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When an excerpt from Oliver Twist formed part of a recent television programme the Lime Grove caption-writers described the room in which the action took place as 'Bill Syke's'. slips of this kind in Sir George Barn's department could soon antagonize Dicken's admirers.
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![Humour through the Ages
How Sulaimān the merchant, while at meet with the Shah Tahmāsp, being asked if the egg of the desert quail set before him did mock the nostrils of anticipation with the perfumes of decay, did reply that, on the contrary, a considerable proportion of it did indeed unlock the casket of satisfaction with the golden key of delectability.
[From a MS of Nizami]](https://chrisbeetles.com/storage/27985/conversions/1wbvkld0068x-masonry.jpg)
![Humour through the Ages
Toyo Mitsuhito the poet acts strangely in depositing rice from bowl on head: when questioned as to meaning of uncustomary procedure, makes explanation that was under erroneous impression that said bowl contained maize.
[From a Japanese print]](https://chrisbeetles.com/storage/27984/conversions/4mp0lpqi0hp8-masonry.jpg)
