Ah me! what _foggy thoughts_ environ
The man that reads Gait's "Life of Byron."
--_Hudibras parodied_.

"What pens doth Galt in general use?"
To Farthing thus said Simon Shark;
"Mostly the _Nocto-Polygraph_,
Or pen that writes Sir--_in the dark_."

PUN-ICUS.


[3] Vide Certamen Ajacis et Ulyssis. _Ovid's Met._

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PARLIAMENTARY ABSTINENCE.

Perhaps it is not generally known, and certainly not generally attended to,
that an act of parliament was made in the reign of Edward III. prohibiting
any one from being served, at dinner or supper, with more than two courses;
except upon some great holidays there specified, in which he may be served
with three. This act has never been repealed.

J.J.C.

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ANTICIPATORY EPITAPH.