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Quilp thinks the London Times is none the less an amusing print because, forsooth, it affects to despise jesting, and keeps anything like a joke out of its columns as carefully as if it were a fact:

Big Thunder's Gravity and Stupidity.

The Times, ('tis said,) wrapt in its solemn cloak
Of stiff decorum, ne'er descends to joke;
And yet it often makes a comic hit
That sets us laughing like the freshest wit;
The Times's blunders, to us Yankee folks,
Are quite as ludicrous as Punch's jokes.

Cincinnati Commercial.

Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.

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