Kit, I hope you're well,
Up, and join our ditty;
To lose such a fine old fel-
Low would be a pity!
Fal de ral, de ral, &c.
NORTH.
Let's resume our booze,
And tipple while we're able;
I've had a bit of a snooze,
And feel quite comfortable!
Fal de ral, de ral, &c.
MULLION.
Be he who he may,
Sultan, Czar, or Aga,
Let him soak his clay
To the health of Kit and Maga!
Fal de ral, de ral, &c.
OPIUM-EATER.
Search all the world around,
From Greenland to Malaga,
And nowhere will be found
A magazine like Maga!
Fal de ral, de ral,
Iram coram dago;
Fal de ral, de ral,
Here's success to Maga!
_Blackwood--Noctes._
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NOTES OF A READER.
KNOWLEDGE FOR THE PEOPLE; OR, THE PLAIN WHY AND BECAUSE.
PART III.--_Origins and Antiquities._
This contains the _Why and Because_ of the Curiosities of the
Calendar; the Customs and Ceremonies of Special Days; and a few of the
Origins and Antiquities of Social Life. We quote a page of articles,
perhaps, the longest in the Number:--
_Cock-fighting._
Why was throwing at cocks formerly customary on Shrove Tuesday?
Because the crowing of a cock once prevented our Saxon ancestors from
massacreing their conquerors, another part of our ancestors, the
Danes, on the morning of a Shrove Tuesday, while asleep in their beds.
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