Pleasures are like liqueurs: they must be drunk but in small glasses.—Romainville.

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POETRY

EDITOR—"This isn't poetry, my dear man; it's merely an escape of gas."

WOULD-BE CONTRIBUTOR—"Ah, I see! Something wrong with the meter."


Your poem must eternal be,

Dear sir, it can not fail,

For 'tis incomprehensible,

And wants both head and tail.