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consider
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something
alone, I make
family, and
and
known
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bold
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first
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what
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of the Blue
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parties
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pleasant
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as
nature
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the past
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particular
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out
the
treat
and
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care
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of you
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thy business
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neglectyour
continued
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be alive !
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that make
stick to
so
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edge to
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two
business
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pace.
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the house.
spite
going the
are
you
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meet
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the whole
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of it,in
over-weightthat
the bucket
never
cases,
hang
dream, though
are
over
says,
is the
case
and
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shooter
nice
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on
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spirits,
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term.
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the Director
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to you
me
like
as
enlarges the
trumpet makes
the
dance."
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for the Chesterfieldian
fico then
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ungenteelemotion.
politeness
; and
smile
is the
everybody can
his
soul, let
classes of
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bud.
take
no
such
part :"
man
of
sort
and
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"
trusted."
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of
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to
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Rides
style;
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well
preach.
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place,"to
of its
own.
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have
hours
in
and
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his
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forget to
after
v^hole
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take its
in such
give tongue
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is the
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cheerful
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make
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to
old Absolute
it to
recommend
to
not
prepared
independent of
to
says,
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who
now
says
the mind
render
by compelling it,as
dogs
it*it be
but
room;
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Melancholy."
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your
vi^ithMirth
singlehurst
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to
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point
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get
well
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in
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cares
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enlivened
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in
practise
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main
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neither
a
Waverley mystery.
Pugsley Papers were
from
the
like
collected
from
like the Cula
Evelyn,
cartridges
garret,
into a snow
loden,- nor saved, like the Garrick, from
being shredded
"
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at
storm
Winter
the
shears, like
neither
the
Landlord,
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Jonathan
Bag.
of
attics.
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eastern
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unrolled
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spices,"
or
to
nor
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translated
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brought
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by
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were
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sold to me,
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Twopenny
papyri. They were
ancient
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of Horam
Letters,
strays
surreptitiously
copied,
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play, nor
Kubla
of, like Coleridge's
tales
Clinker
and
from
communications
the
nor
waifs
Sheridan's
like Milton's
over
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PUGSLEY
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Museum.
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any
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short, I
not
languagedead or living.They were
Office,nor purloinedfrom the British
cannot, dare
: the
acquisition
of their
PAPERS.
be
reader must
the
in
I.
From
"
Richard
Master
the
by
Rogers,
Bob,
Huzza
Here
"
It''s
good-byeto
in Lincolnshire !
am
and
Robert
Master
to
reverse
132, Barbican.
Number
at
Dear
Pugsley,
extreme
all written
of
No.
know, that,
to
content
the
at
even
TVellingtons
calf,and ditto
stout
They've all been sold off under prime cost, and the old Shoe
for ever
and ever.
Father
Mart is disposedof, goodwilland fixtures,
been made
rich Squire of by will, and weVe
nas
a
got a house and
ditto.
and
fields,
of
trees
our
Such
own.
garden.Bob
It beats White
!
"
Conduit.
Now,
Mother
I want
Bob,
ask
to
Father
your
Ask
let you
to
to
you
down
come
Sister to ask
your
your
come.
and
you'reout of pocket money, you can walk, and beg a lift now
and
Put
don't
for
cut
the
care
on
cordroys,
then,or swing by
dickeys.
behind.
The two
prentices,
George and Will, are here to be made
from school to help in agriis
and
Nick
took home
farmers of,
brother
culture.
fun.
Us four have
We
like farmingvery much, it's capital
If
famous
: it'sa
good un, and sure to
gun, and go out shooting
shootingdog as
go off if you don't full cock it. Tiger is to be our
he has left off killing
the sheep. He''s a real savage, and worries
as
soon
got
Before
cats beautiful.
plenty of
There's
soon
as
the
can
down,
comes
to
mean
we
bait
bull
our
him.
with
on
Father
we
sly to
catch
tail to
get
him,
Mother
Remember,
Rivers
about,
gentles.We've
lay hold
won't
you
turn
pony
we're
too,
to
paddock,and
prime.Bob
Father
going a fishingas
killed
We've
Isn't it
of.
giveyour
up
and
top joint.
our
to
signify
If your
New
mended
have
of
one
ride upon
has neither
You
leave to allow
you,
sheep
our
when
mane
must
nor
come.
run
"
we
away.
ask
Street to go to Lincolnshire,and
Goswell
mother
Bob,
Hall.
There's
comfortable.
you
of him
musket
volunteer
make
to
Don't
his
we
bird-lime,Bob
you
every
could borrow
knowing
have
"
Do
dare say
as
full of
there's
without
pond
and
ours
can
father's
your
of it ; but be sure
mislaid
some
come,
thingthat
how
any-
by firingit
fish-hooks
"
and
off.
some
10
THE
PUGSLEY
PAPERS.
suffice to convey
idea of the terrestrialverdure and celestial azure
an
of
we
enjoy,in lieu of the sable exhalations and architectural nigritude
the
metropolis.
You
know
who
confidant
of my
of my
nature
enjoyment
of this
when
I mention
could
the
never
enjoy
morning.
under
our
to-day he read beautifully
pear-tree.
of readingThomson
with you
s Summer
felicity
if
is a bower
there
Christmas
at
engagements
permit
your
that will be
of evergreens
intellectual repast
in
Bloomfield
Barbican,
"
I look
forward
in
participation
for
delightful
the
to the
seat, and
the green
on
but
the bard,
perusalof
his Winter.
I
enclose,by request, an
epistolaryeffusion
from
Dorothy, which
ter
sis-
I know
will
risible
provoke your
by the domesticity
powers,
of
its details.
she
was
You
know
characteristics
though
whether
doubt
supernatural
even
her
or
hand
for
prince
of
regalprimogeniture.But
am
summoned
receive,
family members, the
with
to
felicitations of
Lincolnshire
aristocracy
though
;
ever
what-
distinctions
necessary
prospectivelyoccur
respective
gradesin
may
between
CINDERELLA.
will
life,they
the
affect
Jemima
only superficially
sentiments
of eternal
friendshipbetween
and
Pugsley.
Anastasia
No.
My
IV.
dear
Providence
from
Barbican
From
"
Miss
to
not
sent
housewifery,I
Miss
been
pleasedto
I trust
Lincolnshire,
as
becomes
undertaken
to
my
be
to
the Same.
remove
I shall have
new
domestic
my
of
strength
idle,and
Anastasia
duties
tution
constiAs
we
lias declined
feel
Pugsley
Dorothy
Jemima,
having
to fulfil them
are
dear
my
"
to labours
and
more
trials,
severe
THE
PUGSLEY
PAPERS.
than
curds
eating butter
any
calves,and
own
before
find
new-lay somewhere, tho' I cannot
lookingevery day to have chickens,as one
has
sets
such
me
domestic
example
an
since
it'sfor the
than
have
life;
remember
ever
before.
bakings,and
and
either eatable
You
when
trials,
unusual
been
never
out
much
so
am
sure
nests ; and
our
am
pepper-and-salt-coloured
a
ignorantbird
poor
repine at
the hardest
worked
like
horses
if
die in
it,we
; but
we
be
to
know
look
rightto
happy in my
was
was
of the
good
is still in town
who
and
the estate
milk, fattening
my
own
can
I have
at
in the
days running,and
London,
When
patience,how
of
to
came
we
months.
two
Mother
drudgery!
ever
sure,
these
sitting
been
reward
cackle
we
hen
meet
to wish
to despair
of
wrong
die.
the
Considering
We
eggs.
out
be
by
layingmy
turn
two
article in
every
prospect,than of drinkingmy
happier in
own
to
I should
whey,
making
own
my
committed
adulteration
and
not
drinkable
and
crosses
all my
there has been
preservings,
and
my
of
out
I tell you,
brewings,and
or
will confess
is
what
painfulto
more
losses
makings,
nothing
tionate
affec-
an-
violent
shock
that
smashed
all the
preserves
it has
and
work
will,as
been
fault
for
lettingthe
poor
at the
yet
has
to
we
attempt
t
can
Grace
morning in
you
comfort
some
Monday in
compels me
not
year
left
But
in
and if
calamities,
that
beer
hope
my
the mash
As
tub.
for
it
to say
was
own
my
crawl
into the copper
little animals
the
will receive
cheese
cream
drive the
twice hunted
whole
next
to
time.
same
mean
blind
on
there's
so,
next
wine, candour
experiencedictates
but
as
month
the
foment
and
tea
Cows
and
me
as
pound
as
to be
home
and
into fits,
pigstye. As
a
soon
of
my
I
we
milked
kept
I know
you
fresh butter
get
can
cream,
poor
^but
"
"
^lie
Mother
when
together.I
shall send also some
familypork for Governess, of our own
killing,
I
did
to
neck
as
we
on
hope
Saturday.
give you the
wring a pig's
loaf,but it was
unexpected treat of a home-made
forgotin the oven
to add
mean
from
ten
to
cheese
six,and
so
as
soon
too
as
can
get one
black to offer.
to stick
However,
hope
to
sur-
12
THE
priseyou
with
will send
really shockingto
failure of her
the
see
taste, and
particular,that
owned
When
be
flower
jumbled
out
with-
them
trowelled
and
them
set
again,in the
have looked
if
sweetly elegant,
it had
in
figures.
quadrille
It must
have
was
of
regularorder,till
any
Anastasia
all up,
in
one
must
there
came,
number
roots,but
tivated
cul-
pretty idea.
very
we
vast
PAPERS.
one
nosegay
die off before,which
It's
PUGSLEY
dwindled
they
and
consumptions.
dahlias and
turned
out
onions
and
and
stocks
have
Her
too have
tulips
nothing but
kidney potatoes,
her
ten-week
not
VERY
come
FOND
OF
GARDENING
up
in twenty.
But
as
Shakspeare says,
that teaches us Patience is a jewel.
Adversityis
toad
precious
"
of clean
saucers
to make
with
children,I
water
obligedto
think
and
a
geese.
hundred
There
similar
of.
happy
to say,
are
all
prchard
Fens.
to hear
the
to have
Dear
Miss
Jemima's
affectionate
Dorothy
friend,
Pugsley.
THE
V.
No.
My
In
ultimatum
informed
to Barbican.
between
curious, I
make
going
am
way,
hour
an
it is,we
as
have
I know
restive in
The
Perhaps if
that's
Our
patterns:
as
all
with
hadn't
we
have
given
chipt,and
"c.,
furniture,
the
familyat
same
and
carved
have
the
safe,
down
it wouldn't
breakables,
our
very
got here
came
rosewood
but
are
the house
thingsall
came
by the waggon, and I am sorry to say a poor
time, and the little idle boys with their knives
scarified my
you
bed, and
with
you
particular.I take
and
only one plateleft,
keep it in countenance.
to
spout
as
sisters,
more
myself
moving.
our
into
bulletings
the whole
it vdth
without
mug
of
exceptionof the
overloaded
"
to
account
dresser,about
the
Bucklerahury.
Wriggleswortlipaying his
estate coming from Lincolnshire
P. to send
the
of
opportunity
t
o
still, givean
of old
chargedMr.
reports,but
progressive
the
Mumford,
Middlefen
of the whole
with
Mrs.
to
Martha,
dear
my
13
PAPERS.
Pugsley
Mrs.
From
"
PUGSLEY
of
not
the
same
bad
as
are
as
fire of London.
The
first
goingup,
thingI
I
but
"
did
wish
stole
chimbly,
quite unbeknown
with
be
four
smoke
which
more,
endured.
My
flitches of
good
wretches
to
me.
was
We
filled up
have
thing was
to
up
the vacancy
is to be cured must
what
have
kitchen
the
bacon, as
but
dreadfully,
us
next
the sweeps
the sootty
to
to see
coming down, was
for
had been less precipitous,
on
and
all holes
corners
cleared
that wanted
one
about, as
much
so
cleaningout.
high as
littering
straw, that
all to
It
rights
yet, but
the
lived upon
besides
is
chucked
away.
I directed
distress.
nose
in
odd
very
do better
all but
George
He
to
in
for
provisions,
found
he
What
old W.
whole
field of
to
pickle,I
had
sowing up a crop,
with
but he met
agricultural
his
the
horses,
plough stuck
whipped
ground was
plough it up,
as
we
not
are
day.
cold
with
few
the
says as soon
the earth,and
when
We
no
were
good-for-nothing
of
heaps
dung
shillingsload to
a
there
bacon
beet-root,which,
its
premises;
of
heaps
were
five
me
was
except
it cost
haystacks,and
There
tumbled
then
clear for
over
head
ploughingis so easy to
time.
Experiencemakes
look
a
It
and heels.
at, but
King
I trust
Solomon
of
seems
he
a
will
Tom
noddy.
I
expect
pecked by
we
the
shall
have
birds,as
bushels
I have
had
dreamingof
had
the
them
well
tho**sadly
of com,
for
taken down
bushels
upon
all the scarecrows
for
Bogies.
For the
the nasty
same
dear
sharp iron
J4
THE
spikesdrawn
my
out
teeth, I
these
harrows.
Nobody
shall say to
not
am
With
Mother.
good
PAPERS.
PUGSLEY
trust
precautions!
the young
the
will
ones
country
the
gipsieshave
but
till
joy
en-
when
left,
confine
then,I
as
the
you'vehad
We
shutting
use
stable
door
after
child stole.
have
goodly
fine fields of
many
which
hay, ^
have
to
mean
//
wet
or
reaped directly,
shine ; for delays are
dangerousas pickles
haps
Perglazedpans.
as
in
favour,for
our
stacks
the
is
Swithin's
St.
in
if
put
are
THE
up
dampish they
these
The
parts.
boys
poor
RAKE
i'KOGKESS.
if Swing
easily,
so
have
should
themselves
made
into
come
industrious
very
down
the cow-house.
Luckily the
George
poor
it wouldn't
says
country
commissioner.
about
faith
and
to
last
up
it.
one
if
they
expectedto
eat
but
directions,
trust
you
that,I
poison,
send
you
bought the
they
iu all the
pears
over
new
would
on
purpose
the
know
by
the poor
points
tenter
have
to stick
pales,
hooks
gone
rious.
mysterats,
"
ducks,will
kill
for preserving,
and
quantityof wall-fruit,
it has
brandy beforehand, as
as
ill
nature
reason
all vanished
and stealing,
I had
nightby picking
notwithstanding
bottles broke
came
to
more
don't thrive
for
Mr.
"
them
sorry
but
on
onions, why our own
it,is very
have a beautiful poultryyard,only infested with
We
am
happened
a
instance,in fatting
goose,
For
sense.
sage and
have
but for
every thing,
in authorized receipts
and
common
post
were
it'slikelyenough,but it'san
"
Having
animals
a-top of
George,who
with the
too,but
the wall.
is very
But
dozen ot
I rather think
had
thoughtless,
pointsdownwards.
luckilywe
ten
heard
in
Our
noise in
driven
applesand
the dark.
THR
and
brickbats
threw
smashing the
I
make
sure
window,
that
alarmed
the
thieves
by-
However,
Monday
on
mean
of
15
PAPERS.
cowcum-
frames.
ber
out
PUGSLEY
of the
to
orchard,
the trees,
by gathering
a
pheasant in one's
"
two
cock
bush.
One
is worth
hand
in
sparrows
comfort
is,
dog
house-
the
won
in
out
or
dark
after
"
be
indeed, nothing can
the
more
furious,
except
in parbull,and at me
ticular.
would
You
think
he
ward
in-
knew
my
thoughts,and
intend
to
that
him
have
roasted whole
when
we
these
remain,
lars,
particuwith
WALL
FltUlT.
love, my
affectionate sister,
Belinda
P. S.
"
Pugsley.
I have
taken
being
mountable
insurwith nobody that can
ride in the house, and nothingbut an
huntinghorse in the stable. I should like,therefore,to be
well
doctor-stuff 'd from
or
Hall, by the waggon
any
Apothecaries'
other vehicle.
and
it'sa
pitynow
No.
VI.
they were
"
From
not
Mrs.
stalks in the
saved
Pugsley
nine spasms.
doesn't
answer,
garden,
in time
for
saves
pies.
to
Mrs.
Rogers.
Madam,
has made
coolness,and
"
"
"
our
16
THE
the
distance
whole
between
down
way
the
the
on
humble
will
PAPERS.
families extended
of
footing
hearingthe newspapers
the gipsies,
and we
haven't
but
this statement
PUUSLEY
to
him,
is become
t^
Belinda
No.
VII.
To
"
Mr.
COOLNESS
Silas
day
of him.
BKTWEEN
with
Trusting
anxiety,remain, Madam,
Servant,
the
Richard,
idea what
an
relieve of
lie walked
your
t"
Pugsley.
FRIENDS.
Parisian
Pugsley,
DepotsShoreditch,
Dear
Brother,
of the present date,is to advise of my
safe arrival on
fort,
"Wednesday night,per opposition
coach,after ninetymiles of discomof
miles
for
five
u
nrivalled
and
walk
a
absolutely
cheapness,
throughlanes and roads,that for dirt and sludgemay confidently
more,
rous
defy competition, not to mention turningsand windings,too numebut morally impossibleto pursue
to particularise,
on
undeviating
My
favour
"
the
forbade finding
of so dark a quality
The nightwas
as
principles.
the
late
for
for
mistake
but
the
house-dogflyingupon me by
gate,
and almost
proprietor,
i-espectable
tearingmy clothes off my back by
his strenuous
Conscientiously
averse
in
by
various
I did not
to the
truth
competitors,
finds
Mrs.
thingson
such
to
urges to
footingas
P., indeed,diff'ersin
always surpassedthe
success
of my
patronage.
fallacious statements, so much
indulged
merit commendation
most
by
her
acknowledgethat
to
ensure
on
arrival,
tion.
universal satisfac-
statement, but
you
know
her
lous
sanguineexpectations.Ever emuof
strictest regard to principles
the
18
THE
To
add
PUGSLEY
PAPERS.
stagnation,neither
to
of
two
my
in the business
sons
nor
been
so
apprentices have
diligentlypunctual in executing
with
orders
and
laudable
ambition
despatch
fidelity,
as
country
desires,
the
two
but
have
gone
loss of
three
Richard
and
about
are
the
on
William
"
Hares
in
both
threatened
of
with
sufl^ered
high charges.
He
passing
prosecution for tresis
interest,and Nick
adjoininglanded
the
has
his shoulder
in
obliged to decline any active share, by dislocating
tall
for
for
As
tho'
tom-tit.
for
tree
the first
a
climbing a
George,
the
limits
of
town
time
circumscribed
he
custom,
beyond
indulges
of knowledge in
vanity in such unqualifiedpretensions to superiority
farming, on the strength of his grandfatherhaving belonged to the
of patience
stock
agriculturalline of trade, as renders a wholesale
demands.
Thus
stimulated
its
to injudicious
barely adequate to meet
he
is
best
of
the
interests
the
to
as
performance
injurious
country, as
and
and
and
and
and
smut
mildew,
rot,
pip, all comblight
bined
glanders,
Between
in one
texture.
ourselves, the objects of unceasing
have been assailed
endeavours, united with uncompromising integrity,
with
makes
deterioration,
as
much
so
by resuming
sufierings,
If
House.
Clack
business
as
respectfullyinformed
compensation for loss of
In
bargainbeing ofi;
Robins
have
to
concern,
tho* the
blow
Mrs.
on
the
time
Marter
honour
to
dispose
knocking
Family.
beg
of
Deprecating
lished
estab-
incurred
by
will authorise
you
the
whole
Hall
the
abridging
old
already taken
thankfullypay
not
expense
of Middlefen
down
P. and
of
the
at
will
vicinity,
and
partiesagree,
case
the
Shoe
"
possessionand
reasonable
desirous
humbly
me
the
Mr.
Lincolnshire
will be
deceitful
severe
stimulus
of
to
mention, desirable freehold
advertisingarts, interest commands
for disposal,the
and
investment
and sole reason
estate
eligible
propietor going to the continent.
Example
suggests likewise, a good
and
a
prospect too extensive to
country for hunting for fox-hounds
Circumstances
being rendered awkward
put in a newspaper.
by the
of the running away
of the cattle,"c., it will be best
untoward
event
"
"
"
''
to
say
"
The
will
favour
be
if the
town
ten
past the
with
Stock
to
be
taken
as
politelyconferred,
auctioneer
will
be
and
so
of, "c.
Richard
Nene,
saving
as
"
and
an
additional
thankfully
same
bring
r"
'
the
the
kind
the
ledged,
acknow-
market
next
sentiments
P.S.
"
it stands
and
him.
desirable items.
is
the
Hence
R.
hand
t"
PuGSLEiT,
drippingand
dead
out
of
each other
apprenticesall but drowned
to add, fishingopportunities
occurs
among
in
just come
two
to
half
a
Sen.
the
19
FANCY
AN
PORTRAIT
ANCIENT
BY
"
Give
The
MADAME
CONCERT.
VENERABLE
old music
me
songs of
PASTY.
days
DIRECTOR.
let
"
gone
hear
mo
by
!"
H.
"
F. Chorley.
whom
As
verdant
Its
all
"
name
And
bygone Music's
dear
spots in Memory's
The
Ancient
has not
waste
Concert"
wrongs,
clef,
To
To
Old
Bird must
joinour
"
The
vocal
Your
Fathers
Away,
Miss
are
the
men
throng,"
font
of
we
Birch, you'rein
Song,"
want
your
prime !
Miss
other door !
Romer, seek some
Go, Mrs. Shaw ! till,
countingtime.
You
count
!
you'renearlyfifty-four
c
20
AN
Go,
Go,
CONCERT.
ANCIENT
composingChevalier,
thou
And
roam
No
Newcome
Our
Concert
The
music
for
us
But
Raven
grey.
modern
ear,
you
charm
score
write
cannot
you
Nay,
its day !
So, Rooke,
Your
giveat night
aims to
a
may
fourscore
when
three
or
ours,
in this Ancient atmosphere.
cold !
giveus
Fresh
old,
Master
This
is
no
Coward
wish
to
here
is it Mrs.
Nor
And
Mrs.
Such
To
we
! Mrs.
Oh
not reverend
No, Grisi,no,
but
"
! with
and
where
Go, Mr. Phillips,
Tom
Cooke, and
Away,
run
out
us
Catches
To
stage!
harsh !
"
With
come,
Away,
age !
leave the
"
Rubini, hence
And
"
here
to us
come
You'd
grey with
songs gone
And
singthe
But
see
Seguins sphere,
Bishops are
What
'
girls
placefor boys
and
Massons
No
know
ought to
that
man
you please!
all your batch ;
of breath
we
ye Leaders
all,who
violins,quitemodern
Ancient
guide
our
Old
fiddles out of
But
come,
ye
with
Glees,
band
lead
things;
we
need
!
leadingstrings
over-ripe,
Songsters,
!"
That
into
And
That
Nay,
A
ye
all,that spin
Spinsters
voice,
Old
At
come,
'*
that almost
notes
such
as
you
we
seem
shall
call'd in ;
!
rejoice
21
CONCERT.
ANCIENT
AN
shall baulk,
thund'ringThalbergs here
No
fingerswith
But
o'er,
pet D-cadence
ride your
Or
little chalk
the
Shall,moderato, keep
here,
full of tone.
No
Broadwoods
But
No
! St.
welcome
so
strain
own
our
Tubal-Cain.
Bird-Organ, built by
And
score
Cecilians,now
willy-nilly,ex-good fellows,
will strike up, no
matter
"Who
how,
Ye
With
organs
which
In
Till
ancient
ye
come,
that
Christmas
Come,
Nurse, who
matter
What
The
These
for
erst
dronM
the
how
Copy-Book
Concerts
RACE
were
the
sung
lullabies,
was
young
critics treat.
faults
sins and
modern
miles.
home
When
styles
Cries,
London
Carols
When
No
strayed
good
some
our
flourishes
Those
"
ancient
bring,0 bring,your
And
their bellows
survive
that
detect.
must
TO
BR
Command
FIRST
FIDDLE.
respect !"
22
LETTER
FROM
EMIGRANT.
AN
Brother,
Here
country you
the midst
and
well, and
I have
this moment
before
in the
me
finest
the sublime
"
"
distance.
I
ever
Providence,safe
At
saw.
Mudiboo
Squampash Flatts the majestic
windingthrough
of
the
with the magnificent
in the
mountains
Squab
range
to describe in a letter !
But
the prospect is impossible
of
expanse
are, thank
we
in a pill-box
!
well attempt a Panorama
have fixed our Settlement on the leftbank of the river.
might as
We
lost most
the
rapidswe
by great good
but
as
New
of the
one
have
built
as
we
London,
log houses
in
saved Mrs.
infant
on
heavy
our
we
could
iron work,
Paisley'sgrand piano and
and have
expect
"
the
compliment to
to ourselves
hog-stye. We
ing
cross-
the second
built it
now
comfortable
of
fortune
In
"
burnt
or
Old
christened
Metropolis. We
down
ment
settle-
our
in
have
have
we
fire
making bonand for the present the pigsare in the
to keep off the wild beasts,
rather
As
than elegantly
furnished.
rooms
our
are
parlour.
yet
usefully
We
have guttedthe Grand
Upright,and it makes a convenient cupboard,
new
the chairs
"
were
obligedto
blaze
at
bivouacs,
but
thank
Heaven
have
we
our
never
do
miss
not
them.
be
well
when
some
accidents
in
felling.
lopping and
tle,
Mrs. P. grumblesa litbut it is her custom
to
lament
she is in
comforts.
of
she
says
the
very
most
the
when
midst
She
plains
com-
and
solitude,
could
enjoy
stiffestof stiff
visits.
The
of
firsttime
STIFF
VlhIT
LETTER
by
one
turned out
we
peaceably,
but
"
since he
ever
do not
and if we
to us
comes
he
was
clock-work
satisfied;
we
acquaintance,
have
muskets, but
been
to
easy
Bamaby
shall
shoot
mistook
our
seed,and
sowed
it all in the kitchen
did try to trap him into a pitfall
after twice catchbut
ing
;
of
the children in turn, it was
P., and every one
given up.
are
never
stir out
now,
have blocked
have
morningto
about
at ease
however, perfectly
of doors at all,and to make
up
lost
only
and
botanise,
as
absconding,
of
one
and
he had
the
carpenter,
Gregory, the smith, has
been
out
the
came
who
spade to go
him, but did
after
namely,
out
went
one
much
am
at
surprised
off with.
pendale,
Chip-
after
sent
door.
we
Glasgow,
nothingbut
was
since
back.
came
never
animal,for they
I
quite comfortable,
them
number
our
the
barricadedthe
gardener,from
Diggory,the market
his
get
We
They
We
which
It would
flock.
of gunpowderfor onion
Mrs.
with
as
regular
as
hardlyhave a
him, beingwell providedwith
garden.
onlybeen inconvenienced
in order to
soon
sheep in the
remnant
have
we
old ewe,
an
23
EMIGRANT.
he came,
firsttime
The
Lion.
AN
but
tilldaylight,
dusk
nightfrom
FROM
them
not
return
these two
and
days. I
three,and
Mudge,
justdespatched
hope he will soon givea good account of them, as theyare the most useful
in the whole settlement,
to its existence.
and, in fact,indispensable
men
have
V^^^
MEETING
EMIGRATION
The
river Mudiboo
is deep,and
though I have
of those above
none
as
do not
we
our
water
common,
animal.
use
the
heard
eighteenfeet
river
may
SETTLER.
with alligators,
rapid,and said to swarm
at
one
time,and
beingseen
long; this,however, is immaterial,
of three
fluid,which
is thick and
dirty,but
draw
all
Poisonous
rather
are
springs
fish
no
are
or living
easilydistinguished
by containing
with frogs,
Those, however, which swarm
toads,newts, efts,
from
natural
wells
and tanks.
but
but
got over
may
no
be
safelyused
drawback
and
hereafter,
do
but
for
one,
culinarypurposes.
which,
earnestly
hope
and
sanguine,
advise,if things
am
24
SONNET
are
England than
better in
no
The
drawback
when
selloff all,and
persuade,will
can
as
you
many
to this African Paradise.
over
by
of
race
of avail ;
seems
after
night,but
EnglishHarvesting. Our
that these creatures
been
burglars) ^have
"
establishment
made
spiesnightand day
that no
cautiously,
glimpseof
last
Our
cut
people.
crop was
hear
were
human
our
has
one
yet the
art
the
moment
vigilance
night
guard
convinced
am
they
and
motions,yet so secretly
of
been
our
seen
by any
yet
of
carried off,with the precision
to
amazed
be
spiritstores
(you will
and
pick
locks with
the watch
ransacked, though
and
open
and
dexterityof
the
the
have
brutes
been
London
half
the
off to
dogs givingan
their natural
superhave to contend
are
that we
and invisibility,
knowledge,swiftness,
I
for
refer to on
to
advice,
spirits. long
your
Ambrose
Dear Philip,Your loving
brother,
with evil
and am,
or
watched
and
mercy.
on
talents exceed
"
broken
on
No
inhabited
are
mischievous
plannedambuscades,
has been
strippedwithout
were
have had
have
we
attempt
no
relaxed,we
was
must
cunningand
any
seen
never
mountains
the most
even
whose
Monkeys,
as
have
althoughI
one
an
left,
you, and
come
of is this
speak
STEAM.
ON
this
subject,
Mawe.
SONNET
BY
I livd
WISH
Wurking
And
AN
diibble
cum
But
Now
by
meens
Bilers
And
Helps
and
When
sutch
to the
Will
sune
How
we
May
them
And
Theaves
Orses
be out
of Vittcls
bee to Liv
changeof Orses is
Blowd
forces
Kettels
Smoakey
need Be sifted in
nothink
Their
the Bilers
of Steem
Gumming
naggs
Bruits I wunder
Poor
No
seam
days to
of Powers
into
milers
Seven
in Them
turningCoches
Ago
year
six and
Stagesrunnen
Orsis
The
STEAM.
CNDER-OSTLBB,
Thowsen
for Sober
The
A-
ON
Faits
our
Siv
inginsall Blow
up
their Grates
blackgardHanuimuls
Feed
Giv
of Slaits !
26
FROM
BELOW.
the
Suppose
REPORT
couple standingso.
rushingfootstepsfrom below
pulsesfast and fervent
When
Made
And
then
Poor
Mary May,
Master
cravat
my
the servant
Mistress
and
Speak
as
! Fire ?
did
chatter.
flew at her,
both
? What's
Murder
or
"
couple'steeth
the
Lord, how
"
white
as
"
the matter
Mary gettingbreath.
Upon her tale began to touch
such
With
rapid tongue, full trotting,
As if she thoughtshe had too much
Till
tell before
To
We
"
both.Ma'am,
was
And
Round
Mrs.
death
her
in the
"
at
wash-house.Ma'am, a-standing
secondingwhat
was
littlethingsI rubs
tubs,
our
'
'
I say
and there she stops for coughin',
Mary,' says she to me,
*
That dratted copper flue has took to smokin' very often,
of swearingin a passion,
But pleasethe pigs,'for that's her way
'
"
"
I'll blow
Well,
And
empties every
Lawk, Mrs. Round
I'm
sartin
'
this fashion !
coughin'in
horn
"
his horn
mean
! says
it can't not
take
stares,that
loading,
for
exploding.
is unproper,
quantum
pound
to sky a copper
;
I
tells
heads off",
You'll powder both our
so
you, with its puff.
and she takes a pinch of snuff.
But she only dried her fingers,
sure
Teach
Well, when the pinch is over
your
A powder horn,'says she
Well, says I, I
'
grandmotherto
"
wish
"
Them
'
words
sets
ever
back,
she, quite
Come,' says
your lips;
Afore
up
her
you
bom,
was
in
with
so
huff,
well
you
her hands
'
used
luck.
her
upon
keep
come,
suck
your
hips,
tongue
inside
thingslike these ;
up by degrees.
givesus such a rattle,
cannonized,like Sogersin a battle !
a
squib,and us on both our backs.
was
to
"
both
thoughtwe
Up goes the
And
But
I fainted dead
there
Providence
All
stiffas
for Mrs.
starch,and
scorched
her
and
Right
Well,
I crooks
As
looked
her
and
as
dead
humanity pintsout,
more
and
fingers,
and
burnt
sees
as
than
splitall
into cracks.
Round,
grimed,and
head,
on
off,and
and
away,
kind, and
was
like
popper
bless the
Well,
were
like
her
that,I
crumps
thingin
any
at
distance.
existence
the
sees
her nostrums
well
with
slap
copper
percussioncopper
them
up
cap.
together.
feather
"
But
for all
She
I,
So
sich
lays
But
as
there
she
And
For,
she
my
poor
Well, Ma''am,
But
us
these words
and
! such
vdth
agin
ear
! she
but
you
won't
is all she
mouth
sort
of eye,
so
and
to
her
sky
her
COPPER
with
dirt
lump.
to jump.
reaches,
dying speeches.
orphans,
it"*sGospel fact
'Why,
the
"
black
young
it,but
"
SKYING
down
hear
whispered
""
to
open
heart
my
stocking
hurt
in
skirt.
and
was
makes
crazy
husband
believe
shockin'
a
tattered
things,all
as
to
know,
you
in it ;
wasn't
nobody
"
the
groan
minute.
sightso
see
in t'other.
does
she
all scotched
roof, laid
her
has
master
many
finger,and
my
backs
none
"
wash-house
beckons
soul
rags,
sides and
is,a-lyingwith
the
puts
"
a-scramblingup
on
mercy
for
I mean,
leg
whatever
linens
never,
never,
in 'em
was
the
departed mother.
late
own
my
world,
up
to
off,and
as
I, it's well
there
torn
I am,
A-staringat
Then
leg,and
nobody
there
scramble
never,
never,
burnt
arms
Well,
When,
And
to
Bodies
And
in this
mortality,
sensuality.
dead
lies,
her
to
to
as
shirt ! thinks
! I never,
Here
return
she
her
restore
more
no
givesmyself
Lawk,
Oh
there
well
to
sign of
she'll wash
Well,
do,
can
gives a
never
Thinks
as
27
BELOW
FROM
REPORT
where
is the
as
I knew
and
true.
powder
blew?'"
28
COACH
THE
IF
AT
GOES
of
A
for
worse
pair
militarycloak much
tear, a. napless hat
"
of mud-colour
legs
Paris, to
academy ;
and
Poor
business
and
the hundredth
of my
persecutions
on
"
blue
coat, the
brown
nor
^grey trowser-s
feet.
his
for
long
too
"
that he had
French
"
direct from
come
teacher,at
English
an
been
Monsieur
to enter
my
master
conscience.
House
and
"
I had
an
taken
At Edmonton
bell of
in the
boyish
deposited the
the coach
stopped.
inscribed in
trunks
foreigner's
large
and
on
out, and
"
each
found
of
thumb
share which
pulledthe
alighted,
coachman
Vespasian
letters,
boxes
French
own
violently
smote
The
at
boots too
duties
for wear,
companion,the
his
BASKET?"
THE
worse
"
dropt,I
the
undertake
GOES
sent to
"
he
words
some
the
gloves,open
and brown
"
TIME
SHILLING.
and
a foreigner,
evidently
the Southgatestage,I took
was
comer
WHAT
LAST
IHE
He
PiUY
SIX,
the
I want
footpath.
gate of
another
The
the
LAST
THE
"
You
agreedto
"
You
said you
French
would
master.
said
luggage,"
Frenchman
The
He
it.
take
29
SHILLING.
thunderstruck
seemed
pulled out
the coachman.
but
there
was
help for
no
small
brown
silk purse, but there
weazle-bellied,
of
Then
he felt his breastwas
pockets,
Napoleon.
then his side-pockets,
and then his waistcoat-pockets
; but
all
metal
they were
snufFbox,and that was empty
empty, exceptinga
the
felt
in
he
the
too.
Lastly
pockets
flapsof his coat, takingout a
would-be
white
handkerchief,and shaking it; but not a
meagre
I
rather
he
the result
but he went
thro'
dump.
anticipated
suspect
with the true French
the operations
he
At
last
seriatim,
gravity.
his
with
Mistare Barbiere,be as good to lend
turned to
a
companion,
nothing in it
save
medal
"
"
shelling."
thus appealedto, went throughsomethingof
Like
he passed
blue-bottle cleaningitself,
a
ceremony.
me
one
Barber
Mr.
his breast
over
with
man
"
No
"
his hands
"
empty pockets.
no
"
no
"
this time
By
with
down
of
sense
You
"
hips,and
same
thighs,
could detect nothinglike a coin.
feeling
and you shall have no more," said the
agreedfor a shilling,
the
but
his
round
the
door
the
shall have
you
"
housemaid
the
in her
no
of
hand, had
mor," said
the
man.
moneylessFrench-
VespasianHouse,
down
come
tired of
standing
and,
garden-gate,
the
to
good-naturedhousemaid
let
instantly
seemed
to
be bent
double
"
and
The
she
stitch
stooped
her
on
comer
thrust
"
brass thimble.
to
while
and
Hope
Hope
triumphed,
rosy
of the huge dimity pouch she fished up
into the obdurate palm.
it exultingly
It won't
year
before.
medal,
The
meantime
out, but
had
and
asked
the
Jew
down
the
usher
the
man
had
trunk
for twopence
which
she
her
to
arrived
extremest
wary
been
purchased of
the
solitary
coin,and
arithmetical
"
from
stopped by
was
"
coachman, castinga
girlquietly set
the
now
last
the
for the
which
poor
up,
At
do," said
holdingout
matter
fumbled,
face.
and
taken
seemed
then
cramp
or
and
at
had
pocket.
the gate in
"
the
again
In
the
his way
What's
the
30
THE
^'
"
LAST
please,Sir,"said
impudent fellow
iryou
it's this
SHILLING.
the
of
housemaid, droppinga
coachman
will
stand
low
curtsey,
here
for his
rights."
"
He
wants
"
He
does want
"
Coachman
the
John,
are
are
to
Barber.
reiterated
shilling,"
waitinghere
we
of the
rear
we
his fare
the devil
! what
Bless me,
the Frenchman.
for ?
"
shouted
stage.
"
cried
shrill voice
interior.
stage's
the
from
than
more
than
more
shilling
don't
If you
from the box.
"
get
shall
shortlyI
up
bellowed
get down,"
voice
At
"
"
shake
bosom
his
felt about
and
I haven't
"
and
the head
of
"
hurried
got one,"
he
bow,
with
of
set
twopenny postman.
"
a'n"'tgoingto stand
of all reasonable
out
"
You're
here
all
day," said
the coachman,
patience.
said
scoundrellyvillain,"
infernal
an
Mr.
getting
Barber, getting
out
"
You
are
Thank
*'
what
"
God
and
his
"
and
the Doctor
comes
Mr.
Barber
pompously down
striding
came
lipsand
"
double
chin, which
well
Well,
!
taciturnity
all
"
"
I'm
"
He
"
Poo
says
short
one
the
"
we
to
mean
the
Englishusher,
"
his
avaricious
than
then
a
it, and
an
It's very
of
empty
Plummer
"
tion,
palpableextorremedy for
legislatorial
the
of pomp
man
"
said
peculiar,"
! pray
"
It's
"
"
having currency
for it at Vespasian House
but
ear.
but without
pocket he had
and the
two
keys,
gingerlozenges,
to that
"
As
into every
bunch
have
you
"
demands."
into
fore-finger
and
Foreigner.
and double-chin.
poo,"said the thick-lips
Pay the
poo
and
to
claim,
superfluous
appeal magisterial
authority."
he laid his
and
Mrs.
said
shilling,"
"
It's what
"
"
he has got
the coachman.
"
"
fellow his
his
short,"said
shilling
the
The
amount.
"
Doctor,
or
had
coachman
stay
"
"
and
of
prepossession
call to-morrow
must
housekeeper.
perceive my
this
liquidate
littlecommercial
obligation."
Now,
Plummer
whether
Mrs.
only knows
Plummer
had
or
had
not
Mrs.
shilling,
to make
any
search
LAST
THE
It,
for
Snatching
in
like, exclaiming
about
for,
and
But
"
"
"
part
"
"
"
"
"
or
You
And
trip
to
raised
the
indeed,
work
calling again
run
away
seizing
coachman,
do
to
pretty
to
main.
de
coup
it's worth
going
trouble.
