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Rh But the dinner-bell's rung, says Ch-dw-ck, our steward, So no more to-day from your own .

P. S.—If you're reading, just try a few snatches From my book, lately printed, of foreign dispatches; I flatter myself they will go to posterity— Historical models of terseness and verity.

P. S. 2.—A good joke on old W-ll-s, Who sticks to his place like a fool's cap and bells: When the knights of the needle, that queer delegation, Surrounded the head of their craft and the nation, Quoth a voice from the crowd, "Who's that jolly old owl?" And another, "It must be a different fowl, For you've noticed that, whether for show or for use,  Among so many tailors there must be one goose."