"She used to be so fresh; but she is gone off terribly since I first knew her!" said the Slug of the Strawberry.
Note.—See my remark on the last parable.—H. B. J.
"Now, I call that downright Plagiarism!" observed the Ass, when he heard the Lion roar.
"A cheery laugh goes a long way in this world!" remarked the Hyena.
"But a bright smile goes further still!" said the Alligator, as he took him in.
Note.—If the honble Philosopher is censuring here merely the assumption of hilarity and not ordinary quiet facetiousness, I am entirely with him. But I rather regard him as a total deficient in Humour and fanatically opposed to it in any form.—H. B. J.
"I trust I have now made myself perfectly clear?" observed the Cuttlefish, after discharging his ink.