LAME SINGING.
A few days since, a musicsellers’s boy was sent to the publisher’s for a number of copies of the song “I’d be a Butterfly, arranged for two trebles;” when, on being desired to repeat his order, he replied, “I’d be a Butterfly, arranged for two cripples.”
LAUGHTER.
Democritus, who was always laughing, lived one hundred and nine years; Heraclitus, who never ceased crying, only sixty. Laughing then is best; and to laugh at one another is perfectly justifiable, since we are told that the gods themselves, though they made us as they pleased, cannot help laughing at us.
Notes
1. The panther in these countries is a sacred, or Fetish, animal; and not only a heavy fine is extorted from those who kill one, but the Fetish is supposed to revenge his death by cursing the offender. ([Return)]