Odds and Ends from an Old Drawer - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855. Excerpt: ... Then musing, half awake, I 'd lie, And, as I gazed, a bird should fly Swiftly across the window pane, And then a full shrill note should strain Right in my ear, and as I mused, Both sight and sound should grow confused; But still, within my inmost brain, That bird's song should bring back again With one sad touch of sense refined, Some old forgotten state of mind. PALACE LIGHTS, CLUB CARDS, AND BANK PENS. BY ONE WHO CAN'T MAKE THEM OUT. A Capital article might be written on " Things Qne can't make out." How many enigmas stare one in the face every day in the ordinary routine matters of life? Among other things that I can't make out, is her Majesty's dreadful extravagance in the matter of wax-candles. Not a chandler's can one pass in London without seeing piles of spermaceties ticketed " Palace Candles;" their wicks just singed to give them a second-handish look. One naturally asks, what can be the meaning of this 1 Is Prince Albert practising Herr Dobler's trick of blowing out a couple of hundred lights at a time with a percussion-cap; or has the Master of the Household the perquisite of the greas6-pot 1 The number of ships her Majesty has at sea, doubtless justifies a pretty liberal illumination at the palace; but how comes it, that so many of them find their way to Mr. Sperm's and others in the chandlery line? Another thing that I can't make out is, where all the Club Cards come from? Order as many hundred dozen as you like, and the supply never appears to get lower. It is insinuated that they are the rejected packs of club gamblers, never having been used but once for fear of fraud; but all the hells in London, if they were to try for it, could not supply as many as you could obtain in the next street. The cardmakers, I suspect, must have a workshop fo...