The Comic Almanack, Volume 1: An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humerous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities
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│28│hare! │Drive their poor infants from the port of │ closer; │
│ │ │ _Breast_; │ │
│ │ │And 'stead of mother's _milk_, whene'er │ │
│ │ │ they scream, │ │
│29│Oh, │Stop their shrill crying with a glass of │ ♀ ♏ ⚹ │
│ │ │ _cream_." │ │
│ │ │ │ │
│30│courage │ COBBLERIUS. │ the │
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│31│rare! │"Here _compounds_ dire, which ne'er can │ ♂ ☽ ☌ ♄ │
│ │ │ _cordials_ be, │ │
│ │ │Turn _seedy fellows_ into _felos de se_."—│ │
│ │ │ │ │
│ │ │ COSTERMONGERIUS. │ │
│ │ │ │ │
│ │ │Just stow your magging, for you've piped │ │
│ │ │ enough, │ │
│ │ │And, blow me, if I ever heard sich stuff! │ │
│ │ │Vy, vhat's the hods, I'll be so bold to │ │
│ │ │ ax, │ │
│ │ │'Twixt swilling heavy vet, and swigging │ │
│ │ │ max? │ │
│ │ │So stow your staves, and as it's chilly │ │
│ │ │ veather, │ │
│ │ │Ve'll mix the max and heavy vet together: │ │
│ │ │And then, my lads o' leather, you shall │ │
│ │ │ see │ │
│ │ │How cosily the mixture vill agree. │ │
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ANNUAL REGISTER
OF
REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES.
JAN. 13th.—_Three_ young men on the Serpentine cutting a figure of
_six_, about _nine_ in the morning of _twelfth_ day, were _two_
careless, though warned be-_four_, to _weight_ the reading of the
Society's "not-ice," so popped into _sixteen_ feet water. They were
speedily helped out of the ice-_well_, and resolved to _cut_ away and
not _come again_.