Giovenetti Che Fatt'.—A simple-minded Correspondent asks us the meaning of an Alderman who has not passed the chair, and is desirous of knowing whether the Alderman so situated has been unable to get past the chair by reason of his obesity.
THE AGRICULTURAL INQUISITION.
Here's Government again at we wi' moor new fangled whims and fancies,
A callin' on us vor to gie a statement of our circumstances;
Now, zince we've got to undergoo this delicate investigation,
O' coorse, my friends, our best we'll do to furnish every information.
We be to zay what land we got—how many acres under tillage—
They seeks to find that out for what?—not surely with intent to pillage.
They wants the number of our stock, which if we wonders why they axes,