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think, thus :— " Bezause he first did floor his

port, And then did floor the porter."

A friendly exchange of wit decorated the walls of Balliol between Bartlett and the subject of the following lines, himself the wittiest undergraduate of Oxford and of Cam- bridge, e.g.:—

"Phone. This in thy meerschaum do thou put,

The sharpest blades do soonest cut.

Antiphone. Your wit is tolerable ; but The case you understand ill.

The Dons indeed want Blaydes to cut, But cannot find the handle."

—I am, Sir, &C., OXONIENSIS.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."]