Why it's amost enuff to give 'em all hedakes for the rest
of their nateral lives.
I don't know of any further arrangements as is quite finally settled,
so praps I may have jest a few lines to add nex week.
ROBERT.
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QUEER QUERIES.--A FIRST READING.--Would some person kindly inform
me of a good Recitation for a Smoking Concert? I have been asked to
recite "something telling" after the annual banquet of a Club of local
Licensed Victuallers. I am thinking of the First Book of _Paradise
Lost_. Or would parts of _The Excursion_ be more likely to create
a _furore_? I have never recited in public before, and feel rather
doubtful of my ability to "hold" the Victuallers.--WILLING TO OBLIGE.
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[Illustration: GENTLE SATIRE.
"I SAY, BILL, LOOK 'ERE! 'ERE'S A OLD COVE OUT RECORD-BREAKING!"]
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"THE DILEMMA."
(_An old Irish Story newly applied._)
["On which horn of the dilemma will the Gladstonians elect
to stand?"--_Mr.
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