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a pretty volume by Mr. J. P. Muirhead under the title 

 of "Winged Words." I subjoin one or two examj 

 of these jeux d* esprit, 179 in number, but none of 

 them, to my thinking, very happy efforts. 



The best, I think, is that by the late and great 

 Bishop of Oxford : 



Life in death, a mystic lot, 



Dealt thou to the winged band ; 



Death from thine unerring shot, 

 Life from thine undying hand. 



Lord Jeffery contributed several, but none better 

 than this : 



Their good and ill from the same source they drew, 

 Here shrin'd in marble by the hand that slew. 



Mr. Hudson Gurney's contribution deals with the 

 subject in lighter vein : 



Driven from the North that would have starv'd them, 

 This was the way that Chantrey sarv'd them, 

 He shot them first and then he carv'd them. 



Chantrey 's feat, I may add, was rivalled by Colonel 

 Sands, who on November 4th, 1853, killed two wood- 

 cock with one barrel ; and the same sportsman is 

 credited with bagging four blackcock at a single shot. 



In the February of 1822, when he was sixty-eight 

 years of age and had been for twenty-one years a 

 widower, Mr. Coke astonished his friends by marrying 

 for the second time. And what was still more astonish- 

 ing was that the bride was his god-daughter, a girl of 

 eighteen ! Anne Amelia, third daughter of the Earl 

 of Albemarle. She was not born till three years after 



