The gates of heaven for him shall open wide,
But will be shut against all the tribe beside."
T.R.
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A celebrated gunaiphilist having asked a friend with whom he was walking,
if the woman they had just met was not very _passable_, the other replied,
"Undoubtedly she was, or I had never _got by her_, while you were with me
at least."
HEBES.
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A WEDDING.
A tragic-comic meeting, compounded of favours, footmen, faintings,
farewells, prayers, parsons, plumcakes, rings, refreshments, bottles,
blubberings, God bless-ye's, and gallopings away in a post-chaise and four.
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CHARADE.
A natural production, neither animal, vegetable, nor mineral, neither male
nor female, yet often produced between both; it exists from two to six feet
high, is often spoken of in romances, and strongly recommended by precept,
example, and Holy Writ.--_A kiss._
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Extempore written during the time some medical pupils were considering how
they should remove the heart of a young woman deceased, whom the friends
allowed them to open, on condition that they took no part away:--
St.
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