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has been sent to him, but he cannot forbear mentioning a few 

 of them. For instance, a consignment of ten crutches from 

 Greenwich Hospital for Disabled Seamen ; five complete cork 

 legs (two right and three left) ; two ditto to be adjusted below 

 the knee ; at least 150 walking sticks ; a gross of elastic knee- 

 caps; one complete indiarubber leg with joints (automatic 

 action guaranteed) ; upwards of two score wooden legs of 

 various lengths ; two glass eyes from the widow of a deceased 

 gudgeon fisher ; one ditto from a firm of celebrated opticians on 

 the Holborn Viaduct; sundry pairs of spectacles and eye- 

 glasses ; artificial noses without end, warranted to permit of 

 respiration ; Roman noses, Grecian noses, Wellington noses, 

 turned-up noses, pug noses, aquiline noses. Some of the latter 

 may be useful, but it is quite clear that Mr. Hopper, even if he 

 had lost his nose, could not wear a pug nose one day and 

 assume an aquiline one the next. Then, again, a hook in place 

 of his hand ; and last, not least, a steam arm ! Talk about 

 Miss Killmanseg and her golden leg ! Why she was not in it 

 with Mr. Hopper, who feels that he has now made a sufficient 

 acknowledgment of the various artificial limbs and organs sent 

 to supply his supposed wants and shortcomings. Mr. Hopper 

 now takes leave of these well-intentioned gifts, and promises not 

 to be betrayed into alluding to his accidents in any future 

 Notes he may write, and now returns to his piscatorial 

 experiences 



Gudgeon ! Well, rather ! Mrs. Hopper is dead nuts on 

 them, and declares that smelts are not in it with them from an 

 eating point of view. So, to please his matrimonial half, Mr. 

 Hopper went gudgeon fishing one day this season, and 

 landed a nice dish of 115 of these dainty little morsels, besides 

 sundry roach. Now where did Mr. Hopper go ? It was not 

 on the Louth and Tetney Navigation, so anglers must set 

 their headpieces to work and guess the locus in quo. Mr. 

 Hopper generally fishes from the mere love of the sport, but 

 he must acknowledge he fishes for the pot when out for the 

 gudgeon. Ladies are very expert gudgeon fishers, particularly 

 on the Thames. The fair sex have a much more delicate 