"
trunk
the
on
the
roared
he
box,
the
screamed
out,"
had
in
Thunderer
off
made
coach.
the
in
lady
the
during
dickey.
the
latter
altercation.
shall
What
am
housemaid
a
having,
is not
inflexible
dinner,"
for
passenger
the
God
the
Here's
"
House
let
being
on
late
too
the
of
insist
be
for
As
John,
I shall
by
the
take
to
hand.
each
with
point
"
key,
the
said
am,"
be
may
not
motioned
it's worth
Vespasian
suppose
"
If
the
she
treble
shrill
right
was
carry
boxes,
shilling!
paltry
I
to
the
of
one
up
she
none,
attempted
she
However,
had
she
if
and
"
31
SHILLING.
stranger
must
here
it
pay
it
by
in
in
the
knows
said
mean
subscription
the
time
among
the
Usher.
Classical
said
the
the
housemaid.
Frenchman.
coachman.
Mrs.
said
brute,"
"
said
country,"
money,"
you
English
the
said
this
the
is,
house
the
"
goodness only
his
and
do
we
but
who
Plummer,
whether
pupils,
she
I know
had
no
had
made
coined
more
it,
than
32
PORTRAIT
FANCY
ODE
Well, said,old Mole
How
work
Well
BRUNEL.
BRUNEL.
M.
TO
! canst
M.
bo
fast?
Monsieur
Brunei,
To
prospers now
joinby a hollow
Of
Rotherhithe,and Wapping,
friends
the Bankside
way
"
Never
be
stopping,
poking,groping,in the dark keep making
An
archway, underneath the Dabs and Gudgeons,
and pitchyold Curmudgeons,
For Collier men
To cross
the water
in inverse proportion,
"Walk under steam-boats under the keel's ridge,
But
To
keep
And
down
all
without
In
Thou
fresh
extortion.
hunt, a
new
didst to earth
the
giveus
In
short it was
To
put
Middlesex
View
to worry.
terriers follow.
to
Surrey,
hollow."
half-way thou
Came, like
And
Bore
human
south,
and
mouth
when
proceeded,
Thames, throughroof,not water-proof,
Alas !
Old
"
Great
thy
Bridge!
with
"
hadst
mighty stormy
kind
of roar.
Bore**
"
34
old Schoolmaster
of his
none
We
his love of
was
I have
The
mantle
There
a
but
was
twig or
they say
page
without
in
are
been
incentives
without
to
stagein
by
flogged
light
;
with
failure in
some
been
and
learning,
education
descended
he
without
but
he did
hard
very
pen.
Englishcomposition,
ordered
to be
vised.
re-
did
to it;
justice
well
horsed.
being
his shoulders,and
on
it
on
ours.
cuts ; for
All
tail-piece.
"
I
instance,
do
recollect
not
arm,
and
man,
boy
into
He
shape.
that
Latin
article
might be comprised
was
no
word, he
was
for
It
was
cano,"
Englishedto
reallycarried
assaulted
was
Crusoe
the
on
by a
so
fond
particularly
hands
our
that he
instead of
with
us
striking
such
me
seemed
to lick him
literally
allowed
never
made
He
set of savages.
of
day in
Virgil,
one
me
and
illusion,
the flats of
strap on
There
as
was
virumque
studyingRobinson
Arma
cane.
was
of bamboo
storm
by
been
line"
one
An
for
in the
it.
had
strokes
corrected I have
road
a
a
tree
one
if the weather
of
Busby
leaf upon
I have
used to think
we
well
went
Dr.
of
same.
down
that
flogging,
heard
never
certainly
we
the
and
heavy
having been
after
died of
Such
"
Book.
Spelling
Old
"
s, swallowed
up all the rest.
that he whipped on the principle
of Italian penmanship,
strokes
up
"
He
done
ever
his
often wished
have
in
pupilshave
masters, but
many
is dead.
DOMINIE.
THE
Take
My
OF
DEATH
THE
them
leather
day^srest.
in
our
as
to strike
industriously
In
calendar.
one
other workmen
like
Random,
His
death
and
to Strap.
beingso partial
characteristic. After making
was
he sent for
his will
Mr.
"
It is all
Taddy, the head usher, and addressed him as follows :
Mr.
I
I
from
the
terrestrial
fast
am
am
over,
Taddy
sinking
going
globe to the celestial and have promisedTomkins a flogging mind
he has it and don't let him pickofi'the buds
I have asked Aristotle"
I
live an hour
and he says I cannot
"(here his head wandered)
don't like that black horse grinningat me
him
cane
soundly for not
his
verbs
odio
habeam
Oh, Mr.
knowing
Castigote, non
quod
the vacation's coming There is that
Taddy, it'sbreakingup with me
black horse again Dulcis moriens reminiscitur
short of canes
we
are
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
OF
DEATH
THE
THE
36
DOMINIE.
Taddy, don't let the school get into disorder when I am gone
I'm afraid,
throughmy illness the boys have gone back in their flogging
all over
Is the new
I feel a strange feeling
me
pupil come ? ^I
and have made my will
and left all
trust I have done my duty
head
wandered
Mr.
to
the
his
school
bookseller
Souter,
again)
(here
make the boys walk in good
Mr. Taddy, I invite you to my funeral
"
Mr.
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
order
and take
"
to Mrs.
B. at
of the
care
dim
crossings.
My sightis getting
"
and
Margate
"
inform
her
we
"
"
I am
The school-door is left open
very cold
I will make him feel
John, lightthe school
"
0 Mr.
line
"
art
"
"
"
dying
"
Taddy
^he
"
voice ceased.
"
venit hora
is dying. We
"
He
made
a
"
"
dying
Greek
"
or
the Widow
Latin
author
declined to
"
"
see
dying
am
"
dy"
feeble motion with his hands, as if
the rulingpassion
strongin death
"
are
"
"
beside,that
you
"
are
The
"
discovered in his
Paine.
and
the
in the
who
a
"
was
Hundred
almost
and
"
desk,
Epitaph
and
Virgil,
mason
it under
lithograph
The
with
was
so
every
consulted
Pounds.
thou
"
Dominie
and
I cannot
lamps
rulinga copy-book
expired.
An epitaph,
was
composed by himself,
an
unpubHshed pamphlet againstTom
from
stuflfed with quotations
Homer
act of
write
"
by
The
Homer.
**IT
MAY
BB
MY
OWN
d2
CASK
TO-MORROW.*
36
THE
OVER
OVER
*'
had
I sat
my
whose
over
againsta
window
WAY.
WAY
THE
there stood
where
opened,and
the window
on
a sudden
eyes fixed on it,when
Arabian
Nights.
beauty struck me."
young
"
! the flames
Alas
About
I've
my
of
heart and
caughta
an
unhappy
on
my
fever that I
Over
lover
vitals prey ;
t
can
get over,
the way
Over
I've
the way.
heart's
gazedtoo often,tillmy
any needle in
Crosses belongto
As
stack of
Over
read
Of what
avail Lord
They
cannot
ease
is crossed
the way
write,or thoughtsrelax"
I cannot
or
hay
love,and mine
lost
as
me
Althorp or
Earl
Grey
of ray window-tax
Over the way !
ladyappeared
Even
Sunday
on
And
from
devotions
my
St. Bennet
dear St.
To
Fink
Mary Overy
"
the way
! if my
but
godmother were
magic wand, how I
she would change me
With
That
vary,
they go astray
the Mary
Over
Oh
37
WAY.
THE
OYER
would
fairy,
beg and pray
Over
Miss
jay
"
at even,
her
see
Some
or
from
then
Emits, two
I
poem,
while
"
how
breathe
Or
Or
offer her my
the clear
taper
waxen
her my
unto
the way
deep regards,
whispereday or nay,
hand, some
thirtyyards
"
Over
Cold
But
gutters
the way
stories
twelve
gee
to gay,
grave
oh ! then
"
shutters,
no
Over
And
the window
the way
for there be
readingon,
tale
Lindo,
the way
the
"
Over
the way
Each
"
Over
Half
Or
But
out
yelpingcur,
I'm in love
she
never
Over
church
I go to the same
Haunt
all her walks, and
"
She
does not
No
She
privatetheatres
Crown-andnever
she
Anchor
tumblingbrat.
dray ;
that
pities
a
the way
a
love-lost labour
she has
play j
neighbour
the way
never
acts
balls her
visits gentlemenwith
Over
to know
seem
Over
At
by
over
run
"
the way
fancysway
tracts
the way
88
OVER
To
THE
WAY
billets-doux
In
To
Over
flute
play the
No
I wish
introduction
an
fire would
wasted
My
baker
And
the way
attics
!
beef I turn
her ;
meat
oh ! she's my
the way !
"
at lamb
butcher
veal I pout
or
never
My
chromatics-
purvey
in the
out
Over
At
my
form
for butchers'
as
not
can
break
Over
My
way
she heeds
"
friend
the
"
stomach
Over
the way
I'm
of my
life ; without regret
weary
I could resignthis miserable clay
To
lie within
that box
mignonette
of
Over
the way
one
and
"
Over
Sometimes
horse
four
my
it
Sometimes
A
number
the way
bray,
"
"
I dream
Sometimes
"
"
Over
the way
of her in bridal
white,
altar,like a fay ;
balls,and neighbourlyinvite
Standingbefore the
Sometimes
of
Over
her in
Thrice
I have
made
rowed
grove
Over the way
her in
I have
Thrice
raced to Gretna
shower'd
crowns
in
any
turtle,
one
"
the way
appalling
"
young
man
very
Over
Tay
myrtle
And
Tliere is
and
fairyshallop,
po-shay,"
the horses gallop
neat
to make
Over
Clyde,the Tweed,
of that
Thrice
And
dreams, like
the
the way
fond of
the way
calling
!
PLAN
FOR
Oil !
WRITING
happy
man
Whoever
in her
And
add
BLANK
above
"
all
Nabob
of Arcot
Sultan
of Persia
39
RHYME.
kingsin glory,
rather
such
the way
Despot of Japan
Emperor of Cathay
would
I be the happy man
"
"
"
"
Over
With
IN
ear
may say his say,
tale of love to that one story
Over
Much
VERSE
the way
"
"
"
Over
RUNAWAY
WRITING
FOR
VERSE
TO
LETTER
MATCH.
PLAN
BLANK
IN
the way
THE
IN
RHYME.
EDITOR.
Sir,
Respected
of its reporters,
justlycelebrated for the acuteness
and their almost
propheticinsightinto character and motives
of
and the magni^the Rhodian
length their leapstowards results,
tude
of their inferences,
beyond the drawing of Meux''s dray-horses,
there appeared,
a few
days since,the following
paragraph.
tall
emaciated
House.
a
Mansion
Yesterday,
being,in a brown
and the raggedness
of
his age to be about forty-five,
coat, indicating
and
which gave a great air of mental
his
to
intelligence
ingenuity
In
morning
paper
"
"
"
countenance,
was
evident
was
from
introduced
his
by
the
bovv
preliminary
that he
had
made
Mayor.
some
It
disco-
40
PLAN
BLANK
WRITING
FOR
VERSE
IN
RHYME.
but
back
to the
and the
jurisdiction,
withdrew, declaring
by another bow,
same
Votary of
unfortunate
should
that he
the Muses
offer his
plan to
Annual."
referred to, Sir,is myself, and with regard
votary, though not a 10/. one, if the qualification
unfortunate,above
to the
Muses, indeed
dependson
the Editor
my
of the
is
gentlemenof the Press. That I have made a discovery
in
and
and
with
and
common
Herschell,
Galileo,
true,
Hervey,
Roger
Bacon, or rather,I should say, vpith Columbus, my invention concerning
of
whole
world
in
the
it
a
as
hemisphere,
poetry ^in
were,
of the
"
"
short,the whole
readers this
and
from
land
literary
*'
"
line chime
one
of blank
has
sole reason,
one
the close of
continent
hitherto
been
the end
with
an
immense
harmony which
up
Poems
of
makes
of another.
They have
at
accordingly
Prize,'*
prefixedto
number
completeterra incognita^
of that
the want
that turn
To
verse.
of
the
kind
which
no
the
in
emanate
of Oxford.
Thus many
University
the
unable
to
are
society
appreciate Paradise
very worthy
Lost,the Task, the Chase, or the Seasons, the Winter especially
without rhyme.
in question,
but
Others,again,can read the Poems
with a limited enjoyment; as certain persons can
admire the architectural
beauties of Salisbury
like it better wdth a
but would
steeple,
of
For
of
bells.
either
will provide,
these
tastes
ring
my discovery
without afironting
the palateof any other ; for althoughthe lover of
will
find
in
it a prodigality
hitherto unknown, the heroic character
rhyme
"
going to
was
from
say
members
the
"
of
"
of blank
"
do
"
as,
a
as
will nok
verse
specimen
"
induced
and
to make
"water-carrier."
offer for
an
independentlyof
I have
an
Edition
to
Murray
should
of Paradise
eternal
humble
NOCTURNAL
Even
The
is
; and
come
from
SKETCH.
the dark
signalof the
Park, hark.
sun
one
setting
gun !
And
six is soundingfrom the chime, prime time
To
go and see the Drury-Lane Dane slain,
Or hear Othello's jealous
doubt spout out,
Or Macbeth
ravingat that shade-made blade.
"
"
"
Denyingto
Or else to
Four
Ducrow
see
horses
as
no
other
with wide
man
can
touch
"
stride ride
span ;
Lost
subjoin
on
be
this
obligation
on,
servant.
the next
honour
the
Mr.
publicity,
if,through your
me
as
line will
each
milkmaid," and
"
42
LETTER
PROM
And
And
White
ribbons
That
upward
what
"
MARKET
faith is man's
Mr.
and
flourish,
goes, shows
LETTER
FROM
The
Rose
knows
those bows'
woes
FAVOURS.
GARDENER
TO
HORTICULTURAL
THE
CRETARY
SE-
SOCIETY.
Sir,
Satietyhaving Bean
Leaf
to
They
Them
lie before
with
Sir
banns
MARKET
THE
OF
Ann's
"
Rice,twice, thrice
a
WHITE
GARDENER.
"
have tumd
Atentions
Eyes
Making them
Tater
Innlargementof
to Gozberris.
my
to
"
Big for
Bottlin.
the
Say
to
beg
hop
Satietywas
Kidnis.
my
happy
am
"
This
I have
ear
allmost
too
"
lay
more
nor
too in
Pins, of
new
Hand
into
GalleyPot
and their is no
Be
moor
Bed.
at
your
Feat.
without
Show
Plentifle "
on
flaviour.
ConcerningGraps
to
I have
Want
and
hop they
RespectiveBlack
as
jamming. My
My Walls of the
their is no
of Hobbies
Potle
growd equelyLarge,so
Also
remarkably sharp
in time to be
CurrencyI have
of
one
bin recommanded
is not
line.
Plumb
to
cum
"White
"
to be Put
ben
Strong,
Damsins
will
common
the Slow
classify
Bunch
will
red
of my
one
juice
"
but have
with
douts
of
LETTER
FROM
MARKET
43
GARDENER.
the fack.
"
but
Blackberis,
Aples I
of
Pleas observe
satisfidthem
am
pore
Grafft of the
is
Crab
common
I should
Hispalliers.
lick to
of the Pom
Granite
variety
Nothingbut Stone.
from
be
"
in-
ther
wea-
frute,and
by
up
Rocks
namely
all eat
the Burds
In
Ravines.
had
manner
was
Sparers.
grate
beside by
by
distroyd
the
bean
dun
Mischef
full
but
There
as
like
Pees
of
Shew
use
is of diferent Genius.
Corn
Engine
Sir, My
has been
and
so
say
sum
as
"
to
Scotch Granite
weather
the Mulberris
have found
its Straglin
sideways of
fourmd
"
in some
EntymoUogy
parts a complet Patch
has
of Blight. Their
"
bean
Robin
grateDeal too
by boys and men
of
but
pickingand stealing
bean
their has
axidents
I
by
so
many
Steel
don t like
Traps
settingon
'em.
Sir I
be
Satietyto
mite be maid
"
the
wish
partickly
toe
ho
"
I think
as
follows,
"
"
Cat that
of inrichment
Mould
had
scted
Gosberry
beingup
kind.
the
under
same
of
Frute
The
Bush.
the Gozberris
moor
depo-
roots
the
Seson's
next
of the
carks
the
was
was
berrid,
all hairy.
tom's
a-cold
"
the
of the same
Catpilers
bush, was
humble
I am
Sir Your
servant
hairyDiscription.
Remarkable
Thomas
All
of the
Frost,
44
*"
an
dinner!)
Your
"
dears,
here and kiss the infant,
measles
the
it
!)
give p rhaps
"
(And
"
BLACK,
All
at
She
did
the
Miss
once
not
full-bodied
leave
with
off
a
I shall see
longer
you down
uncommon
hope
the stairs
"
pleasure!)
jNext
'
MODERATE
! ")
INCOME.
AND
WHITE,
Morbid
time I
BROWN.
certain household
dark-brown, and
Nay
next
carriage!)
measure
me
most
hear the
you go ?
give
"
"
"
'
! must
long to hear
marriage;
to spend the
course
seat
You'll
(With
What
dabby,babby !)
(A flabby,
Come, take
What
"
From
"
better for
(Thank Heav'n, I
Your
"
drops in to sup,
our
brandy !)
now
About Matilda's
You're come
of
!"
day
"
Come
never
(The
of
'*
Ah
He
"
PARENTHESES.
And
"
age
IN
T.RUTH
kind,
it very
reallytake
OR,
ASIDES;
DOMESTIC
She
did not
economists,from
so
on,
to
none
at
white
all.
"
like
shade it off artistically,
to
She
left it
walking on
without
BLACK,
WHITE,
warning. She
moment's
1830,
not
ever
truth
The
was
she had
been
listened to
had
tooth,root
she
sugar, or as
brown, in her eyes, but
would
which
Miss
use
and
her sweet
drawn
"
Morbid's
expression,
own
her doors."
SlaveryMeeting;
had
toot sweet.
of sugar, to
ounce
an
darkened
"
as
"
in the
speak appropriately,
CorporalTrim
dropped it,
lump.
vanished,as the French say,
She
it up, to
gave
45
BROWN.
AND
convert
Accordinglyshe
called it
"
under
vow,
Anti-
an
of her head.
forth
Thence-
was
shugger,"
red,blood-red
a
at
who
Abolitionist,
lecturing
no
longerwhite,or
abomination,to indulgein
an
"
Christian
professing
made
that
feelings,
into
Cannibal.
practical
the influence
of moist
eyes
and
the
enter
more
sanguinaryarticle should never
house ; and this petty parody of the famous
her lipsor
Berlin
Colonial produce was
e
nforced.
Decree against
However
our
rigidly
of the Slave Owners
the practice
others might countenance
suming
by confor
s
he
resolved
her
fering
sufthat
own
no
shugger," was
part,
of Africa should ever
rise up againsther out of a
sable son
refined
her
*'
"
of Teal"
cup
the
mean
"
to them
would
by
have
their
that
the
Sunday, under
every
desired
better
no
the
physiognomies.Some pursed
nauseous
beverage should never
their
up
enter
preventit from
and
picturethan
was
if resolved
as
lips,
them
Hogarth
presented
others
pressed
com-
again. One
in sips, another gulpedit down
took it mincingly,
in desperation,
a
continued
stir
of
in
fit
with
to
third, a
absence,
superfluously
very
who
his spoon ; and there was
shrewd old gentleman,
one
by a little
the favour of his small souchong
dexterous by-play,used to bestow
astonished Strangerwould
sick geranium. Now
and then an
on
a
their
mouths,
if to
of Tea
name
subjectfor
as
rushingout
"
retain
at
cupfulof
guests,as
half
his fellow
of Mathews's
or
stillin
on
if
in
Yorkshireman
the
coach
sweets
their Aunt's
"
than to
house
conversion
sort of hard
Taffy was
call.
Miss
however, were
greatestsufi'erers,
the morning of their youth, and
sipthe
sudden
"
the black
"
"
Coompany
!
"
oop
doon ?"
The
"
"
as
"
hail the
been
Dulce
famous
for
Prior to her
Domum.
the
"
of
manufacture
Currant
nephews,
inclined to
far more
boy-like,
had
dawn."
formerlylooked
They
peculiarlya
she had
Morbid's two
sugar ; and
as
now,
to
alas !
invite
46
AND
WHITE,
BLACK,
BROWN.
the young
gentlemenaffirmed,
"like
dip
treacle,and
of
She
Vampyres;
her
nippers. She
of
of
temper soured
own
of
honey,
sweeten
one
the
tion.
prohibi-
they were
admiringher self-denial,
even
compared her, in
even
wicked
acerbityand
littleunder
Sugar-eatersthat
or
practising,
and
it ;
they laughed at
constancy
persuade the
not
instead
"
allusion to
hogshead,to
grocer's
always
Morbid's.
visit at Aunt
To
pick
at
it
wag
her
crab without
to
the
a
privation,
her
the
and
in
to
system ;
perseverednotwithstanding
of
of
wilfulness
the
added
a
something
bigot:
martyr
"
lash
averted
was
from
raised discontent
disgustedher
dear
her
one
of the
kick from
a single
diverting
had
acquaintance,
nephews the
little
cut
She
driver
Her
whip, or
grocer
complainedloudlyof beingcalled a dealer in human gore, yet not one
hogsheadthe less was importedfrom the Plantations. By an error
for a positive
to all her class she mistook a negative
principle;
common
she
and persuadedherself that by not preserving
damsons,
preserved
she
was
the Niggers; that by not sweeteningher own
dulcifying
cup,
accordingly
the lot of all her sable brethren in bondage. She persevered
of
instead
the
face
in setting
her
slavery; against
againstsugar
plant instead of the planter;and had actuallyabstained for six
months
from
roused
her
when
article,
the forbidden
sympathiesinto
active
more
occurred
circumstance
exertions.
It
that
pleased an
she
lady to import with her a black female servant, whom
The
in
her
arrival
case
was
rather abruptlydismissed,
on
England.
of great
considered by the Hampshire Telegraphof that day, as one
American
the round
paragraphwent
; the
HARDSHIP
provedirresistible.
little week, her
The
so
"
as
as
the
with
crow.
no
She
and wrote,
"
tone
and in the
"
into
work
they soon
was
if
she
had
been
"carved
literally
been
fellow-servants,without
upon
of
one
Fuller
looked
course
it that
maliciouslybut truly
white Slaves and a black Companion."
in reality,
a
clumsy Negress,
strapping
about
was
have
says, she could scarcely
seemed
I^abour
Free
of
notion
her protectress. Her
old
and in duo
"
addressed
precisely
was
Warren
Try
papers
indolent, that
intolerably
ebony,"as
CO
"
It
establishment
domestic
ugly as sin,and
colour
She read
was
of
two
consisting
adoptedprotegeewas,
described
as
"
and there
sensibilities,
of the
Morbid.
her
as
at
a
she
in
of less service
to
translate it
seriouslyadded
to
the
completenuisance.
The
house-
BLACK,
dubbed
maid
"
her
AND
WHITE,
the
Divil,"
"
47
BROWN.
cook
roundlycompared her
"
to
"
is certain that
a
disease broke
moral
First,there
half-crown
the
knew
how
"
about
Divil"
of
was
theft.
missing
change next,
there
was
stir with
thimble.
the mayor;
the
affidavit like
others,there was
an
name
"
spoon
tea-
Thingswent,
excepted. The
should^and ought to
Housemaid
volunteer
Its
Cook
course
would^and Diana
of innocence,before
declaratory
the
family
and justly or
violence,
comer.
loose
then
"
the
"
new
some
mantel-piece
pieceof work
considerable
short in
shilling
from
with
out
attributed to the
was
was
anon,
"
instalment
shortlyafter the
but
take
doubt
no
an
Diana
as
body
no-
could^
oath,
did
of her
not
guilt
in the kitchen
Miss
to
very
different conclusion.
She
had
not
article. The
cook
incurred
especially
"
was
mistress,
scarcely
greaterthan
her
believed
senses.
own
said,
with
her
heels.
She
She
feather !
rooted
was
whether
the
to
might
! She
she stood
hardly,she
knocked
have
her down
her head
on
hair,if it had
her own,
would
her head ! There
have stood uprightupon
in
of
doubt
the case.
She saw
of her own
the transfer
a portion
her escritoireinto the
stock,from
she heard
it chink
dumbfounded
a
!
"
sheet,but she
as
it
dropped downwards,
thunderbolted
felt
as
"
she
"
no
bank
protegee
!
petrified
was
'*
been
was
her
pocket of
right-hand
or
"
"
was
had
as
white
justblown
as
in
her face.
Her
talk.
second
her
The
usual
was
First,she described
the
of its
traced
mere
vituperation^but she
enormity of
punishment.
the
and thence to
Blacks
the
It
torrent
of
had
here
that
she
was
to
lecture with
tution
resti-
mixed
interejaculations
fell into
gradually
"
heads.
nature
She
to
was
openingas
with
many
and
to rush
firstimpulsewas
"
she
Next
sisted
she in-
on
enlarged
the
most
was
eloquent.
from
detection to conviction,
justice,
execution,liberally
throwingdissection into the bargain:
course
of human
was
48.
BLACK,
with
descending
then
Dante
BROWN.
ANT
WHITE,
she
regions,
that
paintedits terrors and tortures with all the circumstantial fidelity
certain very Old Masters have displayedon the same
subject.
black
she
And
wretch,"
concluded,
h
avingjust
given
now, you
touch to a portrait
of Satan himself ;
and now, you black
the finishing
wretch, I insist on knowing what I was robbed for. Come, tell me
to hear it ! I insist,
I say, on
what tempted you ! I'm determined
!
knowing what was to be done with the wages of iniquity
in
vain.
The
black
wretch
had
She insisted,
however,
seriously
and
"
"
"
The
the
Judge
with
turns.
the twelve
ear
amused, nay
his black
the Counsel
cap,
by
blubbering
and
their
men
with
and
lecture,grinning
whole
to
inclined her
"
"
wigs,
ciated
asso-
had
rope,
whom
she mistook for an overseer, had raised her
Ordinary,
and excited her fears ; but the spiritualities,
without any
curiosity,
a
nd
had
reference to Obeah,
her,and she
simplymystified
disgusted
in her
in a fit of the sulks. Her mistress,
however,persisted
was
now
f
rom
less
perhaps,
pertinaciously,
expectinga
question
; and not the
and
the
determined to
to hang a fresh lecture. She was
peg whereon
and
of
of insisting,
stolen
dint
the
learn the destination
by
;
money
and, above all,threateningfor instance,with the whole
cajoling,
new
"
Posse Comitatis
"
fuss !
him
Cus
worn
"
carried her
she finally
out
Here's
money
at last by the
What
body 'tealhim
me
'tealhim
for ?
fuss !
point.
"
exclaimed
persecution."Cus
for ?
Why,
l.XVfK
! liUW
What
for sure, to
THK
BLACKS
me
do wid
buy sugar
aHR
the
him
FALUMQ
culprit,
quite
money! here's a
him ?
"
What
any
50
THE
It
will
For
As
by
He
come
\Yith
Where
old
fact, is pervaded
in
betrays they
will
1 in
of
traced
were
the
"
best.
extremely hot-pressed.
the
to
pen
luxuriate
againstev'ry
note
bribe
for
Who
will
the
the
on
sketch
to
care
Fiend
questionto
But
taste
Spirit degraded
for paper
There's
Is
arabesques,
That
In
herb.
brilliantlywinding
goes
cover,
And
and
flowret
alas
Courts
binding,
superb,
embossM
But
As
look,
But,
As
the
or
Bank,
a
sonnet.
appear
Souvenir,
morals
very
it,
upon
blank
first
most
vital
leaf,
public belief.
fill'd by a Lady of Title
It 's the
Will
be
in !
gilded grotesques,
whole
the
write
to
silk is the
through
And
At
did
Serpent
By
The
people
border
town.
book
never
flame-colour
The
for
handsomer
Mortal
Of
to
up
Album
On
renown
common
has
an
grim
a
delightin
take
to
whim
odd
an
Spirit so
But
With
seem
Devil
the
ALBUM.
DEVIL'S
51
SCHOOLMASTER
THE
for
I oNCE^
short time
very
and
",choohnaster,
was
The
thoughtproper,
case
and
this ; my
was
ingeniousand
of
bestowing
young
friend
worthy
months
some
-"
to shoot
Oxford, and an
or
back, to establish,
graduateof
"
"
in the
educating
G
invested with
and
thought,"
the tender
ABROAD.
man,
endeavour
to
in my
immediate
an
academy for young gentlemen,
vicinity.
establish,
he
He had alreadyprocured nine day-pupilsto begin with, whom
the
himself
employment of
taught, prudence as yet prohibiting
he
summoned
when
to
attend
was
a
hastily
dying
ushers,
upon
he had some
relative in Hampshire,from whom
expectations.This
"
"
was
dilemma
appliedto
well
had
no
could
not
bear
my
among
one
the
business.
commencing
forlorn hope, and
his
as
me
known
he
after
soon
so
who
,
classes ; and
his three
himself
to poor
that
friends,
one
to leave
idea
In
forlorn
I have
of
his
in
chargeof
playingtruant
extremity he
enough;
for it is
less
I urged these
accountant.
Greek, and am, on every account, a worse
but
in
he
"friend in need,"
had no
to G
vain, for
objections
within any reasonable distance,
learned or unlearned,
and, as he said
three
in
to comfort
four days merely the boys could not
or
me,
,
"
unlearn
much
of any
At last I gave
way
his
importunity.
Thursday night,
to
On
he
started from
of
tree
a
thing."
knowledgeby
branch
coach
nine
at
the
and
Friday
on
found
morning,
at his
myself sitting
desk
in
the
character
of
I
to say, not
novel
gogue.
peda-
am
sorry
one
of the
boys playedtruant,or
confined at home
was
with
"
There
violent illness.
they
were,
nine littlemischievous
wretches,
goggling,
tittering,pointing,
winking, grimacing,
and
mocking
in
at
a
thority,
auA
way
B
BllANCH
COACH.
52
invoke
*enoughto
desk, with
worn
at
out
the
last,I
of
two
Wood.
Soutligate
To put
stuck my
cane
upright
spectacles,
l
ittle
but
terror;
they inspired
fool's-cap
atop"
ABROAD.
SCHOOLMASTER
THE
put
on
seized the
my
cane,
and
rushingfrom
my
dais,well
"
the
prudence
of fond
scuffled with
a
salutaryeffect;the
had
mothers, she
kicked
foughtand
had
of
informed
moral
the
suspect,with
urchins
made
or
settled,
have
ever,
how-
believe
to
to their tasks
settle,
but
soon
"
"
prizeof industry.
and
him
alreadyselected
I had
resolved to devote my
hand the paper, with
him
inwardlyfor a favourite,
I saw
when
instruction,
from whom
it
to his neighbour,
sly glance,
and
desk, accompanied by a running titter,
a
passedrapidlydown the
the supposedcopy was, indeed, a
sidelonglooks, that convinced me
but
of
or
respect,"
Age commands
Obey your superiors,"
copy not
of the head of the college,
and,as a glimpseshowed, a head with very
with my
last execution,
ludicrous features.
Being somewhat fatigued
to sleep,and inflicted the fools'-cap
of justice
I suffered the cane
the fool's for no clown in pantomime, the greatGrimaldi not
literally
of the costume.
use
laughter-stirring
excepted,could have made a more
shouted outright,
who
The littleenormities,
only tittered before,now
wand
bamboo
of
could
and nothingbut the enchanted
flapthem into
"
"
"
"
solemnity.
Order
resolved
"stand
some
to
for they
restored,
was
how
perplexity,
by
my
to
order;"
and
saw
while
begin business,the
I was,
I was
two
like Earl
Grey,
in
deliberating
came
biggestboys
as
they could in a circle,
standingas much
first Greek
class.
read
the
as
presentedthemselves,and began to
he will; but in
of his prophets as much
boast
as
Mr. Irvingmay
I had far more
of our
reason
to the numbers
congregations,
proportion
of
in
unknown
of
to be proud
course,
tongue. I,
gabblers an
my
in the performance,and after a due course
discovered no lapsuslingui
with a brace of bows and
the first class dismissed itself,
of gibberish,
evident degreeof self-satisfactionat beingso perfectin the present,
an
this first act of our solemn
after beingso imperfectin the past. I own
t
he
rather nervous
farce made
me
against next, which proved to be the
forward
and
voluntarily,
SCHOOLMASTER
THE
class,and
Latin
much
Latin
I have
comedy
with
those
as
second
got throughthe
We
doubt
no
to
an
adept would
dish of
Syntax, where I
detect flaws,and
as
school.
I found
--^
_^
was
seemed
performed
quitecorrect, as before,and
that
satisfaction,
some
the third
have
Westminster
the
at
course
53
ABROAD.
English
able to
was
the
heaps of
errors
thoroughlysensible of the
in the Greek
ignorance
and Latin. A g^eral lesson
in Englishreading ensued,
we
through which
glided
smoothlyenough,tillwe came
me
bliss of
to
sand-bank
in the
shape of
Latin
which I was
quotation,
to English. It was
requested
nemo
somethinglike this :
mortalius omnibus
horasapit,"
a
"
"
which
knows
"
rendered,
at what
starts"
mortal
no
hour the
with
and
"
translation the
whole
this
school
satisfied
perfectly
was
nibus
om-
Nine
more
SECOND
bows.
My horror now
approached: I
and begin to cuff out the
slates,
the
saw
little wretches
old sums, a
I knew
sightthat
I gave
inexperience,
Unluckily,from
work, and
would
the consequence
was,
each
practical
knowledge of
my
merits.
and
it
Bonny-castle,
my
I had
no
but,
resource
COURSE,
them
very well
would
But
lout of
Lavater
betrayed me.
wish
me
that when
the
different result
"
nor
judge of their
go by Physiognomy,
mathematical-looking
Practice allow
me
Lavater-like,to
boy.
made
not
all the
broughtup
their
lug out
to
White, a chowder-headed
lead,and as mulishlyobstinate
Master
as
lad, as dull as a pig of
that his answer
was
correct, and at last
Muley Abdallah,persisted
of
Tutor's
to
the
Key, that he had kept
appealed
superiorauthority a
and
this instant my importancedeclined,
From
by stealth in his desk.
what
with
the urchins evidently
some
justice,
right
began to question,
I had to rule nine,who was
of Three'.
not competent to the Rule
By
of a diversion,
I invited my
pupilsto a walk ; but I wish G
way
had been
the
more
boys pleadedsick
throughmy
most
walked
arithmetical
unfortunate
windows
head-aches
of
more
route
their
like
to remain
under
failure,
I
could
parents,
bears
who
than
have
very
Two
oi
behind
chosen,
"
in
; and
fact,past
the
complained afterwards,that
boys, and that if Mr. G
very
they
had
54
THE
drawn
lots for
at
one
he could not
raffle,
been
his
new
in
avoid observation,
which
I did not
them
meadow,
Lost,
court, I
aside
and
volume
usher.
To
led
ABROAD.
have
unfortunate
more
SCHOOLMASTER
into
out
pulling
Paradise
of
left the
boys
themselves
to
they
pleased. They pleased,
to get up a
accordingly,
amuse
as
littleboxingmatch, a-laCrib
and
between
and
Master
the
which
that
from
informed
was
a
final
as
shout
of blood
or treacled,
trickled,
child of colour.
I
White
stream
"
littleCreole,of
only by
and
Molineux
of the
DRAWING
Luckily,
thought,he
was
near
and in return
consolation,
home,
whither
LOTS.
Mrs.
of
practice
Ferdinand
Col.
informs
Christopher
Mr.
's
in
washing and
for
of
course
black footman,
hour, while still in the field,
a
with
note
yellow,broughtme the following
up
**
him
I sent
quarter
powder
of
an
turned
blue
"
Usher, that
as
the
vulgar
pugilismis allowed
at Spring Grove
Academ}', Master Adolphus
educated
in
be
futnre
will
she
at home
Christopher
as
; particularly
understands Master C. was
the
in
in
that
comes
a
punished
morning,
only beway
blacks and slaves." To the new
's."
Usher at Mr. G
Irritated at
Master
White,
this event
but
himself and
Master
away
"
thus concerted
arms.
an
playingwith
opportunityfor
Here
was
another
dischargefrom
the
and
for the
when
accordingly,
mothers
they went
to
home
some
gunpowder
better
and
hibited
pro-
the
school,for no
without
eyebrows,
night,the
where
other school,
fathers and
no
powder
SCHOOLMASTER
THE
was
allowed,exceptupon
the
head
of the
to
master.
hurt
much
too
was
65
ABROAD.
after
schooling
resume
the
boys'bad behaviour,
and
so
a halfgave them
holiday; and never, oh
did
never
the
estimate
so
of sleep,
as
blessing
that
nightwhen
on
I closed
all
eyelids on
my
pupils! But, alas ! sleep
my
I
brought its sorrows
:
flourishing
saw
boys fighting,
"
and
slates,
squibsand
in
ishing
brand-
crackers
Adsions
my
all,
tlirough
"
and
such
is tiie
of dreams,
transparency
"
I beheld
of
the stem
shadow
terable
lookingunut-
EVENTS
COMING
CAST
THEIR
SHADOWS
BKFOKE.
reproaches.
The
morning,with
next
pleasure;
I remembered
of
painfulrecollections,
brought one of
and in a fit of
the King'sBirthday,
was
!
alas
reduced
the whole school,
by one half,
end
the
the
of
and
week,
Sunday,
got over
many
that it
rest,was
spent by
urchins at their
the
homes.
own
It may
but I
sinful to wish for the death of a fellow-creature,
seem
could not helpthinkingof G
's relative alongwith what
is called
a
happy
release
and
he
kind,
just after
reallywas
so
to break
as
express from G
up
,
G
consequently would return in
time
duties
infinite
the
on
good bad
part
news
of the
With
Monday morning.
from
Mrs.
who
to
as
learned
we
his
by
arrival,and
an
that
his scholastic
resume
pleasure I
heard
this
never
house, and
was
all
consequently
in the
unconscious
tion
reduc-
of the
for
forged an excuse
Spring Grove
that I
resignedI kissed the rod
immediately
leavingoff school ;
overwhelmed
and as I departed,no master but my
was
resigned,
own,
of
I
by a torrent of grateftil
acknowledgments the service had done the
could never
have got on
school,which, as Mrs. G
protested,
Establishment.
"
"
without
How
me.
he behaved
it
got on
I left Gat
the
to
and
discover,
loss of his
"
little ones
told
am
"
"
but
adapted to
teach.
"
to
live and
learn,"I
should
never
be
able to
live and
56
HEIR.
LOST
THE
Oh
?"
Is my
One
day,as
Song,
Old
"
goingby
was
High,
Where
I
blood ;
chill'dmy very
lo ! from out a
That
saw
Bedaub'd
dirtyalley,
to rally,
sally,
Irish wont
pigsand
woman
crazy
with
She tum'd
streaminghair
one
This way
that she
and
with
Jostling
righthand
The
left a
wildlyran.
man
"
fryingpan,
of beef.
frenzyseem'd to reach
pointjustcapableof speech.
And
As
held
lump
heavingbreast
grief.
and with
woman
Her
At
and
with
stark mad
last her
with
wild
as
Or female
LOST
"
screech.
birds.
ocean
Ranter
almost
tone
mov'd
sorrow
CHILD
to
preach,
words."
ITS
OWN
CRYEH.
58
THE
of
Go
home
em
come
HEia.
rabble
of
every
bone
near.
the porter
you'respilling
alonghome vv^ithyour beer.
sorrowfuUest
day
home
go
"
"
day is the
This
of my
"
ever
life,
Tommy
since my
Jonea, gc
name
was
Betty Morgan,
Savoyards! they lost him once before all along of following
a
Monkey and an Organ :
if he's got kiddynapp'd
Billy my head will turn rightround
vile
Them
on, such
move
goodpeople,
Do,
LOST
my
"
with them
make
They'll
him
Italians,
plaster
parishimageboy,they will,the
outlandish
tatterdemalions.
