The Comic Almanack, Volume 1 / An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humerous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities

by William Makepeace Thackeray; Gilbert Abbott À Beckett; Henry Mayhew; Horace Mayhew; Albert Smith

16. Gibbon died, 1794.	"De gustibus non est disputandum."
	High winds, and no mistake.

"Will you not take another cup?" said the mistress of the tea-party. "No," answered the awkward gentleman, who had prematurely risen to depart; but, upon the word, his foot slipped over the hearth-rug, and he fell. "In refusing that cup of tea, and tumbling so soon after, you remind me of 'Gibbon's Roman Empire,'" said the wag of the tea-party. "Why?" "Because you are a living illustration of the decline and fall."

MARCH—Theatrical fun-dinner

THEATRICAL FUN DINNER.

The Bard of Avon summon'd his ghosts

Around his own bright shade, in hosts,

And the characters came to the Poet of Fame,

To hear his mighty say.

"Well, now," he cried, "bright spirits all,