The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 10, No. 273, September 15, 1827 by Various
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Persevere ye perfect men Ever keep these precepts ten. * * * * * In a new farce, supposed to have been written by Maddocks, was the following curious pun:--A large party of soldiers surprising two resurrection men in a church-yard, the officer seized one of them, and asked him what he had to say for himself. "Say, sir! why, that we came here to raise a _corpse_, and not a _regiment!_" |
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