I'm as hoarse as a crow, with screaming
are
you, Billy?
for ye, you young sorrow
!
I shan't,
for crying
fresh herrings
shan't have half a voice,
no
more
where
Biily
"
And
"
to-morrow.
heart in
Billy,
you'rebursting
my
to
other folks
see
in
And
our
and
darlins,
life w^on't be of
no
of
none
like angeJrf
mine, playing
alley.
shall I do but
what
my
vally.
more
If I'm
two, and
cry
out
my
eyes, when
I looks
at
the old
chair
three-legged
As
Billyused to make
1 would
run
all the
where
Little
Murphy,
to run.
I remember,
now
a penny
tealing
was
once
bun,
"
I10M"TBK
OK
JNIQUITY.
lost for
month
through
THE
The
forbid of any
Lord
LOST
child
5"
HEIR.
mine
of
! I
think
it would
kill
me
raily,
find my
To
For
And
find
not
if I called him
set
never
more
beauty,it'sno
lie,but only
as
Mother
ought
speak ;
to
You
and
brought up,
end
one
And
better
one
handsomer
a
more
eyes on
for a week
;
been
washed
As
for
hair,tho'
show
I'llowe
'em
its
it the comb
five
blue
And
his
sound
eyes, and
besides,as
blessing
call'd
to be
not
certainly
got ;
is stilla good
little cast
his
he's
falling
And
And
then he has
elegantwide
most
Drury
Lane
got
in
mouth
the
world,
child to
and
large
very
play Cupid
the
on
Stage.
such
sliallsee
him
think
of
to
just
to
only bringhim
bridge is broke,by
tho' the
un,
got the
dear!
will
squint,though
He's
I've time
home.
nose
on
most
pounds, and
safe and
He's
red,its the
winning
dear
"
but
never
never
more
no
ways
losinghim
just
after
back
nussinghim
from
death's door !
Only
the
And
the Cholera
no
use
seize of
send
to
drunken
The
last time
he
the
twenty
all
us
in
plums,
and
drat
him,
and,
"
to cry
him
about,he's
such
blunderin'
dog ;
fetched to find
was
spent
hog.
our
Cryer
old
whitewash'd
and
came
man
made
It's
at
penny
And
windfalls,
hang 'em, was
the
when
lost
child,he
was
guzzlingwith
went
Billy
"
and
cried
and
Father
where
are
Crown,
boy instead
I'm
scared when
over
Or may
in
And
be
I think
their
be he's stole
narrow
say ?
Billy,I
best of Mothers
own
by
girl,for
distracted
Mother
Town.
about
you,
of
come
Billy,come
home,
to
your
!
of them
Cabroleys,they
Sisters and
some
flues and
drive so,
they'd run
Brothers.
stick fast
not.
60
SKETCHES
Oh
Vd
For
he's my
THE
0^
world
and if
darlins,
see
me
drop stone dead on
Vd
wish
only
got him safe in these
I
Lauk
ROAD.
! I
hug
and
him
knew
never
kiss him
what
don't
he
the
clap my
to
back, you'll
come
soon
place.
Motherly
two
and
arras
wouldn't
precioushe
mine,
was
was
but
"
child don't
not
feel hke
Why
there he
that
But
let
Billyas
get him
me
sartin
home,
if he shall have
sin 1
as
with
good gripof
POTTED
hair, and
I'm
THE
ROAD.
OBSERVER.
over
"
his left
observations
"
"
bleat
SHRIMPS.
ON
THE
his
in his skin !
bone
whole
SKETCHES
wretch, it's
young
throughlife."
Bat
an
"
^so
"
called for
years,
"
at
calculated
an
average
feet and
shortness,
though in
of
as
any
had
many
thing but
brandished
miles
what
the
inches he
Othello
whip
; the
was
rather
denominates
for
full
product
day
in a respectable
sum
of
thirty
which,
to Cocker, appears
total of
according
six figures
deep.
Now
three hundred
an
experiencepickedup in a progress of some
I leaned with
thousand
miles is not to be slighted
best ear
; so
my
in
coachman's
order
to
the
catch
over
shoulder,
every syllable.
SKETCHES
ON
61
ROAD.
THE
"
set
the
on
"
"
"
"
"
"
There's
no
remark
I've made
such
Newfoundland
"
As
for
littleof my
to mind
And
thingin nature.
life
tlirough
dog."
"
yet
never
see
another remarkable
Jew
disappointment,
own
undertake
I will not
"
I'lltell you
I have
upon
call such
with
met
never
with
him
retort
though I cannot
to say
Pedlar
sight
such
an
association."
"
If you
and
with
and
we've
of
none
the wheeler ;
it. There's
seen
cut
on
us
it's my
their fellows.
and
throughlife,
belongto
hundred
somewhat
sharply,
association too,
members, and I've
an
remark.
But
that's this
"
I've
never
people
some
the
other
observed
course
was
dailyvisitant
And
"
said
whole
a
'em, for
Bat,
driving longstage."
man
Never, Bat,"
"
of
said
"
of my
to conciliate him,
I, desiring
for many
; and
stage practice
years
never
of my
in the
life I
to Richmond."
else has
That's a correct
it,"said Bat.
in his life,
drove a team
remark, anyhow. As for Richmond, he never
for I asked him the questionmyself,just after his fight
with Shelton
no
one
ever
"
seen
*'
THE
"
as
the Leviathan
HOPE
I beheld
whole
in he
the
frame
of
CONTRAST.
is
half aloud,
outward-bound," I ejaculated,
Kit-Kat
portionof the Man-Mountain
occupyingthe
the coach- window.
But Hope deceived as usual ; and
came.
"
Gratiano,
"
The
Daniel !
second
Brobdignaggianhad
Daniel
!"
62
SKETCHES
hand
"
held
the coach
up
window.
said
luggage,"
It's my
with
Giant,
of
penny-trumpet
small
pipe,and
takingpossessionof
goldenpippin of
"
ROAD.
fancies, when
suddenly
somethingat
the
TITE
amusingmyself with
was
ON
mere
hundle.
large trunks
the biggest
are
carpet-bag
said the Dwarf,
property,"
The
and
mt/
with
three
voice
unexpectedly
as
stentorian.
"Warm
the
day.Sir,"
squeaked
Giant, by
of small
way
talk.
"
Prodigious
preponderance
of caloric in the
thundered
of
atmosphere,'
Dwarf, by way '
the
big talk.
"
Have
lookingin
"
My
"
I have
is
Mine
is
GRE.\T
CONTRACTOR.
at the door.
paid half
name
THE
of
mine,'
Lightfoot."
Heavy side,"said
said the
the
and
"
Stupendous,
disbursed
I have
and
Pigmy,
it's booked.
the
total."
sum
The
door
and
clatter,
hundred
slammed
bowled
away
yards,when
stones, followed
than
the
"
by
the New
it gave
a
very
vent
to
in
cracked
whip
an
but
Safety;
alarmingbound
The
had
Gog
street, and
the
Great
GoHah
Dwarf, in a
the Giant said,
comer,
with
wary
The
The
of the
wonder
The
St. Paul's."
David
"
Gog
The
several
louder
Dear
myself;
so,
me
"
feigning
to their conversation.
ear
was
Hurlothmmbo
Tom
Thumb
extent
"
was
"
must
for the
twelve
of view
amazed
The
by
same
Manikin
grandeurof
the
St. Peter's at
of
spoke slightingly
best."
say he liked the Minors
Majors. The Man-Mountain's
inches.
from
the
top of
disappointedby the prospect from
vast
"
I to
paving
tone
"
two
"
Plinlimmon."
Foote
loose
morning to the Exhibition of Fleas,in Regentthought them "prodigious!" The Runtlinghad visited
Whale
at Charing-Cross,
and
thought little of it." The
spoke with
declared
barelyrolled
some
been that
the Monument."
Rome.
had
over
criticalswing. The
oath ;
a prodigious
ever, gave
There
will somethingcome
of this,said
made
horse-shoes
sixteen
"
mathematical
The
"
favourite
Miss
preferred
tion.
propor-
Wee
Cuhitt
Thing
was
"
Miss
eighteen.
chair at the
C3
DAY.
JOHN
The
Folio took
The
Duodecimo
The
The
required
"
to himself."
room
"
called for
Monster
The
ordinary
"
"
The
of port was
magnum
short pint of
We
decanted
sherrywas
roll.
"
The
bellowingby himself,
"
hummed
The
Sea ! the
Sea ! the
Streamlet."
Tiny, we
we
The
The
passedthe bar in
Pigmy
Giant
our
bussed the
in her
"
"
but
I remember
distinctly,
outwards,that while
passage
landlady
daughter
kissed her
sieve
and forty"
widow, fat,fair,
and
ten years old,
ably
remark-
buxom
child
HALT
OF
GREAT
THE
DESERT
JOHN
A
Day
PATHETIC
after the
John
THE
CARAVAV.
DAY.
BALLAD.
Fair."
Old
"
againstthe
shafts of love.
avail ?
Day
he was the biggest
man
Of all the coachman-kind.
With
back too broad to be conceiv'd
mind.
By any narrow
Alas
The
he lov*a
The bar-maid of the Crown
he never
From whom
ranged,
For tho* he changed his horses there,
Hi" love he never
chang";d.
Provkh!}.
What
Soon
His
armour
can
Cupid sent
an
scarlet coat
arrow
through
of mail.
64
JOHN
DAY.
He
So
And
Deemed
One
day
Beside
He
came,
And
no
as
she
Oh
an
offer
As littleas you
fat,
plump.
love
learn
throughthick
Mary, view
And
"
pine
To
down
sitting
was
him
maoe
the porter-pump
and knelt with all his
made
my
and
wasted
thin.
back,
calf;
my dwindled
Tho' I have never
had a wife,
I've lost my better half.
see
her^
can.
Worn
To
break
The
was
For
himself to death.
cruel maid
out
lookingin
The
Some
"
ghostobjectsto
THE
BOX
vow
so
drank
Found
And
His
being'slink
reduced in size
he
At nothing
could shrink.
For he
He
He
his
SEAT
walk.
66
THE
PARISH
REVOLUTION.
armed
I look around
those to whom
I venerate
tioned of the
surround
which
To
Beingon
even
that I think
whilst
but
hope ;
the
I feel
scenes,
give you
to
me
say
confines of
the
beyond
is for
me.
be said
may
that the abuse of
state
an
Charles, an
it
impossible
how
of
part
Magistracy. This
dear
spot,my
but
be
be felt to
must
power
of
the sway
I cannot
intrusted,
to be
admit
I cannot
that
there is
shut
my
eyes to
stronggroundfor apprehendingthe worst,
if
with
that
firm
be
tempered
conviction,
concession,
measures,
resorted to, it is far from
that
being out of the pale of probability
In
re-established.
this
be
h
ever,
owconclusion,
hazarding
serenitymay
consider
the
at
all
must
not
me
as
responsibilities
forgetting
you
formed
Charles
! you who
which
attach to a decidedly
opinion. Oh,
the
in the
are
which
the
form
which
you
rather
from
are
you would
any of the
for
wish
elements
conflicting
village.I
thought at
details;but
of the
littledream
me,
omit
than
can
of this devoted
storm
all these
with
wearied
you
quietof London,
to
me
fear you
this
distance,at
the risk of
run
wearying
circumstances.
interesting
beats for the
I know
Let Edward
Parish,will bleed
I am,
us.
"c.
H.
P.S.
has
Nothing further
againto-morrow.
me
"
yet occurred,but
Another
of disunion have
Symptoms
the
mobile
primum
that
or
all tavern
should
shall hear
from
between
past prevailed
time
some
of the
part
in
firstmobbing,originated
doors
shut
inhabitants.
order
The
of the
Mayor's,
Many complied,and
openly resisted the order
an
eleven.
at
Rampant Lion
A more
and more
tation
recent
notice has produced a new
dangerousirritoo combustible
on
our
population. A proclamationagainst
Fauxes
Fireworks
and
understood
to be in preparation,
was
Guy
of the chief Magistrate.If his Worship had listened to
by command
the earnest and prudential
advice of the rest of the bench,the obnoxious
placard would not have been issued till the 6th, but he had it
has plunged Stoke
posted up on the 4th, and by his precipitation
shut, but
Pogisinto
the
door
for
you
J. P.
account.
Pogis,and
authorities of Stoke
will be
of
the
can
alleviate.
From
We
are
took
state
another qtmrter.
greatestalarm
of
generalrising
since.
popularmovement.
goinghis rounds,and
Everybody
cries
Seditious
some
on
"
repeating
have
is in
God
are
save
continued
bustle
and
the inhabitants
in
turbed
dis-
indicating
King
is
!" is saluted
THE
67
REVOLUTION.
PARISH
with
"
These
"c.
remember,"
that remind
features
are
strangersof
privately
engaged a
hand-bills amongst the crowd
distributing
Several
times.
night,and
here last
and
persons
embarrassed
and
irresolute,
and
of the
cause
overseer
been
horrible tragedy
flightby the
by
besieged
overseer,
He
seems
own
parish.
is
their
evasive
returns
The
answers.
worst
bins,
exceed the
can
desperatedrunken
constables
transpired.The pass-cart
and are
tradesman,for a day'spleasure,
Nothing
all pouringtowards
they are
Intelligence.
hesitation has
lent to
returned.
The
busily
now
taken
families have
being passed to
of
Fresh
not
they are
surelysome
;
entertaining.
are
The
barn
Stewart, the
office of Mr.
the
desirous
fears
flammable
in-
arrived
suspiciousgentility
later account.
Several
increases.
alarm
waggon,
of the most
!
preparation
is in
The
us
the
of the paupers
indignation
headed by Timothy Gubpoor-house,
character,but
the
are
notice is said to be
The
"
lowing
fol-
Stick No
Bills."
Eleven o'clock.
The
mob
"
whole
and
that he will
as
come
soon
as
he has put
his
on
uniform.
crowd
had
the
see
fightat
just run
down
the
There
the Green
High street,
immense
an
Dragon.
in the Market-Place.
of the leadingshopkeepershave
Some
conference with the Mayor, and the people are
formed
now
beinginby a placardof the result. Gracious heaven ! how opposite
is it to
He
terrificcolumn
it is said to
hopes
is at the Roes
of all moderate
and Crown
But
"
""'
men
"
The
Mare
is
is Hobstinate
Twelve
Tlie
arrived,and
"
refuses to treat."
clock.
has
military
Stokian
squibs!
Pogians be
firm!
is
stick
up
for bonfires!
stand
to
your
"
side of
"Wigsby,the
Liberty,and
to return
Master
in fifteenminutes
Free
of the
has obtained
for his
an
School,has
audience
of the
Worship'sdecision.
r2
declared
Mayor.
on
He
the
is
THE
PARISH
REVOLUTION.
Twehe.
Half past
During the interval,the
and
When
is awful
They
was
truncheon
The
on
tion
exaspera-
people.
#
justobtained
constables have
and
chargealtogether,
the
pointed to
their worsest."
mob
"
the
refuses to fire on
The
may
of the
he
do
specialconstables,
excitement
the most
"
for ever!
Gubbins
"
answered,
table,and
in two
sworn
the
nothing.
him by Mr. Wigsby,
representedto
gun
Mayor
concede
will
has
almost
been
have
slightadvantage,
they made
On
upset a Guy.
the left-hand
side of
beadle
they
Huggins
of an
attempted to take possession
important street post, but was
with
cracker.
At
Mr. Blogg
the same
a
moment
repulsedby a boy
the churchwarden, was
defeated in a desperateattempt to force a
way
passage
up
the
court.
One
The
military
always dines
Puncheon.
is
There
at one,
and
o'clock.
constable
Pig and
is taken
with
watchman
flying
all
on
points,and
constable.
that
Gubbins
in
Dobbs
That
the whole
have
been
the
same
has
us
that the
been
o'clock.
rious
victo-
policeare
confirmed
by
ing
retreat-
states
is full
"
the
and
He
the Pound
just informed
has
in
stocks,
the
mob
cage.
would
routed,but for
corpulentman, who
very
rallied them
on
running
away.
Half-pastThree.
The
the
been
The
check
mob,
a
sustained
proves
to
by
have
stables
reverse, the conthe
suff^erers.
are
cage
is
faggots, we
pound, and
chopped
to
hav'nt
the stocks
are
Mr. Wigsrapidly
falling.
by
has gone again to the
Mayor with
overtures
,
the
people demand
the
release of Dobbs
and Gubbins,
and the demolition of
the stocks,
the pound, and the
GOOD
ENTERTAINMENT
FOR
MAN
AND
HORSE.
and
alreadydestroyed,
PARISH
THE
Gubblns
moderate
and
Dobbs
men,
that his
large,it
at
are
09
REVOLUTION.
is
confideutlyhoped by
"Worshipwill accede
all
to the terms.
Four
o'clock.
affirmed
the terms.
It is confidently
that
rejected
ordered
has
he
a
nd
off
set
after this decision,
a
post-chaise,
secretly
with a pairof post horses as fast as they can't gallop. A meetingof
has taken place,and
tradesmen
the butcher, the baker,
the principal
and the publican,have agreedto comthe grocer, the cheesemonger,
pose
has
Mayor
The
Provisional
in their
In the
Government.
and
and devils,in all directions,
We
documents,
subjointwo
the Provisional
narrative of
the mob
loud
are
crackers, and
rockets,
completelyrestored.
the articlesdrawn up by
containing
Wigsby ; the other,the genuine
one
Mr.
spectator.
Dear
The
"
quietis
and
Government
time
mean
squibs and
lettingoff
Charles,
of the last few
events
hours,since I closed
my
minute
narration,
pregnant with
are
giveyou
an
my
but
sunk
into
in which
Agitator so
an
"
do
much
reasoningfaculties
our
take
we
steeped.
are
press of circumstances
the Atlantic of
Pacific is gleamingover
Charles
to send
pretty well
you
and
at
once
Show
"
that
see
they are
indeed
He
will,with
am
Copy of
only wait
descend
on
J. P.
H.
P.S.
yes,
of the
and
dye
"
dawn
are
agreed upon,
That peace may
I close my letter in haste.
of Stoke Pogis,is the earnest prayer of,"c.
to be ratified.
the
from
disturbances
our
Adams,
of Constable
colour
to say, that
stop the
"
the
his benevolence,
Pogis.
CONDITIONS.
1. That
thirds,and Novembers
2. That
their
allowed,but
shall be
held
and
inviolable,
their
burnt
by
tho
hangman.
4. That
5. That
every
the
in
Hengler,
no
be allowed
Pogisshall
their fifths.
property of Guys
the
persons respected.
be
3. That no arson
common
in Stoke
6. That
the
7- That
the
nonsense.
rocket
freedom
shall be allowed
of
Stoke
an
hour
Pogis be
to leave the
place
presented to
Madame
cartridge-box.
militaryshall not
parishbeadle,for
to stand
70
Majesty'smail
hia
8. That
REVOLUTION.
FARISU
THE
to
pennitted
be
pass
question.
raked
never
AN
The
Back-winder
"Wat is before
seed every
Pears to Mrs.
High
Constable
Think
proceedout
Humphris.
Tim
at my
is Throne
into a
Dram,
hole Parrish
reeched Stock
has
Revelations
The
me.
expense.
i WiGSBY.
who
Fore
Littel did I
Humphris !
Mrs.
up
ANTI-CLIMAX.
of a
nightin
up.
Wagstaff,
{Signed)
"
t"
the Farish
oblivion,at
the
on
Poggis
"
and
the
of
Life, to
see
pannikin ! The
people is riz aginthe
Kings rain,and all the Pours that be. All this Blessed Mourning Mrs.
at the tiptopof the Hows
abscondingly
Griggsand Me as bean siting
lockd
We
have
lowness.
selves in the back Attical
for
too
our
crying
Rome, and nothingcan come
Hanksiety. Some say it is
up to our
Plot
Frentch
like the
the Dutch
arter
sum
thing moor
say sum
"
Patten
Well, I
Our
the
is on
never
and
car-pit,
"Winder
overlooks
There
"
Tlio Mare
Hows.
winders.
"
his shews
Poor
!
Man
is
so
Brown
all the
Behind.
is a lowd
if
shall Be
we
hoUand
brum
gals!
What
prospectus!
round
speechifying
"
the
All
Gabble
Mister
riotism
end
his
own
wood
and
of the
long
Sit in
THE
I hobservc
and
Tuder*
Mr.
has
and
his
They
men
Custardise
There
Noboddy.
boddis
bers
Gyes,
or
Shuters,with
Trowsirs.
It makes
Hone
nevvies.
With
sich Broils
into.
Wile
and
Mrs.
Griggs is
think, Mrs.
H.
and
as
Reed
explodedSquibsgone
tremble
Me
like Axle
trees,for
our
Winder
the open
what
nose
one
off in his
they slipedout.
Scraps they may git
state
of
as
Singularity
Loan
to
and
Convexity,the
our
We
shold here
Botcher
meself.
such
Onely
Heifer-
of the
has
state
Bean.
not
Nothing if Mister
of
Higgins
wicked
Riot
Ax, and
Clark
Schollard !
is
no
Isn't that
Herring!
0
It
of
Nayon
reffiised to
as
Town
bad
vated
Capti-
unsensible
up Fore
he
news
That
the
the
Sam
! to had
Storys. Wliat
Wigsby
Three
on
Wiming looken Down
Babe
the
unbiggotted
Hignorantas
handn't hollowed
brakes !
accidence.
Cheers,but weather
GoUop too, is jest gon By
Street who
the
the Backer
as
moor
in
of two
Husbandry
No
to
yet hav
as
Three
at
ware
He
loyalnesswith.
them
Suppurate.
make
mobb
our
G. and
we
in the
Mobb,
the
J.
Mister
vescence,
end
Bunch
Mrs.
his
to
RingledersBut
over
of his Ants
shew
Heds
the
no
in
his rummatiz
Constable, considdering
the way
on
Master
is dubbious.
Carrion
are
is
hactiv
uncommon
mobbs
stavingthe
tryingto
are
Hed
disaffected to
Harm
air
71
REVOLUTION,
bauld
Waggstaff the
is Mister
so
PARISH
Mrs.
Hurophris !
is unpossibleto throe
hies
ones
from
of Stock
other,
End
one
Poggis
the
to
without
grate
Pane.
is seed
Nothing
asking for
Huzbinds
nothing is
but
Wivs
"
Farthers.
Hatband
tacker
and
as
the
bean squibed
jist
for
obligated
to inter his
and
says
Servis.
Concussion
a
Pore
now
on
Mr.
Higginsblames
nose
wood
!
hav
For
Part
my
NEWS.
litteltimelyConcussion
Haven
Hearth
THE
BREAKING
safeness
Hows.
own
of the Mare
by
Mr.
Under-
wood
I
ventive
have been of Pre-
dont
believe
preventedthe Regolaterbein
all the
scarified
unshatter
that it could
or
agin the Rockit
witch is
rix of Haze
Welshis
Wider
Gollop,or squentch
The inginsas been,
Flamming and smocking in two volumes.
Squib
and
runnin
"
Master
Play
for want
of
Pips witch
is too
often
the
Case
with
T2
affares
inginuity. Wile
Parrish
Haven
I have
Twelve
to
tired in the
his
was
Griggshas
Mr.
Pore
J. is
Being
He
over.
bean
as
been
as
to here
Shopmun
goinghe dont
Cotchd
can
They
over.
nothing
say
the
save
All
him
cover
Fire
aggeration.
grate ex-
of his
garden
hav
he
sent
the
out
Manny
so
Def
Crackers
has
Fishmongerers
compleatlyGuttid.
hopped
bastic
bom-
We
he says their is
the
to Belive, but
-but it is
of
Severil Shells of
and
report
is lickwise in Hashes,
Dore
to
witch
no
with
and
he
wat
legsfrom
StandingArmy,
his hone saving
state
Bone
Yard
nater
his
on
says
in
cum
a
says the Boys hav maid
it
out.
Pales
cant
Pales upon
pat
and
Posturs,thank
retrenchments.
He
fence
back
cum
with
extrearas
all
Uniformity spatterdashed
and
this friteful
in
are
Mr.
gratecomfit.
one
won
RETOLUTION.
PARISH
THE
The
has
Brazers
next
enuf
assurance
"
can
Dwellins
journing.
ad-
O Mrs. H. how
greatful
ought J
bee that
and
hone
our
Premiss
propperty is
and
The
nothing!
the lit on
The
Magnum
to
of
Turrit of St.
Bonum
clear and
is
it is
quit
tell
can
you
Time
Clock
next
effex
Bildingsis mar-
vulous.
wat
I to
by
the
planelyonly
verry
!
it stands
The
Drive
Too
is
noise
is
won
deleterious !
enuf
to
Conestabbles
Specious
pcrsewing littel Tid-
mash
and
down
Sho
the Hi
Street
grate fermness,
but I trembel
Pepledropsin
THE
with
New
News
every Momentum.
Criar is missin. Mrs.
Griggsis
is throwd ofi' a spirituous
Cob
hope it wants
Blasted
and
by
may
cobbobboration.
sum
supose
blowd
how
Gun
these
EAOLE
ASSURANCE.
Sum
among
the
Another
Powder.
Catherend
Yuth
You
flying
rummers
But* I
Weals.
H.
Upsetts a
are
Patrimonial,
Sperrits.
Mothers
living
Govinmcnt
May
in I
in
such
Sequestrated
spots
as
Lonnon
and
you
his hies
ragging
Dispotic
Padington.
riting
never
bean
a
Minuet"
74
Come
"
*'
FURLOUGH.
THE
down
Come
wid
down
to
now
"
your
"
clenched
*'
Thady,
down
"
The
ye !"
wid
and
down
come
reply of
soldier
the
stiffer posture
the
last ; and
on
was
answer
with
along
impatient
come
promptly
body of the
more
!" and
and
"
the
"
the coach.
than
peremptory
short
a
woman
giv ye.
took
set teeth he
and
hands
old
it's
Come
the
was
the
was
Sure
mother.
ould
and
^the speaker
Thady,^'
ye,
and
the
"
*"
countenance.
the
that
had
There
was
upward,
look
resolution
same
visible effect
"
entreaties burst
the renewed
it
conveyed
before.
as
self
and, as if to defend himin front,while
steadfastly
bright,Kathleen !
glance,he fixed his look
another
from
soldier's
of the
muscles
tenderness
more
"
the
on
in chorus, with
all three
from
the
same
answer.
Come
"
Thady,
down
come
Kathleen
own
"
It's
!
"
Honour
brother !
honour,
"
bright,my
!"
"Althoughthe
fellow
poor
was
go down
It appeared that he had
hesitate to
the distress.
his
down!
fool,come
ye
!"
to me
"
Thady,
"
been home,
having exceeded
and
he
Furlough,to
on
visit
of his leave,
as
family,
the
his
and
to
to
was
penalty of his
going rejoin regiment,
undergo
neglect. I asked him when the Furlough expired.
"
he
Tlie first of
"
days in the
"
The
first of
The
and
soldier
sartin of that
ould
yerc
afther
February
my
will
like
good fellow,you
have
same
"
base
the
all
Mother
of
cratur
family of
to cut
"
by
May
ye
"
the
book,
Divil
to
be
You're
wid
fly away
deceaven
us
one,
caper
the
on
His
the
roof of
the
coach, and
to throw
second, was
third,was to wring my
acknowledgment.
"
happy
your
"
"
It's a
to
It is
"
Oh, Mother,
"
"
has
"
day
"
was
Almanack
off in
shot
on
black
all the
me
not
throw
hand
it of
to
twenty-ninedays."
thunder-struck.
Twenty-nine days is it ?
livingso long in
His
why,
"
"
Leap Year,
March
luck
sudden
"
then,
spare
bad
"
man
Honour's
live
am,
manes.
long hundred
your
Honour,
Long
"
"
and
for my
life to your
word's
Honour
lapc-years
every
one
saved, and
for the
of them
same
"
To
SINGLE
BLES8EDNKS8.
NUMBER
VERSIFIED
THE
FROM
To
"
ONE.
PROSE
"
"
"
It's
And
very hard
not
to
they come
Number
One
Exactlyto
so
near
LADY.
plentyin
plentypassingby,
And
the street,
"
There's nice
voung
Number
at
men
Ten,
But
And
Mrs.
Has
got
Smith
the way
across
son.
grown-up
to know
But
la ! he hardlyseems
One
There is a Number
There's Mr.
at
Nine
Number
on
pelf,
though he's piouswill
neighbouras himself.
And
His
At
Wick
he's intent
But
not
love
"
Seven
Number
goods had
The
And
YOUNG
"
OF
Fve
here
there
quite
got my
at Number
On
hand
My
mother
was
sale"
run
singlelot
One
dear
her mind,
the window
"
at
By sitting
And
Without
And
pane
bit of blind ;"
in the balcony.
But I go
Which
she has never
done,
Yet arts that thrive at Number
Don't take at Number
One !
In her
The
Five
Have
The
That
decliningdays :"
very
maids
about
"
the house
down a nun.
all belongto them
One !
call at Number
set
me
sweethearts
76
Mr.
Young
told
And
Long
not
me
can't he
Why
We
old ! I
not
That
went
I'm
sure
brown
As
as
any
bun
It's very
Eight:
To
To
"
take
Bond
She
than
about
Swimming
pond,
beside
their
thers
mo-
water
thingslike living
lilies.
yellowas the ddSo-dillies.
ducklings
To
grace
Have
For
never
!
down
why
Went
"
"
mine
Yet
No
all
downy"
"
the house,**
were
"
had
littleducks
The
was
birds
alone
navy
old
to
Davy I
had
ducks, and
Mrs. Bond
were
thers
mo-
"
nests
luck
One
curly,
spiteof drake, and
pond,
The
iheir waters
to stun
luck about
"
Small
**
two
green
"
But
had
She
a
"
DUCKS.
others.
in
littleducklings
foolish song
Number
at
singercome
KNOCK.
DROWNING
the sights
that Mrs.
Enjoy'd yet grievedat more
Nae
"
it is
woe
your
enough
is
know,
so
row
ballad
away
tones
There
DOUBLE
aggravate my
chance,
Amongst
bow,
"
hard, and
here's
And
"
Were
Rose
with bended
gun !
live in such
And
her look
THE
her
Miss
hearts,
sake, has been
flue
plainI
But even
beauty has no
One
I think,at Number
of
To
from Number
white satin made
they say
score
I wish he had
"
am
Cupid,for
The
in my gait
awkward
not crooked, like the bride
Nor
slain
not
Six
Number
!"
a
One
am
At
And
againwithout
always have
cannot
am
:"
the Sun
fire at Number
On
swoon
come
and
Phoenix
The
kindlyin
came
to
DUCKS.
Has
Friday afternoon,
One
onlywhen
Once
DROWNING
THE
had
eggs
"
"
infant
others
D.'s
came
forth
like
"
addle,
She had
Its
lake"
wave
was
pearly
"
pond
rather
As die when
mean-~
thick
than
THE
DROWNING
They
sank
Like
They
over-loaded
any
boat
No
peccant humour
in
did;
water,
At last quiteout
She
her
gave
gander
their lucks
than Mrs. Bond
gave
chance
better
For
No
ever
woman
were
ducks
As
longrightunder
ere
77
DUCKS.
Death
Cried
Due
"
the water-lilies,
among
ad me " to allher dillies!
"
No
But
"
"
Beneath
They
though resolved
She brooded
"
went,
thingwas
It seem'd
acontr
strange
"
"
and
of nature
the Sun
up
adiction
did !
her works
The
Great
To
more.
did.
clear the matter
To
corks
no
this riddle
on
bottom.
The
breed
to
often
So
drank
Sirius,dog-like
thirsty
furious
his
deep,
tongue to cool.
The
shallow waters
And lo,from out
Too
hot
There
hold
to
crawl'd
eels
some
as
big
ais
conger
"
tried divers
Which
dived as all seemed
born to do
e'er survivors
littleones
were
ing.
Like those that copy gems, I'm thinkNo
all were
given to
!
die-sinking
shorn ;
their downy coats were
vam
Batch
after
still
!"
flounder'd
They
batch
The
In such
But
when
case
went
littlefools seem'd
And
hatch'd for
!
hatchment
Whene'er
wonder
they launch
only born
nothing but
d"0
sightof
"
look
below
the eels
"
They
In
were
split
By Mrs. Bond, justthink
In each inside at once
A ducklingturn'd to
bit.
the surface ;
caught and
to
of ^er face.
spy
!
giblet-pie
explainedthe case,
sightat once
the
Dame
look rather silly.
Making
of
that
The tenants
Eely Place
Had found the way to Pick a dillyy
And so by under-water suction.
tion.
Had
wrought the littleducks' abducThe
78
ASSENT
AN
It
dew,
TO
on
and
I wanted
Mounting.
Sack
^but
"
redeuccd
am
to
riz,
rit in
pagisof
in the
by
minds
with
acount
by only Lords
the
cumming
my
wags
maid
our
and master
oppend an
as
abov, and
cut
Peer
remember
Me
that
I find Master
that is
as
"
"
BLANK.
MOUNT
OF
Augst,
to be
to the
SUMMUT
THE
the 1st of
was
BEAB.
TO
COLD
TOO
the
and
Anual
Comick
up
Keep
Laddies,
H
Mr
"
givingleaves.
Wile
waited
we
at Sham
considdring
only twelve
we
determind
sho
us
it snew
For
up.
"
to make
tempting.
as I guest we
livry,
The
"
but put
on
shood
land Lord
never
friz
"
was
and that
was
full weather
up,
and wite
"
first
for
agreeabil
most
blew
change my
dred nort
bin
higheredgidesto
so
dout
had
footmun
was
to
misgiv,but
sevral tims
and
particler,
firstthingI did
the
on
and
vdtc
mounting
pocketswell cramd
my
they broke my falls very
The
and
the whether
and then
"
minds
our
Gentelmen
ourselves
longtim
then thew
Money,
was
for my
eyes, and
green vales
"
so
"
much
kind
as
I recumend
for the
hice
when
lend
no
me
my
bred
tap
boddy
slipd on
to go
up
any
and
room
Snowhill
Sum
of the
ams.
blind
out
with-
gides
ASSENT
AN
wanted
tired
on
"
down
cut
Glazier.
To
tions with
quitthe
givea
three
Grand
Portland
It's the
Mullets,ware
beds
our
we
the
verry litletent to
with
The
cold
understand
sed, from
drink
^but to
that
cloath
Frentch
and
"
see
we
scrag, and
to
scrag
it looked
me
was
like
with
littleor
de
de
by
we
repass'd
150
rits,
up
wal
haf
next
bout
went
to
subblime
evry
tim he
Next
of like
as
he
Nap
momin
skrambled
hands
ideal'
and
nees
UTurecomeuded.
not
is
We
self. His
wamin, and
our
pistle,
shot of
and
ekko.
shiwer
of am,
by
sum
one
Chilly
After this
not.
or
cum-
moor
littel crewit of
he mite be
No-
stupendusSno
remarkblyfine
foul
too
was
falingout
Knowing
comfortble
how
stird kickd
littel
Blank
; but
Won
of Summuts.
was
I laid
in Summerset
Farther,down
Sheer
sleeps
he
the Hed.
about
me
Master
as
partickly
and
long
at
and
sleepon
may
last
wus
Sacks.
we
riz
agin,by
on
mite
rests,I may
than
pillers
as
witch
left behind
we
all Sno
"
uncredible.
Wat
was
panes.
of brandey, left behind
whoever
cummer,
our
him
to warm
the
ear
his unaccommodation,
regretted
and
verry restless,
awack
beds
it looked
but
without
plaices
cold
on
we
As
pare of stares.
of stons on
each side.
Home,
the
to
sublime
stomical
bottel
of return
way
for the
Viniger
at
xactly.
as
Shammy leeping,
for
vittles
and
pint,
pintto
their
Mullets
Colon, agen
found
we
and
before,
was,
Middy,
real
and famlies.
noise,didnt
no
the Grand
at
littleO
fortble
we
give the
realybeleave
leaves
high situations,as
dind
a
them,
There
from
jumpin a
of Winter
it
is,nothingbut clean
over
else
it's
If you
come
but
think
in
have
then
protect our
middel
makes
pensel,and
To
can
in fus-
man
of Glass.
Glazier,and
springsin the
balls
glassyou
the Pick
hear
from
pintedout
Master
"
was
Blank
twelf Cake.
Gides
to
of
Nothink
Sollitory
figgers
atop.
us
of it but
dimond
mounting.
much
so
poles
I
me
first principle
suppose
pan.
"
for
the
the Mare
"
and never
warmin
sheats of sno,
a
struck our polesaginthe rock, with
like
won
bespeak
was
Nor
our
of Mount
to
cum
with
sam
gittingover
ours
Thus
Plaice.
think maid
any
think.
has
Summut
any
puttey and
glassand
or
mare
good
figgerthe
noshun, let
correct
of that.
revers
vras
what
and
sperrits,
for ours,
slidding
fraim and
dont think of
"We
had
airysof
the
and
sliping
Arter
^9
BLANK.
"
in verry
quitellivatted to think
wood
MOUNT
our
Master
hands,
our
OP
"
sit out,
we
SUMMUT
of
Cuthay
in
sort
list gartersround
THE
to ware
me
TO
to look
gitup
deal
maid
our
crivises and
Master
at.
in
Arter menny
crack
ours
crax
as
wanted
desend
to
to
git up,
flesh crawl
in
himself
agin,his letting
works, we
cum
and
on
crack, but
down
to the Grand
was
Plato.
80
ASSENT
AN
Master
stomicks
our
as
wing,
the
"
to
and
Sno
me
most
in
Mungers,
I
was
and
so
has
agin
book, as
to
Sham
was
till the
at
was
enuf
end
of the
to
Master
bin
as
butterfly. I ought
did not
we
down
in much
ketch
shorter
witch
slidingtelliscope,
Money,
dun, by
the
Land
Mr.
W,
Mount
But
Lord
and
is very
Master
and
roled
of
askd
bin
by
to be
cum
me
to
anny
Wen
poetry
IN
THE
ALBUM
OF
axident
cum
rit in the
"
at,
BLANC.
of
us.
to its Suramut."
MONT
be
Blank,
we
be
John
riaURINO
allways
curiousness
ice.
in
heals, as
Mount
without
the
Fish
I ment
far abov
too
names
our
but
hard
as
the
time,
and
I shall
was
it,but
the
forget all
hed
mension
it
ceed
pro-
of
it,as
in prose,
Blank
Me
to
of
all
Summut
the
to
to
gittingup
idea
Wurld
to
cuttingsteps
serve
maid
an
legs
in
distant
cum
to
abel
sucsided
a
we
cum
and
way,
ice
to the top
and
little
dissented
xcept Masters
And
hav
can
us
we
Slavery, we
body
no
Sno
axing the
ours
human
too
in
there,but
seeingone
We
Me
say
and
only
Wine
of
too
maid
me
cumming
thro
tumble
to
a
over
partickler
in
Howsumever,
object
going up.
joy
mane
to
white
moor
is
bottel
about
that
"Wat
the Gides
grate Routs
the
it ; and
at
my
abel
and
regretsmy
to do
of
Such
is there.
as
after
"
Mounting's top,
to the
them
as
direxion,
deal
In
cum.
St. Paul's
Howsumever,
After
to
was
go
high as
help saying out,
rite
not
zig zag
afore.
to
part
up
cood
feet !
200
vast
uneasy
wall,
alt, and
BLANK.
MOUNT
OF
called it
the Horses
and
SUMMUT
THE
TO
Jonea.
82
"
HORSE-DEALER.
half
One
18
*'
Columbia
placed;
near
I have gut the whole
! Sally,
Atlantic foi my waist.
Is
Oh
NO
THOUGH
BANKKUPT
HORSE-DEALER
A
Is
meaningsthan your
it
howbeit
little,
signifieth
like his colts,
He puttethhis promises
significations.
punster. When
standeth for two
But
he
givethhis
in double
more
word
it
break.
Over
his
"
skewbald.
