Mr. Musgrave.—­A good fellow is prime—­flash—­and bang-up.

Mr. Burton.—­A good fellow is one who knows “what’s what,” keeps accounts, and studies Cocker.

Mr. Rowley.—­A good fellow likes turtle and cold punch, drinks Port when he can’t get Champagne, and dines on mutton with Sir Robert, when he can’t get venison at my lord’s.

Mr. Lozell.—­A good fellow is something compounded of the preceding.

Mr. Oakley.—­A good fellow is something perfectly different from the preceding,—­or Mr. Oakley is an ass.

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MERCHANT TAILORS’ SCHOOL.

  At Merchant Tailors’ School, what time
    Old Bishop held the rod,
  The boys rehearsed the old man’s rhyme
    Whilst he would smile and nod.

  Apart I view’d a little child
    Who join’d not in the game: 
  His face was what mammas call mild
    And fathers dull and tame.

  Pitying the boy, I thus address’d
    The pedagogue of verse—­
  “Why doth he not, Sir, like the rest,
    Your epigrams rehearse?”

“Sir!” answered thus the aged man,
“He’s not in Nature’s debt;
His ears so tight are seal’d, he can-
Not learn his alphabet.”

“Why not?” I cried:—­whereat to me
He spoke in minor clef—­
“He cannot learn his A, B, C,
Because he’s D, E, F.”

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ROYAL LEARNING.

The king of Persia made many inquiries of Sir Harford Jones respecting America, saying, “What sort of a place is it?  How do you get at it?  Is it underground, or how?”

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COMPLIMENT MAL-APROPOS.

Napoleon was once present at the performance of one of Pasiello’s operas, in which was introduced an air by Cimarosa.  Pasiello was in the box with the emperor, and received many compliments during the evening.  At length, when the air by Cimarosa was played, the emperor turned round, and taking Pasiello by the hand, exclaimed, “By my faith, my friend, the man who has composed that air, may proclaim himself the greatest composer in Europe.”  “It is Cimarosa’s,” feebly articulated Pasiello.  “I am sorry for it; but I cannot recall what I have said.”

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A gentleman taking an apartment, said to the landlady, “I assure you, madam, I never left a lodging but my landlady shed tears.”  She answered, “I hope it was not, Sir, because you went away without paying.”

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