"A City pigeon swooped down suddenly out of nowhere and all but took the cap off a bricklayer at the rate of forty miles an hour."—Daily Paper.
It will be observed that the speed was that of the bird and not the bricklayer.
"At —— Church, on Monday last, a very interesting wedding was solemnised, the contracting parties being Mr. Richard ——, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. ——, and a bouquet of pink carnations."—Welsh Paper.
There has been nothing like this since Gilbert wrote of—
"An attachment à la Plato
For a bashful young potato."
