. Christmas cheer [electronic resource]: in three courses, more than ordinary ones, and where every guest will get his dessert, and a taste of those choice spirits, "that cheer but not inebriate," . shed tomake a butt of him. By no means, my dearfellow, rejoined a bystander, we only wantto get a start: out of joke of a Sanitary Commissioner, who, uponbeing appealed to on behalf of the distressedneedlewomen, said He had been quite worriedenough with the sewers already. The worst specimen of this class is the venerablejoke of the gentleman who, passing along thestreet, was told by his fr
. Christmas cheer [electronic resource]: in three courses, more than ordinary ones, and where every guest will get his dessert, and a taste of those choice spirits, "that cheer but not inebriate," . shed tomake a butt of him. By no means, my dearfellow, rejoined a bystander, we only wantto get a start: out of joke of a Sanitary Commissioner, who, uponbeing appealed to on behalf of the distressedneedlewomen, said He had been quite worriedenough with the sewers already. The worst specimen of this class is the venerablejoke of the gentleman who, passing along thestreet, was told by his friend that he had kickedthe bucket, No, exclaimed he, being a wag; I only turned a little pail (pale) [ 21 ] MORE LAMENTABLE DESTITUTION. S a rider to the foregoing we may-inform our readers that, since thecase of the Distressed Joke, ourchambers have been besieged byother decayed jokes applying forsituations. It has been foundimpossible to relieve them all, andwe beg to recommend them tothe notice of the benevolent. We had referred themto Exeter-hall, but the principals of that establish-ment are not much attached to jokes, althoughthey may be as far-fetched as their chief objects
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