... I 'Tis in vain I storm and hector, Weep, implore, or feign to rat, There he stands, the lanky spectre, Grinning like a Cheshire cat! Like a rushliglht in its socket, I'm worn down with grief and gout, For the Whigs have picked my pocket, Knocked me down ...

... Charles Mathews. PUNS. -I made a pun the other day' (says Charles Lamb). and palmed it upon Holcroft, who grinned like a Cheshire cat. Why do cart grin in Cheshire? 'Because it was once a county palatine, and cats cannot help laughing whenever they think ...

... have known the danger, having the day before seen So many of these terrible creatures. The tindal replied, grinning like a Cheshire cat, *That cer- tainly there were alligators, and tbat I knew it, too; but~as it wras the sahib's pleasure to swim, why should ...

... illustrated that charming story has added much to the excellence of this. Those who remember his picture of the grin of the Cheshire Cat (not the cat, but the grin) will find a similar exercise of his skill in the woodcut representing Alice as she fades through ...

... and mannikins. But we cannot help appealing a little against Marjolaine and Chesm6, which seem to be a mingling up of the Cheshire Cat and the White Rabbit in one delightful story, with the Red and White Queens in another. We are much more delighted with ...

... with this peculiarity, but their elders dis- approved of it, and one of them had even contemptuously nick- named him the Cheshire cat. His lady spoke still more seldom, but she had a beaming face which gave every one who talked to her the impression that ...

... not so much to have been presented to his eyes as reproduced. Was it possi- ble that in a previous state of existence the Cheshire Cat and he had met and told ghost stories to one another, and that this was one of them ? CHAPTER XXIV. A DANGEROUS TOPIC IT ...

... possible from Mr. Tenniel's illus- trations to 'Alice in Wonderland,' and after alluding to the painting of the head of the Cheshire cat, she continues:- Of course the raising of the gauze cosy must be practised beforehand, that there may be no hitch at ...

... the heroes and heroines of nursery ?? Hubbard and her dog., D am Wiggins and her goose, and the materialized grin of the Cheshire cat. Among the artiste engaged in the opening will he Miss Caro- Line Parkes, who will represent Puss,, Mr. Charles laynor ...

... at Broxton is as fine as that from the Drachenfels. Cheshire, indeed, with its patches of old forest (' grinning like a Cheshire cat refers to the fierceness of the wild cats once so common there) is a far more interesting county than he who dashes through ...

... naval uniform went snip.snap, and allthe horse-marinise on duty smiled till their faces looked like a, piece of original Cheshire cat. ?? JACK SPRAT. ...

... flicey's Liberalism appears inesith by __month to he becoming mere andI more 1moderate1 in its ies character, and like the Cheshire cat, in 1Alice irs11 ku W51l Wonderland, it bids fair to disalupear altogether, leaving, an T- enly a faint memory of its ...