He
in;
more
sweareth
for ho will
God''s
grace, he be
fair and unfair at
complete
advertiseth
l)air
down
road, but
is
none
He
once.
so
ways
hath
to
and
the
as
horse's
and
any man,
dam.
If,by
much
bargain. A
winters,he
that
tender of heart
*'
for,"as
he
can
be
for he selleth
imagination,
there
be
carriagethat
describeth
have
been
traces.
He
trulythe
hind
no
on
machine-horses
fault ;
of court
about
capitalharness,of which
summers
knockcth
for
two
swear
coach, warranted
oaths out
many
wanting
are
twenty
of
set
as
hath
travelled
He
well-seasoned.
knocked
up
on
the
'ortunes."
crietliup,
to
go
he writeth
nag, proper
fit to
"
83
HORSE-DEALER.
any
"
hounds
as
or,
he calleth
String-halt
"
be,
may
down, but
would
suit
"
grandaction,"and kicking
have
the farcical disease,
he
gentleman."
the feet well up." If a mare
lifting
for a racer
because
out of Comedy," and selleth Blackbird
n.imeth her
that drink only water, he justly
Horses
ho hath a running thrush.
and
waiTanteth
to be
temperate,"*^ if dead lame, declareth them
seeingthat they can go but one.
Roaring
good in all their paces,"
in running,
he
he calleth
sound," and a steed that high bloweth
wind.
the
he
for
Another
outstrippeth
might
compareth to Eclipse,
timid
"
"
"
"
"
entered
be
at
steeplechase,for why
^he is
"
with
Thorough-pin
"
cougheth,'tis"
be
broke
for
reareth,he is
as
church.
perfectleg.""If
fractured,he is
"
above
a
"
nag
well
sixteen hands
drawn
is
cart, he
If he
saddle."
he hath
tierce in
gig or
high.'*If
him
with
is synonymous
If his knees
clever hack."
fast
as
he
is
playfulmerely,
should play the
thoughhe
he
If
devil.
runneth
he calleth him
away,
the Gretna
Road, and
used
been
If
to carry
considereth
him
and
goer,
has
lady."
he
stumbleth,
cob
off
"
true
a
"
addeth
proprietor parteth
The
from
to go abroad."
Thus,
much
without
profession
him
of
religion,
yet
Christian-like
for he
dealeth
and
is he
of
Love,
unto
meanwhile
like
would
he knoweth
bruised
good
his
for
it before
be, the
not
Like
is blind
gazethat
REAR
He
vice.
me
"
and
"
should
from
limb
he
be
held
its back.
If it hath
againsta
chanteth
lot it is
on
the
kick
of
"
standers-by,
only a virtue,
a
nag's hoof
Poor
fellow,
"
but
his
common
bitten him
coach-wheel,
the better
Ball,whose
taketh
seeth
is content
evil,ho givethit
more
ADMIRAL.
blemishes, and
all
unto
traction,
de-
character
brute.
he
he
love
in
not
disparage the
even
truly
practice,
in
In
character,and
short,the worse
like
praise,
to meet
G
beside,and moreover
then, constantlyreturning
crow
with
recommendeth
a
horse
that croweth
the Common
over
Lot.
may
Old
84
FALL.
THE
OF
FALL
THK
FALL
THE
"
LAWKENCE,
ST.
ten
fathoms deep."
thousand
Who
does not
that dreadful
know
"Where
eagleunto eaglescreams,
Where
down
And
upward,
While,hung with
Suddenlygivesan
on
And
many
One
"
the foam
there
Niagarafalls,
gulf,where
shines
calls ;
vulture
vulture
in
Death
liquiddarkness
grope.
Hope
without
rainbow
wave
only one
Oh, Heav'n
to
Fathom.
Count
"
awful
hath
! it turns
ever
me
to ice with
that
abyss!
!
stream
of my
frailbark adrift on that tumultuous
In vain with desperatesinews,strungby love of life and light,
To think
urgedthat coffin,
my
On
And
"
still on
canoe,
againstthe
current's
might :
"
My
"
I saw
as throughtransparentlids,
Plainly,
And lofty
like
f
trees,
winged things,litby
the
shore,
fleeting
for
evermore
Plainly,
"
torrent's voice
The
0
with
but
agony
Ere
home
My
! and
the sullen
I heard
my
sound,
round.
gathering
it sweet
that made
those
lay beneath
the torrent
pray,
"
mist,like death-sweat
"
life !
! 0
I could
prophet sense
no
85
ILLUMINATI.
THE
feet.
very
swift than
whirl,more
frightful
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
Those
Avill
have
and
"
and
the
so
ILLUMINATI.
Light, I
!:;iy,light!"
his
"
the
Othkllo.
GeoffreyCrayon,
called Little
locality
of
portfolios
graphicsketches
of
Mr
his
made
draughtsman
or
THE
peeped into
easilyremember
Britain
Lambs
who
CATARACT
acute
him
an
characteristic of the
same
neiphbourhood,^I
"
mean
the
frequonfc
P6
ILLUMINATI.
THE
and
of
that of Mr.
individual
no
certainly
and
Wix,
burned
ever
where
Chandler
Tallow
and
Wax
"
to account.
me
It is the fortune, or
so
this remarkable
For
in
placidly
apathy,my
smokes
the turn-cock
chains,and
in their
much
to
lodge,to
his
to
front
con-
Majesty ;"
loyalty.
evince his
for an illumination.
always framingan excuse
The
kindlingaptitudeascribed to Eupyrions, and Lucifers, and
Contrary to Hoyle's rules for
Chlorate Matches, is nothingto his.
He
loo,
and
knows
him
is sufficient with
card
singlecourt
"
are
for
horn
newsman's
into
flame.
known
He
In
"
some
once
shows
Park
by
go
guns
evening" as
sure
as
the
street, it blows
in the
exhibit
same
spark
was
such, he has been
inflammability
fire,where he should have shed water.
local
it is still a
"
the
He
blaze."
his
cases
and
ignite,
to
was
wax
is sounded
and
royal personages,
As sure
in years.
as
they
off in the morning,he fires his six pounders in the
in tins how
tallow
"
joke
"
within
an
of
ace
ai
rejoicing
Marr's Murder.
he
indictable.
not
reallya nuisance,and
was
unused
not
one
givento rejoicing.Other
strangely
In civil events
them.
He
"
when
lighted
in,and
came
he
that
Gray,
he
the administration
it went
lightedwhen
content
whig
to
divided
or
his
flame
of
between
Wellington
short, it seemed,
in
"
lightup
to
of the Duke
out,
was
skirmishes.
slightest
the
favourable
he
meltingmood,
people were
he commemorated
but
greatvictories,
for the
to the
is worse,
what
that candle-burning
was
Catholics,
he had got his religion
itself from
of his
part
an
as
ligion,
re-
illuminated
missal.
To
very
often
he
as
He
can.
chandler,and
will
there be but
the Genius
bells,and
of the
In
oil and
great
On
Lord
other
L. calls a
the
assume
bright to
"
tallow
occasions
"
known
our
always
Bill of Panes
and
motley appearance
of
as
the
as
Mr.
to
be
for
rejoicings
"
I have
that
seen
Sperm
goods
of
to follow the
choose
Penalties
a
and
very
in
alone
all
blazing
instance,the
of Mrs.
say nothing
Wix
gettingrid
illuminations
establishments
for
short,Mr.
merchant-man
"
I have
creed
political
"
Lamp.
same
thing a
lighters.
"
forward
the
bringsit
the
on
the
of
means
lightup
peal of
both resemble
by
he
certain managers,
is quite as lax in his
"
example
select"
their
Bill
glory.
which
our
dark
chessboard, alternately
where
Frampton'slodging-house,
the
streiet
and
every
THE
tenant
of
was
different sentiment,
example
striking
Among generalilluminations,I
accession
the
on
and
"
his
of
remember
none
more
than
so
the
late
Britain
Great
brightenedthe
Obscure.
of the Clare
one
C?
ILLDMINATI.
"
one.
in
was
"
house
thus while
and
"
family,its
elderlyspinsterMiss
northern
Rumbold
It must
have
it
courtesy, for
cups, so
another
division
might
have
supper,
had
and
of
of
the
loyaltythat put
she
but
resolved
such
for
in
her
"
held
by courtesy, for they never
tall jellyglasses,
equallyunknown
she
for
meant
with
them
custard
oil from
wick.
floating
and
"
jellies.I
light
very
to
give
to
once
all with
her fillthem
seen
thought
once
largedining-tableso called by
reviewinga regimentof glasscustard
"
she furnished
afterwards
her at
see
dined
thought that
I not
W.,
of Miss
never
called also
fit of
extreme
an
I could
life to illuminate.
squintaside
ones
into those
stare
Winter.
been
penuriousmind
into the
easterlywindows
its
They
were
tall and
alternately
this
'
"
Rumbold
elder Miss
The
idle in the
did not
see
"
to
see
teeth
and
for distress of
indeed
what
hung
hand
want
down
and
all the
and
"
her
up
her
hands
but
she
ters
quar-
Henry
such
no
and
forth
luck
sneaked
than
Rumbold
their
same
After
the
two
At
own.
comprehended
then
the
then
eyes,
all
tho pan; going through
tomime
had
and
time for grieving,
no
arms,
her
beginningto glitter.
rejoicing.Mr. "Wix's was
his ladder, she furnished
stairs like a lamplighter
on
returned
then
the
and
to
windows,
drawing-room;
little for
but
Tearingup
then
mind
Miss
and
candles, to do the
illuminations
them
threw
first,she
calamity:
Caroline
(I
"
rid of the
saw
But
below.
better
behind
door
of the
her
gently opened,
door
clenched
and
floors above
full
whence
having got
had
detached,with
the slam
She
on
drawing-room,from
the
and then,
any supper)
the tin ones.
have
them
not
"
She
time.
mean
of town
out
the parents were
was
packed all the littleR.'s off to bed
"
was
blank
evidentlyher
favourite
fancy, she
artificial flowers
of
festoons
up two
fell short a whole
foot
of the very
bouquet
garlands,she
rushed
of the
third
full speed,and
rapidlyunpaperingher
had
completed
alas ! her
window
in Caroline's bonnet.
out
but
"
curls,and
on
afraid for
am
Removing
the next
stock
and
the unfortunate
moment
making
saw
her-
ILLUMINATI.
THE
allowed,to
time
self as fit as
sit in
drawing-room,by
in the
state
the
A
now
Number
to
mob
the
29,
where
had
to
Lights.
her Northern
W.
Miss
for
Winter
Miss
her
at
was
her
demand
the
with
comply
to
but
of
nervousness
sudden
aggravating
old
her
could
palsy,she
not
ing
persuadeher waveron
taper to alight
the
of
one
any
There
tons.
cot-
deed
incoquetting
deal of
wick
between
and
was
wick,but
like
In
vain
nothing
flame.
mutual
ALL
AT
SIXES
AND
SEVENS.
thin
the
lover-like candle
of grease at
last,weary
drowned
mob,
they
as
its
alreadyof
this
twinkle
was
unwelcome
an
that
but
was
alternate
candle
respectablefront
much
uproar
and
character,
Punch.
littledreamt
bolds had
truth, they
as
more
In
of.
rushed
at
fact Miss
Awakened
from
bed
with
and
by
to the
but
volley
and
mob,
the
had
the unusual
window,
had
she
thus
in
lighted
made
however,
noise
Miss
able to present
which
merriment
Fantoccini
as
different in
was
attends
head
over
she
Rumyounger
ish
exhilarated
where,
by child-
the
light,
anxiety to
some
was
The
the boisterous
Rumbold
with
moment,
mind
of
presence
Winter's, though
resembled
illuminate
her
it to
in
the
turned
windows,
patienceof
this conclusion
rags by
could
broke
with
short notice.
at Miss
never
little Yauxhall
admirable
in her
to
Winter
catastrophe,I
with
The
jelly-glass.
torn
nothingto twinkle
this
at
Rumbold's,
upon
tall
destroyed her
left her
Shocked
in
thin texture,
saw
of stones
every
twinkle
own
an
extempore
in
their little
Matilda
pointed
90
THE
To
by
display
own
like
like Master
^had
"
our
Mr.
of
warehouseman
"
from
The
9.
Number
Man
luckilyattracted
were
than usual
greater
Wix
the rabble
splendour
even
at
ILLUMINATI.
got
an
up
tallow,that
the
among
ing
the break-
caused
soon
of
out
in
tion
Insurrec-
an
and
Grease,
where
candles
hitherto
been
had
lighted
ignitedby
now
Wholesale
as
or
landlady said,
"
"
the fat
in the fire!"
was
ventured
her when
what
ask
to
all
she
my
All
was
over,
thoughtof the
and
lighting-up,
said,
"
were
very
opinion in the
oil,and
what
would
long,very
with
; but
heartily
what
sentiment,
following
Illuminations,"she
"
concur.
pretty thingsto
ought to be illuminated
be
her
she gave me
of which I most
in the prayer
FATUUS.
IGNIS
look
at, and
with
the
no
doubt
toil,and
the
the
the Woodford
Of wheels, and
road
Mr.
there
King again!"
comes
noise
neat postchaise
Rounding's
Struggles
along,drawn
pairof bays.
Boys ;
Who
and anon
declare their joys.
ever
With trumpinghorns and juvenilehuzzas,
At goinghome
to spend their Christmas
days.
And changingLearning's
painsfor Pleasure's toys.
Six weeks
and down
the Woodford
elapse,
way,
A heavy coach dragssix more
souls,
heavy
But no gladurchins shout,no trumpets bray ;
With
The
And
Rev.
Mr.
Crow
makes
carriage
littleBoys walk
As six
new
by
and
six small
halt,the gate-bell
tolls,
in
as
dull and
and
with
mum
Dumb.
the
SONNET.
Along
Kings
new
what
91
Life is but
"
Royal
their
in
erected
kittle cast."
Burns.
"
of the hand
and
of
efl5gy
of
the masts
when
our
unsightlychimneys
be
place.
will be taken
trident
out
it will"
but come
time is not yet come"
Navy shall be unshipped,and huge
The
The
SERVICE.
STEAM
THE
Neptune,
replacedby the
red hot poker ;
of
look
will
Jack
the Union
smoke-jack; and
Lambtons, Russels,and
mirals
Adairs,will be made Ad-
like
Black
of the
forecastle will
Newcastle,
cockpit will be
the coal-pit
; a
and
the
termed
man-of-
will
war's tender
but
called
be
the
the
be
thing
no-
Shields' collier
"
to
lectures
the
on
steam-engine,and
shipmen
mid-
take lessons
must
climbingboys in the
the good
sweepingflues. In short,
will giveway
to
Polly put the Kettle
as
THE
art of
"
of Great
Majestic,and the Thunderer
like
the
the
burn,"
Harlequin, Dart, and
they would
song writers
our
prosper
Marine
as
JACK
old tune
"
on
Poets.
Britannia,"
Victory, the
paddle in the
Rule
the
while
to bear
"
of
"
will
Britain
the
HEARTS.
OF
Magnet
of
eye to the
Some
wary
Margate.
Gumey
sea
Fleet,
get
may
seat
taken
out
For
of song.
I have
Muses
not
as
doubtful
I have
and
boiler,
own
part,I
Helicon
steam.
as
well
After
reefs and
thingsas
thankful
sufficiently
be
cannot
of salt water
sea-horses
supersededby
like the
yervice,
prose.
my
sought a
writer
when
very
all such
aback, and
Library;
land-horses
as
such
or
are
or
the
canvassed
made
that
Nine
Pegasus a
horse,
sea-
equallylikelyto
consummation,
the
when
be
sea
boilingwater, it is
whether
Dibdin
does
certainly
not
steam
quiteso
well
as
potatoe.
02
if his
ftowever,
to be in immortal
Songs are
Sea
SERVICE.
STEAM
THE
As
vessel
When
up
And
Tlie
And
on
the
anchor, lights
dangermeets,
log;
picksout the
up thejire^
of grog
drinks his can
Boulton
And
Though
And
seas.
knows.
better
no
But
breeze
the pot^
Weighs
Trims
it
an
Watt
and
t to
and
slates^
do you
see,
the like ;
WalVs-end
good
I have
way
giveme
littleI'llstrike.
smooth
"
Jack
Bold
sailor goes
the
ihejltie
ventures
landsman,he
But
Go
as
have to
fancy
tightto my
ever
tlieywill
Nancy,
throughthe
she smoked
My jib how
She's
in the
I steamed
use,
shall down
smite,
thingtight,
every
boilinggallopwe'll scud.
a
cooked
; but the
rather
or
Stevens's,
pathosdoes not seem
any
Hark,
Incledon's
Storm
the boatswain
hoarsely
bawling.
By shovel,tongs,and poker,stand ;
Down
the scuttle quick be hauling,
Down
your bellows,hand, boys,hand.
Now
it freshens, blow
Now
the coal-hole go
unto
don't
Stir,boys,stir,
Up
like blazes ;
"
ashes
your
mmd
black
faces.
nimbly throw.
Though
Fore and
Oil the
Hands
Man
course
aft
should be
proper draft
worse.
get,
see
engines,
up, each
the
all clear ;
sack of coal get,
boiler,
cheer,lads,cheer
in
the
same
stewing.
THE
thunder's
the dreadful
Now
Peal
On
One
roaring.
clash
peal contending
on
our
In
93
SERVICE.
STEAM
our
wide
All above
smoke-black
one
Different deaths at
Hark
! what
sky
surround
once
"
:
us
means
The
leak beneath
out.
Quick, some
coal,some
nubbly pieces;
be
Come, my hearts, stout and bold ;
Plumb
the boiler,
speed decreases.
Four
ship wild
for wives
Alas ! from
Alas
The
gettingcold.
feet water
hence there's
Heaven
For
there's
! to them
fire is out
The
"
we've
is
tinder-box
have
waves
children
or
mercy
only that
can
beating,
are
mourn
retreating
;
no
return.
no
burst
the bellows.
swamped below ;
on
poor fellows,
serve
us
now
94
LIFE.
REAL
OP
LAY
shipshapeto
Jarvis
"
and
the eye of
who
would
who
tar
sailed with
has
rather
even
go
Duncan, Howe,
without
'port
than
have
through9k funnel.
**SorDe
a
"
'*
on
horn
are
goldenladle."
Some
with
spoon
in
mouths, and
their
with
tin
their
rings in
and
noses,
some
.-8." Silversmith.
"
Who
ruined
me
ere
born,
was
My
Who
said riiymother
And
physickedme
Till
infancybecame
was
and
a
no
nurse.
made
me
Who
left
comfort
And
Mr.
me
in my
to my
seventh
mother
Pope, the
overseer
worse,
curse
My
A
some
with
with
silver
Goldsmith.
born
are
wooden
LIFE.
REAL
OF
LAY
Grandmother.
year,
dear,
?
My
Father.
and
it
LAY
let
Who
bones
Till all my
"
1 hen called me
LIFE.
her
buy
to
starve,
me
REAL
OF
gin.
through my skiu,
came
Mother.
My
"Who
said my
took me
And
But
mother
was
home
and
made
"
Turk
meals
half my
managed
"
"
hated
He
And
Aunt.
made
me
post ?
Uncle.
And
Till many
laid them
bitter
endless
an
scrapes,
at
score,
door.
my
I bore ?
bang
Cousin.
My
Who
took
home
me
when
mother
Again
Black
shoes,clean
reside,
knives, run
far and
My
marred
Girls
always
used
Who
Or
hector
he
stroked
at
the
incline,
he
nine ?
was
Brother.
"
coin
bad
was
shared
gratis,
misfortune
when
Referr d
to
me
social
my
to
came
the pump
Who
ever
shared
this weary
sympathised
my joy
my
"
glass.
pass,
Alas
world,
with
Friend.
My
Througiiall
Godfather.
My
Who,
"
mine,
was
Good
head, and said
sixpence, all he had ;"
stall the
!**
Sister.
my
me
gave
But
Or
noise
"
And
But
"
My
Who
joys,
What
boys
My
over
eight,and
was
"
share in what
all,did
it
took
'Cause
to
played cried
wide
Stepmother.
stealthyurchin
my
when
And
died,
father to
with
Who
boast,
most,"
feel my
My
got in
always
shirk ?
to
earthlythings"would
of all
therefore
Who
work,
me
My
Who
?"
in
brie^
grief,
sole relief?
Myself.
lad,"
96
VALENTINE.
P.
Murphy,
These,properlyspeaking,beingesteemed
the three
THE
WEATHER.
Dear
To
Murphy,
Your
you
wants
Moreover,as
On
She
promise folks,
days a drizzle;
thinks,in
She should
you
certain
of Meteoric
arms
humbly begs;
servant
She thanks
But
to
Esq., M.N.S.
case
she cannot
have
'.
.
rain,
to mizzle.
means
Some
too may
justfall due, -"..,"
lightning
woods
When
V
beginto moult ;
And
if she cannot
She'll wish
"
fork it
to make
WETHER
wisr.
out,"
holt /
action.
MEETING.
ELLAND
THE
there wanting
great deal to be said on both sides,nor were
of the cirthemselves
avail
cumstance
to
of
logic,
choppers,not to say hackers
risters,
amongst others,a brace of Irish barpossessed,
; and as we
author
who
spoke
Quaker, a dissenter to every thing,an
a
left
could
who
volumes, a geologist
eloquent,surnamed
usuallywhat Bubb Doddingtonhas
It is worthy of record,however,
man
ever
was
had
of talk."
multipHcity
and
or
and
Now
debate.
subjectin
"
the
on
attempt to deliver a sentence
short clearing
a
then, perchance,
cough
to deliver
known
called
as
especially
running counter
of
ber
loquacity the sex, that no female mem-
the
opinionof
to the received
old
sermons
it is true, from
were
we
Salmon
of Mrs.
work
wax
that
flatter us
one
the very
tongue,and then in
at
ideas,and
so
words
few
lost her
the
up
gave
learned,
that she did
fellows,
in hand, but that
to the matter
her
which
she meant
needle,by
seekingfor her
since
she
of the
of the maturest
actuallycontemplatea
once
I have
Tussaud.
Madame
or
not
thread
being
"
her
of
woman's
work."
It would
that
therefore,
seem,
with
incompatible
sex.
Milton, indeed,makes
characteristic of perfectwomanhood,
it
To mark
accomplished Eve."
"
with
Adam,
whereas
so
as
in the
instance,whom
seldom
opens
"
to
even
lips.
evinced
as
the
in the demeanour
of
he
strongly,
more
liberally
fluencyof speech in her colloquies
with him ;
forgetall time in conversing
for
the
third
Visitor
a
Angel
party,
"
of
presence
she less bids than
her
shrinking
timidity
a
peculiar
modesty
with
generalmother
our
is altogether
in company
this silent
of the
endows
discourse
set
"
makes
is this
Nor
an
welcome
to
overstrained
picture:
the
same
fusion
matronly, spinsterly
reserve, having survived the Fall,and the conof Babel,and
the more
womanly of her daughters,however
or
at what
good
behind
to
up
an
to
the
Scotch
"
two-handed
or
crack,"in a comer
hesitation,
amounting
paradisaical
the most
impediment,in addressing
a
recent
the
comparatively
period,
acknowledgedand
of the
or
call
Drama
acted
upon,
at
In fact
limited audience.
Miltonic
theory was
the female
theatre,
the
practically
racters
cha-
beingalways represented
by proxiesof
men
boys.
Even
"
in the
"
present ago,
the debut
of
an
actress,having so
many
"
"
"
who
has witnessed
the
stagewill easily
givecredit
described to
"
for its
her
very vividly
the voice that would not come,
me
"
first appearance
of
The
agonies.
on
a
sufi*erings
lady on
young
late Mrs.
like awful
any
once
occasion
that would
not
:"
go"
THE
distinct consciousness
of
impressionof the
of
Maww^orm
as
that I had
"
the
speech,as
the courage
to
protestthat I could
a sentence
put together
the
for
presence
swim,
to
^the
"
with
body,
the
distinct
in-
sence
ab-
not
well
utter it ; for
own,
the
of
"
head
to furnish
determined
concluded, that
^extort' the people,
calls it, out
of
I had not to
own
the head
Thank
she
heaven,"
my
mind.
the
the
99
MEETING.
to sink, and
inclining
the frame
as
ELLAND
not have
of my
saving
of
my
life!"
With
such
experienceand
impressionsof the inaptitude
of the sex
for popular orators,
my profound amazement
may
be conceived
when
on
lately
the columns
of a
over
glancing
morning journal,my eye was
arrested by the extraordinary
headingof
FIRST
In
the
where
first tumult
Parson
of my
threw
Adams
his
of
of
acuteness
seemed
commonly
nervous,
when
by
of all the
to
some
explosion of
the
the sudden
burst
of
"
physicalone,
an
of
cry
der
mur-
complication
"
powder-mills,
neighbouring
some
intense
of
moments
silence
imaginarypeal,from
bell
were
lowed
fol-
assembly
steeplesin England;
mental
my
on
highlycondensed
few
health .and
dilating
every instant from
nothingat all
once,
the numbness
In fact I recollect
except
in weak
certain,-^being
not
with
ear-ache,
STAGE.
MorningHerald,
vague
consciousness of
the moral
came
than
more
ANY
iEschylus,
namely,behind
firstsensation,
indeed,was
My
"
ON
I pitchedmy
agitation,
APPEARANCE
nor
can
beingrun
It
the
resemblingthe notes
gmdy, than those of
seem
harsh
by
If
I had
no
met
of
the
feminine
it must
anticipation,
rehearsals
previous
with
brazen
the masculine
trumpet.
be remembered
for such
paragraphhintingthat
H
And
should this
burst of
female
certain females
pared
pre-
oratory.
had been
MEETING.
ELLAND
THE
"()()
hauntingthe sea-beach,
say of
rough weather, mysteriously
if
on
as
speakingterms
Scarboroughfor instance,and gesticulating,
classical reminiscences
might have recalled the
with the billows,my
braced himself againstthe murmurs
system by which Demosthenes
of a popular assembly and I might have comprehended
and roarings
observed in
"
no
was
resorted to
were
waves
warning ;
such
and
oratorical hreakers-in.
as
consequentlythe
But
report came
upon
semjTstress's
somethingastoundingin
a
high pressure
the bare idea of a female voice,so commonly requiring
in
in
it
to
volunteering public
privatecircles,
to induce
sing
in
is apt to excite
maiden
a
man
A
even
!
speech
to
assembly spout
and
a
rough and tough old
;
many
a
maidenly fever of nervousness
all the
with
me
a
pieceof stout
si)litting
would
sea-commander,who
has been
and
suddenness
startling
calico.
There
have
returned
crash
of
was
broadside
ing,
flinch-
without
converted
has
"
always
party spirit,
unrectified
raw
above
distilled particularly
In short I concluded
lips.
forward,without
boards, as
and
Snells
Mary
and navy.
army
extracts
will
proof,seemed
that
prima facie,
publicorator, and
serve
"
at the
present time
unfit for
peculiarly
a
some
and
article,
on
mankind
on
practise
Talbots, that
far I
have
heretofore
in these
justified
come
provincial
needs be what
to the
"
Ann
womanly
could
who
must
political
topics,
and akin
woman,"
How
was
female
Hannah
enlisted in
forebodings
a
our
few
to show.
Mrs. Susan
business of the
"
"
She
could
wish
the authors
of this law
to be
sent
to St.
Helena,
wet
Napoleon was sent to, and remain tilltheir bodies were
dew of heaven, and their hair as long as eagles'
feathers.
oppose
that
law, and
she
called
upon
her sisters
now
where
the
with
She
would
before her
to
her
"
of the
bastiles
Majesty,and
are
pray
ELL
THE
AND
101
MEETINCT.
heg leave
We
law.
and remove
from your councils
prerogative,
to
attempting placeus under this horrible
remind
is due only
your Majestythat allegiance
to
is extended
tchen protection
the
to
"
subject.
behalf
Signed
on
of the
"Susan
"
to Earl Stanhope,Mr.
had
females who
in the
founded
support the
the
to
law
poor
cheering
Grasby,
Mrs.
other
groans were
bill."
address,about
daughters,
hoping that
if such
and
"
and
it is only
another
wished, what
"
joinwith me and
Washing Company was
outcry againstwhat
who
loud
now,
meeting
merry
Benedict
Bachelor but will
or
right-thinking
Dogberry in a God prohibitit ?" When the Steam
on
be
may
with
the
local scandal ;
Chairwoman^
Chairwoman,
eloquentspeeches,and
purposelyomitted
I have
then voted
were
Fielden, to
and
got up
J.
for their
Hanson,
Mrs.
and
Thanks
And
Meeting,
Fearnley,
first established,
there
called
facetiously
were
roundly accused of
were
was
the
loud
cock
and
shrill
Laundresses,
provinces,
invasion of woman's
shameful
mob caps,
to wear
sneeringrecommendations
and
tlie
and pattens. But if Hercules
with
go in stuff petticoats
the
distaff be but a sorry spectacle,
with
club
cuts
surelyOmphale
he-creatures
now
a better figure. The
fairly
scarcely
retort,that
may
for
manhood
out
with
to go
it is as consistent
hood
womanwashing, as
to do chairing
at a publicmeeting. If it be out of character for
in a coat and continuations to be firsting
and seconding
a fellow
linen,
in petticoats
it is equallyanomalous
for a creature
and
to be firsting
resolutions ; and for my
own
secondingpolitical
part,as a matter of
than a
taste,I would rather see a Gentleman
blowingup a copper flue,
Lady blowingup the foulness of the Poor Law.
In the mean
to apprehendthat the infection is
time,there is reason
letter on
the
last
gainingground;
post havingbroughtme the following
with
and
favoured
the
subjectfrom
many
country correspondent.
To the Editor
Honoured
I don't
of Hood's
Sir,
whether
know
of
but whether
courting,
or
or
aunt, or she-cousin,
you
be
or not,most
some
such
married,or
likelyyou
connexion
particularly
like
men
By
station
to my
the
women
such
am
such
and
what's
got up
noise in the
have
to
likely
have
that
turns
worse,
the
be in the way
mother,or sister,
of the female
as
a matter
following,
of
a
myself
quietturn and
only
misfortune,as
York,
Own^ S^c.Sfc.
concerns
domestic
As
sex.
us
such
and
all,
habits.
spoutingmeetingagainthe
country.
I'm not
]()2
good
most
as
nerves
that
men
for in
female elocution,
own
of
breakingout
I will inform
Meeting,you
EUand
The
beginswith.
the
as
the rick
kick, it will go
any other new
house has catched for one, and
or
shock
like
course
ride to
can
such
given them
has
incendiarism
MEETING.
ELLAND
THE
you
see, was
on
the
it
symptoms
Tuesday, and
set, if it
new
correct
lay
to
parts
of
her
for a
spelling
speech. Agricultural
say
scarce
out
wanted
wasn't
I couldn't
when
particularly
market
by
Any
"
the like.
days,and
her
sake
of
myself,
to
For
tongue
could speak plain enough, and
of dining at the ordinaryon
she always contrived to speak
keep
to
own
my
to
times
most
mean
goldmuch more
sayingit's more
I don't mind
and
assist her
to
not
was
time, by which
reason
way
between.
to have had
more
mind, but ever since the meeting she seems
w
ith
mind to speak ; for instance,a long confabbing
every beggar at
the gate,instead of sendingoff as formerlywith nothingbut a flea in
her
their ear,
the
as
EUand
for
to
and
thinks
don't look oratorical,
I to
an
than
agog
about
birds,and get my
more
little fustian
more
to London
goingup
kill two
can
her
set
thingsstruck me as
errand again to
making
short,many
rest, her
the
amongst
pieceof stuff
visit seemed
notion of
In
sayingis.
and
suspicious,
new
"
in
before,so
pint of fact,that
as
to start
new
myself,then
I don't know
does.
what
of the bag,
cat out
let's the whole
a week
Sunday was
as the saying
is,as near as may be as follow. It was just after dmner,
and only our two selves quitedomestically,
Betsy beinggone to grandand me goingto take my firstglassof wine, and so as usual,
mother''s,
last
However,
I nodded
to custom
-
to
"
my
good woman,
when
lo ! and
legs,
openinglike a hound
of
thanks, and delivery
I
was.
been
she
she
Where
than
with
behold,up
justhit
that has
sentiments
ever
was
and
so
the
scent,andbeginsa
forth,before
of it without
competent to, as
I knew
in
know
mizmaze
which, and
I'm
that I hadn't
for
knows,
I've
when
instance,
where
Lord
practice,
drunk at our
publickly
CoursingClub, and the like.
five good minutes long afore she broke down, or
was
I don't
herself,
return
of mind
me
to
However
recollected
so
founded
dumb-
argue
the
THE
ELLAND
103
MEETING.
the nature
from
and
about
sparring
like
the
yard with
?
or
tables,
intended
and
the mistress of
tryingto crow
a house
leaving
her grown-up
to their
girls,
all over
rantingand itineranting
go
heads
or
on
to
be
nation,and
of the
the
own
the
cackling
up
on
more
at christenings,
or gossipping
or laying-in,
tea-drinkinge,
to publicspeaking. As
to state
do think there's more
and in
talkingthan doing already,
tattle at
alone
but
in waggons,
the whole sex
up,
is worse,
cares
or
hackle
So it is with
what
babes,
helpless
and lookingafter,to
country, henpeckingat the
her
her
to
totallyunaccustomed
be
some
affairs,
course
it will be
no
House
of Ladies.
money
for
the
speechesat
new
Elland
for
cure
In the
teeth
the
prove the
I remain.Honoured
mean
to
Lords
come
with
down
Sir,
very
humble
Servant
Richard
'
AUDIENCE
of
the
may
Your
House
FIT,
THOUGH
rKW.
to
command,
Payne
Pilgrim.
101
DISCOVERING
POEM
THE
"FROM
POLE.
THE
POLISH,
the Captainof
from
much
a
surprisedat receiving,
young lady was
At last,
sealed.
of
sheet
folded
of
the
a
nd
in
form
a Whaler, a blank
duly
a letter,
paper,
and
the
she
of
the
missive
nature
toasting-fork,
on
a
ink,
sympathetic
placed
recollecting
Some
after
moDtlis since
holdingit
to
the
fire for
From
seventy-two North
Dear Kitty,I indite ;
minute
or
latitude.
thoughtsthat
breathe
and words
not
think,
Before I wrote
these very
I had to melt my ink.
Of mutual
"
lines,
Pope
that burn.
My Kitty,do
in
To
But
Of
two, succeeded
From
So
must
10"
STEP-FATHER.
**
STEP-FATHER.
Follow, follow,follow,follow.
Follow,follow,follow,me."
not what
KNOW
of my
Song.
Old
"
both together,
or
or fiend,
friend,
put such a folly
maternal
parent; but, like Hamlet^s mother, she
marriageis
seldom a favourable alteration of state ; it is like changinga sovereign
twice over ; firstinto silver,
and then into copper.
My mother s step
of this description
! My firstfather was
was
a plump,short,and rather
set her widow's
Dutch-built
cap
littleperson
kind-hearted,yet
; but
withal
re-married.
the most
the slowest
merry,
goer
second
and
good-humoured,
of the human
race.
His
and
in temper, a tall bony
stem
spirit,
his
of
nether
limbs
length
; he was, to adopt
a school-boy
phrase,a Walker by name, and a walker by nature ; and
the exercise of this propensity
the
taught me painfullyto appreciate
difference between my dear firstDaddy and
Daddy-Long-legs.
my
what
is called slow and sure : which
My father Heavy-sideswas
successor
was
saturnine
remarkable
figure,
means
sure
in
for the
to be left behind.
tliat declared
how
He
had
solemn
creak
in his shoes,
]07
STEP-FATHER.
of my
fastest and
toes
race
againstmy
toes
the
ran
farthest.
has been
There
tears,and, if anything,my
of
as
speculation
to the
ownership
the
was
Step-father
my
The March
of Mind
might
March
of body could
do it ;
that
of
Johnson's
like Doctor
greatShakspeare,with
littleTime
at his
heels,I
severe.
panted after him in vain. The pace, as the jockeyssay, was
of
for
he
seemed
It was
to fly; if any
a flight steps,
literally
man
gentlecould
be in two
at
like
that
man
a
was
places
bird,
once,
my
for he was
rather Fore-father,
or
Step-father,
always in front. His
that of the Colossus of Rhodes ; like Robinson
stride was
Crusoe, you
in the sand,but the other was
could discern one
foot-print
beyond
discovery.My infatuated mother was nevertheless continually
holding
him out to me
tread in his
as
an
example, and recommendingme to
his friends,
or
creditors,
steps;" I wish I had been able ! When
been
the
that
he
had
informed
have
at
door,
just stept out," how
he was
littledid they dream
that it meant
a mile off !
whenever
his pleasure,
It was
walked, that I should
my Step-father
flute
such
him
as
accompaniment
adagio is sometimes
;
accompany
He seemed to pride himself, like
heard to giveto pianoprestissimo.
in
at
some
people, constantlyhavinga poor foot-boytrotting
pompous
his heels : often did I beg to be left at home ; often,but vainly,
Good thou,
address him in the languageof old Capulet'sdomestic
of
The
me
a
save
phrase of
rocky
descriptive
piece
march-pane."
but
of
and
had
his
he
too
no
was
speed
fastnesses,"
typical
temper ;
more
Ogre, in the Seven-leagued
pity for me, than the great striding
little
for
Boots,
Hop-o'-my-Thumb.
The day of retribution at last came,
for, accordingto the clown's
of
doctrine,the whirligig time always bringsround its revenges.
My
felt
had
and
and
mother
a
died,
walking funeral,
poor
my Step-father
"
"
"
"
"
"
more
and
feet
measure
the
he
he walked
seemed
pace
cold upon
I had
measured
expected;
pace
but
of the
he
as
but
strides,
give sorrow
grievedlike a fieryhorse upon
slow
poison:
it has
in his
processionafilicted him
longedto
and
suffered most
been
legs
beyond
forbidden
was
the
fret.
affinned that
The
he
and
slow
caught
that day
from
the occasion ; but whether
he did or not,
in
he took ill,
off
went
rapidly,as he always did, a galloping
consumption,
"
In compliancewith
died,leavingme, as usual,behind him.
his last wish, he was
furnished with a walkingfuneral,
and, as decency
I
sacrihim
in
followed
truth
it was
to
the
dictated,
grave ; though
and
108
CONVEYANCING.
I
the only opportunity
ficing
in the
had
ever
before
world, of getting
him.
been
told
FOUR
INSIDE.
CONVEYANCING.
O, London
For
paying.
heavyweights,
conveying.
There's
alwayshacks
about in
packs.
Wherein
be shaken.
you mav
And
Jarvis is not always drunk,
Tho'
In
If
alwaysovertaken
some
you'vea
broken winded.
are
stages are
There
is
sort,
Although the
a
"
we
call 'em
short.
longestgoing
"
some
shop.
mix.
have broken
some
The
For
danger is rescinded.
And
great estates,or
bodies want
horses have
All
When
Or
The
they
their /"" days'
You'll
That
Then
"
Ye
go
playsupon
banks
never
LETTER
FROM
The
Instead of joiirnei/s,
peoplenow
May
With
upon
go
By
ofattorney
powers
with
Tho'
And
load
you
And
to
steam
may
world
With
Gurnti/,
Malthus
Above
it may
explode.
all be wn-done !
109
SETTLER.
it always bears
swears
the proper
number.
"
The
And
For
land
lighterthings,watch, brooches,
rings.
You'll
speakof every
To
It is not
intention
my
there is stillone
But
Deserves
vehicle
To
FROM
LETTER
IN
Mart/,
Dear
taking
amung
ment
wan
conveyance
VAN
DEMON
No.
45 Mount
wen
I advertisd
nose
LAND.
SETTLER
DIEMEN's
leaves my
joinin runningafter 1
FOR
LIFE
LAND.
Street Grosvenor
Square.
