If e'er you said "_Go out_, I pray,"
He much ill nature show'd;
On such occasions he would say,
"Vy, if I do, _I'm blow'd_."

In this his friends do all agree,
Although you'll think I'm joking,
When _going out_ 'tis said that he
Was very fond of _smoking_.

Since all religion he despised,
Let these few words suffice,
Before he ever was baptized
They _dipp'd_ him once or twice.

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SIBTHORP ON BORTHWICK.

Our Sibthorp, while speaking of the asinine qualities of Peter Borthwick,
remarked, that in his opinion that respectable member of the Lower House
must be indebted to the celebrated medicine promising extreme "length of
ears," and advertised as

[Illustration: PARR'S SPECIFIC.]

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