MIND YOUR STOPS!
Here is a good illustration of the nonsense that may easily result from the misuse of punctuation:—
Every lady in the land
Has twenty nails on each hand;
Five and twenty on hands and feet,
This is true without deceit.
A NOVEL DERIVATION
“Yes,” said an Eton captain of the boats to his uncle, the admiral, “I can quite believe that the British Jack Tar takes his name from that Latin verb, which is so suggestive of a life on the ocean wave, jactari, to be tossed about.”
AN AERATED BISHOP
A bishop of Sodor and Man found himself entered in the visitor’s book of a French hotel as “L’évêque du siphon et de l’homme!”
A HAPPY THOUGHT
They cannot be complete in aught
Who are not humourously prone;
A man without a merry thought
Can hardly have a funny bone.