The Comic Almanack, Volume 1: An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humerous Poetry, Quips, and OdditiesThackeray, William Makepeace
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The Comic Almanack, Volume 1: An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humerous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities
Thackeray, William Makepeace
Almanacs, English -- England -- London; English wit and humor
OCTOBER 1.—The Greenwich Pensioners who have lost their legs, this day
presented a petition to the Commissioners of Woods and Forests praying
to be re-membered.
NOVEMBER 15.—The Linendrapers' Shopmen held a public meeting to agitate
for earlier hours. Some of the masters, who attended, manifested a very
unaccommodating spirit, and seemed inclined to subject their complaint
to that dangerous system of treatment, _counter-irritation_.
DECEMBER 7.—Lord Durham safely arrived at his house in Cleveland Row
this day. We can vouch for the accuracy of the following particulars.
His Lordship, as he alighted, was observed to look up and down the
street, in an impressive manner, and nodded his head significantly to
the porter who stood to receive him—there seemed to be something in it.
His Lordship passed rapidly through the hall, upstairs, and shortly
after his dressing-room bell was heard to ring. Our reporter, who was
stationed at the window of the opposite house, was not able to ascertain
who answered it, but he observed servants pass out in various
directions, and one of them, by his anxious looks, seemed to manifest
peculiar solicitude. Soon afterwards, a butcher's boy presented himself
at the area, with a tray containing three mutton chops; he received some
communication from within, and disappeared rapidly, but shortly
returned, bearing a leg of mutton. No movement of importance being
observed for the next seven minutes, our reporter withdrew to the
nearest public-house for refreshment, and had scarcely taken his seat,
when a servant, in his Lordship's livery, entered, and whispered to the
man at the bar. The words were not heard, but the pot-boy was observed
to leave the house in great haste, having in his tray three pints of
half-and-half. It was rumoured in the private public room, where our
reporter was making his notes, that his Lordship's return was not
attributable to political causes solely, but to the dread of a Canadian
winter; for that, though he was amply furnished with warm feather beds,
he had been disappointed in receiving a supply of _bolsters_ from home.—
[_Intended for a Morning Paper._]
The principal novel publishers at the West End announce that, in the
course of the ensuing season, they will publish a great many fictions on
reduced terms. These will all be derived from the most authentic sources
of information, arrangements having been made with several retired
lady's-maids for original communications, and the contents of all
slop-pails, sent under cover, will be considered confidential, and used
with discretion. Gentlemen's gentlemen, who have dismissed their
masters, and are of a literary turn, will meet with every encouragement.
The Marquis of Waterford is preparing for publication a new edition of
Wild Sports of the West, with original illustrations.
Early in the new year will be published,
No. I. of
A FAMILY PERIODICAL.
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