"If our clients heard you, we should be ruined! We
guarantee that our telephonic supply shall be perfectly free from bad
language!"
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PROPHET AND LOSS.--Good Mussulmen, so it is said, object to a play
entitled _Mahomet_ being produced in London. The objection was
successful in Paris. London Managers (except, perhaps, Sheriff
DRURIOLANUS, who revived _Le Prophete_ this season) will be on the
side of the objectors, as they would rather have to do with a genuine
profit than a fictitious one. Perhaps the non-production of _Mahomet_
may be a loss to Literature and the Drama.
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A BACHELOR'S IDYL.
I am not married, but I see
No life so pleasant as my own;
I think it's good for man to be
Alone.
Some marry not who once have been--
A curious process--crossed in love,
Who find a life's experience in
A glove;
Or else will sentimental grow
At recollections of a dance;
But, luckily for me, I've no
Romance.
Of course I know "love in a cot,"--
The little wife who calls you "hub,"--
But I'm content whilst I have got
My Club.
In some fine way, I don't know how,
Some fool, some idiot, who lacks
A grain of sense, proposes now
A tax.
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