Wils bow'd, and bless'd the gay, pacific pun.
_Mist's Journal_, 1724.

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FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE.


Friendship is like the cobbler's tye,
That binds two soles in unity;
But love is like the cobbler's awl,
That pierces through the _soul_ and _all_.
W.J.

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Why is St. Giles's clock like a pelisse, and unlike a cloak?--Because it
shows the figure without confining the hands.

"STRICTOR."

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CORPORATION LEARNING.


The mayor of a country town, conceiving that the word _clause_ was in
the plural number, would often talk of a _claw_ in an act of parliament.