O Yates! let us give thee due credit for this:--
Thou hast an infallible trap lain--
For mouths cannot hiss, when they long for a kiss;
As thou provest--with Ellena Chaplin.
E'en the water wherein (in "Die Hexen am Rhein")
She dives (in an elegant wrap-lin-
Sey-woolsey, I guess) seems bewitch'd into wine,
When duck'd in by Ellena Chaplin.
A fortunate blade will be he can persuade
This nymph to some church or some chap'l in,--
And change to a wife the most beautiful Maid
Of the theatre--Ellena Chaplin!
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CAUSE AND EFFECT.
The active and speculative Alderman Humphrey, being always ready to turn a
penny, has entered into a contract to supply a tribe of North American
Indians with second-hand wearing apparel during the ensuing winter. In
pursuance of this object he applied yesterday at the Court of Chancery to
purchase the "530 suits, including 40 removed from the 'Equity Exchequer,'
which occupy the cause list for the present term." Upon the discovery of
his mistake the Alderman wisely determined on
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