Mary
at
it goes, and
Away
VAN
Ta
want
never
littlemention
Ho
kind of coach,
in Yandemin's
land.
in the Tims
But
so
for annother
it his and
hear
Plaice
I
am
goverDrink
110
this
cums
he
am
givemy
hope
wan
sum
Ever
Sake
own
your
cos
betty Housmad
hope
on
My
master
And
then
the
and
Say
as
never
But
accounts.
without
Frends
treeting
my
Drinking to all their fairwells. In my Flury
Key out of missis Tekaddy
forgotto take My own
it is in Good
hands but
had the thoughtAnd
and
Pimperael Plaice
parts And I
into trubble
And
I rit to
at, so
Grant.
as
22
Number
kind love to
for Ever
to leav
Like
I did not
Kind
so
was
to
sneazed
to be
not
safe of my
Jumey to Forrin
the wine and broughtThem
Mist
SETTLER.
go
Six and sevin For
Diner
fammilys Having
but
turms
to Hand
was
Seckertaryand
the Outlandish
Wen
FROM
Husbands
and
and Close
LETTER
thro my
of Sperritsmy
Loness
Lickwise
obleegedto no.
Hed
of
as
out
was
lox of Hares quitewent
My
prommist to Be giv
Next dores But
and the too Futmen
at the too
to Gorge and Willum
with lox of Her hone as I begd to
them
I hop and Trust betty pacifid
I furst see
the
dover.
O Mary wen
from
I rit Her
Be dun
wen
dover Wite clifts out of site wat with squemishnes and FelingsI all
most
repentid
givinInglandwarningAnd had douts if I was gointo
shall Be
Him
stewerd
was
xcept by Dustin
returns
no
the
But
self.
better my
kind
verry
the
for Him
ship
And
Young
Wimmin
By
way
taken
Histris
acount
of Testacious
wash
up
reel truths
sich
Pitch
but
JMate
chose
can
for Not
Marred
more
and
sam
in
in
Wurlds
had
the
yung
of them
sum
coverd
with
the
for Me
has
to
as
As
mean.
Truth
to say
shear
and
soon
as
their
anny
the Botes
ever
haf
was
as
the
too
in
pay
humbel
sum
go
so
am
tould We
our
bridle wito
and
maid
and
too
to
go
bean
I have
ought to
My
be treetid Nun
the
there Prommissis
brakes
in
this is
Me
fistcufs about
as
Goodness
thank
Since
Wimmin
rode
to Land
Bows
apeace
duzzin
Far
Not
of
but Eddard
nams
Biggamy
mates.
between
Evry day
hav
of
state
without
I have
them
they can
say
dont menshun
inanny
on
the
Me
Perfidus
are
there Wurds.
and Backers
as
sarsy Buchers
Pi Crust wen
its maid Lite and
as
Salers whom
left
becos
and
yew
I wunder
Minds
the
to
betwixt
unprommist by
stikingto
Wives
new
expex
face and
and
with
Wimmin
thing lick treeting
of your
All
had
we
selves
our
to
My pressentSitiation
sum
but
exampilsbefour there
famus
marry
Hands
Strenths
our
of
and
us
but
too
For
enuff to Lissen
unprudent
wan
moor
helpin to
of
And
beeingFlirted
was
With
men.
Got
was
masters
much
to
was
Rops
50
of
Wurks
was
Their
his dishes.
make
I could
tho
the
agrivate
I dont
to Hand
out
us
to
Specking
say they was
Shipside. Be that as as it May or may
Verry prittysite all Wauking too and
offered to
Gownds
Respex to kernel
Complemcntid us
with
Arther
on
our
the Union
who
Hansom
Jacks
behaived
thro
Us
afore
verry
apearances
to
Gentleand
Pur-
he Wislit
litelysed
so
gallauntas
so
be
us
all round.
amung
Servents
out
And
the
is
match
govennent,who
voice and
Demons
to
by
Was
my
had
Pig
furst
Say
Long
in
my
hone
Fancy
not
All
all
as
and
call Hon-
my
the Van
ming
cum-
Ballets
I
Abel
was
the
to
they
as
fammily
in
indulge
he is lick he is Not
wat
bred and
was
meens
me
be
Brightish
wat
to
is setteld
the
for
fortnately
driv the
as
Part, cumming
and
without
thingin My favers
Ring witch
as
if
salutid
Lonnon
thems
was
sed
have
Missis
on
praxtising
of
Coarse
ramsgit.
you
my
and
and
fashingable
Songs
of
Pearsonallitis about
Ship
Dicktatid
Arther
away,
Wan
of music
nolliges
sum
Salers
in howsumever
Kernel
by
wist.
at
enuff
For
cumming
off
The
theyWood
Pokes, prudence
of the
menny
get
meens
at
Canons
live
in
left there
and to
"
mite
States.
We
wen
without
aproved
to
Bring as
to
Can
chears
]11
SETTLER.
the United
agread to giv me
as
used
we
as
ners
Distinkshun.
the verry
At
askt
in
Bean
not
sich persons of
strangers and
Being
FROM
All
us
giv three
had
they
LETTER
Noboddy
else yew
No.
His picterDun
send yew
lick Him
by liimself only its no more
In spit of the Short Tim
then Chork is to Cheas.
for Lu\ to take
I wood
Roots
cant
am
Speek
am
Thingsfrom
Wurld
As
coarse
ago of
too Munth
this I
of
mary
Weddin
and
Yew
favers
I say
for sich
this
mean
temper
I think
Not
must
I dont
to his
littel did
wen
look
by Way
of dis-
I meen
Wat
to say is this If so be Yung Wimmin
curridgement
prefers
better remane
Born
a state of SillyBessy they Had
ware
but
they was
rite Coartingand no
down
is concarnd This is
as far as Reol
nonsens
to say
Oldfield and
Plane
Blox
Deer
Much
as
may
if the Hole
Mary
if
so
cargo
was
yew
Stringto
was
Ten
not to Wait
SalingI cant
sweat
soon
Bows
at
harts to Thretten
sho wether
dropingin
borrowin
Wans
love to Them
at
wags.
and say
about
with
Faces
Out
I dont
Sikey. as
cumming
My
see
beingGone
to hurt
Yew
your
have
well
as
has
young As
scrubbin
as
to offer to Yew
up his mind
the ship is on the Pint of
Maid
has
Love
shilyshalying
as
to Yandemins
out
supertimeand falling
yew
stumblin
self I will
think
Willin
for them
true
or
Peggy
being
beingso
out
quita
reel
gitmarrid.
Your
want
I dont
vessle for He
and
make
of
theirs
Be
cum
ware
is
man
love
Wen
dont
up
nothink of Not
pressentxcept
its Cubbard
and
Fear
needent
giv yew
Next
the verry
Brown
hapiness.
say
faces Will
ago and
verry nice yung
cum
and Hester
they
disposd to
to
Yeer
brushes, theirs
provididyou
Bo
your
it will
uggly As
as
hear And
out
cum
Gusberris.
in this land
feel
you
at
Charlotte
towards
aford evry Falicity
your
the
Cotchman
Felines but since
as
annother
only to
at 48
to Hannah
tell Them
Be
has
like Cox
partickler
poor
for Yew
and
Gal
And
hav
witch
seen
Enuff
will
of
morning after
giv my Distant
the next
Frends
anny
wurld
to annother
dont
impear
112
but I often
*my Memmery
Dores.
hav
Disclose
may
yew
had
always
Deal
matterymonialProspex
of Confidens.
Susan
will
not
Not
behaved
Hone
but As
hav
yew
to hart
Him
take
to
honnerable
Perfickly
to be atacht to Yew
betty as
remane
Gale
his to be
as
"
off short
or
never
abrade
And
in lew
has
one
seen
Man
Annother
by Return
got a verry
of Him.
as
hope
was
United
A
Allegory"
moral
vehicle.
"
I had
son
wife,her nickname
called Frolic,
who
Alas ! how
often dark
Delightwas
was
was
adew.
Dictionary.
succeeds
Delight;
never
to
still:
bright!
spill,
Enjoyment was upset and shattered quite.
And
Pleasure fell a spUtteron PaMs
HiUf
a
Hav
he has
frend of his
to
Yew
trusts yew
of Postesses
SONNET.
HAD
we
Simco.
RING-DOVES.
Next
two
Furst Match
beeing broke
mary my
take it 111 but I have Marrid the yung
for Yew
waited
will
And
Deer
P.S.
the
affexionat Frend
Your
a-surance
and
22
of Number
Thinks
my
SETTLER.
FROM
LETTER
114
It
illustration
glorious
was
SERIO-COMIC
that face
like the
so
in
sea
REMINISCENCE.
of the Pleasures
dead
calm
on
of
Memory,
day burst
dull
suddenly
brook
that laughs in
ripplesand radiance, like the
have
rushed
must
recollections of exquisite
fooling
into
What
behold
to
the
sun.
into
her
have
"
"
mouths
out
so
grimacedat
have
must
of
! What
countenance
had
serious,
decrepidman
quiet,
Prestissimo ! before
her !
"
Sarah
our
an
steady countenance
? Why
magic ! A
himself,and Presto !
her ! stop her ! back
is there
but to
could
engineer
announce
"
cry
course
up
Ease
the stream
of time to the
summer
nightsat the Lane, or the Garden, or the Midbrightwintrygallery
!
Night'sDream at the Wells. Talk of magnetizers when did
Baron Dupotet, or any of his sect,without pass or manipulation,
thus
throw a sedate orderlymaiden, into an
ecstacy, and set her looking
back
her
of
the
head
at
the
through
pantomimicalexperiencesof the
past ? Talk of
potent that the
ex-clown
Laughing Gas
mere
sightof
! when
could
throw
becgme)
was
"
the
merry convulsions ?
I have often speculated
since
ushered
"
Mr.
Grimaldi,alias
there
was
empty bottle
the
Surah's
on
Joe,"into the
facetious fluid
(forsuch,alas
"
ticklesome
so
! the
into
muscles
deportment,when, having
she returned
drawing-room,
to her kitchen.
she
spirits,
lump
probablyshe dropped
More
firstchair
Joe had
funny
cheated
her
for awhile
of the
sorrows
low
mistress,
a perfidusyoung
wages, a crustaceous
man,
place,with perhapsthe bodilypains of a recent scald,a
of servitude,
hard
and
bad
bruise,
and
habit
as
he lived
face without
"
and
lo !
beyond
her
had met
hope, she
his
For
well
and
as
my
the
own
part, I confess
bewildered
maid
to
have
been
with
somewhat
by pantomimical
him
that
face to
lous
marvel-
unsettled
associations.
of
his
as
Slowly
EPICUREAN
mouth,
two
to
it,or apparentlyany
hear
that
free and
of
forth
thick and
richly
115
SENTIMENTALIST.
centre
voice break
rare
OF
and
left legs,
two
arms,
wrong
in
bone
REMINISCENCES
smart
as
Grimaldi
the
Alas ! how
*'
The
lustre of his
The
life of
Farewell
of
a
a
that the
me
of whim."
was
no
of
short interval
brighteye
by
smack
total wreck.
was
out
with-
half prepared
was
whip,
waggoner's
and eatingcustard,
all at once, but
boy laughing,
talking,
the pleasantillusion,
and convinced
sufficed to dispel
or
body
easy
gravity. I
to
me
Address,which
sive
pas-
down
related to
friend Miss
to indite.
a
Kelly for it did not require
request I had undertaken
He pleadedearnestly
that it might be brief,
being,he said, a bad
study,"as well as distrustful of his bodilystrength.Of his sufferings
he spokewith a sad but resigned
tone, expresseddeep regretat quitting
he delighted
a profession
in,and partlyattributed the sudden breaking
down
of his health to the superiorsize of one
particularstage which
"
"
"
of
required
him
jump
extra
the
at
his
end
of
additional bound,
tasked
mile, had, he thought,over-
gettingoff.
in
Scotch
That
pressed
deportment and conversation imstrength.
with the opinionthat he was
a
warmhearted
me
simple,sensible,
in
he
such
his
Memoirs
indeed
as
a
Joseph
being,
appears
His
whole
"
Adams's
after Parson
and
never
never
again. He
him
saw
heart.
own
its
hands
heartily,
parted,
humorist,and
practical
rare
huge-mouthedGargantuaand
"
their season,"without
I have
best
lost my
REMINISCENCES
EPICUREAN
My
I
Tables
it
THINK
When
my
I know
But
And
the
'Twas
at
Yes,
"
And
Or
OF
Meat
it
is,/
SENTIMENTALIST.
set it down
"
Hamlf.t.
"
was
"
"
season
was
for
over
pork.
thoughtI had
so
his
in
and puddings,
plenty of links,chitterlings,
that
and
his
Grimaldi
in
pantomime
thinking
set of illustrations of that literary
extravaganza.
for
appetite
enormous
was
with
shook
We
noble
had asked
me
beheld
never
turkey and
i2
chine.
with
I met
to
Miss
dine,
such
"
face,
Chase,
116
Placed
OF
REMINISCENCES
EPICFREAN
close
side,it made
her
by
SENTIMENTALIST.
quitewild,
others
I looked
and
alas,to
languished,
Throughthree
Gettingdeeperin
When
love
"
meats
To
sweets
and
quitelost.
was
With
land,
"
With
very fine
I asked
presented
my hand.
of
pottle pines1
I
then to herseK
And
her to have
for weal
for woe.
she did not objectin the least ;
And
me
or
"
^but
"
We
heart
^but my
to the trifleand
it came
cost,
my
of dishes and
courses
smil'd
went
it
to
,
we
married,I
know.
at the feast.
game
was
certainly
sea-side ;
the
I remember
down
Sitting
But
the
season
And
So
the peas
"
fond
pair,such
So united in heart
We
were
But
as
so
"
both of
longlife I
Oh
prawns.
at a
of
plateful
never
That
to a
us
days seem'd
poets have
"
haste,
drawn.
in taste.
congenial
to
partial
brawn
then Death
to
I ne'er dreamt
my
about
bride,
that !
there's
When
as I cried,
nothingis certain in life,
my tuibot elopedwith the cat !
dearest took
My
But
But
It
the
cause
of the year.
could
nab ;
physician
1 fear,
somethingit seem'd like consimaption,
was
justafter suppingon crab.
mark's
SAINT
In vain she
Still her
in
doctor'd,
was
and her
strength
Even
salmon
For months
While
But
dosed,
pined;
appetite
relish'd the most,
it grew
her form
wasted
the
To
she left me
indulgein
the saddest of
But
when
And
sorrowful
"
THE
CITV
hats,
s'lrats !
was
REMEMBRANCKR
MARK'S
SAINT
OF
THE
thee with
un
TALE
then,
their
on
crape
poured
my grief
Were
all crying I think it
Devil choke
men
out.
I beheld
with
widower**s moan,
said
doubt.
and thin
died,and
She
"The
in
d in hope and
linger
the last
As
was
deeplydeclin'd I
she
stillI
vain she
she had
117
eve.
EVE.
OLDEN
!"
"
"
as
"
hand, in
do
TIME.
Master
size and
say the
Giles
the Yeoman
colour like
Devil
choke
ham,
on
thee with
un
The
made
Dame
fowl's liver
"
no
reply:
^the original
cause
"
she
chokingwith passionand
was
of the
dispute. A
of congenial
tastes
sung of the advantage
Kentish
but true it is,the variances of our
people,
said and
this very
coincidence
in
gusto. They
were
both
of the
little
118
SAINT
sufficient to
was
managed
had
the Dame
but
in question,
cfelicacy
and this
for herself,
EVE.
MARKS
cause
without
passedover
seldom
mealtimes
high words,
language. Their
contention
some
of the
sort,
"
beingin fact
they"
"
the morsel
secure
of very
low
very
properlyunderstood, signifies
"which
to
storm
as
equally
they picked
picka quarrel
the bone.
it to
contented
even
was
scuffling"
to
"
in
amicable
less
far
is
than
manner
by
practised
of
takers
the
the
snuff.
On
were
satisfied
present
however, they
difference,
*'
with
other
each
wishing
aspiration,
of the
lookingat
their
^for
faces,
"
made
horrible
cerity
sin-
the
of
little doubt
on
seemed
there
and
"
lignant
ma-
cS"
they
picture
BOXER
it
Now
Mark,
happened that
Saint
"
Votaries
AND
PINCHFil.
of mind.
in this frame
with
belief in those
who
peep
this
supposed
was
days,that if
the
quarreltook placeon
Festival
that
on
of Fate.
should
person
morningof St.
it was
For
keep
the
popular
towards
watch
his
favour
to
night,
mid-
beside the
out
his way
mean
havingthe
like motive
The
for
calash,and
Sexton-like
called to mind
set
spirit
quietly
forth
on
the
ceremonial
same
and
with
curiosity
set
her
errand.
nightof
the Saint
was
supposed to reveal,the
glance,as the sluggishmasses
was
face.
stole
Church.
to the
In the
a littlebefore
midnighthe
Accordingly,
Thun
our
as
moon
dark
chill
were
driven
adventurers
the
as
throwing but
of cloud
two
and
were
mysterieshe
short
occasional
slowly across
her
quiteunconscious
SAINT
beingin
of
other,only a few
pale as Ghosts, and
as
wards
making eagerlyto-
the church
Much
this
for
could
they
quaking
porch.
just
vision,
help
had
they
as
wished
not
and
stopping
on
to
pair of tombstones,
the
position
in this
and
dark
again threw
curtain
and
the
den
sud-
them,
disappeared
other.
each
will
It
over
they
from
two
be
supposed
only to
came
conclusion, each
one
St. Mark
that
conceiving
marked
the
himself.
With
had
to
119
EYE.
tilla sudden
company,
to each
both
MARK
other
this
knowledge,
comfortable
the widow
and widower
elect hied
home
again
SIGHT
SECOND
to
was
other
to sepaexcursion,
rate
chambers.
By
and
down
they came
by, beingcalled
the
table,there
was
the worst
calf's
and
amongst
sweetbread,being
one
other
things
of those very
The Dame
ears.
togetherby
looked and longed,
but she refrained from its appropriation,
thinking
within herself that she could give up sweetbreads
for one year : and
the Farmer
made a similar reflection. After pushing the dish to and
fro several times,by a common
impulse they divided the treat ; and
until
retired
then, having supped, they
amicably to rest, whereas
The truth was,
then, they had never
gone to bed without faUingout.
in the church-yardmould,
each looked upon the other,as beingalready
dainties that
or
"
quite
On
Farmer
had
moulded
the
to their wish."
the
the morrow,
which
happened to be the Dame's birth-day,
he
and
what
the
and
firstto wake,
knew,
was
having
knowing
besides but
the late
justroused
himself out
of
dream
confirmatoryof
strictly
did not
120
her in her
sleep.
took
doom'd
to the
dinner
She
care,
man,
EFE.
MAllKS
8AINT
however,
to
give the
he
that when
considering
fowl's liver at
was
and
dead
if she pleased,
seven
days in the week ;
gone, she could have them,
tid-bits.
to help her to many
his part,took care
and the Farmer, on
with
host
of
that
towards
each other was
an
impatient
Tlieir feeling
regardto an unwelcome
guest,showing scarcely
a
while
civility
bare
in
of his stay,
expectation
but
overloadinghim
with
when
hospitality,
made
parture.
certain of his de-
In this
went
though
addition
any
of love between
and
as
them,
selfishness
much
as
in
yet living
ever,
subservience
of
each
sometimes
not
the
to
and
comforts
found
six
some
and
months,
without
they
manner
for
on
tions
inclina-
other,
be
to
amongst
even
LET
BY-GONES
BE
BY-GONES.
sincerer affections.
couplesof
There
were
as
as
dead."
Ten
turn.
months
The
dreamt, in
saluted him
as
soon
to
years
many
included ; his own
dreamt
wore
Dame, who
truth,that
she
did
"he
day dawned,
as
The
come.
of
visions
Farmer
having been
headache
having a
malady still clung to
him
from
when
they could
much
not
like herself in
and
with
mourning,
him
sighwished
wearinga
awake.
black
The
melancholyon
favourite dishes
hatband, and
whole
both
were
morning
sides,and
upon
the
was
when
the table,
The
eat.
"
"
122
the
he
and
omen,
discounted
the die
St. Thomas.
by
watchM, Dame,
"
Thee
"
Ay,
Master."
**
And
thee
"
In
didst
brown
the
For
higher than
the
had
seed
thee
thanks
God,
thee
to
thee
of thee
this
Dame
throwing her
the
"
porch, then
boot
hose.
in the
while
the Farmer
Thee
I
?"
paused
"
coming
were
coming by
were
^but
the
to
the
next, he
"
"
explanation
one
for
this
lighteningbefore death,
when
lament,
she
was
phenomenon
and
checked
"
she
beginning
was
by
the
merry
was
not
fool.
"
beest
"
Her
heart
was
too
full to
her
that she
husband, she showed
that hour, by practising
careful
a
temperate
couple in
complete
was
answer.
from
It
"
ten-month
round
And
united
too,
no
arms
offence,or
comfort
day
made
his sentiment.
the most
Gap
but
bee'st
Dame,
porch. I
from
the colourless
"
"
"
The
society"
"
"
say
of
woman
the church
the
minute
thought it a delirium
to wring her hands, and
Yeoman
at
his wife
fit of uncontrollable
poor
with
wrap,
"
into
pale
derived
spirituously?"
me
see
Fairthom
church, by
Holly Hedge."
the
burst
appealedto
cast, and
hast
the
she had
numhered
had
was
pale as
as
which
oracle from
"
of late hours.
complexion
St. Martin
turned
EVE.
the
pointedout
instantly
Conscience
The
MARKS
SAINT
sufferance
the
county,
perilousanniversaryof St.
BRAK
Mark's
AND
"
of its appearance,
but it must
be
seen
Eve.
FOK-BE^n.
each
speak,but
shared
in
abstinence
they became
said,that their
other,in safety,over
123
This,
"
confess,I did
SINGLE
not
this is Solitude."
Ah
guess
make me
Would
Such unkind
need
They
not, sure,
Java
As
I'm
not
distant be
as
"
reminds
Miss
Yet every
this
me
They
"
now
I'm
singleman
treat me
so, if I but go
make a morning call
If they had hair in
papers once.
Bolt up the stairs they ran ;
To
Japan,
or
parlourand
They
now
how
me,
In
Hoylb.
"
Byron.
"
simplemarriagevow
MAN.
"*
Well,
NOT
TM
not
"
singleman
II.
Once
VII.
of my
choice
made
they
bass
Miss
voice
share
To
stand
So
now
Romans
"
"
What
And
works
so
They
buy
to
not.
or
would
"
asked
was
But
hear
to
one
out
My
read;
is fond of
spouse
homely life.
And
began.
now
fond
so
Well,
III.
Once
once
dailysoughtmy cabinet.
To study my antiques.
chanced
in every set :
declare I cannot
"
was
and of Greeks
She
sing.
And
dance on Bruin's plan ;
Me draw
me
paint! meanything!
!
I'm not a single
man
They
Bond
Mary
Of
in each duett ;
well I danced, I somehow
To
never
wear
ring :
I come.
yet each Miss to whom
As strange as Genghis Khan,
Knows
sign,I can't divine,
by some
And
"
How
I'm
My pretty
"
I'm not
where
IV.
used
more
Than
I
But
My
Like
frill;
now
then
buttons
I'm not
button
never
can
singleman
on.
"
Bachelor
were
s,"
how
Thrust
But
now
To
lays
m
not
her
a
that
mama.
her own
who praises
Instead of Jane or Ann,
And
I'm
Miss
Mama,
"
"
rooms,
Solitude,
not
singleman
X.
entertain
on
v.
Oh
Zimmerman
could get
once
collar then,
hemmed
Another
I had
stitch
to
singleman
IX.
Go
One
girls upon
singleman !
self.
Towne
boast
of Roman
nose
can
line.
that in scorn
turn
up
Of complimentsof mine :
that I have been
She should have seen
Will
even
partisan,
reallymarried all I
I'm not*^a
singleman '
Her
the shelf"
And
sex's
could
"
124
PENSIONER.
GREENWICH
XIII.
Others
fare,
others
how
Is
"
Will
take my
one
no
don't
me
I'm not
to mount
care
single
course,
go
But,
so
should
"
singleman
XIV.
be in
I must
A
much
"
say
I'm not
force.
not
surely,
lady'stint
"
stdr"
man
change,of
Some
hand ?
would
may
May
because
arm
hint
guess
simplemarriage vow,
"
Would
Such
make
me
unkind
now
women
"
"
And
not
i have
But
I'm not
pick up a fan ?
been myselfpickedup
!
man
a single
A
Is
sort
Sea
ocean
Bear,
and
could not
I'm not
OF
2\CHELOK
dry on
do, the
land
digestproperlyunless his
singletear"
singleman !
HEAUlS.
the shore.
his
PENSIONER
marine
misses
d.
I fear,a
Without,
"
GREENWICH
of stranded
He
of life
like a
pines for his
and
What
the
brinywashings
wettings.
does,for
element
it makes
is rolled and
him
sick
tumbled
he
cannot
like a
body
barrel-chum.
Terra firma is good enough he thinks to touch at for
wood
and water, but
is no
he swears
wind
There
nothingmore.
ashore" every day of his lifeis a dead calm, a thingabove all others
"
about
GREENWICH
detests
he
he
Walk
the
and
mast,"
boat,
whistle.
shooting
his
away
with
our
Economists
with
our
of
as
the
"
the
as
and
He
Pint.
the
"
at
subject to
will
puzzled
der
rud-
"
before
but
him
GREENWICH
of
running
an
has
arrival
at
with
of
"
of
the
advantage
of
it to be
those
prize money,
in the
Finally, try
meaning
hesitation, The
"
of
the
foreignvessels,
petitions
for the
PENSIONER.
reads
situation," recalls
him
Paradise
Royal George."
He
Value," knowing
Martial.
ing
dream-
him
set
An
carrying
"
sympathises
for
ball
sometimes
without
answer,
Creation
together.
He
of
into
Court
Sea
of
tree
enjoys retrospects.
ideas
for
of
languages, by asking
he
is
craft whose
ring,will
Aboukir.
Standard
wonders
Fleet,"
but
it reminds
and
Canvassing
station
the
to
despises a
singing birds
land
and
Battersea,"
He
prospects,
announcement
ensign.
ports open," claps him
learned
Rex,"
the
The
from
Court,
for
set
disdains
earthquake.
he
that
steady
decayed mooring
splices sea
tie at
hates
or
pigtail.
own
all sails
British
Poll
off
still and
not, for he
all
give
He
He
for hours.
'*
will
so
occasional
an
especialaversion.
stray anchor,
for
better
astern.
not
would
and
Boatswain's
he
ride
is his
scenery
it
ground being
legs ; and
is forward
Inland
like
the
cannot,
his
keep
to
would
^he
"
125
PENSIONER.
to
be
charged
dis-
Marshalsea
him
of
with
"
wrecks
even
in
Georgius
of
the
J 26
ENJOYING
BURNING
THE
"Sometimes
morning
I tritd
In
10
my
seemed
ever
go
read
with all my
"
left hand
My
LETTER.
LOVE
called
was
the
Fiery Ordeal.''
"
"
Landlord's
'Twas
threepence ready in my
twelve
last
at
my
"
right.
heart beat
Of
Postman
just upon
I seized
the
rattled
"
at the
her road
Bride
note
"
to
door !"
"
and
sweet
not
of
sort
and
meet"
thing"
heart
and
"
word
about
ring!"
church,
of Lammermoor
I flew
But
with
rhyme
to
"
And
dropt the
full of love
dove
high !"
The
"
And
And
'Twas
the seal
I tore
panting haste
With
long !
might !
Tales,"
And
LANDLORD
proof, by what
the
to
MY
THE
OF
put
were
OF
Eng.
Hist.
No
they
"TAILS
THK
!"
up stairs
lock'd me
in"
"
In doubt
I cast
And
stood
And
saw
Without
to
the
a
it in the
watch
Parson
flame,
the latest
and
spark"
in smoke-
Clerk
127
! it 's
I have
Hoy
"
woh
"
and
!" -Coachee
Rocket
"
man's,
water-
was
vowels.
domesticmiddle-aged,
cook
at
an
plain
ordinary,
and
pulled up,
justhandsome
lookingwoman,
Proverb.
Old
"
Coachy
throughthe
Portsmouth
The
reed.
Burgomaster.
The
"
wough-hoaeiouy!"
"
all
went
Co-iw;h !"
!
wo-hoay
"
"
trusted to
!~Cotch!"
vei
ROAD.
DILEMMA.
THE
R"'A
THE
ON
SKETCHES
enough for
"
and
and
I
the
of it
not
a
yet it clungto
liberal ; but
very
dunce's cap
on
his head.
to
but
strangerto
in his
him
examined
if I had
as
"
ab.
"
and
me,
that
was
after
his shoulders ;
myself that he had more
on
Women
in the
and
are
it
"
entered
the
to do with
I
life of me,
literature than
naturallycommunicative
into
key-bugle.She
recitative
informed
that
dickeygossip,
been
but, for
dickey broughtup,
she
bequeathed by
was
with
him
an
deceased
the
in the
The
"
If
to be
found
every
day
course
invaluable
in the
the Blue
"
Boar.
the female
say, her
pauses
reserve,
of the
rather
or
conversation,
servant, and, as such, had
of
care
of
one
of his relatives
housekeeper,and
persuade
not
little while
duringthe
to the
Such
to
overlook
she remarked,
places,"
year."
!
prophetic
it'sPutney," said the guard,
last sentence
schoolmasters.
ideal Saracen's
could
would
guard
master
as
Putney,to exert her vigilance
pounds a year.
every thing for fifty
is not
after
militaryman
as
at
"
may
umbrella
an
Morallyspeaking,I had
Head
runs
presumptuous opiniontherefore
a
perfect
notwithstanding that he was
; it was
coach
all those
prejudice
sticking
he who
"
worth
good shilling*'s
run
It
morally sure
in
fancy persisted
Shakspeare says
him
formed
vehicle I travelled to
I felt as
was
"
it'sthe very
placewe're going
128
ON
SKETCHES
THE
ROAD.
get down.**
did get down, and
woman
; the young
her
and
her hand-basket,
her two trunks, three bandboxes,
bundle,
I've had a very pleasantride,"she said,
were
ranged round her.
givingthe fare with a smirk and a curtseyto the coachman, and am
the young
wants
woman
to
"
"
much
very
"
"
"
"
Putney
"
don't be
all Putney,from
you
"
almost
can
alarmed, my
the
the
you
house,can't
"It's
a
just
come
over,
of it.
out
to
It's
that windmill
"
can't do
Putney before,and
it seems
If the coach
place.
stretch
in
been
never
impossiblethat's
minute, and
can't go
you
"
see
sort
scrambling
dear
bridgewe've
the
sum
for outsides if
more
they was
to
"
is timed
all
Kings
to
of
England."
"
out of
see
how
it is,"
said the
patience,
preparedto
female,bridling
up,
while the
coachman,
do
"
But
I don't know
who
or
where
to
ask
for,"screamed
the lost
I could
straight,
of her
see
as
baggage,
"
"
the Bewildered
forlorn
The
world
Her place
as
was
"
standingin the
to Milton,
Eve, when, according
all before
Maid
her,where
to
choose
"
"
THE
OPENING
OF
MILTON's
PARADISE
LOST.
midst
130
DISCOVERY.
THE
Unless
Oh
you
would
joinlike
fancy if Faith
The
one
But
think
in his
find you
In
one
tune
'Fore
"
her
and
clogs,
hail fellows,well
vdth your rain,and
"
God," they
in your
the other
people would
the
how
To
on
an
twins
the Siamese
Just
awkwardish
tumble,
jumps ;
should
stumble,
Prophets
with
meet
"
would
cry,
in pumps
RATHER
THE
OUT
the fair
"I
a
an
THE
WEATHER.
DISCOVERY.
"
by
IN
Mr.
sex.
wouldn't
be
said
outside,"
Mr.
"
for
tnfle."
"
Nor
I, as
of the
Alley.
quenter
fre-
THE
is waitingfor,"said Mr.
Mat
what
I wonder
"
131
DISCOVERY.
"
Tidwell,
for
we
are
"
of old
opened,and
"
up
Mr.
We're
"
soon
placeis took
I believe every
"
was
what
ostentatiously
inquired,
somewhat
Mat
doubt
Tidwell's
Mr.
indeed he very
well
knew
inside ?"
behalf
Jones,on
of the usual
plement
com-
stagers.
I told you
stood beside
so. Ma'am," said Mat, to a female who
door
to
invitation
but
still
from
the
an
within.
him,
leaving
open
However, nobody spoke on the contrary, I felt Mr. Hindmarsh,
"
my
"
like the
himself
dilating
neighbour,
next
what
I don't know
"
frogin
the fable.
the
ketch your
To
"
"
be
sure
and
death,
are,"said
you
Mr.
"
"
Mat,
I, Mr.
an't
coach,
"
woman
I've
for you
no
may
Jones ?"
Jones,rather impatiently
;
"
shut
the door."
"
I told the
Mat,
towards
ribbons
in
"
"
female),
the
^but such
"
should have
you
pretty
one
as
my
make
dear"
sorry, my
seat,if you
oughtto have
you
for
room
swered
her,"an-
(tummg
could hold
the
the door.
began slowly closing
Mr. Domton, and the door quicklyunclosed
!"
cried
Stop,Mat, stop
I can't give up my
place,for I'm expected home to dinner ;
again;
He
"
"
"
knees
to sit on my
lady wouldn't object
Not the least in the world," answered
Mat, eagerly
;
you won't
with
for
in
married
will
a
once
a way,
gentleman,
object,
you, ma'am,
but if the
"
"
"
and
wet
"
If I
her
furling
with
another
she favoured
she handed
umbrella,which
wet
her
her, in such
gentleman,whilst
one
She then
muddy pattens.
Mat
in to
manner
followed
as
to
self,
her-
help her
in.
"
"
but
I'm
I'm
sure
which
''
For
at ease.
humour
of
with
my
own
myself and
had
gallantry.I, who
of the old
the
S( tx
"
part, I candidlyconfess
Charles
Grandison
stockbroker
"
laysof
the
"
how
upon him
I did not stand alone,I
conferred
read the
Courts of Love,"
historyof Sir
by a married
who
the person
to
"
How
was
me
equally out of
such an example
the Troubadours
"
preux
be outdone in
grudgedhim
"
the awards
Chevaliers"
"
courtesy to the
the honour
she
!
feelings
unjustifiable
jealousy; Messrs.
Parsons,seemed equallydisinclined to
suspect,in this
and
set
lives of the
I envied his
Jones,Hindmarsh, Tidwell,
had
132
chivalrous
forgive the
blotted
and
crests
all these
answers,
firm, and
of
so
elaborate
an
low,
stage stopped.
coach-door,
hand,
"
"
Yes,
you,
be,"
is Mr.
This
assertion, and
her
"
the
was
other
in
so
and
Why
and
was
very
and
the
the
literal cat
and
up
done
the
tittering
had
beside
stood
Mat
front
the
open
in her
lantern
garden.
shrill voice.
been
Place
dry-nursed from
us
town
;"
?"
in
dignifiedwoman
on
^mercy
"
somewhat
clogs,with
had
the
Domton,
you're
the
in master's
hood,
lap
vancing
ad-
!"
five of the
laughterfrom
like
who
s," said
"
Mr.
whilst
calash
ten. Grove
Domton
celerityrushed
stage ""
lady
number
umbrella
Renounce
so
stockbrokers
rung,
repliedthe
"
of
shout
feline
bell
lantern,
her
and
so
this rather
dear^' answered
my
staid female
ma'am,
"
"
and
pompously down
clattering
?" inquired a
Susan
Pegge come
I
that
enumeration,
came
Is
are
last
like
businessincontinentlyreturned
Stock
Exchange quotations; and he
Bonds.
Spanish
about
Domton
fluctuations,and
operations,and
and
fair
un-
"
very
so
Many
spurs.
our
our
an
Rentes?"
questionsMr.
accordingto the
and
off
cut
all
he attempted
champion of the fair,and when
the lady, he was
with
interruptedby incessant
"
What
in the Alley ?"
is doing in
stirring
the
are
middle
in the
knights,lowered
true
as
at the
is
How
Dutch?"""
To
our
What
"
of
questions
had.
scutcheons, and
conversation
into
which
act
launched
jibe was
to enter
was
DISCOVERY.
THE
her
the
out
inside passengers
corroborated
the
getting
of the
bag, the ci-devant lady, for-
pattens, bolted
garden, and
woman
devil didn't
AN
Domton,
she tell
UNEXPECTED
down
me
MEETING
she
the
coach, and
area,
of number
of
out
the
as
was
he
scuttled
the
new
out
cook
with
ten.
of the
?"
133
LITTLE
It
was
Was
And
Well
DAY
SPORT
O' P."
ON
THE
MOORS.
AFRICAN
AN
FACT,
Now,
this
ship had
little O'Patrick
And
captain,Macmorris
mate
was
of the
by
same
name.
Bristol
Only
littleO'P. made
And
Avhen
He
saw
he revived
big Black
swim
from
with
to the coast
a
a
sort
very
of
trance,
longlance.
Hottentot tongue,
the savage, says he, in some
Kuku
Bash
gimmel bo gumborry bung !
my
Says
"
"
Then
blew
And
down
They
The
came
broughtwith
j"rst
was
the
to
longshell,
like
hundred
them
as
black
as
and
guattul,
beef,and
the second
"
Don't
*'
to eat me
They're intending
of
fright
as
our
elf,
himself.
piecesof klam^
like lamb
the wretches
soon
as
at ?
are
I'm fat I
"
134
O'P.
LITTLE
coming
of
In terror
would
He
touch
not
spit,or pot,
to pan,
suffer d to rot ;
jarhulhe
of
rations
His
FACT.
AFRICAN
AN
doolherry-lik^
or
purry
kept
not let
would
He
kick'd down
But
I
"
himself
And
The
The
an
rat !
"
The
the purry
(I chew'd
jarhulis fresh,for I
And
the Bok
My jumho I
is
from
off to
run
myself)is not
bad ;
it cut out.
saw
it came
that
but
it
about.
grazing
BilleryNang,
And
And
And
Now
Billery
Nang
With
And
Black
as
was
as
thick
he
the moment
sweep.
of a sheep,
spiedher,
But
when,
She
came
to
accept him
And
natt^-
And
"
with
"
last the
At
Or
t to be
Raven
With
preparingto
!**
at me
charms.
lipsto
broad
billlike
Dove,
grinof love,
he declined the
and
Stoppedher
eluded
grim bliss,
her kiss
Molyneux anns,
;
the
she
attack.
f
oiled,
last,
fairly
gave up
And Joddry began to look blacker than black ;
!
! by Jumbo
why here is a man,
By Mumbo
Tliat won't be made happy do all that I can ;
He will not be married,lodged,
clad,and well fed,
At
'^
"
take his
THE
Inside
"
with
or
out, ma'am
DEBUTANTE.
?" asked
the
coachman,
he
as
stood
civilly
If you
umbrella
**
answered
the woman,
please,I'll try in first,"
poking in
before
an
I'm not used to
her,and then a pair of pattens,
and
don't
think
I
could
the
coaching,
keep myself on
top."
In she came,
"
"
and
after
laps,she found
some
having firsttried
floundering,
of the
two
tlemen's
genfront seat, where
135
DEBUTANTE.
THE
woman,
but
"
actual
an
spasm
with
broke."
As
heard
and
As
the cad
enclosed
smart
her
she
horrible.
pulledwere
her
whisper
started
"
herself,
to
her feet,and
on
somethink
the
horses
herself
same
"
accustomed
to be
excused
carried
away."
by saying,
she plumped again in her old place,but her physiognomy
in torture, as if broken, not upon
didn't improve. She seemed
one
and
h
er
worked
four.
Her
but
eyebrows
wheel,
up
eyes rolled,
upon
her lips
out
tears that wouldn't come,
down, as if tryingto pump
kept goinglike a rabbit's,
though she had nothingto eat, and I fancied
sively
I could hear her grindingher teeth.
Her hands,meanwhile, convullike
orange-juice
graspeda bundle on her lap,till something
went
When
coach
the
between
her
on
one
out
side,
squeezed
fingers.
herself
she wasn't
so
Dow^l
"
she
clutched
at
the
of whichever
arm
and
last she
she
I suggested
that
hastily
somewhat
and
neighbourssat highest,
of her
At
of both.
ride backwards.
