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THE GATHERER.

"A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles."
SHAKSPEARE.

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IAMBICS.


Iambe was a servant-maid of Metanira, wife of Celeus, king of Eleusis, who
tried to exhilarate Ceres when she travelled over Attica in quest of her
daughter Proserpine. From the jokes and stories which she made use of,
free and satirical verses have been called _iambics_.--_Apollod_, i._c_. 5.
HALBERT.


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BISHOP AND NEGUS.


Two dustmen were lately disputing the difference between _bishop_ and
_negus_. "Don't you know?" said one of them; "I vonders at your ignorance--
vy bishop is made all vine vithout no vater vatsomever; vereas negus is
made with vine and vater mixed--that's the difference, to be sure."