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1820 Decr 12
J.B. to J. Cam Hobhouse

Dear Sir

That bird hen that was to have laid the golden
egg – I wish you could contrive to catch hold of her
and rip her open, that we may come at whatever embryo gold
dust she may have in her there may be in her: for if we wait
till it comes out in the regular way, I fear we shall
have disappointment instead of eggs. There was a
time when your humble Servant was an eagle
and the bird in question a Tomtit perched upon my his
wing: I forget the Ao Domini, but it was
except that but it was when Pythagorus was Pauthoides
Euphorbus. It looks to me as if since then she had
undergone a first transmigration, and become a humming-bird. I am drawing up a "Whereas for
Mr Cobbet to insert in his Digestes, offering a reward
for to any one that will catch her and bring her to his
office that he may wring her neck off, a suitable reward, that which
he will not fail to pay with his well known punctuality to be made paid with that punctuality which in the case of
a reward in any such shape as that impressive shape, and may may make so sure of
. For my part if I ever I should spy her again
I would should put on again my Eagle form, which I could do
as I did in would not cost me more quite so
much as it did the first time, and give her a good peck her
pecking till she cried sung out peccari, and, transforming
herself into a rook for a creature, would Condor at least, not to speak of Rooks
not suffice laid eggs of magnitude proportionable.
"A bird that can sing and wont, sing sing,
sings this "should be made to sing" (says the proverb, and if there
is not another about laying of eggs, it is high time there
should; meaning of such eggs as have been are the funds of promise.

Identifier: | JB/013/143/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 13.
Date_1	1820-12-12	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings
Folio number	143	Info in main headings field	jb to j. cam hobhouse
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	john flowerdew colls
Corrections	john flowerdew colls	Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public	letter 2745, vol. 10	ID Number	4592
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