A 
Severe 
Test. 
for the 
~ Memory 
Amusing for all 
but exceedingly 
useful for liars 
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ACKLIN, the celebrated actor, one «yeni: made “The Cultiva- 
tion of the Memory” the subject of a !erivre, cunng which he said 
that to such perfection had he brow)! his own, sat be could learn. 
anything by rote on once hearing it. Foote, another actor, was present, 
and handed up the following sentences, desiring thai \Viack}in would read 
them once and repeat them from memory ; | 
“So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the 
same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. ‘* What! 
No Pears Soap>’ So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there 
were present the Picninnies, and the Joblilies, and the Garcelies, and the Grand Pan- 
jandrum himself, with the little round button at top; and they all fell to playing the game 
of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.” 
It is needless to say that Foote had the laugh of old Macklin, “ 
and that Pears’ Soap is matchless for the Complexion — 
OF ALL SCENTED SOAPS PEARS’ OTTO OF ROSE IS THE BEST. 
“All rights secured,” : 
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