"As for Leigh, he is hopeless: when perpetual motion is patented, a machine might be invented to bring him to the scratch regularly, but—he is unluckily a 'genius.' You might give him a retaining salary that would ensure—his never doing a line."
Yet, notwithstanding his extreme dilatoriness, he was a thoroughly good fellow, and Hood was at all times only too glad to receive any contributions he cared to send, for they were certain to contain some quaint conceit and out of the way sentiment.
That or Nothing. By G. J. Pinwell, R.W.S. From Fun.
Mrs. Vicar.—"Thomas, what has become of you lately? I haven't seen you at Church for several months."
Thomas.—"Noa, ye ain't. But I haven't been nowheres else."
On Leigh being remonstrated with for non-delivery of promised copy, we received the following:
"35 Strand,
"1st Feb., 1881.