Note 32 — ILLUSTRATED WITH Numerous Original Designs BY ROBERT CRUIKSHANK. (continued 3)

Here I have run my pencil through several puns on the ladies' retiring. Though he says it is unnecessary, Swift could not help indulging the natural bent of his genius, which is a strong proof of the authenticity of the MS. An additional evidence appears in a query in a memorandum made on the margin of this MS. for the puns for a farmer. Some one, who has rye-fields, is to write to him—Pray send me men to mow rye? and he is to return a skull. Memento mori—Don't you see? But query—will mowing rye do for any but our Irish farmers?