The pauper e’er sharp wants can know,
When, spite of cruel Fortune’s taunts,
Blunt is the sharpest of his wants.”
Yours sincerely and comically,
SIBTHORP.
P.S.—Let BRYANT call for his Christmas-box.
THE COPPER CAPTAIN.
At the public meeting at Hammersmith for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of lighting the roads, in the midst of a most animated discussion, Captain Atcherly proposed an adjournment of the said meeting; which proposition being strongly negatived by a small individual, Captain Atcherly quietly pointed to an open window, made a slight allusion to the hardness of the pavement, and finally achieved the exit of the dissentient by whistling
MY FRIEND AND PITCHER.