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indulge our readers with a few extracts, and if they want a full meal of laugh- 

 ter refer them to the book itself, which we can assure them will be found not 

 " a plum here and pudding there," but all plum and no pudding. 



We shall first introduce to our readers a short extract from the letter of 

 Thomas Gardener to Sally Cook, which, if not equal to the letters of Win. 

 Jenkins in Humphry Clinker, is the nearest approach we have seen for some 

 time past to the inimitable drolleries of Smollett. 



" Deer saly, my place hear is verry cumfuttabl, but i am verry uncumfuttabl 

 in it on acount of my Bean in sich a tendar pashun with Yew. O luv, luv ! i 

 am grew as thin as a lath and hav found out wot it is not to hav cuk for a 

 swete hart. Our under ous made is verry fond on me but wats the use of ous 

 mades, won carnt heat brumes and skrubbin brushs. O saly saly ! yew wood 

 ardly"no me lam as week as a kittin, i can scarce andl my Spade & its al Hoe- 

 ing to yew. i set ours & ours in the forsing ous doing nothink but thinking of 

 yewr perty face, & i offen think ow appy we mite be with yewr 2 underd 

 pound as yewr Grand muther left yew, & yewr 50 pound in the saveing bank, 

 & my 5 pound as Jorge Hawl the squir's futman as is gone away ows nie. 

 We mite take a Publik ous, the Pig & wissle for instants, & get a gud bisnes & 

 be as appy as the day is lung. Saly luv wat do yew say to me, let me no your 

 mind, but rimmember wat i sed about the Publik is strickly Privet. 



" Deer saly, i carnt abuse my noo mastr & missus, at least not at pressent, 

 they ar uncomon kind to me & so is al the fammaly. The 2 former blungs 

 to a Lmean sowsiaty & to ear em tawk about Bottany is rely quite Transport- 

 ing. We ad the annywal sho the uther day wich is cunducktid in the most 

 aprovd maner namely giving prises to al the supskribers, which gives gennaral 

 sattisfaxion and advarnses sciance. It tuk place in the town all on wensdy 

 last for Pinks Dailys and settera, on wich okashun master was brote in Furs't 

 mule, & missus Furst fireball, & i beg to anounce in the veggytibl line i was 

 juged to be the Bigest cabbige head out of 40. The sowsiaty has dun a gud 

 deal of gud hear abouts in regard of kichin gardn stuff, namely redishs so larg 

 as not to be told from carets, & peas like Led bulits boath wich is nothink in 

 cumparryson of their turnups wich they hav at last suckseeded in growin em 

 so big & ollow as is gud for nothink but litle bys to make Jack a lantans off. 

 The sowsiaty increses annywaly evry ear, and oposishun is got to sich a hite 

 as you woodent bleav. The uther day 1 poor felow, Bean bete in his Carrots 

 axualy went ome & cut his Carrotid hartary. Another grate ad varntidge is 

 the onnerrery members dining togather after the sho & eting up al the Best 

 frute, by wich in Coarse they no wear to aply to annother time wen they 

 want anny. The rest is sold to pay xpences. Allso it is a verry gud thing for 

 the markit gardners, anny I of woom by paying 2 shilin entrants & sending 

 in a 5 shillin dish of veggytibles stands a charnse of winning a crown 

 prise." 



For a specimen of the pleasures of a visit to the Derby we have the fol- 

 lowing : 



" Ticket, Sir ? got a ticket ? No, I've lost it. A shilling then. A shilling 

 I've paid you once to-day. Oh yes, I suppose so : the old tale : but it won't 

 do : that's what all you sporting gentlemen say. 



" Hinsolent feller ! I'll have you up before your betters. Come, Sir, you 

 musn't stop up the way. Well, I'll pay you again; but, oh Lord! some- 

 body's stole my purse ! good gracious, what shall I do ! I suppose I must 

 leave my watch, and call for it to-morrow. Oh ruination ! blow'd if that isn't 

 gone too ! 



" Get on there, will you ? Well, stop a moment. Will anybody lend me a 

 shilling ? No ? here then, take my hat : But if I don't show you up in Bell's 

 Life in London next Sunday morning, my name's not Timothy Flat." 



We close our gleanings with a school boy's letter, which we give en- 



