LYCEUM THEATRE, STRAND.
Teach and melt us, Terry!
38a. RING OUT, WILD BELLS!
More startling than the well-known calculation of payment by continuously doubling the farthing given for the first nail in a horse’s shoe, is the fact that the possible changes on a peal of 24 bells would not be exhausted if every minute of 4000 years were prolonged to a period of 10,000 years!
39. A SCHOLAR AT PLAY
Erasmus himself was responsible in one of his lighter moments for the following ingenious play upon his name:—
Quæritur unde mihi sit nomen Erasmus, eras mus;
Si sum mus ego, te judice, summus ero!
40. QUITE AN EYESORE!
“Well!” cried an agitated carpenter to his mate, “of all the saws that I ever saw saw, I never saw a saw saw as this saw saws!”
41. THE PUNSTER’S LAMENT
If I be duly punished
For every foolish pun I shed,
I shall not find one puny shed
In which to hide my punnish head!