Roundabout Papers
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On A Lazy Idle Boy
On Two Children in Black
On Ribbons
On Some Late Great Victories
Thorns in the Cushion
On Screens in Dining-Rooms
Tunbridge Toys
De Juventute
On A Joke I Once Heard From the Late Thomas Hood
Round About the Christmas Tree
On A Chalk-Mark On the Door
On Being Found Out
On A Hundred Years Hence
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Ogres
On Two Roundabout Papers Which I Intended to Write
A Mississippi Bubble
On Letts's Diary
Notes of A Week's Holiday
Nil Nisi Bonum
On Half A Loaf
The Notch On the Axe. - A Story A La Mode
De Finibus
On A Peal of Bells
On A Pear-Tree
Dessein's
On Some Carp at Sans Souci
Autour De Mon Chapeau
On Alexandrines
On A Medal of George the Fourth
"Strange to Say, On Club Paper."
The Last Sketch
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Not long since, at a certain banquet, I had the good fortune to sit by Doctor Polymathesis, who knows everything, and who, about the time when the claret made its appearance, mentioned that old dictum of the grumbling Oxford Don, that "ALL CLARET would be port if it could!" Imbibing a bumper of one or the other not ungratefully, I thought to myself

             
            

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