A Student coming up effaced the c, and left the message—
“Professor Blackie regrets that he cannot meet his lasses to-day.”
But the Professor, returning sooner than he expected, removed another letter, and the intimation on his door for the rest of the day stood thus:—
“Professor Blackie regrets that he cannot meet his asses to-day.”
Se non e vero, e ben trovato.
[26] Sir Stafford Northcote.
[27] Lixmaleerie a corruption of L’Eglise de Marie.
[28] Alluding to the then great distance between the picture frame, in which the green curtain was set, and the band.
[29] The old name for London.
[30] Old Bedlam, at that time, stood “close by London Wall.” It was built after the model of the Tuileries, which is said to have given the French king great offence. In front of it Moorfields extended, with broad gravel walks crossing each other at right angles. These the writer well recollects; and Rivaz, an underwriter at Lloyd’s, has told him that he remembered when the merchants of London would parade these walks on a summer evening with their wives and daughters. But now as a punning brother bard sings, “Moorfields are fields no more.”