CAUSE AND EFFECT.
"MY LITTLE BOY, SIR, DIED WHEN HE WAS ONLY TWO MONTHS OLD, JUST AFTER HE HAD BEEN VACCINATED."
"HOW VERY SAD! HAD HE BEEN BAPTISED?"
"YES, SIR; BUT IT WAS THE VACCINATION AS CARRIED HIM OFF, SIR!"
THE MODERN "BED OF PROCRUSTES."
[PROCRUSTES, or "the Stretcher," was the surname of one POLYPEMON, a Greek "gentleman of the road," whose amiable habit was to stretch or shorten the bodies of travellers who fell into his hands, so as to make them of the same length as a certain bed of his upon which it was his wont to tie them.]
To shorten the long, and to lengthen the short,
May have made the Greek robber-chief excellent sport;
But the Stretcher's strange pallet-rack seems out of date