Literary Pastime


ONCE a gentleman, who had the marvellous gift of shaping a great many

things out of orange-peel, was displaying his abilities at a

dinner-party before Theodore Hook and Mr. Thomas Hill, and succeeded in

counterfeiting a pig. Mr. Hill tried the same feat; and, after

destroying and strewing the table with the peel of a dozen oranges, gave

it up, with the exclamation, Hang the pig! I can't make him.--Nay,

Hill, exclaimed Hook, glancing at the mess on the table, you have done

more; instead of one pig, you have made a litter.



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