literature.

   GRAY, the man who wrote a clever cemetery poem, the first line of which is remembered by everybody.

   GREAT, Peter the, shipbuilder, and the only ruler of Russia who never was bombarded. Was also unique in the fact that he worked. Historians claim this was due to his poor salary.

   GROAT, John, proprietor of a celebrated house located some distance from Land's End.

   GUILLOTIN, Doctor, a French inventor of a popular method of decapitation, who had such confidence in his invention that he was the first to give it a practical demonstration.

   GULLIVER, a Munchausen-Doctor Cook-Peary traveler who never submitted his proofs, but who found a credulous publisher and a gullible public. Never lectured.

   HAFID, Mulai, a sultan of Morocco, who succeeded in abdicating before he was abdicated.

   HAGAR, Miss, Abraham's wife's maid who nearly broke up a happy family.

   HAHNEMANN, Doctor, of Leipsig, discovered the sugar pill and called it homeopathy.

   HAM, second officer and engineer of the Ark.

   HAMED, Abdul, a retired professor of diplomacy, champion promiser, and a sick man. When a youth he began instructing the monarchs of Europe in the use of a government. One of his favorite pastimes was reading ultimatums. Fearless until a warship entered the harbor, and even then usually got rid of it with promises. Employed massacres to break the monotony of reigning. Acquired as fine a harem as ever sat on silk cushions. Some of H.'s younger subjects though he should be ostlerized (see Dr. Ostler). They gave him his harem and salary, and locked him up in a palace. Then the wise ones lost Tripoli and about everything but sleeping room in Europe. Motto: I told you so. Ambition: To be back on the job. Recreations: Private entertainments. Address: Harem. Epitaph: Everybody Worked But Father.

   HAMLET, a Dane who had difficulty with an auxiliary verb. Also founded the foolish questions.

   HAMMERSTEIN, Oscar, an opera broker who inflicted himself, high prices, and buildings upon certain communities.

   HANDEL, placed "Handel's Largo" on the music stands. Also wrote a few other airs.

   

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