Part 53 (1/2)

Vill'st dou learn de Deutsche Sprache?

If a shendleman dou art, Denn strike right indo Deutschland, Und get a schveetes-heart.

From Schwabenland or Sachsen, Vhere now dis writer pees; Und de bretty girls all wachsen Shoost like aepples on de drees.

Boot if dou bee'st a laty, Denn, on de oder hand, Take a blonde moustachioed lofer In de vine green Sherman land.

Und if you shoost kit married (Vood mit vood soon makes a vire), You'll learn to sprechen Deutsch, mein kind, Ash fast ash you tesire.

C. G. LELAND, _Breitmann Ballads_.

The Bishop of St. David's has been studying Welsh all the summer; it is a difficult language, and I hope he will be careful,--it is so easy for him to take up the Funeral Service and read it over the next wedding-party, or to make a mistake in a tense in a Confirmation, and the children will have renounced their G.o.dfathers and G.o.dmothers and got nothing in their place.

SYDNEY SMITH, _apud_ LORD HOUGHTON.

Beautiful soup, so rich and green, Waiting in a hot tureen!

Who for such dainties would not stoop?

Soup of the evening, beautiful soup!

Soup of the evening, beautiful soup!

Beautiful soup! Who cares for fish, Game, or any other dish?

Who would not give all else for two p Ennyworth only of beautiful soup?

Pennyworth only of beautiful soup?

LEWIS CARROLL, _Alice in Wonderland_.

Writing to Manning, Charles Lamb says: ”---- says he could write like Shakespeare if he had a _mind_--so you see nothing is wanting but the _mind_.”

CRABB ROBINSON, _Diary_.

_ON b.a.l.l.s AND OPERAS._

If by their names we things should call, It surely would be properer To term a singing-piece a _bawl_, A dancing-piece a _hopperer_!

ANON.

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

GEORGE ELIOT, _Middlemarch_.

_ON LOVE._

Love levels all--it elevates the clown, And often brings the fattest people down.