L s. d. At top, fish, two herrings 0 0 1 Middle, one ounce and a half of butter, melted 0 0 0-3/4 Bottom, a mutton chop, divided 0 0 2 On one side, one pound of small potatoes 0 0 0-1/2 On the other side, pickled cabbage 0 0 0-1/2 First remove, two larks, plenty of crumbs 0 0 1-1/2 Mutton removed, French-roll boiled for a pudding 0 0 0-1/2 Parsley for garnish 0 0 0-1/4 ---------- L0 0 7 --Seven dishes for sevenpence! CDXXVIII.--AN EMPTY HEAD. OF a light, frivolous, flighty girl, whom Jerrold met frequently, he said, "That girl has no more head than a periwinkle." CDXXIX.--A BAD LABEL. TOM bought a gallon of gin to take home; and, by way of a label, wrote his name upon a card, which happened to be the seven of clubs, and tied it to the handle. A friend coming along, and observing the jug, quietly remarked: "That's an awful careless way to leave that liquor!"--"Why?" said Tom. "Because somebody might come along with the _eight_ of clubs and take it!" CDXXX.--"AYE! THERE'S THE RUB." A GENTLEMAN, playing at piquet, was much teased by a looker-on who was short-sighted, and, having a very long nose, greatly incommoded the player. To get rid of the annoyance, the player took out his handkerchief, and applied it to the nose of his officious neighbor. "Ah! sir," said he, "I beg your pardon, but I really took it for _my own_." CDXXXI.--MORAL EQUALITY OF MAN. ALL honest men, whether counts or cobblers, are of the same rank, if classed by moral distinctions. CDXXXII.--A SILK GOWN. GRATTAN said of Hussey Burgh, who had been a great Liberal, but, on getting his silk gown, became a Ministerialist, that all men knew silk to be a non-conducting body, and that since the honorable member had been enveloped _in silk_, no spark of _patriotism_ had reached his heart. CDXXXIII.--EPIGRAM BY A PLUCKED MAN. EVERY Cantab, it is presumed, knows where Shelford Fen is, and that it is famous for rearing geese. A luckless wight, who had the misfortune to be _plucked_ at his examination for the degree of B.A., when the Rev. T. Shelford was his examiner, made the following extemporaneous epigram:-- "I have heard they _plucked_ geese upon _Shelford_ Fen, But never till now knew that _Shelford_ plucked men." CDXXXIV.--THE MEASURE OF A BRAIN. ONE afternoon, when Jerrold was in his garden at Putney, enjoying a glass of claret, a friend called upon him. The conversation ran on a certain dull fellow, whose wealth made him prominent at that time. "Yes," said Jerrold, drawing his finger round the edge of his wineglass, "that's the range of his intellect, only it had never anything half so good in it."