Knowing full well from analysts’ reports

And sanitary officers’ returns,

The noisome mysteries of the baker’s art,

When he himself bread, cakes, and scones may make

With Borwick’s Baking Powder?

Funny Folks, December, 1883.

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Hamlet’s Soliloquy on the Turkish Bath.
Scene—Opposite the Turkish Bath, West Street, Brighton.

Ham.—To bathe, or not to bathe,—that is the question;

Whether ’tis wiser in a man to suffer