26 OCCASIONAL HAPPY THOUGHTS. 



Happy Thought. — Finally, only get a medical man to 

 take up the subject, write an Essay on Buns, and start the 

 Bun Cure ! Next step, to set up an establishment by the 

 sea-side, get, in the course of two months, testimonials from 

 highly respectable people, Nobility and Gentry, who have 

 been restored by Buns, and are deeply grateful. 



Great thing to get a letter from a Bishop, saying, — 



'^ Sir, — I have now taken one of your Biuis^ per diem, for 

 three months, a?id have 7iot had a return of the Thingicmjiiies" 

 (whatever it might be) " to which I had previously been a 

 martyr. I can flow preach for three hours at a stretch, with- 

 out the slightest inconvetiience. 

 Yours, 



Bath and Quite Wells." 



Patent a peculiar sort of Bun (none genuine unless stamped 

 with say a "T," like " Pat-a-cake, Pat-a-cake, Baker's man") 

 crush opposition, and make ten thousand a year easily with 

 a new Chelsea Bun House. 



Happy Thought. — Haven't got the pluck to do it myself. 

 Suggest it to a friend who has, and take so much down for 

 the idea. Not much capital wanted. Safe to pay. Few 

 things, to begin with, are so popular as Buns, and it's ten 

 points out of fifteen in your favour if you start with some-' 

 thing popular. Ventilate the subject. 



Happy Thought. — Give up literature and take to hotel 

 keeping. Or do both. Why not? Write my Typical Deve- 

 lopments in my own name, and keep the Hotel under 



