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19. The following exception was taken to Dr Fell’s diet for the sick of all sops:—

“Sure the doctor’s wits are failing,”
Cried a saucy wag.
“Allsopp’s ale the sick and ailing
To their bier will drag.”

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20. The English dislocated sentence formed by these thirty-six letters:—

SAR BAB SAR BAB SAR BAB
SAR BAB SAR BAB SAR ARA

is, “A bar as a barb bars Barbara’s Barabbas.”

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21. The Wiltshire farmer’s sentence—

“Igineyvartydreevriswutts”