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  2. Answers to Correspondents.

    “A.B.,” “X.Y.Z.,” “Fiat Jus[?]tia” “Constant Reader,” and fifty others, are informed that their conundrumical capers, consequent upon Mr. BIRCH'S indiscreet premium upon ingenious stupidity, are not suitable for our columns. ...

    Article : 308 words
  3. A PROCESS REVERSED.

    IT need hardly be remarked that the method adopted by some writers of leading articles, is to get an idea and hammer it out very thin, making that occupy three hundred lines, more or less, which at first was comprised in half-a-dozen. The other day Mr. PUNCH ...

    Article : 477 words
  4. Con. by Mr. John Roberts.

    WHAT similarity exists between a bushranger and a practised pool player?— One demands your money or your life; the other takes without asking questions ! ...

    Article : 30 words
  5. Poor Thing.

    WHAT disorder is FAIR ROSAMOND likely to have named, when choosing between the dagger and the poisoned goblet ?—Erysipelas, (Here I sip, alas !) ...

    Article : 26 words
  6. From the “Times.”

    FROM the latest number of the Times—the Wood's Point, not the London—we extract the following. Parenthetically, we might mention that the “ latest number” is at the same time the first issue of the young thunderer of the mountain gold region :— ...

    Article : 281 words
  7. Cons. Contributed by Mr. Riddle,

    WHAT is the difference between a man who neglects profiting by sporting information, and one who presents his wife with a money gratuity?—One misses his tip, and the other tips his “missis.” When should tee-totallers avoid water?—When it is drunk. ...

    Article : 180 words
  8. ’Ossy Altogether.

    JOE.—Ever see sea-’oss, JIM ? JEM. —NO, nor a river-'oss neither, but I once seed a bay one. JOE.—Owes you one, JIM. Well, what's the difference between a clothes ’oss and GEORGE WATSON? Give it up? One’s a deal oss, ...

    Article : 61 words
  9. Neck or Nothing Jooularity.

    What delightful beverage most resembles a pitch-plaster round your throat?—Nectar. Why is the Chairman of Committees in the Legislative Assembly characteristically lazy ?—Because he is known to be a loller in the ...

    Article : 37 words
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