"Wanted, Second-hand Cavity Pan, with agitators complete, for edible
purposes."--_Manchester Guardian_.
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"No potatoes are to be served in future at any meal at the Portland
Club, St. James's Square."--_Westminster Gazette_.
Hence the new name for this club--the Devonportland.
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"We shall have to work more harder."--_Daily Paper_.
And some of us will have to write more better English.
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HERBS OF GRACE.
v.
LAVENDER.
Grey walls that lichen stains,
That take the sun and the rains,
Old, stately and wise;
Clipt yews, old lawns flag-bordered,
In ancient ways yet ordered;
South walks where the loud bee plies
Daylong till Summer flies;--
_Here grows Lavender, here breathes England_.
Gay cottage gardens, glad,
Comely, unkempt and mad,
Jumbled, jolly and quaint;
Nooks where some old man dozes;
Currants and beans and roses
Mingling without restraint;
A wicket that long lacks paint;--
_Here grows Lavender, here breathes England_.
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