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Quips and quiddits : Ques for the Qurious

Tabb, John B. (1845-1909)

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ON THE COVER OF JOHN B. TABB'S LATE LONDON VOLUME

TO AN ANTE-MORTEM UNDERTAKER WHO EMBALMS ME IN VERSE

TO MR. ANDREW LANG, WHO SPELLED MY NAME ‘TAB’

INGERSOLL'S DILEMMA

A DISCONCERTED CONCERT

WHAT'S IN A NAME?

TROUBLED WATERS

A QUESTION OF TIME

A MIXED MARRIAGE

THE MAN IN THE MOON

IN THE AUTHOR'S LIBRARY

A SAINT'S INFIRMITY

UNSTATIONARY STATIONERY

A RASH JUDGMENT

FACIAL LATITUDE

A MARK OF TRUE GREATNESS

A HOUSE OF REFUGE

A MUSICIAN'S TRIAL

TREASURE-TROVES

A CHANGE OF PARTS

THE MOUSE AND THE ELEPHANT

THE BROOK TO THE LAMB

JUST THE REVERSE

SPRING CHIMNEYS

A FAMILY FAILING

WITH CHOLERA MORBUS

DREAD OF JUSTICE

A CATTLE PLAGUE

MR. DOOLITTLE'S EPITAPH

TAMING THE SHREW

A BLIND MAN'S EPITAPH.

TO A PROPOSED INTERVIEWER

A TALE OF REVERSE, or THE REVERSE OF A TAIL

THE SENSITIVE LOBSTER

THE ROOT OF PRIDE

A(N)ICE DISTINCTION

THE BLUEBIRD TO THE CANARY

SAUSAGE

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SAUSAGE

We are ground, but no more grounded
In our family affairs:
What is found, is so confounded
That no Sausage longer cares
To determine how or what he
Owes the family of Pork,
In the pens of Cincinnati,
Of Chicago, or New York.