. Miscellaneous papers and sketches : hitherto uncollected. be a man of fashion, andspent all his money in buying clothes, and in giving treatsto the ladies, of whom he was outrageously fond. Xot thatthey were very partial to him, for he was not particularlyhandsome — especially without his wig and false teeth,both of which, I am sorry to say, this poor Diddler wore. Well, the consequence of his extravagance was, that,although by his learning he had made himself famous(there was his Essay on the Tea-Kettle, his Remarks onPumps, and his celebrated Closet Cyclopaedia, that everyone has heard of)
. Miscellaneous papers and sketches : hitherto uncollected. be a man of fashion, andspent all his money in buying clothes, and in giving treatsto the ladies, of whom he was outrageously fond. Xot thatthey were very partial to him, for he was not particularlyhandsome — especially without his wig and false teeth,both of which, I am sorry to say, this poor Diddler wore. Well, the consequence of his extravagance was, that,although by his learning he had made himself famous(there was his Essay on the Tea-Kettle, his Remarks onPumps, and his celebrated Closet Cyclopaedia, that everyone has heard of) — one day, after forty years of glory,Diddler found himself turned out of his lodging, withouta penny, without his wig, which he had pawned, withouteven his teeth, which he had pawned too, seeing he hadno use for them. And now befell a series of adventures that you shall allhear ; and so take warning, ye dashing blades of the town,by the awful fate of Dionysius. * First published iu the Autographic Mirror, 1864. Tlie drawingswere made about 1838. 483. This is Dionysius Diddler! young, innocent, and with a fine headof hair, — when he was a student in the University of Ballybunion. —That is Ballybunion University, in the hedge.
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