MEM. BY "THE OFFICIAL RECEIVER."--"Firm as a Rock" will not be
henceforth a proverb of universal application.

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[Illustration: ELECTION FEVER. A VICTIM'S VICISSITUDES.]

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TRAN-SLATED.

(_BEING A NEWLY-DISCOVERED FRAGMENT OF AN OLD GREEK PLAY, SUPPOSED TO
BE A VERY EARLY_ "_AGAMEMNON_.")

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_Cly._ The coals I bought as Wallsend are not so.

_Ag._ Thus groundless hopes vanish--like coals in smoke.

_Cly._ You speak in words Mysterious, lacking sense.

_Ag._ The sense is patent to the reasoning mind.

_Cly._ And yet I paid for them upon the nail.

_Ag._ What matter, if the price was far too low?

_Cly._ Then call you eighteen shillings low for coal?