Nuts and Nutcrackers
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Lever Charles James. Nuts and Nutcrackers
A NUT FOR MEN OF GENIUS
A NUT FOR CORONERS
A NUT FOR “TOURISTS.”
A NUT FOR LEGAL FUNCTIONARIES
A NUT FOR “ENDURING AFFECTION.”
A NUT FOR THE POLICE AND SIR PETER
A NUT FOR THE BUDGET
A NUT FOR REPEAL
A NUT FOR NATIONAL PRIDE
A NUT FOR DIPLOMATISTS
A NUT FOR FOREIGN TRAVEL
A NUT FOR DOMESTIC HAPPINESS
A NUT FOR LADIES BOUNTIFUL
A NUT FOR THE PRIESTS
A NUT FOR LEARNED SOCIETIES
A NUT FOR THE LAWYERS
A NUT FOR THE IRISH
A NUT FOR VICEREGAL PRIVILEGES
RICH AND POOR – POUR ET CONTRE
A NUT FOR ST. PATRICK’S NIGHT
A NUT FOR “GENTLEMAN JOCKS.”
A NUT FOR YOUNGER SONS
A NUT FOR THE PENAL CODE
A NUT FOR THE OLD
A NUT FOR THE ART UNION
A NUT FOR THE KINGSTOWN RAILWAY
A NUT FOR THE DOCTORS
A NUT FOR THE ARCHITECTS
A NUT FOR A NEW COLONY
A “SWEET” NUT FOR THE YANKEES
A NUT FOR THE SEASON – JULLIEN’S QUADRILLES
A NUT FOR “ALL IRELAND.”
A NUT FOR “A NEW COMPANY.”
A NUT FOR “POLITICAL ECONOMISTS.”
A NUT FOR “GRAND DUKES.”
A NUT FOR THE EAST INDIA DIRECTORS
A FILBERT FOR SIR ROBERT PEEL
“THE INCOME TAX.”
A NUT FOR THE “BELGES.”
A NUT FOR WORKHOUSE CHAPLAINS
A NUT FOR THE “HOUSE.”
A NUT FOR “LAW REFORM.”
A NUT FOR “CLIMBING BOYS.”
A NUT FOR “THE SUBDIVISION OF LABOUR.”
A NUT FOR A “NEW VERDICT.”
A NUT FOR THE REAL “LIBERATOR.”
A NUT FOR “HER MAJESTY’S SERVANTS.”
A NUT FOR THE LANDLORD AND TENANT COMMISSION
A NUT FOR THE HUMANE SOCIETY
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I had nearly attained to man’s estate before I understood the nature of a coroner. I remember, when a child, to have seen a coloured print from a well-known picture of the day, representing the night-mare. It was a horrible representation of a goblin shape of hideous aspect, that sat cowering upon the bosom of a sleeping figure, on whose white features a look of painful suffering was depicted, while the clenched hands and drawn-up feet seemed to struggle with convulsive agony. Heaven knows how or when the thought occurred to me, but I clearly recollect my impression that this goblin was a coroner. Some confused notion about sitting on a corpse as one of his attributes had, doubtless, suggested the idea; and certainly nothing contributed to increase the horror of suicide in my eyes so much as the reflection, that the grim demon already mentioned had some function to discharge on the occasion.
When, after the lapse of years, I heard that the eloquent and gifted member for Finsbury was a being of this order, although I knew by that time the injustice of my original prejudices, yet, I confess I could not look at him in the house, without a thought of my childish fancies, and an endeavour to trace in his comely features some faint resemblance to the figure of the night-mare.
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Under these sad circumstances it behoves us to look a little about, and provide against such a contingency. It is then earnestly recommended to heads of families, that when registering the birth of a child, they should also include some probable or possible malady of which he may, could, would, should, or ought to die, in the course of time. This will show, by incontestable evidence, that the event was at least anticipated, and being done at the earliest period of life, no reproach can possibly lie for want of premeditation. The register might run thus: —
Giles Tims, son of Thomas and Mary Tims, born on the 9th of June, Kent street, Southwark – dropsy, typhus, or gout in the stomach.
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