the wise man sayeth: a bush in the hand is worth two in the bird.

Be sage, stuffed with sage. The time for travelling. If you let your

moustaches grow, you will immediately begin to speak French and German.

Get a passport from the beadle of your parish, _viséd_ by the turncock.

Avoid sea-sickness by never ceasing eating and drinking when at sea. If

you see the devil have nothing to say to him; he is very far from

respectable; cut him.

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