The Comic Almanack, Volume 2: An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humerous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities
David Hume · en
_Names of Singers._|
O 'xtortionate.
Not worth salt.
Sick? O _sans_ doubt
Envy, scoffs, vile O.
_Names of Preachers._
White Brow in mirror.
Do come in Broughams.
More bigot. No.
Rantipole, he!
_Names of Actresses._
Nice scented veil.
Who more smart?
Silly, him in Guards.
Neat in the calf.
SIPSEHT.
TRANSPOSITIONS.
I.
Transpose "Jos. Paxton, Knight, Gardener," and you may describe what he
would have been if Mrs. Graham had smashed the transept with her
balloon.
II.
A transposition of one of the Prince of Wales's titles will give the
three prettiest Christian names for ladies.
III.
You may transpose a line in the second verse of the National Anthem,
until you make something which Dr. Bull little dreamed of when composing
it.
P. PILLICODDY.
FINAL BLAZE OF GLORY.
(_Our own Riddle_).
Take the year of the Plague, and the month of the Fire,
Take Phœbus-Apollo, with hand on his lyre,
Take a Jew's famous eye, and the eye of the Pope,
And a building where foolish young novices mope,
And a sprat (but alive), and the name of a town,
And a greenhorn by sharpers done awfully brown,
A tree without bark, and a play without plot,
And that isle where as yet Uncle Sam reigneth not,
Take a maid who's had warning, a gun without powder,
The word that makes Englishmen prouder and prouder,
Pick from each but one letter—it lies in the middle,
You'll find what you'll be when you find out this riddle.
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