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Porson _versus_ Dr Jowett
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DR. JOWETT, who was a small man, was permitted by the head of his
college to cultivate a strip of vacant ground. This gave rise to some
jeux d'esprit among the wags of the University, which induced him to
alter it into a plot of gravel, and Porson burst forth with the
following extemporaneous lines:--
A little garden little Jowett made,
And fenced it with a little palisade;
Because this garden made a little talk,
He changed it to a little gravel walk;
And now, if more you'd know of little Jowett,
A little time, it will a little show it.
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