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THE FRAUDULENT BANKER

... worse than a common pick-purse, ap Not only because his theft's greater, St But, having been taught to do what lie ought, N Because he tarns villain and traitor. He sins not from need, but out of mere greed. The crows, after garbage that lianker, And ravens ...

HUMOROUS GATHERINGS

... what he ought; - I Because he turns'villaidi and traitor. He sins not from need,'but out of mere greed. The crows, after garbage that hanker, And ravens are white-a nice bird is the kite, Compared to the fraudulent banker. - A burglar is bad, and so's ...

LITERATURE

... Flay him, attd he is goed fot' tothittg better thsn the imperial etigle that, living, lives a life of prey, and dying, is garbage, even as the leonilte offal. Hotsdiffereit the pig! Inuhis lifelhe is quiet-ve mean of course wttet civiltseed, reclaimed ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... with a loop-hole in It, commanding a view of the temple's f'ont-notbing Intervening be- tween it and the creek but a heap of garbage. The door was within a few yards of the ereek, which runs at a rlght anglo with the main had of the river. It was empty and ...

LITERATURE

... approaching fro nm without. In the villages they are tI meat and Clesn, the Vl.feet being swept, and ail garbage- hi except, indeed, the w, 't--picked bones of their human sub- d, jeets-is threwn oat. t After visiting the house assigned me, I wras taken ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... In his last days the brilliant gambler had no one to smooth his pillow but a lorette, whom he saw when he was near death picking from his shelves his choicest specimens of old Sevres china, on which, turning to his doctor, he said with a smile, Qu'elle ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... raw ham and sausages that she had eaten. d Pork is the dangerous meat, the pig gets trichinse by eating dead rats and other garbage, and if the pig's flesh p be not so thoroughly cooked as to kill the worms it may n carry living trichinae into the human ...

LITERATURE

... work must be done by the Purifier-General. The prevalence of rats is conclusive evidence of a dirty community-remove the garbage, ?? ?? gullies, get rid of slovenly habits-and the rats will find their occupation gone. At present- end let us be just even ...

LITERATURE

... not get at it; but' he replied that it was 'nothing to do with hun whet theg ate so long as -they kept their bends f.rom picking and stcaling; unithermore . he politely intimated t bat unless I badmiothing better to do there was no call forme to trouble ...

Literature

... best and fatresi females, by dint of a strong arm, thle be atrongeet, bravest, and handsomnest arboreal has always get tse p~ick of thle tribe fur isis harem;I his young rovinglblade, with the 7. bleet Icatch of skin on ihis back-a patch dentuded of hair ...

LITERATURE

... pleasantry wounds more than it exhilarates, to speak of a book of Shelley's as the favourite quarry of a host of prurient garbage-seekers. No one knows better than the critic that the writings of Shelley contain no single passage, although the writings ...

LITERATURE

... above bridges there! Ay, let vessels ground awhileandtrafficof thenight bestayed. Bring cunning men with line and plummet, and pick and spade, and barrow and basket; clear off the miud and filth, tenderly wash white faces, deal gently with the matted splendour ...