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A BAYARD FROM BENGAL
him. But I rather regard him as a total deficient in Humour and fanatically opposed to it in any form.—H. B. J.
"I trust I have now made myself perfectly clear?" observed the Cuttlefish, after discharging his ink.
The Cockney was assured that, if he placed the Sea-shell to his ear, he would hear the murmur of Ocean.
But all he caught distinctly was the melody of negro minstrels.
"It is some satisfaction to feel that we have both been sacrificed in a thoroughly deserving cause!" said the Brace-button, complacently, to the Threepenny Bit, as they met in the Offertory Bag.
- Note.—This must be some local allusion, for I do not know what sort of receptacle an Offertory Bag may be, or why such articles should be inserted therein.—H. B. J.
