A Boy's Petition
Blobb Secundus
Genre: | Letter, Spoof |
Subjects: | Hospitals, Astronomy, Language |
The boy tells Mr Punch about his 'governor', who surmised that the word 'orbas', to be used in an inscription on a hospital for orphans of soldiers, meant that the hospital was intended for 'sick worlds'—'Perhaps the worlds the Comet has hit'. | |
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