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ng his daughters, who were pretty genteel girls, behind his counter, where they attracted a great many gownsmen to the shop. No tradesman ever gained a fortune more rapidly than this man: as soon as he found himself inde-pendent of the university, he gave up his shop, bought the Sun Inn, built a brewhouse, and is now gaining as much money by selling beer as he formerly did by confectionery. ~228~~ BY MARQUIS WICKENS. Ye _roues_ all, be sad and mute; Who now shall cut the stylish suit? _Buck_ Sheffield's{12 }gone--Ye Oxford men, Where shall ye meet his like again? BY BUCK SHEFFIELD. MacLean{13} or _Tackle_, which you will, In quiet sleeps beneath this hill. Ye anglers, bend with one accord; The stranger is no more abroad. BY MACLEAN. Here rests a punster, Jemmy Wheeler{14} In wit and whim a wholesale dealer; Unbound by care, he others bound, And now lies gathered underground. 12 Sheffield, better known by the name of Buck Sheffield, a master tailor and a member of the common council. 13 MacLean, an old bacchanalian Scotchman, better known by the name of Tackle: a tall thin man, who speaks the broad Scotch dialect; makes and mends fishing-tackle for members of the university; makes bows and arrows for those who belong to the Archery Society; is an indifferent musician, occasionally amuses under-graduates in their apartments by playing to them country dances and marches on the flute or violin. He published his Life a short time since, in a thin octavo pamphlet, entitled "The Stranger Abroad, or The History of Myself," by MacLean. 14 Jemmy Wheeler of Magpie-lane, a bookbinder, of punning celebrity; has published two or three excellent versified puns in the Oxford Herald. He is a young man of good natural abilities, but unfortunately applies them occasionally to a loose purpose. ~229~~ BY JEMMY WHEELER. A speedy-man, by nimble foe, Lies buried in the earth below: The Baron Perkins,{15} Mercury To all the university. Men of New College, mourn his fate, Who _early_ died by drinking _late_. BY BARON PERKINS. Ye Oxford _d
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