Webster's Manganese Ink is so intensely black, that it is used as a
marking-fluid for coal-sacks.
There is a man up country so fat, they grease the cart-wheels with his
shadow.
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
VOL. 1.
FOR THE WEEK ENDING AUGUST 21, 1841.
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THE WIFE-CATCHERS.
A LEGEND OF MY UNCLE'S BOOTS.
_In Four Chapters._
CHAPTER IV.
[Illustration: T]The conversation now subsided into "private and
confidential" whispers, from which I could learn that Miss O'Brannigan had
consented to quit her father's halls with Terence that very night, and,
before the priest, to become his true and lawful wife.
It had been previously understood that those of the guests who lived at a
distance from the lodge should sleep there that night. Nothing could have
been more favourable for the designs of the lovers; and it was arranged
between them, that Miss Biddy was to steal from her chamber into the yard,
at daybreak, and apprise her lover of her presence by flinging a handful of
gravel against his window. Terence's horse was warranted to carry double,
and the lady had taken the precaution to secure the key of the stable where
he was placed.
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