"They are all traders, these barbarians, and one of the ancestors of this Magistrate, whose name is Sid-Nee, was a great layer of bricks, as I gather, for he is often spoken of, by public-house orators, as 'Sid-Nee on the Scaffold.'
"Lollum of my Soul! Light breaking in at the Chink of my Heart! Violet of my Nostrils! Pickled Duck of my Affections! Water-lily floating on the waves of my Life! Whitest Egg in the Nest of my Brain! I worship your image, and I kiss the rice-paper which enfolds the eyelash you gave me at parting. When shall your eyes sparkle into mine, and set all the fireworks of my soul fizzing, and banging, and sparkling? Eleven millions of highly polished compliments to the respectable Hango Jowdob with the wart on his nose.
"Signed in England, the day after the Feast of the Lord Sid-Nee, Mare of London.
"Ching-Bang-Bung."
Directions for Shaving the Ladies.—Use plenty of soft soap—use it unsparingly to their faces—and it's wonderful how clean you'll shave them.—A Linendraper's Assistant from Howellanjames.
Mistaken Benevolence.—Throwing Early Purl to Swine.