If it'sall the
"
Sir,I
to you^
same
be gladto change
really
should
seats."
The
removal
not without
effected,
all our
feet,and hang
was
to tread on
could
subside.
It
if such
vis-a-vis,
visagesinnumerable
as
much
did
of it
out
after
so
"
"
The
as
for if her
she could.
face
She
and
where
be used
phrase may
to
all
on
managed, however,
was
for
dijB"culty,
some
one
her
was
our
she
trived
con-
she
necks, before
there
sat
we
again,
opposed
visage
was
hardlyneeded
to
speak,but
she
short interval.
hope you'llexcuse,
air's what
you
stout
gentleman in
the
comer.
"
the musicians
"
Let
whilst
that would
I think
Yes,
call
the
stout
revive
me,"
lady
gentlemanon
her
after
right,
on
what
her
a
left,
check-
that hung
of the skirt of a great-coat
pullat the comer
nometer
ChroThe
off
the
roof.
the
over
owner
window, almost pulling
stopped.
It's the lady," said the little man
to the coachman, as the latter
be
inside out."
at
the
she
wants
door
to
appeared
;
It's as the gentleman says,"added
I an t quite
the female ;
You
shan't
be
but
I
don't want
to affect the fare.
myself,
any loser,
string,
gave
the
"
"
"
"
There's
with
the
whole
somethinglike
man,
coachscram-
136
It
to be taken
meant
never
"
"
I think
but
"
the
on
"
board
backgammon
as
if
up.
little man,
said the
ungallant,"
seems
again;
herself
seating
felt her
bling,we
she
DEBUTANTE.
THE
oughtn'tto
women
we
them
long ones.
stages,for they'recertain to make
of the rightcoach, and
sure
First of all,they have been told to make
Home
and Co.,'and
licensed to carry,'
they spellit all over, from
hundred
and nine.
Then
to No. nine thousand, fourteen
they never
cries Hackney,' they say
If one
that means
Cambelieve the cads.
of
i
nto
Then
had
I've
and
berwell,'
they
enough getting
stages.
wrong
it will start exactly,
have to ascertain it's the first coach, and when
and when
they'resure of both points,they'reto be hunted for in a
shop, and out of that into a fruiterer's. At last you
pastry-cook's
called
are
short
'
'
'
think
^but
'em,
have
you
"
such
no
their
told to make
been
*'
bargainwith
foot
one
"
on
the coachman
exclaimed
"
'
hour.
We
all had
nevertheless
and
shrewd
thoughtproper
inquirewith
at the
guess
to
bigvoice
pop
"
his littlehead
What
the
little
the
but
cause,
man
of the window,
out
plague we
stopping
were
for?"
"
"
It's the
ladyagin,Sir,"said
the
She
coachman, in
sure
it will
dissatisfied tone.
come
"
"
It's very
againin
"
well,"said
stage
Poo
! poo
can't be stuck
London
"
the littleman,
"
woman
'*
to suit the
consider your
in
and
garden-pots
"
and
now
I wish
she
sex
then.
Shell
may," said
;" and, as
about
proceeding
"
own
wife,"said
"
man
women
the littleman,
if to confirm
mile, came
the stout
againto
rather
the
full
but
"
tartly,
sentence, the
up
to
it'shard
coach, after
stop.
"
please
a
"
the littleman,
"
can't
woman."
I should
think,"suggestedthe
stout
"
man,
if you
were
to
give
138
showed
pelisse
her
lady ?
of her shoes
One
road
muddy,
was
balancingon
one
declined
which
say,"bellowed
like
stood
she
It
wandered
hands
"
Oh
"
How^^s
the
was
time
lady !
to
some
"
have
"
"
Gracious
"
no
the
"
giggle;
Giveherher
"
The
dark
he
resumed
smacked
There
as
we
"
on
"
rolled
How
I'm
back,
she
could
"
then
round
arms
last time
door and
the
for
bolted out,
woman's
one
slapon
finishing
the sole.
Coachman,
"
how
Bless
far is
Tom.
exclaimed
the stout
of
out
with
woman,
once,"cried
get down
"
seat
for
"
man.
a
She
sort
A
; and
is
There
in the
the littleman
I to hever to
"SHORT
of
hysterical
the top
on
passenger
Tom
himself,as well
swore
as
his
no
comer
partinglook.
THE
can* t do it ! **
walking."
to
the fret.
his old
ham
and
for the
man
opened the
I leaned
she
her
short exclamation.
situation !
distressing
threatened
horses,were
she
success.
frightmerely;
of puttingon
gratification
then at
luggage
man
and
horribly,
as
nine
and
"
the
old-fashioned
?"
heaven
only
for
fat
he
answer,
It's
before
enough
shouted
the
heart,though,it's
London
posturingand
better
no
small of her
time
the
as
"
it obtained
findingthat
boot, and
of the
one
was
again with
ribs to the
her
It
trunks
them
the
crane,
escaped with
not
but
freely,
just in
had
from
it
as
shouted
was
she
each knee.
rubbed
"
lady ?
evident
was
with
Numidian
conveniency,"and
plenty of luggage.
is the
How
"
big man.
the leathern
boots it held
the
remain
preferredto
had
if she had
as
Hill.
Greenwich
How''s the
"
all awry
rumpled and
ruffled and
as
down
just rolled
"
DEBUTANTE.
THE
get to
STAGE"
York
MILE-
by
END
the mail ?
OMNIBUS.
"
baby, and
139
GENTLE
AND
ANGLER^S
THE
FAREWELL.
Resign'd,I
Well
! I think it is time to put up !
For it does not accord with my notions,
take
last
nothing at
by
my
At
Gudgeon would
brandlingonce
gape.
But
they
now
seem
upon
ground-bait
my way as
dip in at each watery dimple;
advice
they taken
different terms
Have
tions
mo-
!
I
SIMPLE.
ofNice,''
Diet of Worms^
"
now?
And
But
In vain my
I wish
however
Not
To
the fish.
inveigle
To my gentle
theywill not
Though
float goes
my
so
playsimple!
ly
swimming-
on,"
bad luck
My
It would
never
to
seems
diminish
Not
Not
seem
Trout there
a
a
can
Graylingor
be in the place.
the
Rud
worth
mention,
And
With
I
can
my
hook
Tench
on
see
my
hook
I spin.
think it worth
cork.
a nibble has ruffled my
It is vain in this river to search then
Not
I may
wait tillit'snight.
Without
any bite.
And
at roost-thne
have
never
Parch
then !
a
"
Roach
can
I meetwith
"
no
Bleak,
Save
with
to
snatching;
attention I look,
ne'er
live minnow
Piiceseems
No
althoughat
140
Oh
POPPING
! there is not
THE
QUESTION.
"
By
method
learn'd how
Eel I have
an
Walton's
of
for miles,
casting
"
Of 80 Ashless a stream
But that 'tis" like St. Mary's
For
I have
pound prize
!
lottery
one
To
Let
Otteryl
to
own
And
try,
ing,"
show-
the
it is,without
What
Fish, to be Fasting!
While
dinner-time
my
very fast.
from a
sounds
far bell,
to the skin,
wet
I'll e'en back to my
Inn,
Where
of a Bar^belU
at least I am
sure
"
But
fisherman
Little prospect of
In
paththat
Eels,
devoted
So,
feels
to
towing!
POPPING
My
friend Walker
is
THE
QUESTION.
great story-teller.He
in the East, who, without
reminds
me
of the
tale-bearers
professional
beingparticularly
of Sinbad, or
the adventures
requestedby the company,
beginreciting
the life,
and
of
Hunchback.
No
resurrection
does
Little
death,
sooner
conversation flagfor a few
minutes,than W. strikes up, with some
such prelude as, "I
about
told you
the Flying Fish affair before,
"
but
as
you wish
your
to
me
memory,
fresh
re-
you
fillshis
deliberately
and furnishes himself
glass,
with
cork,a bit of
or an
orange-peel,
applea
paring,to
be
shredded
and
sub-shredded
the
course
during
of narration.
Many Scotchmen,by
way,
and
given to
are
macual
same
the
located
Back
informed
that
at
the
sity.
propen-
lady
towards
the
dians,
Cana-
most
party
tlements
Setme,
she
the
mantel-shelf,
chairs,
tables,and every
gave,
wooden
article of
was
nicked
niture,
fur-
and
notched
It
or
by the knives
is most probably an
mtcrmixture
FISHING
of her
Indian
with the
guests,like
the
talHes of
and
peculiarity,
Chipaways"
select few
RISE.
but to return
of my
Exchequer
our
derived
by
to W.
there
friends,
intercourse
The
occurred
other
one
THE
POPPING
of
suspensionsof
irresistible allusion
an
to
Quaker
availed himself.
course
"
"
to
W.
Of this pause
meeting.
me
provoke
frequently
which
words,
armistices,or
verbal
those
silences,
sudden
those
of
141
QUESTION.
were
"
had
who
never
W.
seen
in his
life
before,naturallystared
such
at
bold
he set off at
mincing,while
"
The
way
don't know
Queen
frequent,and
house
two
to say, was,
are
you
Poultry,"the drysaltershook
in the
Arms
have
to
came
whether
very
civil
ago.
don't
you
it'sthe
^that is
"
was
season
"
head,
of fellow he is
sort
obliging
The
summers
his
and
sultry,
very
says
it's a pleasant
keep ginger pop
this
and
wholesome.
at
particularly
"Well,
season,
refreshing
beverage
for
for
the
he
likes
thankful
to
have
hint,
was
Hopkins
very
every
I wonder
I, Hopkins,
thing that
once
None
a
called for,and
be
can
the best
recipefor it
"
Hopkins
hum'd
like
was
make
I'llgiveyou
your own.
I couldn't
gainmy
could make
thoughtnobody
settinghim right,so at
no
it
well
as
of mine
sample
But
persuaded
at
better.
point.
it but the
last I determined
to
can
have
make
order
an
him
to the
the
maker
bottled.
ever
sendingoff
haw'd, and
and
There
put him
for
was
trash,said I, but
of their wholesale
makers.
he
manufactory, but
ginger-beer
the
to
"
as
I've
"
any
got
one
few
"
You
perhaps better.
bottles at my
shall
counting-house,
and
and
it'sonly a step. Of course, Hopkins was
obliged,
very much
I
off I went.
and
In confidence between
Sir, though never
me.
you
had the pleasureof seeing you before"
I wanted
to introduce ginger"
beer at the
"I
am
Queen''sArms
Sir
sure,
"
as
I'm
very
publicbenefit."
much
stammered
the dryobliged,"
IVe
no
doubt,is very
Ginger-beer,
"
at a loss what
to say.
salter,
and
after fruit
efficacious, particularly
always see them at the same
shops."
"
lobsters,for
observe
you
The
or
but
drink
best
in
the
ought to be
"
"
"
and
I heard
female
scream.
like
poured over
melted
me"
lead
one
was
afraid
knocked
me
down
I'm not
made
of
"
warm
look round
to
with
brass,
hot.
heavy and
within,and the
"
straw.
^for the
"
and
You
minute
when
know
I
felt
Two
other
cold without.
You
142
QUESTION.
THE
POPPING
stood,winkingand gasping,and
froth and foam, like a lady just emerged out of the sea
all over
only
and
satin
bonnets.
You
might
they don't bathe in green silk pelisses
such
saw
never
she
There
object!
an
"
knocked
have
handkerchief,but
my
she
What
hair.
that
only remember
don't know,
with
down
me
did
or
said
attempted to wipe
her
preferred
make
To
own.
first I
at
thingsworse,
had been
the passengers made a ringround us, as if we
goingto fight
I
would
'em
set up a laugh.
rather have
of
about it,and a good many
if
lie
I
I
don't
tell
I
would
banditti.
a
been surrounded
gladly
say
by
tossed
been
have
of the
circle by
bull.
How
mad
longed
like
jump
to
out
lequin
Har-
intoatwopennyto
slip
post-box, or
down
eel !
like
plug
an
"
"
Yery distressing,
indeed,"said the drysalter.
"
don't
resumed
W.,
when
much
as
died
mother
upon
was
but
think,"
"
my
I
"
poor
don't,
soul !
my
felt
She
expectedfor years,
the lady in
green
like
came
!
"
bolt
thunder-
When
the
saw
ginger-beerweltering
down
her,
almost
as
Tweedie's
would
have
soon
blood.
seen
shop. Heaven
remember
cannot
one
of
knows!
BOOTY.
SEIZING
BANDITTI
How
murderer
suppose
into
her
got
pulled her
in,for I
word
of
for
"
The
dissent.
dry-salter
signified
matter
his theoryis rightall over
it is as true as gospel!"
exclaimed
There
W., with an asseverating
thump upon the table.
is an
aloft
infernal,
little demon, hovers
malicious,aggravating,
up
about us, wherever
we
go, ready to magnify any mischief,and deepen
"
No
"
"
"
disaster.
every
but
as
soon
and
bottle,'
as
Sure I
I
am
began
uncorked
he hovered
to
about
me
wipe briskly,bang
itself before
it
was
The
cloths
againwent
called for.
came
'
shall
"
t*'ot]ier
never
THE
POPPING
whish
the sound ! Pop, whiz,fiz,
forget
rather
have
guggle: I'd
guggle,guggle,
ish
slish
slosh
"
"
"
been
at the
slush
"
explodingof
"
the
At
Mills !
Powder
143
QUESTION.
hastilyround,
jet from the open cases on the
counter, to the show-traysin the shop window, filled with Tweedie's
I favoured Tweedie
choicest cutlery
; and as I completedthe pirouette,
Dartford
but
by
so
the
flown in his
fussyfluid had
throat with
cut
my
myselfwith
pairof the
"it
razors
the
himself shake
his head
the
on
stand
trooper.
that made
Tweedie
she
that
even
got so rampant,
had
sweet
a
particularly
tryingto make
voice
thingscomfortable,I
polished
"
and
saw
of
some
I
upon words, and
I stamped about,
me
than
worse
I cursed
and
myselffor
and
manner,
began to hear
stabbed
"
keepingit in his
lady began to console
the
could
frightful
was
and
cut
have
at the chains
I know
foot,and
lady'^s
last I
mess
to
time
like
swore
he looked
as
I could
"
The
splashedscissors!
all
brightsteel buckles,buttons,clasps,
rings,
Tweedie
wink, as
unendurable!
was
of the wet
one
hard
face.
own
W.,
"Unpleasant!" ejaculated
have
with
drysalter,
ever.
talking
At
house.
me,
and
as
Tweedie, too,
reason
but if
I carry ginger-beer
againin my pocket,alongCheapside
"
Till you**re
a widower,"said I.
ever
"
"
"
the
coming to that.Sir,"continued W., still addressing
that
into
and
I
insisted
the
on
a
lady
by
drysalter.
coach,
putting
I
was
"
means
obtained
and
address,
her
was
graciously
accepted,and
kind
white
one
dictated,I
politeness
common
well received.
the
when
indulgence,
as
new
afterwards
condescended
silk dress
green
met
with
be
Mrs.
the
was
same
"Walker.
lady
trifles. Through
on
fortunes,
Sir,in this world,hinge frequently
with
an
I
o
f
into
thus
a prettyfortune ;
a
explosion pop
popped
partner
but for all that,I would not have any man,
like the Persian in Hajji
of the country. For
accident for the custom
Baba, mistake a mere
to
Our
Ccelebs in Search
of
"Wife
to walk
up
bottle of ginger-beer
in his pocket,would
a
MILL
HISTORY
OF
THE
and
be
down
Cheapsidewith
Quixotic in
CRUSaDKS.
the extreme."
144
SONG.
SEA
DIBDIN.
AFTER
Pure
For
my
if Tars
For
The
One
day
when
into
ax'd for
And
Well,
And
to
fault,
by natur,
been
salt !
"
be neat
but
was
!
"
half
sober,
"
disdain
always
shop that
"Water
some
the lubber
Till I'd
:"
creatur
of decorum
measures
I walked
"
sense
meant
was
never
Half
flat
"
jorum
strong,sharpish,or sweet,
if I've any
For
all that
water
never
it into
it
make
swig
have
off with
And
was
should
would
sea
Then
he drew
sold
Soda,
Champagne
and
six bottles
shipped my
"
he
or
:"
drew, boys,
more.
off my
last limb but it^s true, boys,
I wam't
half so drunk
afore !
as
blow
Why,
"
off with
Then
And
make
For
if I've
It
think
could
never
in
own
sartinlydrinks very
part a drop of the
it
For
and
the decks
it finds its
And
It
swabbing
The
it
water
never
it into
jorum.
or
sharpish,
sweet,
strong,
of decorum,
sense
any
a
it
was
meant
to be
BOTTLE
neat.
J4CK.
146
It would
a far
require
ensued
which
scene
unusual
so
his
"
natural
dark
the
to
justice
the
on
ed
allud-
nance
repug-
pale faces
of the
to the
do
myself to
Imperfect
Sympathies,"has
to the
artist than
Elia, in
late
Essay on
better
QUESTION.
WHITE
applica
an
The
tion.
AND
BLACK
THE
"
ones.
In
countenance,"
negro
benignity. I have
felt yearnings
of tenderness
of
towards
these
faces,
rather
or
that have
masks,
looked
kindly upon
out
casual
encounters
streets
and
'
in the
I
these
cut in
not
images
ebony.'But
like to
in
Fuller beautifully
calls
I should
one
highways.
love what
of God
of
some
they
to share my
"
YOU
MASSA,
a' PRENTICE?"
WANT
asso-
black."
and
meals
Such
goodnightswith
my
is
feeling
them
"
imperfectsymtruly
pathy,
shopkeeperevidentlywent beyond the essayist,
and
A
regarded the nigger with a positiveantipathy.
good
horse,"says the proverb, cannot be of a bad colour,"but I could not
that a good man
help feeling
might be of an unfortunate complexion;
of
hue
which
a
howbeit,
wears
well, washes
well, does not fly,and
but
are
my
an
Strand
*'
"
"
"
moreover
hides
the dirt.
his
be
his subordinate.
The
So
tradesman
mere
to endure
being able
far from
could
not
look
upon
of such
possibility
as
moor
him
as
connexion
fit to
had
occurred to
in the window,
to the advertisement
him, or assuredly,
be preferred,"
he
will
added
Apprentice, would have
a White
No
African need
or
sufficiently
time, it was
apply." In the mean
obvious
treated
be
that,even if indentured,a Hottentot would never
never
for
"
an
"
"
as
one
of
the
family."
"Whilst
the
master
stared
an
unequivocal
make
himself
as
scarce
as
swan
of
the
same
It will do
me
the condition
to
my
which
to
nearlythe
was
or
who, with
for
drachm
scene
mere
suppose
am
name
or
of
"
philosophy,
or
scrupleof
accidents of colour
overlooked
are
could
Christianity,
in
good
down
human
a
by
beingwere weighed
The
baker's
?
in
a
oven
day
skin-deepcasualties as occur
every
in the Strand,however, aroused certain misgivings
for the
; and
tion,
necessary to procure further informarepose of my mind, it became
this
in order to come
to a settled opinionon the subject. To
end, it
or
"
that the
thoughtat all of
of
of
qualities
horse,the moral
such
on
suppose,
to
of the eternal
sense
one
party-coloured
Diana, instead
Miss
me
the outward-bound
simple belief,
conformed
to the
same
apprentices,
articles ; and
walkingabroad
as
Phoebe
suit into
upon
in my
thing. Thus,
same
set
trust,and
homeward-bound
the
our
"
black
even
take matters
becoming a
convert
can
apt
too
of
dread
active
to
Abolitionists,
for
seriously
thinking,
of the Negro Apprentices. In addition
and there is a spirit
sidesman
abroad
little incident
147
QUESTION.
credit,I fear,with
no
WHITE
AND
BLACK
THE
sentiments
was
at least of
of
and
Apprentice,
an
Black
fortune
Apprentice,
favoured
me
in the search.
occurred to
Black, and
of
me
and
in whose
family affairs I took a friendly
neighbourhood,
versation
coninterest. She happened to be at home
; and after a preliminary
same
the
on
Mr.
weather, and
Murphy,
and
the
current
of
news
she had
Richard, whom
day, the discourse turned on her son
recentlyarticled to an architect ; she had doubts,she said,of his being
fault of hers,as he
but it was
no
exactlycomfortable in his situation,
in proof whereof
had been placed in it at his own
urgent instances,
the
she handed
Mr
the
to me
letter :
following
"
Mother,
DEAR
This is to say I
as
happy
can
as
be
good health
in
am
and
from
expected away
quitecomfortable,and
I like being an
home.
had
I have
to do for the last
All the work
architect very much.
has been to copy a drawing of a gate for a Porter"'s Lodge,
fortnight,
is very kind,
of nice prints. My master
and to look over
portfolios
I always dine
I like.
how
and lets me
fillup my
time at over-hours
with him
Last
a
and
Sunday
Mrs.
tart,besides
supper
had
we
because
G., and
legof lamb
glassof
wine
I said I liked
Mrs. G.
tumbler
I'm
not
have
of hot
plentyto
whatever
prefer.
Mr.
G.
elder wine.
good man,
night,because
For
the
it
was
so
very
cold,
presentI sleepin
"
and
flute,
and she is
and
got ready for me
played last nightwith
L
the
plays on
very
the other
till my
is
own
sent off to it,but
of
and
music,for
He
eat
when
the
company
the visitors till
148
they won
forget to
won't
you
WHITE
all my
send
me
o'clock,and
twelve
pray
AND
BLACK
THE
QUESTION.
pocket
some
I do
money.
more,
hope
and
there''s another
as
I could
off for food, or
not be better
Altogether,
party
needn't
I
be
that
as
amusement, or any thing,so
any longeron liking,
be
bound
and
to
as
soon
I like it very much, and am
as
agreeable
you
week.
next
think
master
premium,
as
proper
from
yourself,
P.S.
Mr.
"
seemed
you
Give
treatment.
Mrs.
smile
on
statement, whereupon
the
in
world
hands. Protocol
Dear
but
the
sudden
is
deal
^but consider
"
about
accept the
the
same
affectionate son,
Richard
Ruggles.
could
in my
the
they
"
be
never
happy
so
are
remember
where
any-
profession.
had
with
but
submit
to
now
the
sigh,and
to
different
very
the duplicity
of
me
reflection
of architects in
throughout,
gravelyshook
mother
on
she placedin
particular,
my
2.
Mother,
I
and
No.
as
progress
and
general,
stick
compliments
friendlyway.
Pray
countenance
my
won't
everybody, and
to
dutiful and
you
the premium,
such
great
in the most
said she
head, and
her
it
you
G.
supposedthat
be
It may
without
love
and
make
else,or
hope
think
mother, your
I said about
what
to
kind
my
do
dear
asking about
always
and
am
a
sorry to
very
premium paid
Mr.
and
tyrant ;
and
end.
cruel
trouble
quitethe
reverse.
I should
be
taken
down.
Mrs.
All
with
sant,
anythingunpleaplace since the articles were
signed
has come
the being on liking
to a
off their
thrown
G. have
instead of
mind
your
I littlethoughtthe moment
complete slave,and
work
masks,
mother
being another
to
I became
like
an
she ia
apprentice
Nothing but
horse.
it's
me,
he
and
week
next
drawing, drawing,drawing, as long
light
we
beginlamps. I've no over-hours at all except in bed, and that's
in
the back garret,
old flock as
hard
wood.
and nothingbut an
as
up
My beinga parlour boarder is all over ; and as to sitting
up to music
d up at night that I may
be
and supper, I can't repeat,but I'm d
take
down
in the morning. They have
not
sent
to
as
me
yet
my
as
"
and
"
in the
meals
but
it's my
belief he
doesn't know
to come,
lawyer, whether
left to
my
and
do
wish
you
I can't be turned
liberty.Next
to
an
and
architecture,
anythingabout
would
sake
think
ask
of their
I've
Uncle
premiums.
got
to
run
William, as
seven
he's
by legallaw, or cancelled
I should like,if I
architect,
over
and
was
THE
unbound,
be
to
it doesn't
of,
approve
would
like to have
books
requireany
and
home,
at
me
149
QUESTION.
which
to be
But
premium.
nothingat
remain,
readers,who
their
from
or
are
or
sons
believe that
to
reason
Taking it,therefore,as
ordinaryoccurrence.
practicein England,I
of
one
affectionate son,
Richard
Ruggles.
are
least there is
profession
; at
dutiful and
your
letters
above
the
As
mother,
dear
My
is
WHITE
AND
an
as
BLACK
the above
fair
case
sample of
anxious to compare
it with the course
was
in
colonies
the
and
with
this view my next
of a negro apprenticeship
;
friend
old
who
Colonel
had
visit was
to
C,
recentlyarrived
paid
my
the
with
Jamaica
from
described
the
black
"turn-over"
the
in
at
scene
shop
subjectedme
of course,
acceded to, and Sambo
errand,which,
was
Strand, and
to
Having
explained my
raillery,
request
my
some
ference
privateconwith
study.
good-humouredAfrican,
allowed to the race
than the twilight
intelligence
by the
more
Lewis
late Monk
was
his brethren
to
to
me
stout
but with
ascribed
Massa,
his service.
ordered to attend
was
He
in the
rather
in
the
He
and
the
the
by
same
discussion with
the
talk with
pleasant authority.
greatestgood-will ;
jargon,is the
substance
of
his evidence.
To
whether
question,
first
my
inclination to
into
go
the
he
had
rice,sugar,
ever
and
line,he gave
decided
hood,
negative. He had no occasion,he said,to labour for a liveliin
been
his
own
country an independentblack prince,
having
and heir-apparent,
He
as I understood
him, to the king of the Eboes.
however, that he could neither read nor write,and consequently
acknowledged,
had
transatlantic A.
an
he
"
or
appliedpersonally,
by letter,
post paid,to
never
B. C.
X.
or
Y.
Pupil.*" He
Articled
was
turned out
that it had
he knew
his fetters.
were
of
*'
of, were
He
had
on
done
his dam
impressionthat
for his
"
on
and
rope-yam,
his wrists and ankles,from
decided
being asked
take
him.
with
never
would
been
he
any
for
advertisement
to an
Z., in answer
he
taken,
affirmed,at unawares,
own
was
appeared,
the pressure
his parents or
he had
to the
and
explanationit
the only indentures
indeed
assent
It
of
guardians
no
lection
recolHe
arrangement.
never
or
any
to entitle him
to
take
of Richard
into
and
slavery,
up
his freedom.
Ruggles,his
it
was
only
very
after
In
short,contrary
first step appeared to
long
term
of
severe
to the
have
perience
ex-
been
service in
150
BLACK
THE
QUESTION.
WHITE
AND
constituted an
cane-piecethat he was
tice.
apprenthe public interest is mainly
This being the point to which
here became
minute, and the
naturallymore
directed,my inquiries
rice-field and
the
the
circumstantial.
Taking the Ruggles
proportionably
out
at great pains to make
letters for my
something
guide,I was
but I
what
called
is
of
liking,"
being
upon
analogousto the state
failed to elicit anything
evidence
was
"
the
solemnity,not
say
to
Sambo's
of
awfulness,
there
asseverations,
reason
no
his
denied
peared
ap-
to suspect
veracity.
He
positively
most
ing,
repeatedlyhis dinin any one
solitary
master
his
w
ith
instance,
and
mistress, and
by
and
the
consequence
of
taking
He
past.
re-
equally
disclaimingany
firm in
was
invitation
supper
with
social
after the
them
pleasure
wine
sit up
instead
to
and
of
liked
if he
being asked
to
music, he declared
nantly
indig-
instruments
kattyand
ON
LIKING.
kitty-
He
notice
he
every
to his master's
came
obtained
ever
the whole
personalbenefit from
apprentice
;
no,
not
of the cowhide.
of his
house
beingout
his
would
not
to the
rather
extent
thought,on
his time in
so
many
of the
much
of
chargedSambo
dwelt
whether
upon
the blacks
by
were
with
very home
certain
members
"
he answered
examined
the
them
on
Act
very
went
ever
away
received
of Parliament
him,
a
as
any
into
an
singlecut
one
possible.
questionwhich
both
of
prospect
judgingby
freedom
he had
himself
as
introduced
into
he
not
To
clude,
con-
has
been
namely,
Houses;
to enter
that
candidly,
"
contrary,that the
"
but
subject,
only
larrupped
"
to have
sparinghim
properly prepared
? to which
liberty
the
with
judice
years had operatedto the prein the interim to get as
owner
much
himself
the
Joan
being
of them
none
allow
head.
own
was
metamorphosisby
even
He
of
he
and
the visitors
from
sober.
his
the
that
company
by
the
state
of
formally
should
say
short notice.
BLACK
For his
own
WHITE
AND
151
QUESTION,
been
part he had
rather
pated
suddenly emancieffect
had
only
been
him
soil,and
the
towards
of the
barrowful
most
wish
that he
Juno
and
de
that instead of
is
Negro
facts,that
as
gratitude
send
over
upon
one
as
of
circumference
except
common
"
; and
degrees. It
360
name,
with
that
under
the
Hmited
from
appears
has
on
apprenticeship
an
our
same
different
"
the
little or
and
as light
systems, literally
diametrically
opposite
said of the pair of gloves, They
and
of course, as the hand
right." As
sense,
great domestic
Barbadoes
or
the
it served to
Strand, by proving,
of that
member
as
both be
pickaninniesto put
family,in
of the
in Jamaica
apprenticeship
an
nothingin
beingtreated
hardly looked
has
circle which
and
could
Jamakey.
account
own
fervent
same
in
foot upon
Such
the
THE
dark
cannot
decided
that
Black
the
"
"
Let
fairest.
any
turn
one
the
to
Statute
Gulielmi
IV.
"
An
Anno
Quarto
et
Act
and
Apprentices,"
Quinto
tion
Regulawill find
he
that the
"
or
parishofficer,
the parent,
or
friend."
next
Article
10
provides,
in the case
Sambo
of rope-yarn,
aforesaid,the
as
bindingshall only be effected with " paper or parchment,"and even
that the
article 13 declares,
before enduringsuch very mild ligatures,
that
instead
boy is to
and
of
in
be
case
parchment,""such
Justices
refuse,to sanction
or
allows the
be called
*'
practiceof
shall,and
be bound
they
are
"
with
paper
of
such
boy
and
hereby requiredto
approve
"
two
shall be bound
as
an
clause
would
appren-
]52
tice,
and
"
it shall be lawful
receive
for
such
time
any
of hot
suppers
said
the
And
sausages.
same
time.
The
same
more
than
four
C. S. to have
packing,which
the close
is
and
14 enacts, that
"
the
over
in all
"
once,
incommodes
often
favoured
the
or
trial
""
Mr.
sooterkins
liking"
Mrs.
or
nothing like
Africa
of
race
and
Chimney
or
that
so
of
not
may
Mrs.
forbids
the
of,"
sausages
apprenticeson
apprenticesat
fond
so
Mr.
clause
'
liking
plain English,
in the
in
cellar.
or
protected; but as
speciallymentioned
hear
all comto
more
plaints
or
magistrates
any two
his
ill usage, the breaking of a fife or
pan's pipes,
is
not
"
17
clause
music
for
taste
two
considerate
inconvenience
ship'shold, may
A
so
His
have,
to
or
and
tempt
Grace
minutely subdivided,clause
than
Sweeper shall not have more
the
boy
'
In
months."
elect to
sauce
be too
at
trial"
house, on
calendar
master
such
of
master
Richard
cow-heel, with
delicate
intended
master's
such
for the
QUESTION.
WHITE
exceedingtwo
not
apprentice,like
AND
for the
in
boy
it shall be lawful
"
BLACK
THE
empowers
of
hard
or
of
an
head
apprentice,would
probabilityentail
exceeding10/. nor
on
the
be
master
fixed, by
forfeit,
405.""
The
18th
clause
16,
clause
on
enjoins,
to conunder extremely heavy penalties,
all builders and bricklayers,
struct
hard
safe and
to
comfortable
chimneys that shall not be
could
if a sweeper
terms
such very eligible
climb ;" and finally,
on
as
have anything to weep
superfluously,
for,article 15 forbids,somewhat
reader
incredulous
who
about
!
!
his crying
The
the streets !
may
Act
the
to
reference
wish
to verify this statement
itself,will
by
little
all up
in a well-conceived
find it at full length,and shown
of
The
of Law
Mechanics
volume, called
Making," by a Member
the
He
will there find too truly that, compared with
Symond's Inn.
genuineblack,the sweeper is treated by law with as much tenderness as
white
if each climbing-boywere, like the stolen Montague, a well-bom
gentleman in disguise. The tendency of such over-indulgent
young
at
not
less than
"
"
"
"
enactments
that
most
to
like
cases,
given alongwith
Richard
him
to
Ruggles, must
purchase him
is worth
therefore,the matter
and
parish officers;whilst
guardians,
economy,
and
to
all will
imperativelyinsist that
if the
have
master.
the
handsome
premium
As
matter
mere
consideration
the advocates
blacks
cannot
of
be
of
of
parents
equaljustice
treated
like
For my
own
part,
whites, the whites ought to be treated as blacks.
I cannot
as
a
simple admirer of consistency,
help thinking that the
whole
requires
as
system of apprenticeship,
regardsits home practice,
to
undergo
the
act
all its
Anno
sweeping
154
STANZAS
From
o'Groat's
John
ON
End
Land's
to
COMING
search,
I have
To
not
one
common-right for
Not
is Man's
what
Then
Six feet
by
When
the
tap
wine
But
I do not
grass
toasts
board forsake !
don't
"
foolish
which
At
Before
this
the
cut
And
prate about
Just
o'er my
And
I know
That
where
To
praise.
days.
you
and
returns
my
great
Manors
"
for me,
as
gain no
From
"
the
justify
horrors here
What
thingsof
To
roast
blessed
morn
Would
No
be
no
banners
hoist
no
marquee
think when
What
new
like
too
Pitch
But
bonfires make
a bullock for my
in the country have
Who
sake,
"
man
no
gun
fun
no
"
"
debts
And
too
Or
To
go to
am
own
for life.
"
anything,
like this !
tell me,
happy morn
No
the thorn,
sign of May
Love
Had
Make
Who
And
and
Beauty
about
"
"
Bacchus
both
unborn?
shape ?
Kate FinnertyI
sweet
answer,
lads of Trinity
!
answer,
sipp'dwith me Divinity,
quaff'dthe ruby grape !
No
flummery
No
three times
church,hump, squint,
and all, Because
And be my
But put such
or
"
Press
Make
U,
Pump
toast
the
"
Were
"
I O
Church
And
his !
the
"
the Ring,
Drink Aldgate
Nay,
"
Twenty-One
delightsare
free to give
my
trumps)
must
Reform
Before
What
is the moral legalfact
Of age to-day,I'm free to act
For self free,namely, to contract
I'm
quiz ;
devise
is
stake.
no
let off
"
far from
are
discord,dowdies, dumps,
Death, dockets,debts,and duns !
Dan.
to
"
festive cup
What
If you
barrels broach
"
Domestic
peppercorn.
No
"
pipes!
merry
humps,
(Discretion's
Days
born
ground this
Beersheba
no
"
are
conjuredup !
bitter bite and sup.
Poor wretched
Twenty. One's!
No
landed lumps, but frumps and
descend
the Man."
not
was
dance
rustic sport
no
"
To
estates
make
of
quit-rent
And
ring of bells
rent-roll gaze,
returns.
Boyhood's legalend,
can
easily
comprehend
How
"
No
"
here is
And
But
up
die.
to
flowerygarlands no bouquet
No BirthdayOde to sing or say
To me
it seems
this is a day
For bread and cheese and swipes.
spurns.
term
vacant
sum
want
No
speechesmake.
reason
my
happy
underneath,
let me
breathe,
waters
Put
No
or
codicil
nothingto bequeath
in all candour
And
cake,
No
I have
In earth, or
and
in turf I lie.
bone.
Reserve
Ne'er
dust and
am
ass
Before
Alas!
and
of mould
two
or
goose
Estate?
valid clause
With
pay
That
AGE.
OP
I'm
I like
not
then from
flowerylips,
hip-hip-hips,
full of pips
three and
ripeand
"
littlegreen.
My friends,excuse
I
Were
Go
to
And
And
break
your
Thro'
NEVER
in the
was
misfortune.
and
For
creatures,I cannot
It is
to
occupy.
but
fellows,
me
as
and
laddie."
"
once,
Song,
which
I must
all
of
the
short
my
some
sort
the
was
sake
hands
your
few
tied.
are
not
are
other in
an
philosophical
of my
are
men
fellow-
You
destined
above
Egg-Premiership;a place
not
are
your
without
absolved from
turning.
irregular
glimpse I had
I
was
raised to it,
merely made a
Chancery, not injurious
London, with a suavityof
I
in
answer
in due time I
consider
ever
do, with
so
of the short
description
or
enough
imperfectopportunityI
and
which
situation,
political
vice,for you
brief
Scottish
givea
while I was
in PilloryPower.
things,
to high stations,by my
men
are
errors.
many
mistake of
manner
sort
sure
it in.
buy
and
men
to
elevated
Estate,"I'm
ROBINS.
as
things,
courtingexperiencefor
placein which
the established
of
Man's
I shall not
MU.
pillorybut
but lament
that
enjoyedof filling
Robins
"
PILLORY.
the wood,
and
pin.
"
PORTRAIT
lookingat
inquiring
eye,
Let
Let
My
THE
barelyworth
then with
Away
with carols !
winds
FANCY
And
"
elephantson spits
Lincoln tillhe splits,
dance
And
duke's,
"
of
Tom
Ring
or
son,
Impale whole
these rebukes !
me
monarch's
155
PILLORY.
THE
of
to
me
my
intended
promotion,
156
PILLORY.
THE
It
was
Those
havingwashing into
the comfort of
It
about
was
hour
little urchins
innocent
the
noon,
the
bargain.
when
pedestal;an
wooden
pillory
;
had
have
who
only
the
day for
fine
was
my
to
a
fond of shying,pitching,
jerking,pelting,
flinging,
notoriously
in
all
of
its
branches.
The
slinging ^in short, professors throwing
firstwith, a north front,and there I was
me
publicofficerpresented
like a cock at Shrovetide,
in
or
the mark !
a
God save
lay-figure
!
a Shooting
Gallery
Stones began to spit mud
commenced.
to mizzle
storm
The
and
then came
thickened into a shower.
Now
dead
a
cabbage-stalks
would
hit
anon
sometimes
the
an
kitten
a living
cur
me
on
;
egg
eye,
in
offence I was
an
obligedto wink at. There is a strangeappetite
A
fellow-creature.
kind for peltinga
China-man
human
travelling
race
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
actuallythrew
a
twopence
away
treated
huckster
Billingsgate
stale
too
means
halfpence of the
schoolboyswent
me
have
pitch at
with
purchased in
be
to
to
few
suppliedthem
not
herrings,
St. Giles's
towards
with
me
while
the
the
support of
with eggs fit for
pipkin ;
by any
weekly
Coster-
throwing,
descriptionof
last
be
annoyed me
than
more
was
stand,takingup
my
remedy.
to
and
as
a
a
There
vile
liveryit
all the
no
was
was
forced
livery,
or,
;
"
ing
be-
expressedit,
wag
made
free of the
Pelt-
mongers."
It
was
time
resources.
my
of
somewhere
by
to
I
an
dint of mental
had
rendered
of
the
appeal
had
read
who,
Italian,
abstraction,
himself
rack,and
the executioners
to
scious
uncon-
while
WHAT
BE
MUST
MUST.
tugging,
and
sinews, and
wrenching,twisting,dislocating,
breakingjoints,
bones,was perchancein fancy only performinghis diurnal Gymnastics,
or
undergoingan amicable Shampooing. The pillorywas a milder
than the rack,and I had naturallya livelyimagination
instrument
; it
seemed plausible,
shift to be peltedin my
that I might make
therefore,
from pain,I selected
To attain a scene
absence.
remote
as
as
possible
one
that
of absolute
Persian
were
pleasurefor
Paradise, the
the
experiment;
Garden
of Gul,
no
at
the
Feast
of Roses.
of
"
But, alas,for
only
a
rank
flyingcat
full
at
all my
at
each
abstraction !
next
my
might,I
with Houri
high romps
Flingingroses
mental
stone-like vehemence
with
Fancy
Bliss,and
of
157
PILLORY.
