DICKENS as well to Mr. ORPHEUS C. KERR to tell you the Mystery.
_Traveller_. We believe that the Street Car Conductors are obliged to
pass a preliminary examination in packing herrings, before a car is
given to them.
_Dramatical_. Can you tell me the origin of the expression, "Let's have
a smile," meaning of course, to take a drink?--Yes; it is from _Julius
Caesar_, where CASSIUS says to BRUTUS:
--"Farewell BRUTUS!
If we do meet again we'll Smile, indeed."
_Act V. Scene 1._
_Hoyle_. The old remark, "When in doubt play a trump," has fallen
through, as, when in doubt, the player generally plays the Deuce.
_Henry Jones_. No. You are wrong. _Sic semper tyrannis, does not_ mean
_"Tyrants are always sick."_
_Villikens_. Mr. HORACE GREELEY, although an intimate personal friend of
WESTON, the pedestrian, is not, as you suppose, the Compiler of WALKER'S
Dictionary.
_Cornet_. The critic was wrong in attributing "freshness" to the air of
"Walking down Broadway." If you walk down Broadway at this season you
will find the air any thing but fresh.
_Gin-and-Milk_. It is a mistake. THEODORE TILTON never sang Comic Songs
in a Houston Street Free-and-Easy.
_Chutney_. Somebody has been "selling" you. BABOO BRAHMIN CHUNDER SEN is
not a relation of HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN.
_Sculp_. Is it in your power to give the proportions of a perfect human
figure?
_Answer_. Your question implies a doubt of the genius of a great
American Sculptor.
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