" "Blank Blank" was the signature under which various satirical verses appeared in the True Blue.

Passing out of first hands in barter for a looking-glass, he was shipped in good order and condition on board the good schooner Égalité, whereof Blank was master, to be delivered without delay at the port of Nouvelle Orléans (the dangers of fire and navigation excepted), unto Blank Blank.

"Don't you think," my friend asked, "that Mr. Blank is the very image of Dr. Sullivan of Wigley Street, who was here last summer?" "What Dr. Sullivan's that?"

Blank are its pages from the first to last.

Oh, yes, sir, But, oh, what a blank is my soul.