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...Enter THEODORE playing a jews-harp, who sees JULIA seated at the window of a hen-coop, eating hoe-cake, and playing on the ozone...
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...EGGSELLENT FABLE FOR EDITORS.A Sporting Hen once made a Bet with another female Rooster that on Every Consecutive Day in three consecutive months (Sundays excepted, - for though of a Sportive Habit she did not go fast on Sundays, which Every one knows is a Feast-Day) - She would lay a successive and successful Egg, making eggsactly ninety-one in All. A critical Weasel, who liked Dropped Eggs on Toast, determined to investeggate the Performance. Now he was a Pareggrapher on a Boston evening Paper; so deserting his Post he paid a Visit to the Hendignant Chicken...
Coming up to her unawares he said, "You are laying yourself out! Permit me to say that you are eggsaggerating," which so frightened the Innocent Fowl that she made an immediate eggsit from her nest. He made an eggsamination and discovered that the Hen fruit contained therein, though eggsternally beautiful, had no Pith. The yolk laid on the shoulders of the Editor of that daily Egg (0) was too heavy to be borne...
...SCRIPTURAL Senior comes down repeating half mournfully, half reproachfully: 'O Sage. O Sage, thou that crusheth the Junior and aweth the Fresh, how oft would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not.' A conscience some what seared suggests, 'Was, nimmer?' And the laboring spirit answers, 'Not since the matron came.' - Cornell...