How much did A pay the
substitute? (Answer, 13s. 6d.)
3. Prove that the scraping-knife should never be a secant, and the
brush always a tangent to a shoe.
4. Can you distinguish between meum and tuum? Prove that their
values vary inversely as the propinquity of the owners.
5. How often should a shoe-black ask his master for beer notes?
Interpret a negative result.
AN EMINENT PERSON
Among the eminent persons deceased during the past week we have to
notice Mr. Arthur Ward, the author of the very elegant treatise on
the penny whistle. Mr. Ward was rather above the middle height,
inclined to be stout, and had lost a considerable portion of his
hair. Mr. Ward did not wear spectacles, as asserted by a careless
and misinformed contemporary. Mr. Ward was a man of great humour
and talent; many of his sayings will be treasured up as household
words among his acquaintance, for instance, "Lor!" "Oh, ah!" "Sech
is life." "That's cheerful." "He's a lively man is Mr. . . . "
His manners were affable and agreeable, and his playful gambols
exhibited an agility scarcely to be expected from a man of his
stature. On Thursday last Mr. Ward was dining off beef-steak pie
when a bit of gristle, unfortunately causing him to cough, brought
on a fit of apoplexy, the progress of which no medical assistance
was able to arrest.
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