A COMPOSITOR AND HIS "CASE."

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3146, 19 March 1879, Page 1

A COMPOSITOR AND HIS "CASE."

The other day a letter Z suddenly jumped out of my box,, and when I asked him why he had fallen out, he gave the following humorous explanation : .■; ; ■

You place me tlie'last, but I do not consider myself the least;"ortheugliest of (he , numerous family around me. There are twenty-six of us—two bakers' dozens, two thirteens—and therefore doubly unfortunate, having to, dp the work of the greater part of. the .world's inhabitants. My 'brother is'A. straddle-legged fellow, and oltliough he takes upon himself to lead usy he has Htijo or no head, and is a Very indefinite article. The next two in ; B lives near the C. The three elders are the most disliked of all the family by children, who arS, with difficulty induced to make their acquaintance. i next three are DE F, but not deaf. Gis used in familiar conversation with horses, H is a slippery customer, sometimes, in the way,. and sometimes not to be foutjd wb#n most wanted, and resembles the Siamese twins in shape. I, an egotistical person, with along thin body,'is ; (if J^indley;MwN»y will allow me to say, I is) a very important individual. The unpleasant personage who" Boes about like a lion in the night (not th% t I evev saw a lion gdingibout in the night^ is known' by hjsJtiitfllffifc mj next brother J &** « pugnacious looking felloe, keepi^ h?« n§}h c and sticking out an arm atid 4V6& aWir anxious to lick or Kftt «oittetMß*J«ia?he next of the 1 famiiyV %'is »sedj bj)80«e cockneys to denote the dwelling «Uce, ,ol the antecedently-namedi indi^dnal of tailish - antecedents. in ft.-/J°^ nIW« merrVmaiden, is of.th.c feminineJersttiI sion, and of greit u^e'tb! the'tfaWmi of ! Emma, who is so- often a**toedi;<of "Whoa!" NO arebof««importsnep. P names a usefal oTCgetftblf; .j..(Mein. Just -»ow you.canno^get »ca?e M^W ■mice) -■Qjs.A queerr.oTOp.''»!*«■ on the with 'his 1 tto*fth L> wide open, and his t<Migu«« ■ Ri'tfTomiuitic ,girl, is a reader, of romance*, tnditifesof iroses.robbersi and n|p^^n; x ; My, pother S. a crooked man,, as at tnrmng singular - things into'pluiftls,';*nd hfea at n(o)nhlin. 'Do ybu kn'6% 'therdin^BWiiee between tbe'ncxt twoP^ aOd^y^hy T is good to drink, bbtOareugOodjfog

nothing. (Had you there, I think.) V and W are much alike, despite the latter being the stoutest of the family ; they are often mistaken one for the other, especially by East-enders. Xis the crossest fellow I know. 5 Now there remain but two to introduce to you. Which of them is the better, the more clever, and the more modest P V Z!—From the British and Colonial Printer and Stationer.