A wag, one evening, pulled down a turner's sign, and put it up over a lawyer's door; in the morning it read, "All sorts of turning and twisting done here." - The celebrated Chesterfield is said to have died with a witticism on his lips. When told that he was dying by-inches, he thanked Heaven that he was not so tall by * foot $nd a half as Sir Thomas Robinson.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1929, 10 March 1875, Page 2
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69Untitled Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1929, 10 March 1875, Page 2
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