Excerpt from The Disagreeable Surprise: A Musical Farce, in Two ActsYet we have good reason to believe that the eleven thou sand pounds, whichhe charitably bequeathed towards build ing an hospital for lunatics, were honestly come by. Equally illustrious examples might be adduced in favour of punning let us hope then, that a man may sit'in com pany, and hear his neighbour discharge a pun, without instinctively clapping his hands to his pockets, to discover Whether he has lost any thing.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition.

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