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Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 123, March 6, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. — John Shaqi

Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 123, March 6, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various

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Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 123, March 6, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

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"Come all ye culls, my water engine buy
      To pump your flooded mines and coal-pits dry:
      Some projects are all wind, but ours is water,
      And tho' at present low, may rise herea'ter."

      Five. _Royal Fishery of Great Britain._

      "They talk of distant seas, of ships and nets,
      And with the style of Royal, gild their baits;
      When all that the projectors hope or wish for
      Is to catch fools, the only chubs they fish for."

      Six. _Erecting Houses of Office in Britain for Strangers
      and Travellers._

      "A useful project merrily advanced,
      Tho' chiefly by town-nightmen countenanced,
      Design'd to sweeten the North British nation,
      And put close stools and bedpans out of fashion."

      Seven. _Building Ships to let to Freight._

      "Who but a nest of blockheads to their cost,
      Would build new ships for freights when trade is lost?
      To raise fresh barks must surely be amusing,
      When hundreds rot in docks for want of using."

      Eight. _Drying Malt by the Air._

      "Of all the windy projects now in vogue
      To fleece the fool, and feed the cunning rogue,
      The malting bubble seems to be most fair,
      Because our maltsters own they work by air."

      Nine. _English Copper and Brass Company._

      "The headlong fool that wants to be a swopper
      Of gold and silver coin for English copper,
      May in Change Alley prove himself an ass,
      And give rich metal for adult'rate brass."

      Ten. _Exporting Timber from Germany._

      "You that are rich and hasty to be poor,
      Buy timber export from the German shore;
      For gallowses built up of foreign wood,
      If rightly used, may do Change Alley good."

      Knave. _For Erecting Salt-works in Holy Island._

      "Here by mixt elements of earth and water,
      They make a mud that turns to salt herea'ter,
      To help the project on among Change dealers,
      May all bad wives, like Lot's, become salt pillars,
      Since crowds of fools delight to be salt sellers."

      Queen. _Curing Tobacco for Snuff._

      "Here slaves for snuffs are sifting Indian weed,
      Whilst th' overseer does the riddle feed.
      The dust arising gives their eyes much trouble,
      To show their blindness that espouse the bubble."

      King. _Whale Fishery._

      "Whale fishing, which was once a gainful trade,
      Is now by cunning heads a bubble made,
      For round the Change they only spread their sails,
      And to catch gudgeons, bait their hooks with whales."

DIAMONDS.

      Ace. _Sir J. Lambert's Improvement of Land Company._

      "The famous knight that is the sole projector,
      Of this new bubble, is a South director;
      But 'twod be better taken at his hands,
      To raise poor South Sea, than improve poor lands."

      Two. _Greenland Trade._

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