Friend. "By Jove! Why that's the mare Crasher sold to Bolter—had too many, I remember—odd, ain't it? Bolter must ha' had too many and sold her to you!"
THE INTERESTING INVALID.
An Alice-in-Wonderlandish Sea-Dream.
["An inquiry into the circumstances under which the cultivation and storage of oysters and other shell-fish around our coast are carried out, which it is stated Mr. Bryce is about to institute, will serve a useful purpose, especially in the case of 'other shell-fish,'"—Daily Chronicle.]
'Twas the voice of the Lobster, I heard him declare,
"Doctors frighten our Dandos, and that isn't fair.
'Inquiry on Shell-fish'? Oh! blow Mr. Bryce!
You will soon be all right if you take my advice!"
"Well, I hope so, I'm sure," said the Walrus to the Carpenter.