Following whither fraudulent Jack-with-the-lanterns flit.

Of scientific lore though you have an ample store,

Gotten by experiments, in one respect you lack;

Society's weak side, whereupon you none have tried,

Being all philosopher and nothing of a quack.


[5] Punch was especially wroth with the "3 minutes for scalding soup" at Wolverton and Swindon.

[6] Henry Heather Bigg (1826-81), the surgical instrument maker, who made the substitutes for the lost limbs of soldiers in the Crimean War, is mentioned in 1856 (Vol. xxx., p. 28).