The Knickerbocker Gallery/Too Much a Change

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C A Bristed

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Too Much of a Change.

By C. A. Bristed.

  B———y, the publisher one day  Thus to a friend did say:"Smith, I intend to start a Magazine,  The name of which will be  'The Wit's Miscellany.'"Quo' Smith, "I think the title rather green;  It has too much pretention  And not enough invention.You'd better change the name." The other did(At least so he supposed) as he was bid,  And called it "B———y's," thinking that as goodBut, though this name had cost him some reflection,It failed to obviate his friend's objection,  Who said, "I fear I was misunderstood.The title 'Wit's Miscellany' you know I did not quite appropriate deem;But then I never meant that you should go To the opposite extreme."
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