What Sparkle!
Mr. Punch surpasses himself – like Mrs. Oldfield, “outdoes former outdoings” this week. A poetic friend of his, remarking that he wished to grow a beard, but found that it came up rather grey, was asked by Mr. P. “Did you never read Manfred?” The poet looked indignant at the implied doubt. “Then what does Byron say is the whole moral and purpose of that poem?” The poet did not remember (poets never remember anything except castigations which they have justly received), and Mr. Punch finished him off:
“Old man, ’tis not so difficult to dye.”
Phrenology Right for Once.
A Phrenologist has been examining the Queen’s head, and says that he finds the bump of adhesiveness was sadly deficient, if it existed there at all. In justice, however, to this gentleman, we must state, that the Queen’s head under examination was a Postage-Stamp.
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Why are the members of the Oxford University Rifle Corps a most frivolous lot?
Because they have Quad-Drills every day.
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