If you suddenly saw a house on fire, what three celebrated authors would you feel at once disposed to name? Dickens—Howitt—Burns.
When is a slug like a poem of Tennyson’s? When it’s in a garden (“Enoch Arden”)!
What question of three words may be asked Tennyson concerning a brother poet, the said question consisting of the names of three poets only? Watt’s Tupper’s Wordsworth (what’s Tupper’s words worth)?
Name the difference between a field of oats and M. F. Tupper? One is cut down, the other cut up!
How do we know Lord Byron did not wear a wig? Because every one admired his coarse-hair (corsair) so much!
Why ought Shakespeare’s dramatic works be considered unpopular? Because they contain Much Ado About Nothing.
Why was Dickens a greater man than Shakespeare? Because Shakespeare wrote well, but Dickens wrote Weller.
Why are apples like printers’ types? Because they are often in pi(e).
How do we know Lord Byron was good-tempered? Because he always kept his choler (collar) down!