Nuts and Nutcrackers

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Nuts and Nutcrackers, by Charles James Lever This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Nuts and Nutcrackers Author: Charles James Lever Illustrator: Phiz. Release Date: March 18, 2010 [EBook #31685] Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NUTS AND NUTCRACKERS *** Produced by Irma Spehar and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) NUTS AND NUTCRACKERS. “The world’s my filbert which with my crackers I will open.” SHAKSPEARE. “The priest calls the lawyer a cheat, And the lawyer beknaves the divine; And the statesman, because he’s so great, Thinks his trade’s as honest as mine.” BEGGAR’S OPERA. “Hard texts are nuts (I will not call them cheaters,) Whose shells do keep their kernels from the eaters; Open the shells, and you shall have the meat: They here are brought for you to crack and eat.” JOHN BUNYAN. I L L U S T R A T E D B Y “ P H I Z . ” Second Edition. LONDON: Wm. S. ORR AND Co., PATERNOSTER ROW; WILLIAM CURRY, Jun., AND Co., DUBLIN. MDCCCXLV. LONDON: BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.