n Birch;
I take it for herring,
Said Alderman Perring.
This jack's very good,
Said Alderman Wood;
But its bones might a man slay,
Said Alderman Ansley.
I'll butter what I get,
Said Alderman Heygate.
Give me some stewed carp,
Said Alderman Thorp;
The roe's dry as pith,
Said Alder_men_ Smith.
Don't cut so far down,
Said Alderman Brown;
But nearer the fin,
Said Alderman Glyn.
I've finished, i'faith, man,
Said Alderman Waithman:
And I too, i'fatkins,
Said Alderman Atkins.
They've crimped this cod drolly,
Said Alderman Scholey;
'T is bruised at the ridges,
Said Alderman Brydges.
Was it caught in a drag? Nay,
Said Alderman Magnay.
'T was brought by two men,
Said Alderman Ven-
ables: Yes, in a box,
Said Alderman Cox.
They care not how _fur 'tis_,
Said Alderman Curtis;
From air kept, and from sun,
Said Alderman Thompson;
Packed neatly in straw,
Said Alderman Shaw:
In ice got from Gunter,
Said Alderman Hunter.
This ketchup is sour,
Said Alderman Flower;
Then steep it in claret,
Said Alderman Garret.

CCCXCI.--A BROAD HINT.

CHARLES II. playing at tennis with a dean, who struck the ball well, the
king said, "That's a good stroke for a _dean_."--"I'll give it the
stroke of a _bishop_ if your Majesty pleases," was the suggestive
rejoinder.

CCCXCII.--VAILS TO SERVANTS.

TO such a height had arrived the custom of giving vails, or
visiting-fees, to servants, in 1762, that Jonas Hanway published upon
the subject eight letters to the Duke of N----, supposed to be the Duke
of Newcastle. Sir Thomas Waldo related to Hanway, that, on leaving the
house of the Duke alluded to, after having feed a train of other
servants, he (Sir Thomas) put a crown into the hand of the cook, who
returned it, saying, "Sir, I do not take _silver_."--"Don't you,
indeed!" said the baronet, putting it into his pocket; "then _I do_."

CCCXCIII.--QUITE TRUE.

AVARICE is criminal poverty.

CCCXCIV.--CONGRATULATION TO ONE WHO CURLED HIS HAIR.

"I'm very glad," to E--b--h said
His brother exquisite, Macassar Draper,
"That 'tis the outer product of your head,
And not the _inner_, you _commit to paper_!"

CCCXCV.--THE POLITE SCHOLAR.

A SCHOLAR and a courtier me