Ideas convertible in cons., puns, and epigrams, always on hand.
Laughs taught in six lessons.
A treatise on leading subjects for experienced jokers just completed.
A large volume of choice sells will be put up by Mr. George Robins on the 1st of April next, unless previously disposed of by private contract.
N.B.—Well worthy the attention of sporting and other punsters.
Also a choice cachinatory chronicle, entitled “How
to Laugh, and what to
Laugh at.”
For further particulars apply to Messrs. Gag and Gammon, new and second-hand depot for gentlemen’s left-off facetiae, Monmouth-street; and at their West-end establishment, opposite the Black Doll, and next door to Mr. Catnach, Seven-dials.
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VERSES
ON MISS CHAPLIN—AND
THE BACK OF AN ADELPHI PLAYBILL.
Let Bulwer and Stephens write epics like
mad,
With lofty hexameters grapplin’,
My theme is as good, though my verse be
as bad,
For ’tis all about Ellena
Chaplin!
As lovely a nymph as the rhapsodist sees
To inspire his romantical
nap. Lin
Ne’er saw such a charming celestial
Chinese
“Maid of Honour”
as Ellena Chaplin.
O Yates! let us give thee due credit for
this:—
Thou hast an infallible trap
lain—
For mouths cannot hiss, when they long
for a kiss;
As thou provest—with
Ellena Chaplin.
E’en the water wherein (in “Die
Hexen am Rhein”)
She dives (in an elegant wrap-lin-
Sey-woolsey, I guess) seems bewitch’d
into wine,
When duck’d in by Ellena
Chaplin.
A fortunate blade will be he can persuade
This nymph to some church
or some chap’l in,—
And change to a wife the most beautiful
Maid
Of the theatre—Ellena
Chaplin!
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CAUSE AND EFFECT.
The active and speculative Alderman Humphrey, being always ready to turn a penny, has entered into a contract to supply a tribe of North American Indians with second-hand wearing apparel during the ensuing winter. In pursuance of this object he applied yesterday at the Court of Chancery to purchase the “530 suits, including 40 removed from the ‘Equity Exchequer,’ which occupy the cause list for the present term.” Upon the discovery of his mistake the Alderman wisely determined on
[Illustration: GOING TO BRIGHTEN.]
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