SHIRLEY BROOKS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 80, 28 December 1907, Page 10

SHIRLEY BROOKS.

r SOME OF HIS SAYINGS/ An early writer of "limericks" was Shirley Brooks, 'tlio . second editor of " Punch." Not even such a place-name as .Carshalton was'too much for his powers.. Here is ono of his happiest efforts:— "Thoro .was. a young lady of Chcadlo, . Who 'was doeply beloved by ;tHo beadle:. But'; sho. .scoffed, at-his prayer, ■ ' Left her work on his chair, ' . .. And the beadle sat down on the ; needle.

One day Shirley brought' lip for dessert a noblo pineapple from .Larbadoos.. ( 'What a beauty J" ' oxclaimod Thackc'ray.f" Silver, aren't you proud, ' Piiius silvaj filih nobilis.' "- ..• For 1 air instant' Mr; Silver hesitated, and Shirley burst" in—"My . dear Thackeray, ploaso' remember that, poor Silver "is yet un--wed." /How. can lie' r.ccogniscT liei' "yet—in good society;?" / ' ■ ■' 'Talking ■bf mercenary ' literature,' Shirley Brooks -once' : said—"Writing l a "fine merely to make money by. it, is like turning a watormill with the .sacred " stream, of Jordan, or chopping up'the Cedars of Lebanon for --firewood." ' Partridges "were- rather prematurely on the menu for dinner' one First of" September. " Ah,'_' said Shirley, considering: the perils their; parents/have,survived, I am always in-' glinetl to call young partridges ' the 'children of"the missed I'"—From "A Great 'Punch' Editor," by G. S. Layard, published by the Mossrs. Pitman,