E had for dinner, among other things, a ham which was not well flavoured; and Mrs. Frederick Mackenzie, who was annoyed about it, began apologizing, and saying that Ellerton, the local grocer, had sold it to her as something very excellent, and as a genuine Westphalia. "Ah!" said Compton, "I cannot determine precisely whether it is east or west, but it is a failure of some sort."
R. B. Carter, in Memoir of H. Compton.
NE of the company asserting that he had seen a pike caught, which weighed thirty-six pounds, and was four feet in length,—"Had it been a sole," said Harry [Sandford], "it would have surprised me less, as Shakespeare tells us, 'All the souls that are, were four feet (forfeit) once.'"
R. H. Barham, Life.
HERE is safety in numbers, especially in odd numbers. The Three Graces never married, neither did the Nine Muses.
Kenelm Chillingly, in Lord Lytton's novel.
DISTICH.