READER! walk up at once (it will soon be too late) and
buy at a perfectly ruinous rate

A

FABLE FOR CRITICS;

OR, BETTER,

(I like, as a thing that the reader's first fancy may strike,
an old-fashioned alle-page,

such as presents a tabular view of the volume's contents)

A GLANCE

AT A FEW OF OUR LITERARY PROGENIES

1

(Ms. Malaprop's word)

FROM

THE TUB OF DIOGENES;

A VOCAL AND MUSICAL MEDLEY.

THAT IS,

A SERIES OF JOKES

By A Wonderful Quiz,

{

who accompanies himself with a ruh-a-dub-dub, full of spirit and grace,
on the top of the tub.

BOSTON:

TICK NOR AND FIELDS.

M DCCC LVI.