"Riding Jonies ... Shetland Jones ... Pairs of Pones ..."—Morning Post.
You see the animal they mean.
"Cutter wanted for ladies' and gentlemen's trade; city house; state experience, salary."
An ordinary enough advertisement, but The Irish Times imparts a certain melancholy humour to it by inserting it in the section headed "Yachts, Boats, etc."
"GRAND NIGHTS."
O benchers of the various ancient Inns
At whose so generous tables I have battened,