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Rh Mistrust the Bridegroom who appeareth at his wedding with sticking-plaster on his chin [or "without sticking-plaster," &c.the Styptic is capable of either interpretation.Trans.]

"What!My Original dead?" cried the Statue. "Then I have lost all chance of ever becoming celebrated!"

"What is your favourite Perfume?" they asked the Hog, and he answered them, "Pig-wash."

"How vulgar!" exclaimed the Stoat. "Mine is Patchouli!"

But the Fox said that, in his opinion, the less scent one used the better.


 * Note.This merely records the well-known physiological fact that some persons are born