Note 49 — VAUGHAN’S POEMS, &c.

ex. gr.—Konstantinopolitanischerdudelsackspfeifergeselle. Here is a word as long as the sea-serpent—but, like it, having a head and tail, being what lawyers call unum quid—not an up and down series of infatuated phocæ, as Professor Owen somewhat insolently asserts. Here is what the Bornnatural would have made of it— A Constantinopolitanbagpiperoutofhisapprenticeship. Return