THK
in
speedily
was
and
Peri,
"
other."
The
first bud
very
hit
me
with
cabbagefragrance
; and
scratched
peltin the
back
me
into
myself ;
and
there I
was
again,in
!
pillory
My first fifteen minutes, the only quarter I met with, had now
turned
towards
the East.
The first object
elapsed,and my face was
fell
of
and
I confess I
a
one
was
Macadamization,
heap
eye
upon
my
of stones
the number
in such a hillock,
never
thoughtof calculating
tillI
the mob
saw
to cast
preparing
be lithographed
on
expectedto
that the only way
me
and
head
hands, and
I
to
save
abused
No
the
Pillory!"burst
Fishwoman,
who
Instinct
spot !
by dying;
so
suggestedto
droppingmy
closing
my
expiredfor
Shame!
the
up !
life was
my
them
Shouts
me.
from
rated
all
of
"
Murder
quarters. The
the Schoolboys;
! Shame
Pipkin-monger
who
was
Costermonger,
hissingand
Constable took the whole group
a philanthropic
assembly ; and finally,
taken
time I was
into custody. In the mean
down, laid with a sack
and
in
off
driven
to
a
a
over
me
cart,
Hospital,
body seeming a
my
St.
Bartholomew's
St.
to
but
or
Thomas's,
present
very proper
my
clothes fitfor nothingbut Guys
foul of the
"
constable's
miscellany.
166
IN
1IOVTN6
Our
Crummie
When
In
Song.
Scotch
"
May,
Ladies,greatand grand,
and
Lords
Repair to
In
dainty cow."
On
Has
is
HOUSE.
SOMERSET
AT
EXHIBITION
SINGULAR
CIRCLES.
FIRST
THE
each R.
what
see
A.
done
the
Amongst
She
"
without
in there
got
There
came
With
arms
one
Unless
From
not
wall
Stamp'd
to
for
guess
perchanceto
Elbow'd
"
Lord
why
scour
"
to make
Stafford's toes
The
great Lord
Duke
received
him
a
felt her
And
pinch to
in this stir.
ladies,
highestrank
Grey"
move,
shove ;
nudge.
Honour, budge.
Park the Judge.
Chancellor
She made
The
she came,
the Paint."
Devonshire's
gave
for the
Saint
wall
And
As
deep red,and
could
row-
vulgardame
largeand
Showing in temper
No
how
knows
the deuce
guests
gave
way
to her.
SINGULAR
From
EXHIBITION
number
and
one
On
SOMERSET
AT
number
159
HOUSE.
two,
picturesthroughand through,
And
squatteddown
And
as
she went
to
the
scan
shy
ones.
from
part to part,
became,
Her very eyes lit up in flame.
each looker-on
That made
exclaim,
ardent
"
Really an
Alas, amidst
Fate
her
inquisition.
broughther to
might have
She
stillhave
And
ah ! her
But
She
againstLord Milton,
Mr.
on
Woman
where,
"
"
Says woman,
There's
!"
?"
in the Exhibition.
Cow
Cow
No
Cow
expedition.
no
?"
wicket
is David's
with
Said Mr.
ticket.
throughour
Where
now
is your
woman,
That
How
"
d out
"
Hilton.
Like
At
sad condition ;
run
full butt
came
The
*'
cheek
"
tongue in verity.
rail celerity
and
steam
"
No
! there an't
no
"
"
"
"
Why
Morland
But
I know
But
Do
you
David
it a'nt
it
made
If it
only hung
Why
can't it
Or do you
If
now
the
on
think it
has
and
what
well
to vent
hung
it
at
up
I could cry
"
party
three
poor
then you
where
up, to
and
come
"
the
crueltyand
bye, if you
and
sow
about
Cow
they're
jealousof
"
thing,is
cannot
David's
fame,
shaine.
hang
it
now
cut
him
for
down
their tastes
have
to
his Cow.
see
days a week,
up,
from
is,and why
Cow,
little pig or
him,
hang
think
I can't think
fool to
was
It's reallyhard
an
hang
up
been, to
David^s
not
have
Cow
such
creature,
160
*
I say,
Although
It must
be
I daren't
As
Or
was
down
"
and
be
the
three
may
room
Graces
the
haven't
The
"Water-Colour
no
not
much
so
all the
where
care.
stair.
the
figuresstand,
might
favour
would
up
David's
I vow,
neck, a-coming up
Bailey'sCharity
reallybe a charityto hang
"We
I should
man's
stone
Nature
than
prettier
was
for Mr.
seen,
be
It would
it
say,
hung,
unless
catalogue,
in the marble
of them
one
to
not
HOUSE.
SOMERSET
AT
shall be
the
home
there
"Where
Or
hung
take
that should
it
only want
only round
we
If it
EXHIBITION
SINGULAR
"
allow,
cow.
don't hang it
else to go if you
place allows no oilman to appear
where
here,
"
Gerrard
Douw,
Gallery sticks to Dutch,
Cow
Suffolk
And
vnll
do
it's
not
not a
the Suffolk Gallery
:
his
he
took
I wish you'd seen
him
meals
hardly
paintingher,
Till she was
from head to heels ;
the
correct
board
painted on
him
His heart and soul was
in his Cow, and almost made
shabby,
He
the babby.
hardly whipp'd the boys at all,or help'dto nurse
And
he had her all complete and painted over
when
red,
He got so grand, I reallythought him going off his head.
Now
hang it,Mr. Hilton, do just hang it any how.
Poor David, he will hang himself,unless you hang his Cow.
And
if it's unconvenient
and
drawn
too big by half
And
the
Teniers,and
British
"
"
"
David
sha'nt send
next
year
except
BEEF
A-LA-DAUBE.
very
little calf.
162
YEOMANRY.
THE
have
*surely
offer of
the
embraced
being let
of
alacrity
the
off with
of pay,
to
rare
our
of
yeomanry,
winninglaurels,and
ing
cover-
glory!
It has been
argued,on
as a reason
high authority,
the troops in
for retaining
that
question, they are the
himself with
constitutional
most
force
there
be
can
but
one
if
opinion. However,
domestic
kept up,
advisable,
to
humane, and fair,
ought
would
and
to
it not be
give
the
body
mftnufacturing
turn, and
form
I
of
sedentary
other
and
who
weavers
artisans,
door exercise ? The farmer,
from
troops
VISH
VE
COULD
so
much
BE
DISBANDY
D.
the
nothingof the
enough,to say
stand
the nature
more
in need
of out-of-
of his business,
has Field
Days
ing
enjoysin hunt-
and
the
besides ridingperiodically
to and from market, or
coursing,
fairs. Indeed,the true Englishyeoman
is generally,
neighbouring
thanks
to these
sportsand
of the
chimney-comerand
I have
effectiveness,
for
had
the
On
charge,and
another
regardstheir
As
purpose.
the elbow-chair.
it convinced
Jire was
occasion I had
succeeded
me,
the very
target
that if I had
best
one
felt
for my
the
of beholding
a
gratification
be
it
themselves,
dispersing
may
they
Still there
they might possiblydo as much
by a mob.
seemed hardly excitement enough or amusement
enough,except to the
hunting
in such playingat soldiers,
to induce honest,hearty,foxspectators,
To tell the truth, I
veterans.
farmers,to wish to become
have heard before now,
from
practical
agriculturists,
repentant grumblings
who
had too rashlyadopted the uniform, and have
seen
even
as
in
inferred that
their horses
betrayan
therefore is my
so
for
inclination to back
surprise
on
out
of the line.
the
The
more
Yeomanry
are
unwillingto be dispensed
with, and relieved from inactive service ;
the
of
tells
Soldier tir'd of war's alarms,"there
a
us
though
song
"
doubt that to
18 no
world is to have
the
In
the
of
the
I had
throughthe old
trumpet,
lady's
they went
the
to
longday !
it took
had
but
to be bored
her
The
home
as
back
Wake, only old Roger came
They had more sense, however, than
was
that
in his
do
mischief
no
he'd think
he brandished
and
was
whether
he
no
thoughttoo
a
to his
the
on
as
if
Com
there
either
six would
neighbours
; and
after
and
up in his stirrups,
off all the hollyoaks
nothingof slivering
much
so
of
and
himself,
he
was
littleof his
too
tumble
crusty,and when
him
morning.
put
pistol. Then
cut
practising,
made
since he
but he
by
the next
and
cominghome,
and that
off his
head
with
and
him, or
to
there
reviewing
on
the news,
the
it was
Sogeringwork
husband's
dread
the constant
come
"
him,
hectoring
swaggeringway
in
and
the
about
politics,
especially
agree
got
did'nt
everybodythat
was
all feel in
popularmeasure
exclaimed,that
againto
Bill,was
they
communicated
sooner
she
if
most
showman's
uniform;
the
it threw
and
business,
a
no
than
best
of
thingin
some
will be
disbanding
the
Dame,
pains to
subject,and
at
on
yeowomanry
with
common
have been
time,I
tiresome
most
at all.
alarms
no
mean
the
spirit,
soldier of
163
YEOMANRY.
THE
horse,
worse,
fall always
one
side
Parliament
For my own
part,she concluded,I think the
in
is quiteright
these hard times to turn the farmers*
the other.
or
swords
what
out
called
she
letter from
yeomanry
and havingher permission
to make
less to
about the
care
husband's
her
it public,I have
hunted
lady then
old
brother,
thoughtproper
to
christenit
"
You
*'
Umph
Sir?"
Philiphaugh,
Major, " the less
remember
1"
REVIEW.
UNFAVOURABLE
AN
said the
we
say about
Old
To
Dear
Bob,
Business has
"
no
Mr.
It^s
Robert
no
use
business
to
making
stand
before
m2
more
king
Kent.
and
the
barley.
coudtry,and I
stir about
164
]N!arket and
go to Ashford
Earl called out the
couldn't
The
Besides
did
Duke
through
the
everything,and
crops,
time.
same
the whole
barleyin
Kent.
^"^
go
it
Except
unfa-
more
at the
Eeview
to\"'^
troops
rained
for
the
see
great
honour
the
us
and
come
the
Earl,
the
sightfor
lost my
have
wouldn't
attend,I
the
Common,
Daggle Bottom
to
YEOMANRY.
THK
many
has
nag
consequential
cough.
was
ground
very
good,with only one leap that
got
The
nobody took,but
the weather
terribly
against.It blew
and rained
equinoxious
gales,
like wateringpots with the
ofP. But
as
rose
somebody
was
said,one
always have
cut and dry.
cannot
their reviews
We
at
ten,
and
Common,
white,and
enough ;
am
POUR
like
fighting
might have
we
caps, made
our
the clothes
like
hours
Bumper Daggle
is rather handsome
of
Ashford
two
was
gettingto
Bottom
from
out
set
fit,
except
them
Mr.
Bumper Da^gle'sdress
blue, having a turn-up with
Lambert's,who
but he scorned to
hussar.
"
The
called cap-a-pee,
been
shrink,and
ENDURE.
WILL
ON,
wore
for
but
P. the
Mr.
heads.
our
couldn't find
it loose
Luckily
jacketbig
his
on
tractor
con-
shoulder,
As
for arms, we
had all sorts,and as regards
horses,I
and
and
quitters,
sorry to say all sorts of legs what with splints,
a
"
and
ring-bone,
no
The Major's,
I
grease.
better for being fired with a
"
other
because
came.
towards
"We
once.
riots I can't
guess, for he did nothingbut make
if he was
still in the thrashingmill.
But
revolutions
an't
^thoughhow
and
reglers,
of
worst
of the White
Cobb,
house,and
he
eyes as
would
horse
"
The
nothingwhen
did
is unaffected
Government,
himself,as
yomanry
he had
must
puttingdown
"
when
he
our
can't
be
mistakes
was
Horse,
came
Hopper's
to
has
expected
about
to
had
you
veterans
the cullers.
Political Union
unfurl,he
be
in
behave
Old
club meets
brouglitthe wrong
know
all at
Ensign
at
his
flag:
THE
165
YEOMANRY.
''
No.
Royal Bumper Daggle," it was
Boromongers."
the cavalry; and Old Cobb took
horse laugh among
It made a reglar
to the "White
such dudgeon at us, he deserted home
Horse, and cut
The
sword.
without
the concern
Captain ordered Jack
drawing a
instead
bung
Old
the recal to
to sound
Blower
a
"
of
him,
his trumpet ;
Our next trouble
up
Cobb.
but
sum
but
Simkin,
with
was
you
know
he is
docked
thing but Simkin and Martial. He rid one of his own
tied
had
on
a
for
sake
longregulation
waggon-horses but
appearance
tillhis four loose shoes
his horse kick astonishing,
false tale,
that made
flew off like a game at koits.
Of course
nobody liked to stand nigh
and
he
was
him,
oblig.^vs^^^^
in
ed to be drawn
^.^^^
iZ-^^sr^^.
up
order by himself,
single
but not having any one
any
"
^^
__
to, he
to talk
got
soon
of it, and
weary
the ground. This
some
deserted from
ril
we
pany,
com-
his
him,
with
seed
swear
"
that
said
bolted
but
him
his
some
"
horse
was
Dale,
for
not
left
for him
excuse
but
Up to this
spur.
had only one
more
for
her
foal
home,
heard
whinnying
and attended
that call
a
she
than
more
it
as
What
to
tmm-
Biggsdidn't
pet.
at
to
seeing
review.
his
at all ; he had
nag
waitingfor him, pistolsand all.
was
with
come
these
goingsoff and
got in
ranks
ing,
morn-
such
disorder,
Tory, was obligedto act as a rank Reformer.
We
got into line middlingwell,as far as the different sizes of our
horses would
down
rode up and
I am
admit, and the Duke
us, and
compelled to a reprimand. Morgan Giles had been
sorry to say was
at a fox hunt
the day before,and
persistedin wearing the brush as a
that the
Earl,tho' he
tree
Dick, who,
and
as
gaps
our
is a
As
was
very
high,and
trotted home
Morgan
to
his
regulation,
at last threw
Wickham
Grace
up
ordered
his commission
Hall, alongwith
whipper-in,
thoughthe
was
it
under
Private
obligations
We
got
Crofts' mare
thro** sword
with his
exercise
saber,which
decent
he
well,
needn't
"
only
have
Barber
done, as
shaved
she
was
166
; and
cliptbefore
and
run
course
in wet
be called out
cuts
he
stuck
and
cut
was
We
his sword
don't
objectedto
like
its sheath
to
with
correct
very
It
hope
thrusted,as
have
weather,
all the
thro
and
Hawksley might
what
went
Holdsworth
her in
with
know
he
YEOMANRY.
THE
pitch;
his umbrella.
For
but
my
swished
part,candour
own
compelsto
state
galloppedhome, I suspect,to
write me
a
callingout challenge.Challengeor not, if I fighthim
of the Yeomanry.
I'm not one
An accident's
with anythingbut fists,
than
much
and
more
an
accident,
pardonable
Hawksley openinghis
blood charger
umbrella
ten
plump in the face of the Captain"'s
; and
be
officerto
carried back
for an
to
times more
willy-nilly
mortifying
of
before
Review.
middle
the
in
the
Ashford,
Luckily
Hawksley
very
hold
he
called
off
his
Mrs.
to
umbrella
was
over
frightened
more,
any
in
nine
a
nd
Mrs.
had
taken
could'nt
accommodate
ladies,
H., as
Morgan
in her close carriage,
without making it too close.
more
and
sword
After
distinct ;
fired
we
Day
shot
so
and
pistols,
without
broughtit down
was
I must
word
command
of
well and
say, very
he's deaf
as
I
Talkingof volleys,
post, and
sorry to say
all thro'
it was
am
but
shootingpony puttingup
letting
fly,and as he is our
Lucky
we
called out.
was
and
purpose,
old Dunn
before
one
the moment
have
he
his
on
on
exercise
only,
how
wonder
dohe
was
swear
very
said
something that
he went
off to his
so
qualifiedman, and takingout a reglar
license,
own
ground,where he might shoot without being called to account.
and expectation,
there was
Contraryto reason
very few horses shied at
the firing
Bluff lyingfull length,
and was
afraid it was
a
saw
; but we
bust ; but
found
his horse, being a
we
very quiet one, had run
from
away
refused
the noise.
to
he
inclind,
leave
He
the
got up
more
and
Bluff
tho' for
men,
As
for
Roper
great lightover
and
was
the
bragged how
he
village,
own
he
but
and
military
spirit,
horse objecting
to such
his knees
and
away,
wills.
could
mud,
the
stand
Swing
broke.
was
troop lost
two
fire,but seeinga
to look
barns.
The
I
once
he had
againsttheir
the
in
of
man
was
his back
on
ground. Being
behind
throwd
was
next
most
thingto
anxious
be done
about
and
charging,
was
that, as
many
of
us
between
could
and
you
only ride
up
me,
to
certain
the
same
time
but
insensibly,
the
doctor
dismounted
and
was
ver^
167
YEOMANRY.
THE
All the
making any chargewhatever.
tho"*
or
rest went
gallopping
cantering, as they say
wonderful
at Canterbury races, their was
some
tailingon account of
the last of the lot,and
the difference of the nags.
was
Grimsby'smare
of Bristol,
called her the Mare
in chargingwe
for her backwardness
either
gallantly,
off
he took
but
the
righthe
the
word
but
but
did,
pullup,
galloppedon
matched
their
two
they
as
back,
of the
wet.
"
to like
it,for they
of
sight. I
the
nags
think
never
I suppose
and
crossing,
out
sovereign;I don't
king: but I can't write
result
such
"
seemed
farmers
two
did,and
I was
friends,
Between
left.
was
Cobb
than
better
jestno
to
came
without
him
to attend
happy
when
not
sorry
foul
have
heard
since
to
riding;
divert
had
they
miles
two
run
to
the
the rest
halted when
never
sovereignshould
wheel'd
we
and
josling,
before
day
when
for
his
from
man
the
came
account
on
The
rains,to
speak cavalrylike,had got
beyond bearingrains; and
when
it
like
was
clothes
on
again
laundress's
there wasn't
it.
on
lame
line
line,for
shirt
dry
formed
we
One
man
rode
horse
particularly
jected
ob-
restive, and
in such
to
critical weather
longreview^
He
wouldn't
be
bus'd,he
said,for Duke
Devil, but
horse
should
and
up
blue
the
moror
his
put
home
go
by
Stage; by
he
answer
cholera
was
his
give up
he
off
it
as
to
and
arms
jacket,which
hand
of
way
ordered
did
his
very
wet
was
OBJECTION
AN
thro'.
Howsomever
it
thought prudent
formed
short
which
On
into
every
circle
speech
"
for
reviewingthe
been very
on
were
and
much
that had
Hunting
mounted
kept his
thing might
day,
to say
nothingof
three
blamed
on
the
have
THE
LINE.
weather, so
the
gave
three
been
seven
rose
forgotto
I
am
lame
among
after
soldier-like,
are
on
uncommonly
amiss
the
in
us
but
gratifying,
very
and
thanked
was
we
cheers.
agues
the horses that are
and
their hunters.
all,as
seat
asthmas
dead
under
day, which
till fine
us
Field
are
CROSSING
9 bobble
the
there
"
dispensewith
being so
man
the whole
numerous,
and colds
to
TO
was
with
coffs
Earl has
for fixing
privates,
dozen
that
a
away
few
to say there was
so
say, carried
sorry
to suffer themselves to be hissed into the town
168
YEOMANRY.
THE
by the little boys and gals,and called the Horse Gomerils ; and that
Not
that
consequentlythe corpse as a body, is as good as defunct.
there were
resign'dat the end of the review, as his Lordship
many
the followingday to the troop : but I am
sorry
gave a grand dinner on
the
unhandsome
to throw
as
to say, a great many
so
was
up
very day
of
not
them
The common
was
after.
liking
excuse
something
among
their
swords
their
to wet
countrymen.
against
For
part
own
my
the
as
cannot
yomanry
would
of spirit
honorably,and as any man
what
afraid of my
attendingMarket, come
best
at the
quotation.
dear
I am,
Brother,
Your's
and
the Coloners
to
command,
Cherry.
James
P.S.
"
tell what
forgotto
ride with
small
act in divisions.
Some
is,I
and
cavalry;
the
from
I have
the
to
but
it
keep
Troop
They
say
they
in
and
as
in
the
ready to
were
hour
an
didn^t
we
after
time,
everything
"
None
postponed.
the brave," they said,
was
but
it
the
the
seems
stood
they thought
"
of
ordered
drop;
of
lard,
Bal-
it.
on
come
wish
more
left before
excuse,
B=-
Lancers.
ground;
came
y^'^SSi
ears.
farmers
the
nine
was
they
prick his
it
as
just learned
and
men,
wouldn't
be Polish
to
Barlow
horse
his
made
is like to
infantry instead
be
to
laugh.
you
because,he said,they
spurs,
poor corps,
understand
Our
will make
attend
The
fair,they
till
wouldn't
mare
places,and
you
OFFICERS.
PEACE
again.
lent
Ballard,I
am
sorry to
say,
got
kicked
in several
give her a
swim
in the sea, and I am
her we
still more
sorry to say, in swimming
drowndcd
her.
As for
afraid he has got stringown
my
nag, I am
halt ; but one
comfort is,I think it diverts him from
kicking.
had
her
shoulder
put
out
; we
was
advised
to
170
IM
GOING
TO
BOMBAY.
VIII.
chance
only
And
married
She's
With
swears
I'm
going
She
But
to
Indian
their
thank
stars
my
can
dine, the
On
doolies
going
Indian
and
to
"
the
air and
buy some
toy,
In my
own
palankeens,
I like to drive my
pony-chair.
Or ride our
dapple grey
But
elephantsare horses there
I'm going to Bombay
!
"
COURT
AN
the
or
Docks,
Third
heart is full
my
"
and
caps
for
freight,
Gray
"
trunks
made
fate
my
as
"
well ;
up,
corsets
With
boots
And
dresses
I'm
OK
London
has
And
"
ship,the Fox,
Bird,
sail
mind
fault,
teak-built
new
Commander
"
Are
"
THF.
fine
Bombay
To
My
My
My
"
take
going
Pa
I'm
vault,
lying in the
on
May
Apply for passage
"
steep
to
!
tear
Indian
Or
Will
She
To
an
Now
quite,
way.
bungalows
Bombay !
on
find
tiger'sprey.
A.I.
knows
rupees, who
eat
Mr.
to
them
sadder
fall a
That
delight
treats,
costs
parents dear,
to
Or
I'm
Or
I'm
Mars,
bye,
If I should
pay,
ought to
Bombay!
oh, what
Good
"
of
son
And
what
Their
If I
match.
friends, farewell
My
hot,
so
says
taste
to
is
handsome
very
And
To
lighta
to
sure
Farewell, farewell, my
snatch.
to
the climate
says
It's
Hyderapot
writes from
cousin
My
My
and
by Duce,
a speciallicense in
going to Bombay !
INDIAN
PRINCF.
my
chest
"
171
BEFORE
LOOK
YOU
LEAP,
"Fallen,fallen,fallen."" Dryden.
father
My
suppliedthe
make
years, intended to
books were
plays,my
me
me
me,
I
lords,"
their
have
must
been
the young
debt, and
applyingto
she, as
lady who
London,
to
seen
where, after
"
ladies wish
the managers
to
for leave
the
grows"
the grass
"
proverbis
musty bread
nothingbut
somewhat
which
on
musty,
to feed my
"
make
to
love
be who
I will not
dehid.
my
experienced
is, while
I
"
that I had
hopes,and
soon
wife.
hopeful
burningspringday
One
I
began
be
came
in
was
manent
per-
to which
have
You
would
not
soliloquies.
with
then,
largedark eyes, my
my
In
and
Alas ! mi/
sermons
heroines with
minister.
field-preaching
roved
fields
far
as
Greenwich,
hand, went
near
in
and, book
the
as
throughRomeo, though
but
shy audience,
sheep all took to
to
for the
trotters, and
their
crows
not without
(That
caics.
let who
mine,
joke was
the
wings,and
to their
it.)
somebody
Suddenly
hissed; it could
sheep,and
the
were
no
geese
stant
that in-
At
near.
be
not
man,
very elegant
behind
from
stepping
a
tree,thus accosted
"
Sir,
with
you
me
"
heard
have
delight.
I
THEATRICALS.
PRIVATR
can
you
procure
not
by
by
slow
perhapsfor
in the
snake
the
Romeos,
gra^s."He
but
now
lookingheartilyashamed
away,
all
greatactors
pointedout
of
and
himself.
Company
continued, Mr. Richardson
I have sketched
I am
here,
his scene-painter
see
;
''
attitude.
Come
with
but, unluckily,
my
me."
powers
We
have
now
are
went
being suited
to
the
for
the
The
risen
attacked
and
degrees,
some
slunk
an
gagement,
en-
who
reptile,
gentleman
actingat the
you in your
I was
booth.
fair.
happiest
largerstage,so
hired
over-
172
LOOK
BEFORE
LEAP.
YOU
taken
was
of all
out
speaking
Nevertheless,
parts,for fear of fatal consequences.
my
grace in processions
much
that
raised so
in the autumn
soon
jealousyagainst
me,
Master
recommended
twice
much
as
but
curtain,
shifters.
of
us
one
of the
Minors
in town,
where, for
I was
never
salary,
expected to appear before the
useful
the carpentersand scenemyself
among
Christmas,duringthe rehearsal of a Pantomime, four
of a
to catch an
Harlequin,each to hold the comer
make
to
That
set
were
to
me
blanket,and
be
ready
jump through
for
his
the
scene.
Alas!
one
third
the
for
Two
nation
incli-
an
snooze.
asleep,and
were
drainingthe
one
drops of
stout
pewter.
from
leapcame
held
up-
from
boards,when
the
the awful
us, like
on
star-shoot.
the
alone
comer
my
last
still
see
the
momentary gleam of
that
strait,spangled,
gure.
fish-like,
head-longfib
tle,
otCan, candle,
pipes,all
beneath
the
bler.
heavy tum-
With
of
crashed
torrent
we
apologies,
up, in the
NKGLECTING
bled
scram-
dark,to
up
"
we
were
justice,
yet
!
Help ! Lights
more
no
The
CiTCH.
as
For
he.
voice.
alive ; there
broken
are
looked
lay another
an
instant all
I resolved to
!"
up;
"
And
us
ghost
we
tmth
was,
were
he
soon
had
convinced,as
thrown
at
us
the
his
to shout
there stood
under
magic
stuffed
was
givemyself
of innocence
us, without
peepingthroughthe blanket of the dark. That
over
was
dead!
breathless
be, ye dogs!"cried
ever
as
found
to
IN
JOIN
TO
one
a
quin
Harle-
chance
the
of
speaker
bat battered
Harlequin used
us.
in
neck.
I
before he risked his own
flyingascents,to try our vigilance,
felt,
however,that I mighthave been of a party who had killed a man.
It was
for being in such a place,with
a judgment on
me
any less
than that of acting
excuse
I took my
wife and babe back to
Romeo.
Cheshire.
We
knelt at my father''sfeet,promisingto serve
in the
it was
of his meltingdays ; he raised us to his
shop ; fortunately
one
arms,
"
we
formed
tableau
generale
"
dropped.
273
ODE
rt)
flocks and
Sweepingour
0
out
clearing
plantingfurther off
aim
And
at
Permit
Douglas.
"
apology
"
thus
me
MARKET.
"
make
not
herds."
SMITHFIELD
men
PHILANTHROPIC
OF
REMOVAL
THE
FOR
ADVOCATES
THE
"
to
tell,
Hornithology!
of
routingthat greatnest
For
althoughrepulsedat first,
dismay'd,
And
driven from their Horse, and Pig,and Lamb
parts,
burst,
Charge on ! you shall upon their homworks
their
and
all
Btdl-warks
their
And
JRaw-parts.
carry
Be
not
"
!
on, ye wholesale drovers
the Smithfield flocks and herds !
drive away
Go
And
As
That
come
Off with
Our
so
Tartar-Curds,
as
fat,and
them
and
streets,
And
From
wild
all !
"
from
kicking,
those restive
plunge,and
save
beingcow*d
"
"
brutes,that
lunge,and
the female
like Id
their clovers,
sex
^bythe
vex
butt, and
cattle !
battle ;
174
ODE.
The
hill of
Your
"
"
Takingthemselves
to Thomson's
with
Scared
Fancy
the terror
Fear-on
"
Into
To
daughters,
rushing
souse
coffee-house.
find it
s !
Slaughter
"
fancy this
Or
timid
of your
While
"
You
head
with
such
no
suddenly'tis
"
strangerMiss,
thoughtof dangerladen,
Aries Taurus
Latin,I
don't know
Into your
Areas
Think
Treated,justlike
of
a
some
CATTLE
SEK
poor
penny,
Cow
Cross !
old
with
"
translate it ergo,
the Maiden !
At
making
Virgo !
Bull throws
For
crone
toss !
grown
"
The
Thus
"
make
But
the
"
this brutal
e'en
their
put
But
others' victuals
That
from
?
,
they
regard
should
disturb
don't want
do doze
we
We
at
oxen
roar
Through
run
Such
are
The
Oh
in all the
the
Think
Think
nobody
of the
Think, too,
When
Show
woman,
Three
Think
of Messrs.
live
see
their
keep
Basan,"
of
Wake
to
her
what
Through, to
ones
shows
Dwarf,"
Thumb,
of birch
to
her off!
keep
and
Richardson
Co.,
publicprivateboxes,
in the back
Orchestra, when
accompany
ones
come
Tom
row
two
the double
"
feasts,
mild
far from
the Wild
see
annual
and
sheep'sheads, a porker's,
of their
Young
our
beasts.
red Cow
broom
'
let^stake
now
to
"
swallow
To
rung.
giveshis
of
cares
lookingat
-
wish
fierce tame
forc'd with
or
"
much
To
mad
sleepers
that
Seeinga
And
us
rmnp-us
Night Thoughts
Bulls
"
of these
Such
That
jump
to
bad
d awake
Wombwell
! when
think
our
bullocks
'
of
woes
of those
woes
doors
^itreallyis too
"
constantlyare
That
and
start
like,ourselves,a steak.
If
rest.
our
our
"We
We
digest;
can
hard
as
case
That
their bellows.'"'
with
needs
must
w^e
The
unable
"
freelysup
up
if
troubles
own
"
Babel,
troubled
that too
Folks
Must
"With
for you
To hear
are
firesides
o\a
appeal unto
"*Tis well
live round
neighboursthat
Market-ground
I hear
Methinks
an
horns
drum
Ox's
come
If6
ODE.
Or^
midgt
in the
And
enter
and
the
Ghost
when
Just
A
of murder
rent
great
tall skeletons
two
Great
Philanthropies!
Upon
the
Get
The
is certain,
curtain,
of Horses
"
these
pray urge
of the
Councils
Solemn
topics!
Nation,
in the
remorses.
shall be
have
Dio
with
and
Giants
and
show
Richardson's
"
EXCOMMUNICATION.
fair-playas
to each
treated
To
OF
BULL
its
right,
sight
List
Free
latitude
Stage Dramas,
Cosmo
ramas,
"
wild,
Indians
and
Dwarf,
And
that
most
rare
Sea
Bear,
of Shows
and
"
Fat
a
Show
Child,
of Gratitude
178
P0"
DRAWN
SOLDIER.
miseryof the
the
"
remembered
in transports !
I told them
and
expedition,
their
soldiers'wives at seeing
of the Walcheren
well
too
husbands
"
Wounded/*
Killed and
discussion
The
Ibud
in this
was
at Brussels
cannon-shot
of the memorable
before
; and
ourselves,a strappingSerjeantentered
ribbons in his
rather rain-bow, of party-coloured
or
said,to
by
the
offer
The
abashed
him
examine
lengthof
campaigns of
the
on
the
wounds,
doubtless
Hounslow,
to
his sleeve.
stripeson
to
foolish
prevailupon
fellow,he assured
indifferent
was
"
and
son
came,
Who
and
?"
husband
this turn
Ladies
but he
began
abroad,and
Militia-man
the
He
cap.
breath,
same
enough at
his services
huge bow,
preventedfrom reply
was
anxious
two
to
was
cross-
the number
having been
of
confined
his
of unusual
me,
in the
recover
pointwith
he
short whether
the
when
substitute for
Serjeantlooked
poor
still more
an
; but
me
indignantfemales askinghim
what
his
substitute for
to that
us
could
we
with
the parlour
he
another
by
interrupted
was
door,a
at the
knock
single
it
stagewhen
as
he
whether
me
stature j
tall as the
6-feet-2
was
or
flag,
"
under
it was
quite
in
2-feet-6,
or
the standard."
The
"
"
considered
myselfdrawn
That, under
unnecessary
did ' call me
The
the
out^I hoped I
were
talked
bubble
in
reputation
great deal
'
which
probablybe
should
of moral
him satisfaction.'
''give
being pleasedwith this billet. They
wilful murder, and seekingthe
suicide,
the cannon's
mouth
War-office
the
to be well quarter d.
to be mustarded
from
far
expectedtherefore
with
Hardinge;"by
and
circumstances
for militia-men
females
packet
; but
lapseof
I shall
a
few
think that
ever
hours, two
postmen, brought me
Seal, and
more
large
superscribed Henry
from serving
on
Horse,
a
"
absolved
officially
or
then and thereafter.
on
Foot, or on both together,
ness
the handsomeAnd
I
know
not
his Majestydoubted
unless
why,
off the rest ; but
in particular,
of discharging
without letting
me
in
that
issued
short
it
time
there
afterwards
a
a proclamation,
so
was,
of
services
the
all
which
the
militia-men
for
were
presentdispensed
by
I
was
"
"
with,
"
all the
and
we
were
in
lighter
our
left to pursue
several avocations, of course,
our
for beingdisembodied.
spiritt
"
J7"
FOR
ODE
"
Look
ST.
CECILIA'S
for
squalls." The
out
you
can
NATURAL,
AND
FLAT,
SHARP,
Don't
As
Its bass
Ye
An
had
such
no
give birth,
rows
end
earth,
on
;"
wake the lyre
Don't "strike the harp,'pray never
Till others long to strike it too.
Except to
"*
apt
Perpetualharping's
Oh
have
heard
do,
tire ;
to
flat-and-
such
sharpers,
viol must
For
old
Welsh
be amiss ;
spoutedhis,
Lend your's,
good Mister Jones.
Jenny, do
Do, hurdy-gurdy
If
to
ever
if you
Cherry
drop in
to Soger Tommy's pipe.
butchers, bringyour bones :
Chubb, your
Pilot,
"
Ripe!
And
EVE.
to
"
Keep
sober
for
an
hour
or
two,
to helpto paint.
if you should not
Gray,
And, Sandy
Your bagpipesbring O tuneful Scot!
of the Saint !
Conceive the feelings
Music's charms
As
rise again
if you'd never
"
"
hour.
she
Ere
issues an invite.
Miss Strummel
For music, and turn-out to night
In honour of Cecilia's session ;
But ere you go, one moment
stop,
drop
And with all kindness let me
;
hint to you, and your profession
within
then
: Pray keep
Imprimis
The bounds to which your skill was
born ;
Let the one-handed
Don't
"
"
the
Pluck
Fairest
Flower,"
she
Yet without hesitation,
"
the
into
Deep
Plunged next
Deep
Sea,"
when on the keys she does begin.
Such awful torments soon
you share.
"
Sin,*
Milton's
like
She really
seems
know
of
the
you
keys
Holding
And
"
where I
letalone
Trombone,
Or Ash my
could
so toughly.
ears
Never tweak people's
ing"
That urchin-likethey can't help say-
n2
180
ODE
FOR
ST.
CECILIA
EVE.
*'
But
Wish'dBroadwoodThurtell'dinalane,
And
Kirke
White's
Kirkman
fate to
every
Jack
Tar alone
For he's all over
neglectsto tune,
concert-pitch.
"
I
"
reallyonce
Clementi
delightedspied
in Cheapside.
CoUard
"
littlepreludegoes before.
and ringat music's door,
a knock
Each instrument givesin its name
;
A
Like
in
sitting
all
They
begin
Then
To
playa
Leads
The
double
Playingthe
drum
is next
Devil
on
to
Two
mix,
Sticks
"
Clamour, clamour.
Hammer, hammer.
While
now
and then
pipe is heard.
word.
all his shrilly
best.
to put
Insisting
FANCY
Another
Revered
tORTRAIT
KIRKE
You
Husky, Rusky,
Ninny,Tinny,
Now
Hummel, Bummel,
Bowski, Wowski,
And
tames
Now
good selectables ;
plainpudding-and-
"
Ev'ry woman,
ev'ry man,
Look as foreign
as
you can,
Don't
cut
and
begin
Squealing,
Appealing,
as
high as he can go.
in languagerather low,
havingdone
beginsonce
more,
"
on
fire
ugly faces
small voice
Seizingon
your
skin,
Make
With
So to allow the littleminion
Time to deliver his opinion.
They take a few bars rest.
WHITR.
don't be surpris'd.
vv^ord,"
and ragged street Musicians,
in
"
To
judge from
rumble
unawares.
ODE
As
And
To
This
one
fetch him
tumult
the
band
Doctor
CECILIA
For
without
Again
They play
Miss
Triangle
Must
wrangle.
is becoming most
just in the
it"
Up jumps
The
little man
Devil
very
And
Off
middle,
In
GiUND
attack.
black,
"
stand
it I "
that.
is flown,
Never,
Oh
the door.
his black.
To
come
never,
Music
back.
more
never
Yet
Miss
are
drew
The
other
UPRIGHT.
saint and
not
Strummel
One
"
cannot
with
Thro'
"
in
Snatching hat,
(Not his own,)
martial
"
"
or
pity,
Storming of a City,"
compos'd and plann'd
lo I at this renew'd
When
"
A quakerly fiddle,
Proposes a generalshaking of hands !
Quaking,
Shaking,
Quivering,
Shivering,
each
bow
bow
short
Long bow
:
drawing
like sawing;
like filing,some
Some
last
these
At
agitationscease.
And
they all get
The flageolet,
To breathe
a piping time of peace.'
get breath
remorse
The
"
S. herself
of bands.
When
Puflandorf
And
the
nimble,
deceitful charm,
too
Like light'ning
before death.
Scrapenberg to rest his arm.
"
of Music.
181
EYE.
Ah,
Haut-boy crying
Piano's
pacifying,
The
cymbal
sets
Gets
The
ST.
if ho
Beyond
FOR
an
on
sinner
even
Cecilia's level ?
anseldown
scar'd away
from
heaven
the Devil
I"
iQ'2
REFLECTIONS
When
WATER.
we
aversion
Stephano's
HAVE
ON
not
to Water.
drop before."
never
of
the proneness
our
mouth, without
it
It
forth
to
is,on
again.
Fountain,
spout
into my
the
the
"
It hath
washy.
hand-basins,egregiously
and
is called
"
an
do I sometimes
quality,
adulterate
Aquariusis not
flimsyfluid.
sign; at the
my
Hugh Myddleton,for leadinghis trite streamlet
if such
Methinks
lip curleth.
sloppy
in tubs
with
the
praisesheaped on
Sir
Geneva
Cogniac or
my
palate,as
not
weakness."
amiable
Tempest.
"
labour
to
up
could
London,
at
one
my
"
time
more
"
"
"
The
is none
of mine.
aquatics
Calves'
Regattas; it passeth my
for
taste
be
should
"
the pleasureof
and
main, for
encounter
with
contending
of water.
prizecup
"
not
how
"
the
Deluge,when
with
chest,but
^bySir
"
on
the
by
"
Easy
the
greatfloods
in
rished,
pethe
on
chest
Drowning
Dying
^isto
"
gentleman
"
thirsty
means
tions
no-
my
Conceive
horrible.
any
Dick, that
called
unfortunate
by
have
Noah's
water.
some
made
Lauder
the whole
water
for
not
Witness
would
human-kind
should
always
was
Arch-Enemy.
two
"
I believe
bridges, and
our
we
tish
Scot-
many
reader,if ever
"
Morayshire destroyed
know
"
feasts,
good-men's
say
at
waters,"for fear of my
I am
told
Die miki
all your
Gentle
it
laugh at Cowes'
to conceive
understanding,
and
sail
sea, your might
"
an
not
pelled
com-
gulp after
even
gulp of the vapidfluid,
"as
the water
to swelling,
to
you
man."
swill
know
If I
will
swell
said I would
hanged,it would
be but the truth ; although
hath givenme
Veritas in Puteo
rather
"
be
"
THE
almost
ARCH-ENEMY.
