List of the Premiums Awarded by the Hookham-Cum-Snivey Literary and Scientific Society
Anon
Genre: | Announcement, Spoof |
Subjects: | Horticulture, Botany, Politics, Societies |
Awards given include those to 'Count D'Orsay' for 'the most approved Essay on Cultivating a Flower Pot, and the Expediency of growing Migionette in preference to Sweet Pea on the Window-sills', and to 'Peter Borthwick' for a treatise proving that 'a Member requires no Brains, instancing his own case, where the deficiency was supplied by the length of his ears'. |
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