uantity of
bread and water in a given time. The clowns should also be stimulated to
compete on holidays, particularly at those of Christmas, when the
weather especially affords the requisite conditions, by trying which can
continue longest sitting in the cold without any fire, and which can
dispense to the greatest extent with clothes and bedding. By these
wholesome exercises they will be trained to contentment with the very
smallest possible participation in the fruits of that earth which they
cultivate, so as to leave the larger share to the gentry who subsist by
their industry, to be expended in all manner of comfort, pleasure,
splendour, and magnificence. Thus, as happiness is attainable in either
of two ways--one consisting in the satisfaction, the other in the
conquest of our desires--they would make themselves happy by the former
method, and their labourers by the latter.

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WINCHESTER SOUP.

Pantropheon!--What does SOYER mean by that?
All-Nourisher--the Guide to Getting Fat--
But in that Book of Cookery, I'll be bound,
There's one receipt, at least, that won't be found--
Debtor's _Consomme_:--Take a bit of beef,
Or mutton to make rations for a thief.
Then boil, remove the liquor from the pot,
Neat, pure, and simple--serve it cold or hot.
On such good fare doth Winchester regale
The debtor rotting in her model jail.

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THE HUNGARIAN DIET.

Hunger, they say, is the best sauce; and this may account perhaps for
the reason why hungry people are generally so impertinent.

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SINGING-BOYS MINUS SEVENPENCE AT ST. PAUL'S.

Parson Rook! Why Rook? What has Parson to do with Rook? a child might
ask, puzzled by that nursery collocation of bird and clerical gentleman.
Both black? Then why not Chimney Sweep Rook?--Undertaker Rook? The
explanation is too superficial to satisfy even the infant mind.

Now, when we consider that the Dean and Canons of St. Paul's have, as we
are credibly informed, stopped the sevenpence a week--the penny a
day--heretofore from time immemorial allowed the little chorister
children for pocket-money, we are induced to pursue some interesting
inquiries:--

Who took away the poor boys' stipends? Who has taken their lollipops out
of their mouths? Who robbed them of their penny tarts? Who keeps
cathedral stalls and ruins apple-stalls?--may be enumerate