He only said, "My life is dreary
With living in this ditch;"
He said, "I am fatigued and weary,
I would that I were rich."
E. P. W.
The intense melancholy of the solitary clerk, sighing in his ditch, brought up our scientific reporter, Charles Hookey Walker, with some lucid and valuable notes of an appropriate discourse lately delivered; we append them here, for the benefit of all the doleful clerks throughout her Majesty's dominions.
THE BRIGHTISH ASSOCIATION.—Section B.—Chemistry and Mineralogy.
President—The Rev. Hugh Wells. Vice-Presidents—Dr. Durham & Prof. Hammer.
"On the Formation and Analysis of a Direct Sigh." By Mr. F. Silly.