The American comic almanack for 1831 : with whims, scraps and oddities : calculated for the meridian of Boston, lat42, long71, but will answer for all New England . to the most refinedfeelings went to her butcher to remonstrate with him on his cruelpractices. How, said she can you be so barbarous as to putinnocent little lambs to death ; Why not Madam, said the;butcher, u you surely would not eaU/iem alive, would you. SAVING. It is related that a gentleman once called upon Guy, the Miser,for a lesson of frugality—Guy, extinguishing the light said we«an talk this matter over in the dark. DANDIE
The American comic almanack for 1831 : with whims, scraps and oddities : calculated for the meridian of Boston, lat42, long71, but will answer for all New England . to the most refinedfeelings went to her butcher to remonstrate with him on his cruelpractices. How, said she can you be so barbarous as to putinnocent little lambs to death ; Why not Madam, said the;butcher, u you surely would not eaU/iem alive, would you. SAVING. It is related that a gentleman once called upon Guy, the Miser,for a lesson of frugality—Guy, extinguishing the light said we«an talk this matter over in the dark. , to make a greater show,Wear coats stuck out with pads and puffing,And this is surely apropo,For whats a goose, without the stuffing. CLERICAL few years since the posthumous work of a papular Englishpreacher were published by an enterprising Bookseller. A re-view of them soon appeared in one of our ablest conducted jour-nals, replete, with praise of the warmest kind, but ended with thesewords :;— Our raptures would have been still greater, if we hadnot chanced to have read them some time ago, as the production•f one HOW TO PRESERVE EGGS. 31 Eggs slwuld he kept in lime water mixed with a little saU. whichvill preserve them fresh for years. THE FIRST PAIR. Adajvi alone could not be easy,So he must have a wife an please ye :^nd how did he procure this wife,To cheer his solitary life ?Out of a rib, sir, from his side,Was formd this necessary bride :But how did he the pain beguile ?How ?—He slept sweetly all the while ;And when this rib was re-applied,In womans form to Adams side,How, then, I pray you, did it answer * He never slept so sweet again, sir. A LEGAL Lamb (an old man at the time the late Lord Erskineyas in the height of his reputation) was a man of timid mannersnd nervous disposition, and usually prefixed his pleadings within apology to that effect, on one occasion, when opposed to Ers^Line, he happened to rem
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