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Title: Nuts and Nutcrackers

Author: Charles James Lever

Illustrator: Phiz.

Release Date: March 18, 2010 [EBook #31685]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Illustration]

NUTS AND NUTCRACKERS.

"The world's my filbert which with my crackers I will open."

SHAKSPEARE.

"The priest calls the lawyer a cheat,
And the lawyer beknaves the divine;
And the statesman, because he's so great,
Thinks his trade's as honest as mine."

BEGGAR'S OPERA.

"Hard texts are _nuts_ (I will not call them cheaters,)
Whose shells do keep their kernels from the eaters;
Open the shells, and you shall have the meat:
They here are brought for you to crack and eat."

JOHN BUNYAN.

ILLUSTRATED BY "PHIZ."

Second Edition.

LONDON:
WM. S. ORR AND CO., PATERNOSTER ROW;
WILLIAM CURRY, JUN., AND CO., DUBLIN.

MDCCCXLV.

LONDON:
BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

AN OPENING NUT vii

A NUT FOR MEN OF GENIUS 1

A NUT FOR CORONERS 15

A NUT FOR "TOURISTS" 19

A NUT FOR LEGAL FUNCTIONARIES 22

A NUT FOR "ENDURING AFFECTION" 31

A NUT FOR THE POLICE AND SIR PETER 37

A NUT FOR THE BUDGET