The Gatherer.

"I am but a _Gatherer_ and disposer of other men's stuff."--_Wotton_.

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ON CRANIOLOGY.


In days of yore,
Laid wit and lore,
And wisdom in the wig;
But now the skull
Contains them all,
The peruke is too big.


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"According to Julius Africanus," says Gibbon, "the world was created on
the _first of September_--an opinion almost too foolish to be recorded."

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In the memoirs of the celebrated French actor, Preville, we find the
following letter, addressed by the manager of a strolling company to his
prompter:--