The Choice Humorous Works, Ludicrous Adventures, Bons Mots, Puns, and Hoaxes of Theodore HookHook, Theodore Edward
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The Choice Humorous Works, Ludicrous Adventures, Bons Mots, Puns, and Hoaxes of Theodore Hook
Hook, Theodore Edward
English wit and humor
These young ladies may be engaged by the day or hour, at a moderate
price, and find their own garlands.
Mr. Samuel Rogers is appointed master of the ceremonies, and will
appear dressed in the uniform of the establishment.
The directors have appointed Mr. Botibol, of Soho-square, their
artificial florist, who will provide all sorts of flowers for
strewing graves; but ladies and gentlemen are requested not to leave
the decorations on the tombs at night, but to return them to the
directress at the bar of the tavern: and, it may be necessary to add,
that no ladies will be allowed to appear at the dances with the same
ornaments which have been previously used in the grounds funereally.
Lord Graves has been solicited to accept the office of president, and
Sir Isaac Coffin that of vice-president. The College of Surgeons
will be constant visitors of the Institution, and under such
patronage ultimate success appears to be a dead certainty. Ladies and
gentlemen wishing to be buried in romantic situations are requested
to make early application to Mr. Ebers, of Bond-street, where the
grave-book, with a plan of the cemetery, may be seen.
Persons subscribing for family mausoleums are entitled to free
admission to all the balls of the season.
Gloves, hatbands, white pocket-handkerchiefs, cephalic snuff, and
fragrant essence of onions, for producing tears, to be had of the
waiters.
N.B. No objection to burying persons in fancy dresses.
POSTSCRIPT.--The prospectus says that "an eligible site having
offered itself"--this must have been a very curious site indeed--the
temptation is too great to be resisted, and the public are invited to
unite in a joint stock, "Capital £200,000, in shares of £25 each," to
contrive something more agreeable for our resting-places than mere
vaults and churchyards, and prepare a retreat, after the fashion of
the cemetery of _Père la Chaise_, in the neighbourhood of that ever
gay and lively city--Paris.
"Within this area," continues the prospectus, "public bodies and
individuals may obtain ground for interment, and liberty to erect
mausoleums and monuments after their own designs; and vaults and
catacombs will also be constructed for general use."
This is giving great latitude--mausoleums and monuments erected
promiscuously, after the designs of their future inhabitants, will no
doubt present a beautiful variety of tastes and elevations. It should
seem, however, that the vaults and catacombs are not to be used
exclusively for burying, for, in contradistinction to the interments
to which the mausoleums and monuments are to be appropriated, the
prospectus states that the vaults and catacombs are for general use.
_Déjeuners à la fourchette_, or _petits soupers_ by moonlight,
perhaps. We say by moonlight, because illuminating the gardens in the
evening does not yet appear to form part of the design.
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