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THE YANKEE
Boston, Friday, February 9, 1816
HUMOROUS ARTICLES & NOTICES
Lord Lyttleton's Opinion of Literary
Ladies
After all, except in some few instances, I am not very partial to
literary ladies; they are, generally, of an impertinent
encroaching disposition; and always bring to my mind the female
astronomer, who, after applying her nocturnal telescope for a
long series of months, and had raised the jealousy, as well as
the expectations, of the male star-gazers, declared her only
object was to discover if there were men in the moon.
A Letter from one Quaker to Another
Friend John --
I desire thee to go to one of those sinful men in flesh called an
attorney, and let him take out an instrument with a seal fixed
thereunto, by means whereby we may seize the outward tabernacle
of George Green, and bring him before the lamb-skin-men at
Westminster and teach him to do as he would be done by. And so I
rest thy friend in the light.
A Jew peddlar travelling through Flintshire,
being exhausted with fatigue, called for refreshment at a little
Welsh alehouse, where they could furnish him with nothing but
eggs and bacon, which were accordingly fried and brought to table.
The first morsel he put in his mouth there happened to be a clap
of thunder that made the house shake again. "Father Moses,"
cried the Jew, "what a fuss here is about a bit of bacon --
take it away."
A Grave Diggers Bill
A Grave Digger, who buried a Mr. Button, sent the following
curious bill to his widow: "To making a Button-Hole -- 2s."
January and May
On Wednesday last was married, at St. Leonard's Church,
Shoreditch, to his second wife, Mr. Geo. Maxwell, a respectable
tailor, in the eighty fifth year of his age, to a blooming maiden
of twenty-three. The bridegroom appeared full of glee and full of
spirits on the occasion, though he is father, grandfather and
great-grandfather to one hundred and one children. -- London
paper.
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