A naturalist has just announced that she
Works three hours only out of twenty-four.
The Winning Team
Time was, they say, when merit won the bays,
But in these times no man by merit rises;
Alas! we’ve fallen on degenerate days,
For gas and brass now capture all life’s prizes.
Spirits
David Garrick, while performing in Sheffield, and observing that the cellar of a Quaker meeting-house was leased to a wine merchant, wrote the following:
There’s a spirit above, and a spirit below;