Chapter 121

CHARLES LAMB TO WILLIAM HONE

[P.M. Oct. 24, 1825.]

I send a scrap. Is it worth postage? My friends are fairly surprised that you should set me down so unequivocally for an ass, as you have done, Page 1358.

HERE HE IS what follows? THE ASS

Call you this friendship?

Mercy! What a dose you have sent me of Burney!--a perfect _opening_* draught.

*A Pun here is intended.

[This is written on the back of the MS. "In _re_ Squirrels" for Hone's _Every-Day Book_ (see Vol. I. of this edition). Lamb's previous contribution had been "The Ass" which Hone had introduced with a few words.]