It's clothes well-cut, and shiny hat,
And faultless boots, and nice cravat.
It may be Law, or Church, or Ale,
Or Trade--on a sufficient scale.
It's being "something in the City."
It's carefully to shun being witty.
It's letting tradesmen live on credit.
It's "Oof"--to earn it, or to wed it.

* * * * *

PROFESSOR JOLLY, of Berlin, who, if his name express his disposition,
ought to be a follower of _Mark Tapley_, reckons that twenty-five per
cent. of the inmates of asylums have been inebriates. Is the Professor
"Jolly well right?"

* * * * *

A DIALOGUE OF THE FUTURE.

SCENE--_Rooms of a Cambridge Tutor._

PERSONS--_A Tutor and an Undergraduate._

_Tutor_. I understand you were at Newmarket yesterday. Is that so?

_Undergraduate_. It is. I was.

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