And many a one, whose courage seeks the door,

With this regard his footsteps turn away,

Scared at the name of dentist.

C. A. W.

From Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal, April 29, 1837.

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The Gent’s Soliloquy.

To hiss, or not to hiss, that is the question;

Whether ’tis nobler in a gent to suffer

The ten-act plays of Alexandre Dumas;