HEPLECTIOKS
ON
183
WATER.
Tent"
of both
laid
and
on
i.e.
;*
"
the Muse
with sweet
white,"and addeth
laid on in pipes. For Madeira, see
"
by Pope,
"
in the
"
The
Cape.
dear to Oriental
touched
Sultanas
as
on
it
perchance,
they take
"
hath
all of
confess there is
! but
of it ;
is there also
would
scend
conde-
hand.
Sack, too, as
Clarence, is by Byron
"
"
then, throughsome
in Water
eloquently
cunning
ness
Koran-scrupulous-
in
the subject,
but, as became
written a volume, I am
told,in its commendation,
the
nutritive
it floating
its
quality
; and truly to see
Malmsey
to
singhinteth
the mountain,"
Mahomet
to
"
Tak
of water;
been
his
thus
Bowles
Then
Shepherd loves
to
""
and
"
Pringleluxuriates
of
celebrated
Mountain
"
and
Red
"
as
Sherry ?
ye at the
was
commending Nerval,
Shakspearediscourseth
I like. "
Port
His
"
his cellar :
O,
loftyDouglas,in
The
eth another.
hand
"
what
"
then
and
complement of
support in it
some
"
taken
look
internally,
the
wreck
of the
Royal
George!
The
of
certain marine
years
with other uniform
than my
habits,
present-tense
my
and occupations,
of
savour
as
the
past sea-service,yet,
"
by-gone
years
in
the
Newhaven,
find
thou
the
occurring
of Hood
; a name
surname
associated
friends,marine
by
mechanic,
for
with
wilt
and
vance
contri-
the old
expelling
enemy, water, by
of
construction
novel
Ships'
RUNNING
SPIRITS
pumps.
sect
of my
the AdamVAle-Shunners
in
the muster-roll charactered
!
an
Spiller
iStanchest
Samuel
"
"
Able
wert
thou, old
Seaman
but
184
REFLECTIONS
notable for
*most
fresh
soft
or
"
band
or
if service
Service,
Preventive
thou
by
payeth greaterreverence,
in
that
armed
miscalled
some
the
no
smugglerbare justice,
do the
spirits.To
Water, hard,
unmitigated
to
salt !
WATER.
aversion
Landsman's
contraband,the
versus
ON
obedience
or
Nelson-bred,
seaman,
that
to
signalsentence,
"
to cb his
duty!" than
Thine,
in
or
Spirits,
Spiller,
legal illegal,tub
didst thou inexorably
or
seize,and gaugerflask,or pewter measure,
like try the depth thereof, thy Royal Master, His
Majesty, at
the latter end of the seizures,
faringno better than thy own begotten
**he took after his
sea-urchin,of whom, one day remarkingthat
would-be
Trinculo
Father
t
he
leaveth
never
retorted,
father,"
young
take."
There
to
none
were
afloat,and ashore
strange rumours
Samuel ! of thy unprofitable
vigilance.Many an illicitChUd^ i. e.
laid at thy door.
small keg,hath
been
Thou
hadst a becoming
a
brave
and
could stand
men
true, who
respect for thy comrade^ as
"England expects
done
was
man
every
the
to
he.
uttermost.
"
"
"
"
men
of
thy
notes,who
base
of
gulp down
in evidence.
There
with
"
Lord
as
It
which
own
whatever
streak
misdeeds
higher,as
like much
those
delinquent
dangerousforgeries,
have appeared against
as
might else
thee,like rat,or weazel,
entrapping
wert commonly
a sea-peerage, thou
deriving
was
no
Vassal of
the Noble
I trust,to
ofience,
no
their
swallow
Even
Kensington
"
Hollands.
by
was
of
way
of mine
Great
thy
were
"
didst thou
thee
Still
treat.
own
utterers
so
stand
could
ranked
for
water-penance
Ancient,that
one
evening
one
"
the
the
eveningsucceeding
chargeof a boat's crew, to
shipwrecktArgosy,that
I gave him
Tempest of 1814
of some
relics
sundry fragmental
were
reportedto be adrift in our offing.In two hours he returned,
and
like "Venator and
we
Piscator,
immediatelyfell into dialogue,
i
.
for
of
fear
e.
Piscator,
Spiller,
drippingthe carpet,"
standingaloof,
et pretereanihil,
in a dark entry.
a vox
not then inoculated with
Well, Spiller,"my phraseologywas
the quaintness it hath since imbibed
after lecture""
from
Well,
what
have you picked up ?
Spiller,
Sea
"
bring in
"
"
"
"
"
"A
fitarn.
*'
Only
"
Very
Bunco
to
Thank
The
the
as
"
are
you
"
giveyou
your
all double
the marble
and
"
wet
famous
and
part
placefor rum,
of
Ship's
Sir ! **
"
wreck, and
go
to
your
grog.
Tell
allowance."
honour's honour
ceased
'
of Barbadies
sea
any
capitalspar;
up to my middle,Sir."
well
stow
the
away
voice
audible
down
Planter
Was.there
"
*'
"
with tramp
pair of ponderoussea-soles,
in
went
Spectre
Giovanni,
hurrying
foot of the
of a discrepancy
between
main-hatchway.Certain misgivings
and
the
imputeddrenching
weather,an appeal askance of the rum
our
186
BLOW-UP.
Creptin
the
One
day
Became
With
by
sort of windmill
round.
and blew
in sound
that went
bounce
"
ground,
water
far
as
Dover, it
as
it ! "
"
"
At
Cowes'
If such
Think
once
vessels start ;
how
In
fact,it
As
peopleknow
"
battle,
In
dunniest
The
heard it
poor
"
if he
Doubted
for
Through
Tunbridgetown
once
Mr.
Were
Miss
Made
The
for
of Sons"
Best
kick'd the
And
thousand
Fated
"
to
and
convulsively,
Miss
Wiggins,with
Toss'd it justlike
For
grass upon
Mr.
fork,
her face.
turban
in the gravy
he meant
nurse-maid
Bo-peep" and
end,
carver's labour.
at the lower
Preparingfor a Goose a
Darted his two-prongedweapon
The
her
Pyne,
Sherry in
Mistress Davy,
Davy
once
fish !
at work
glassof
if for
one
Dunn,
better case.
nervous
Poor
As
was
takingwine.
With
Mr.
but
hooked
hay-maker
in any
sister not
jerkedhis
some
dish ;
China
Mister
was
the stairs :
down
dropped the
unawares.
started,though there
struck
BobbM
taken
was
Best of Parents"
Who
While
dog,
other''sarms.
her
"
steadiest servant
The
lie
strangealarnw,
so
fright
strong.
inches
six
a great gobble-stitch
long;
their wish
veriest quakersquaked against
"
Her
most
Fogg,
into each
once
M. the milliner
F.
deaf
it caused
shocked
The
old Mr.
ever
was
Mrs.
and
Who
"
unnerved.
nerve
was
flyblow
oak's heart.
terrify
could
sound
observed,
Regattaas
made
twenty
pistol-shot
what's called
diflFeredfrom
somewhat
And
to
help a
in his
neighbour,
friend.
"
little Jack-a-Norey,"
telling
"
Blue-cap"'atthe
house's top,
Scream'd,and
let Master
From
187
BLOW-UP.
Jeremiali
drop
fourth story !
yet did matters any better go
Nor
Cook
With
As
Housemaid
and
for the
Laundress,timid
Expressingfaintness
And
Gunning,
by
fits
By
Grave
Mr.
Struck
pairof
scrambled
Out
From
shocked
Out
Floating
NON
SEQUITUR.
rushed
in
horse.
Miss
from
awful
a
Joy's!
and big,^
noise,
boys,
flood of
black, without
wig ;
Some
"
one
another,
treasure, some
and
taws
their
up in a hurry.
tops
caught
rescued LindleyMurray,
saved Chambaud, some
carried out
Some
But
man
corse,
mind.
find,
shafts without
Hearing the
Some
to
ProspectHouse,
coming to his
Only
like
moments
some
littleTiddy
"
carried his
big brother !
188
BLOW-UP.
Sick of such
The
terrors,
No
But
to
Baker
warn
of his
dangerouserrors
to bringthe pointto
Accordingly
They
The
call'd a
dwell
should
pass,
glass.
chimney pots,and scatter d tiles,
The damage of each part,
shatter d
And
packed it in a cart.
by the horse that ran from Mr. Miles ;
Doctor Babblethorpe,the worthy Rector,
Drawn
While
And
Mr.
And
few
some
Went
cutler to
Gammage,
as
more,
and
Powder-proprietor
Now
Baker's
Mr.
the Ex
deputationto
George Rex,
would only vex,
names
whose
Mill-director.
had pleased
dwelling-house
Along with
And
for
mill-materials to roam.
time the deputieswere
To
find the
At
last
they found
Safe at the
The
with
him
TunbridgeArms
worthy Rector,with
put his spoke in for
Soon
teased.
noisygentlemanat home
undamaged skin,
not
"
out
zeal,
uncommon
the
but Inn.
"
weal
common
By
of
way
told how
He
'Knock'd
How
At
Mr.
auctioneering
lot without
had
Miles,in fright,
she wouldn't
ProspectHouse,
Dane
And
Beak,
off'his nose
Beyond
"
Gates,not Tilus,
Vitus,
"
whilst
misbehaving.
shaving;
"
words
that seem'd
like
sweaiing,
bearing
Mr. Gammage
sputtering
stuttering,
Sir
he
arguedthus,
pay us,
is to
or
"
many
"
"
cus-cus-cus-cus-cus-cus-cus
Cus-custom, and
a
the
person
provedhe
was
"
dam-dam-dam-dam-damage
had
such assailants,
and
Baker, however,
But
"
bear,
Licenser's belief
For loss of
By
bidding,
giv'nhis mare,
a
in the
Broke
Now
Bidding
Doctor
thro' Powder
suddenly,with
When
Who
how
d like Saint
Mr.
Cut
**
unfolded.
climax,Mrs. D,avy'sturban
whip
"
then
down
Mr.
The
"
been
fairly
puzzled
muzzled
completely
;
after their
practised
own
ease
"
system,
WOODEN
THE
And
189
LEO.
with
small
dismissed 'em,
soon
ceremony
these
words
into their ears
like fleas ;
Putting
"
If I do have a blow, well, where's the
oddity?
I merely do as other tradeemen
do.
You, Sir,
and you
"
Fm
onlypuffingoff"my
THE
URGING
THE
OF
with such
liead of
an
Ever
off
barrel."
empty
since the
leg and
one
OWN
1799, I
the
WORK.
LEG.
of the stump ascendingthe \70oden staircase
it for the application
of drum-sticks
to the
Pickle.
Peregrine
year
near
"
YOUR
WOODEN
"
you
commodity
own
SAIL
and
"
have
at
"
A
of
No
greatdeal
fair back-falls
galeswere
I
as
walked
and
exercise,
moreover
"
in
or
of
wooden
our
a
a
lose,I
dead
calm, and
and
foot
and
soldier,
the
ocean.
so
many
equinoctial
say, my feet.
to
soldier accustomed
goingto
was
as
the
received half
ever
"
^makingme
inglorious
figureon
Devonshire
I, the
in full blow
might have
make
Cornwall
sung
but an
used
to
walking,I
felt
wooden
hoof
ought to
have
been
"
shod with
felt."
190
THE
At
which
fishing-boat,
have
enjoyeda
soon
obtained
LEO.
terminated,and
into
WOODEN
ramble
put
land,I got
to
eagerness
who
Dungeness.
will believe that I
shingle,
walking with a wooden
leg
Those
its extensive
over
exercise in
of
abundance
in my
ashore at
me
when
its loose pebbles
; in fact,
among
the cricketers say, "stumped out."
I arrived
It
I was,
anythingbut one
was
Lydd,
at
as
of
Foote's farces.
The
says
morning saw
next
in
me
sightof home,
as
"
bard
provincial
"
"
when
But
gleams upon
home
he had
I wish
But
doingmy last
anythingbut
paternalroof. I am
seen
me
glimpseof the
distinct
Camilla
the
scours
stood at the
half mile
I found
Hill.
plain,"she
which
lodge-gate,
does not
Swingfield
over
in spiteof
quicksand,
convinced,when
it with
do
opened,and
fly."
to
seems
"
let
sand.
into
"
At
Fleet
last I
long avenue,
but not
well rolled ;
path of which had been newly gravelled,
considerable
out
I
work
for
and
cut
the
myself
accordingly,
gardener,
who, as he watched the holes I picked in his performance,seemed to
much
looked on my advance
as
Apollyon did on Pilgrim's
Progress.
I
the
wooden
but
of
relief,got upon
By way
leg,thoughit
grass,
my
did not thrive much
the turf. Arrived at the
was
a
bLick-leg,
upon
house door,filialanxietycaused me
to forget
to scrape and wipe,and
I proceededto make
of
soles
and dabs up the stair
a
fishypattern
me
the
carpet.
good wife
The
If there
of
sort
sound
into
mother
poor
came
upon
broken
Gabriel
or
stump, which
comingto
attempt
would
his
playeda
where
the
landing-place,
the
legto her,had
Michael
in the
Dunsinane
my
wood
will not
''As
and
Bimam
Macbeth
I
father,
him,
for my
mine, it was
Saul," up to
in
my
should have
which
As
sightof
in
March
Dead
and
music
any
was
"
"
same
to
been
threw
my
preparatoryletter
lost
its passage.
on
angelsfear
to tread
;"
have
not
themselves
neck, and
being
loose
Sir
Thomas
to
or
leg,"according
outplay
my
the result was
Instructions for "Wrestling,"
a
Parkyn s
hanging
is
toe
A
when
behind
trippet."
hangingtrippet
you put your
your
heel,on the same
side,with a designto hook his legup
adversary's
attentive
to
on
my
not
"
"
"
"
forwards,and
The
throw
him
of my
myself
throughdry sand and
me
to
maybe, a
tumbled
on
into
bed, and
satisfaction when
unlucky
wet
littleflustered
his back."
limb.
exhausted
gravel,
by dippinginto
was
soon
night came,
and
Fatigued with
by
excessive
my
allowed
walk
emotion,and,
literally
leaping
THE
hoarse
more
the
came
never
or
courage,
about
arms,
Thieves
!
"
biped,when
!" and
"
Murder
I
!"
There
were
burglars,
packing and preparingto elopewith
of parents. It was
natural for
soldier to the rescue, but son
soldier
or
I wanted
but
in the
! Frank
in time
of
"
the consent
and
son
Frank
were
familyplate,without
"
call for
in
other feats of
shrill screams
suddenlyaroused by
with
191
LEG.
and
waltzing,
gallopading,
for wagers,
was
WOODEN
plate;
that
that I wanted
not
unlucky limb,
I could lay my
and
dark,before
zeal
or
groped
hand
upon
leg.
my
The
the
next
estate ;
had taken
morning I took
but during my
placewith
strollbefore
solitary
absence
abroad, some
Sir
neighbour.
our
breakfast to look at
exchangesof land
Theophilus.The consequence
wood
was,
in
takingmy
formerlybeen
our
"
and
"
"
"
far from
was
Leg
pleasantto
stand
in
it for two
hours
out
calling
for
Bail.
I could
givemany
hobble which
my
more
wooden
of my friends,
few years ago I stood
At the persuasion
a
onlyone.
for Rye, but the electors,
I
perhaps,thought onlyhalf stood for it,for
It was
votes.
they gave me nothingbut split
perhapsas well that I
did not go into the House, for with two such odd legs I could never
properlyhave
pairedoff." The election expenses, however, pressed
heavilyon my pocket,and to defraythem, and all for one Wooden
"
Leg,I
had
to cut down
some
PEGOIMG
thousand
TWO
FOR
loads of timber.
HIS
HKELS.
193
GHOST.
THE
A
SERIOUS
VERY
I'll be your
BALLAD.
second."
Liston.
"
My Memory
Should
like
"
Rogers's,
stillbe bound
in green
**
"
Now
twenty pence
widow
B. in two
out.
"
yard.
short months
tax ;
"
Your
*"
"
Are
To
"*
burn
your
my blood
we
now
one
"
run,
"
you, Sir
"
once
bosom
friend
"
perjuredfaith convict.
ghostlytoe can giveno blow,
are
kick'd.
flame.
widow's
set
"
Alreadygettingup
marriagerite did
ever
Consider you
breast
urn
The
"And
Of
littleafter one.
after two !
But she was
Oh
'Tis
As
my
return
If
on
in my
A-boiling
One
It
A ton of marble
Can't hinder my
More
weeds
COCK
or
TllK
v"AI.K.
19-1
TALE
tillthe
THE
OF
were
now
cityand
the
who
devils,
had
GREAT
PLAGUE.
hardened,and
became
neighbourhoodthereof
loosened
been
for
thonsand
seemed
from
season
given
the
lasting
ever-
desperadoes
havingmet togetherat the Dolphin
Deptford,they laid a plot togetherto rob a certain lone mansion
Now
in
which
house
stood
off to
beinggone
for the sake
tliis;
was
of
the Thames
betwixt
which
Hainault,and
left in the
was
another mansion
house
wholesome
air.
more
for
begpiteously
or
were
to
man,
feignedvoice was
and
shelter,
night's
to
were
Forest
the
of
family
rush
in and
knock
to
he
the
Friday, at
that
fellow
then
bind
the
the
at
door,
serving-
always
wore
last
they
may
entered the
which
rob, and
be
in you
was
night,they
set
Blackface,by reason
themselves
errands,
diverting
his share of the booty in the
was
and
for the
sure
the
main
death, and
as
of Lewkener's
women
burthen
of the house
fore-court
silent
as
of the
such
on
coming
dead
named
by
At
only one
the
vizard which
Lane
and
murther
plate. Accordinglyone
forth,havingfor leader
of
chargeof
one
marshes
of the
song.
which
to
they were
dark, exceptinga
as
glimmer from one window towards the top. Blackface then, as agreed
upon, began to beat at the door, but being flushed with drink,instead
ding
bidfor an entrance, he shouted
out to the serving-man,
of entreating
with
him
keys,for that
"
In the
"
window,
*'
so
An
when
"
down
us
be
that
wait but
boot.
Come
you
come
they were
of God, my
do you want
come," returned
your
down
come
to relieve him
and
to
render up
the
charge.
serving-manfrom
"
Blackface,
to relieve you
of your
the
whose
serving-man,
me
and
trust
my
"
open, or we
"
Ye shall not
trust,
keys."
said
all,"
do with
the
here ?"
Adams,
placeto
me
dead,
was
name
may
his
of his
masters,"cried
what
are
throw
"
"
We
name
terrible oaths to
many
bringfire and
no
as
you
list."
but
preaching,
come
down
and
need,"answered
Adams,
"
hearken
only to
what
fair warning,
shall have free passage; but I give you
say, and you
sick
be
and
without
and
I
but
unto
even
a single
though
man,
weapon,
lives as ye bear
shall your coming in cost you
as
many
walls
dismal
for
within
there
is
these
a
giantthat hath slain
amongst you,
his thousands,even
the plague."At these drearywords the courage of
death,yet
the robbers
sayingit was
"
taken
was
no
doubt
Alas,"answered
somewhat
and
an
aback,but
Adams, who
sorrowful
them
spirited
on,
from the spoil.
Blackface
overheard
their
truth, and
which
argument,
I
am
"
what
speakingfor
TALE
OP
GREAT
THE
195
PLAGUE,
As for the
to-morrow's blessed sun.
see
the last time,for I shall never
hands,beseeching
you for
door,I will open it to you with my own
of my
stand
little
the
taint
and
of
sakes
a
out
to
apart,
your own
breath,which is sure destruction. There is one child herein a dead
corpse,
shall behold
you
in the hall. So
as
if you
have
much
sayinghe
the
withdrawinga little backward, and
open
they saw verilyby the lightof a rush wick which he carried,that he
was
laptonly in a white sheet,and lookingvery paleand ghost-like,
unburied
with
"If
said,
when
inwards
look
back
I draw
door,and
from
the
shall
see
ye
what
was
this
day,
disbelieve
ye
still,"he
me
"
most
child
living
is
but
now
hasteningto
corruption.Alas ! in
a
corpse
midst
the
seized at
life
of
in death
are
she
we
was
play." With
these words
and
aside,
drew
he
the
robbers,
he
as
the dead
child
said,for
body of
lyingon
was
the
the
hall
same
he
said,in its
here
huge bunch
but
with
than
the very
on
be the
off,even
after
said
as
had
Adams,
Now,"
they
keys,"therewithal castingtowards them
now
more
no
meddle
with tliem
againcalled to
them
illhumour, when
Adams
I not
carried it
had
death
"
their illluck,they
"
though
as
holidayclothes.
gazedawhile, "
COMMON-LOT.
THE
though
ye
hither with
came
and
robbery,
chance
per-
which
my
been
own
lifeis
coming to
so
very
suddenly
your
bodies,wherefore,
by
from this
over
to
saved from
the advice of
where
Ifaytonstone,
there be
o2
ij)6
for
good hour
virtue
more
tobacco
as
the
remedy
odour
GREAT
THE
OF
amidst
the
or
TALE
of
drugs.
yard,where
very
strongsmell
Do
PLAGUE
this and
one
can
they sat
an
which
they
took
Laytonstone,and
and
stooped over
to
down
snuffing
up the odours with all the relish of men
the breath of life. In which
was
as
posture
half
in whose
leave to continue
entreating
awhile
in the
for
into the
the
with
pit,
nostrils it
had been
they
addressed
poisonis
the springs
on
began yelling
and
to flight,
aware,
groan, and
accord
one
even
the
live,for
be
dismal
hath
than
plague,
sitting
lantern,and
to whom, therefi^re,
their boldness, and
tan-yardto
disinfect themselves
but
plague;
lo! each
had
of the
become
of which
seen
turned
the
lantern
directlyto be the
those black
been
you
his
own
his
lightupon
man
eyes.
face,which
own
of Adams
countenance
but
himself,
for which
"
As
he
explainedhe
had
child,"he said,
of Barber
masters,of the worshipful
company
tell
of
will
certain
a
waxen
they
puppet of Hygeia,
you
to
enquire,
my
must
and
Surgeons,
the Goddess
and when
with
ringsround
indebted
"
he had
of
Health,which
used
to
be
carried
at
their
pageants,
was
doll."
LA
TRAPPE.
197
ODE
MAD".
PORTRAIT
FANCY
TO
HENGLER,
MADAME
FIREWORK-MAKER
Oh,
HENGJ,ER.
VAUXHALL
TO
StarryEnchantress
I he^ pardon
Madame,
!
of the Surrey Garden
Accept an
meant
The
Mrs.
Whose
Great
With
But
Thou
We
"
Ode
Bard
Whose
And
Hengler!
not
"
were
are
squibs
far
works
are
much
is
more
many
bang
the
as
bold indeed
thy
any
"
quiz.
popularthan his ;
certain to go off.
more
silent fame ;
publicear it courts ;
not
we
blame.
never
thy own
reports.
indulgentbackers,
comments.
misbelieving
doubting,
merits from
no
Even
in
thy
But
lend
our
most
ears
bounceable
to
implicit
of moments
thy
As
scoff
at thee to
none
crackers !
"
are
not
missing,
raise thee,
Thy
Rockets
And
Serpentspraisethee.
!
ever
are
praised by hissing
beside
"
198
TO
ODE
MADAME
HENGLER.
Mistress of
Hydropyrics,
Pindarics,
Sapphics,Lyncs,
glittering
Professor of a FieryNecromancy,
Of
tlioiicliarmest the
Oddly
sorts
politer
With
midnightsports,
oi flashd^ndi
Partaking
fancy !
very much
What
Each
But
thy
all
nocturnal
revels,
"
brimstone
would
They
shaken
thoughtshad
In olden time at
ball,
deem'd an eyeballof
have
the DeviFs !
"
One
fixed
out
description
fairly
which
"
With
are
motion
the very
Between
the hours
slglits
earth and
midnightand
of
about
"
Thou
wond'rous
Such
:-
"
heaven,
eleven,
stars and
And
blood -red
white.
Wheels
dazzling
And
Thrice
With
For
lucky
woman
waggons.
that
be
doingthings
Altho'
Thy
Hght,
fit for Enchanters'
palacesall
thee,
Vauxhall
Like
Hugh,
sparksand
Allowed
nightand
dam
prophetic
by
play with
a
water
flames to have
To
bom
never
with
lecturM
end in Arson
in
thy head.
mom
an
and
awful
dread.
sire
fire.
Instead
Or in
Up
of
waxen
doll
"
littleGuy ;
vein,
thy pretty pyrotechnic
parentalpigtail
lay a train,
To let ofi"all his powder ?
the
ODE
TO
Did''stnever
Turningthe
Or
Thy
thy youth,
in
mother
pots,
plots?
gardeninto
givethe
powder
her,
cook, to fright
paper
Nay,
199
HENOLER.
plaintruth,
whizzingFlowers in thy
Plant
MADAME
wert
sisters
lightedcracker by thy
Dear,
Go
questionhe
on, Madame
While
hoax'd
on
see
stare
dizzy,
Chair
Cassiopeia's
Serpentwrigglinginto Charles''sWain
Roman
Candle lighting
the Great Bear
Rocket tangledin Diana's train.
A
A
A
And
Crackers
There
is
Methinks
Could'st
Set out
Lord
per Rocket
and
the world
! how
One
solitary
night
"
would
brightconfusion
countenance
dazzling
!
Oh Dei gratias
That fiery
facias
the
saw
thine,Enchantress
'Twas
ever
In dark
face
Long
May
But
When
Then
throngto
see
dost throw
it up !
Fancy
will create
of the grate,
of glory!
of the
Surrey Grove
since that
and
may
no
when
friendlypall.
spark of all thy sparksdecays,
lamented by good people all,
old age prepares
the
the last
die
Like
Goldsmith's
eat
mm
story,
night.
bright.
within my stove
is registered
And
Thy
sup.
thou
that
treat
true is the
Watchingthose forms
Within
per Comet
return
while
swallowingfire,
He
"
givehim a hot
to sit and
Pyrotechnicals
Of
Then
and
Astronomers
Squib in
'
brightand busy
be
"
look up
tall observatories,
dumb
and
From
To
Go
popping?
was
Modern
Blaize !
200
AND
RHYME
the Editor
To
REASON,
of the
Comic
Annual.
Sir,
of your Annuals you have
WritingBlank Verse in Rhyme ;" but
In
one
constructed
poem
giveninsertion to
I have
as
I suppose
its principles,
on
no
seen
the scheme
"
Plan for
regularlong
d^d not
take
these circumstances
I feel encouraged
Under
world.
literary
I
and
of
can
to bringforward a novelty
only regretthat such
my own,
poets as Chaucer and Cottle,Spenser and Hayley, Milton and Pratt,
Pope and Pye, Byron and Batterbee,should have died before it was
with the
invented.
is avowedly the rhyme.
in verse
great difficulty
in his letters, that a rhyme is as hard
somewhere
The
"
says
him
as
guinea," and
"
The
poets.
scarce
among
Valentine
must
have
to
chime
that
guineas
are
versifier that
merest
with
met
syllablethat refused
all know
we
this
Orson, some
ever
Swift
find with
to
proverbially
attempted a
untameable
society.For
in with
Dean
savage
what
instance,
Foxhunter
poetical
drawn
and
I know
that
"
of
of
tithe
no
heroic
which
measure,
requires that
every
shall pay
syllable
tenth
in kind.
sound
How
goes
line, only
stopped at the
to
an
contributor to the
oppressive than
poeticalone, in
more
"
the
all
up
be
end
by
rhyme,
impracticable
like
in
bull
alley!
blind
have
medical
who
might
eminent
an
time,but
he wrote
his
genious
in-
an
friend,
have
been
poet by this
the
first line
ended
in
and
with
cacuanha,
ipeall
REFUSING
TITHE.
and mental
physical
power,
he has
The
plan I
never
propose aims
by the horns
to find a
202
BARKER
A
Is
of
kennel,and
strives to be
carte
He
church.
the
certain
and
suit,
He
though he
comes
out
cares
dirty.
cards,yet
but without
pack. He loves fencing,
in a steeplechase,though he does not
delights
always with
follow
home
returns
tierce ; and
or
PANORAMA.
FOXHUNTER
jumble of paradoxes.
He
not
for
the
anythingbut litigious,
yet is fond of a
retains Scarlet. He
with
keeps a runningaccount
and
but
check.
As
to
to
Horse, Bog, Fox,
Co.,
cards,in
objects a
he favours Miss
choosinga pack he prefersHunt's. In Theatricals,
namesake
b
ecause
her
the
wrote
Somerville,
Chase, though he never
read it. He
is no
great Dancer, though he is fond of castingoflf
twenty couple; and no great Painter, though he draws covers,
and
bars.
seeks
for
He
brush.
is
He
is
no
Musician,and yet
is fond
of
five
of bark.
He prodespisesDoctors,yet follows a course
fesses
is
it.
is
fond of
perpetually
crossing He
country,but
strongale and beer,yet dislikes any purl. He is good-tempered,
yet
far a Tartar as to prefera saddle of Horse to a saddle of Mutton.
so
He is somewhat
but insists on good breeding
roughand bearish himself,
in horses and dogs. He professes
the Church
nances
Catechism,and counteheathen dogmas,by naming his hounds after Jupiter
and Juno,
to love his
and
Mars
scent.
In
He
says
he inclines
he loves
follows
be
one
knowing,
fellow
swears
but
to
as
he
need
is
He
but
dog
many
him
by the
is oftener
in
clear
and is
prosperous,
Hunter
s
Stakes, but
praisesdiscretion,but
fox.
and
He
does
not
takes
would
shine
To
going to
always
at
care
not
danger than
by a fog.
the
He
as
is
"Winter.
out
long
as
"
He
He
his
he
and
deliver.*'
lord
land-
no
ing
Summeresteems
delightsin
is
bag
He
than
great among
can,
his Heir
But
is in at his death.
goes to earth, and his Heir
stand in his shoes, for he never
wore
anything but boots.
"stand
He
hunter.
the
of
conversazione, but
cat
He
to
a
thief's.
dogs.
He
honest
as
studies
stake
to
milksop,
no
pretends
is
let the
runs
He
He
nose.
rather
conclude,
good
Foxes.
preserves
human
he
on
is
pursuits.
himself
the
yet has
He
Fox.
after
protects Poultry,
leads
doats
Vixen.
objects to destroyinga
business, and
he
violets,but
shrew, but
Pitt, and runs
to
Tally.
for
not
cares
his Wife
Politics
but
He
Diana.
203
FOXUUNTER.
and
does
then
not
204
FANCV
PORTHAIT-
BAILEY
To
"or
It
belongsto
is
called
technically
N.
a
or
"
above
titlerefers not
Publishers
"
"
the 5th of
Hayne3
"
mental
extraordinary
This wrong
it
at the 6th
November,
perusalof Tayloron
box
was
once
fortune to
my
hour,leavingmy
Early Rising
"
in the Council
make
"
of Twelve.
to Thomas
^but the
Old Bailey.
original
the
of what
l
eisure
composed
Songs
during
courtly
a
Juryman in Waiting that is,one of a corps de
to any
even
set of
BUTTERFLY.
BALLADS.
anticipate
mistake,the
F. W.
BE
I walked
from
On
get into.
bed and
the luxurious
yellow foginto
a retired
sea
Captain with a wooden
neighbour,
leg,now
from
the
with
Terrace
a
me
on
literally
l
imped
jury-mast,
Highbury
Halter.
Our legaldrill Corporal
same
a personified
hangingerrand
"
SerjeantArabin, and
the
over, before breakfast,
was
the
when
our
uninitiated
muster
can
roll without
form
no
of the would-be
butter
idea of the
was
ludi-
Nonjurors, aggravatedby
previousoath, the deliveryfrom a witness-box like
and the professional
One weakly old
a pulpit,
gravityof the Court.
but often,
gentleman had been ordered by his physicianto eat little,
fatal consequences
from
and apprehended even
being locked up with
crousness
the
an
of
solemnityof
obstinate
excuses
eleven
another
hirtiself master
of
Vidocq,Hardy Vaux.
and
make
"
his
conscientious
demurrer
desired time
duties,by consultingJonathan
Lazarillo de Tonnes.
But
to
Wild,
the number
of
BAILEY
deaf
was
"
men
who
beyond
Wright on
objectedthe
The
belief.
the
Ear"
hardness
of
Publishers
of
"
Defective
on
their
hearing criminal
Curtis
"
on
the
cases
Ear"
and
"
of Pugilism) ought
suggestive
Court.
205
BALLADS.
side
one
to
have
stentorian
I
myself,
agents
in
that
ashamed
to
literally
double drums, and tacitly
was
Jury.
arraignment and
heard, on
the
to match,
Judge's charge an
but
catch
the
to
from
defence
the left
failing
great dexterity,
in any sinister verdict.
The learned
hand, refused naturallyto concur
I was
as
only half deaf, only half discharged
Serjeant,I presume,
the
to
relay-box, as a jurorin "Waiting, and
committing me
me,
I
relieved
from which
was
only by his successor, Sir Thomas
Denman,
I
made
his
voice
and to justify
to repeat
even
dullness,
stupendous
my
righthand,
"
evidence
with
"
"
my
dismissal
twice
over
was
"
DESCEND
YE
NINE
"
206
LINES
(at
1, NEWGATE
no.
And
was
tillthis hour
That
Oh
! when
Or
some
I snatch'd
WONTintR.}
MR.
knew
owned
never
then to gaze on
It would have been
!
thieving
kiss,
courted.
was
bliss.
love
!
transported
were
you
"
tender
such triflewhen
But
"
unfair
an
feeling,
dream
And
Or when
To
BY
up for
said,indeed,that
But
To
FAVOURED
never
taken
were
you
You
MARY.
Mary,
But
TO
"
suit I firstpreferred.
my
bringyour
Before
How
I hammer
coldness to repentance.
d out a word.
could I dream
Or when
with
you'dheard
sentence
of
youth
alreadypast conviction
one
How
could I dream
that
Your
hand
I have
where
"
ivorypart.
look'd and
!
light-finger'd
your charms
in
The charms
which my muse
Alas ! the lay,I thoughtwas
Oh
! w^hen
Hung
on
that
had
My
And
down
the neck
at
its arms
once
pick'dme
"
new.
form, a lovelyone.
You've
drew.
delighted
been indicted !
had
You
linger'd,
heart.
meltingverse
my
"
and
flown to,
run
too.
own
from
the
shock
it
world,
"
prideis hurl'd,
you'vepick'da pocket!
LINES
Oh
! when
The
banns
if there
Why
did not
But
In
when
some
And
My
And
Who
goodswere
you
could have
to
came
in
down
!
thought
of all your
day discover
I lived up
When
Botany.
slips
"
WERE
WELL
Love, with
wig
in Cavendish
MET.
witness
"
and blacken
we
"
II.
of false
it's him
NKVER
HAD
WE
IF
it'shim"
of
prisonships.
Deptford's
"
But
Bay
you've a hulkinglover
patchand
say.
"
"
No.
Oh
Darbies
got any,
obey,
and
honour
tillthis
Bailey?"
if I had
the worst
Oh, Mary
Wears
Old
yours,
should
"
He
"
"
the parson
when
But, oh,
That
lar
any
shout
the Joans
I did not
was
one
could have
Among
Dr.
you
that pure
Who
got so far,
Daly,
by
read
were
asked
207
MARY.
love had
our
"Who
TO
d his
brows,
hair,
"
exchangedlovers" vows,
Square.
the same,
beautiful eyes, and his lipswere
And
his voice was
as soft as a flute
Like a Lord or a Marquis he look'd,when he came,
He
had
"
To
make
best suit.
208
LINES
If I lived for
I shall
he lov'd
With
their
By
the
Oh
how
the rich
silver and
jewelsand
and bade
me
littleI dreamt
We
met
"
ran
I too
I
wore
^the
"
And
He
my
bran
fit me
to
no
feel
"
watch
was
their
as
he
stride had
my
of this
The
watch
that went
The
world
may
think
the
too
mine
was
he deserv'd
cause
tether
mine
and
to cells wretched
"
but
gay,
him,
near
to fear him
an
lonely:
artful deceiver
of this
BTOP
anguish,my
HIM
only.
and
for
"
leather !
anguish,my
"
sure
me
"
!
tightness
"
his arm,
me
upon
me
"
swore,
done
and
and
cause
had
thoughthe
I hated
how
came,
the
Parody/'" Bailey.
no
sigh,
III.
once
"
Oh
pelt
hair"
one
"
"
boots
new
a
for
"
adieu with
spoons !
and
"
cold
to
I seized upon
And
stept
And
mob
nightwas
longedmuch
They
but
I call'd,
Oh
I could not
I felt
He
'twas in
"
earth,
biddinggood-bye
was
I'd be
of
women
gold!
me
No.
"
birth,
my
of moons,
my
from
he told ;
beyond
me
he kiss'd
When
longyears
forgetwhat
never
How
To
thousand
MARY.
TO
her,
;
together.
leather.
210
LETTER.
"
"
"
"
for
dinner
Niggersis
outlandish
so
with
speaking terms
of
the
Pompey,
Greek
is
so
these
on
trips
Englishnot quiteso
one
jabber of
hardly say I am
any
made
England have
is
invitation to
The
I can
unintelligible,
or
no
nor's
Gover-
black, whose
to
"
parishioners,
except
our
Mr.
neighbour
worshipful Churchwardens.
the
from
his
full of
as
thing,however,that
ment
great a disappointof my
joyments,
hopes and enI think,if
foreseen it,I should
that
I had
not
have
the
at
The
out, even
Bishop'srequest.
come
song in the
play-book
"
While
know,
says, you
all Barbadoes
bells
do
ting!"
"
but
alas,Jedidiah,
there is not
in the whole
BLACK
BARBERISM.
ringof bells
island !
"
pastime,indeed
You
who
I may
remember
say my
my
for
passion,
Grandsire
Peel of
to Swan
River
I shall write
ship.
This
"
told
am
longerletter
by
comes
the
"
Pray communicate
the same,
is the next
you
that
with my
love
Deborah
not
forgetting
parents and relations,
my
at Porkington,
to Mrs
and Uriah at Pigstead. The
same
and
duty, to
and
Darius
dear
Pugh, the
memnon
opener,
down
"
the
mentioningin any
Mr.
area.
If
an
quarter that
tute state of
the
if,in
mean
it might prove
out
even
set of small
as well
acquisition
parochial
don't omit
and belfreys,
steeples,
pmy
Barbarian
our
211
LETTER.
to
as
Dear
faithful Friend
Your
what
Pompey'sletter
send
"
Clerk,
am
Crumpe.
read.-
to
handbells,
Jedidiah,
and fellow
for you
open,
and
me.
Habakkuk
PS.
-You
will
see
among.
[tub enclosure.]
!"
Aggy
I say,
body
Very well. Runaway Pompey, some?
Me carry out
else. Me Governor's Pompey. You remember
walk.
well.
Amen
and
Massa
a
me
Governor's piccaninny
Very
all bustle.
Barbadoes
write this to say the news.
Nigger-mans do
The Bishop
talkee.
talkee
but
\_Pompeysright^Jedidiah.']
nothing
Missis Bishop. Miss Bishop all the Bishops. Very well.
is come.
in one
out in other ship.
ship,and him wigs come
The Bishop come
first. [^It's
too true^ Jedidiah.']
Bishop come
one, two, three,weeks
Him
no
wig, no
say
remember
You
me
"
"
"
Massa
Bishop.
remember,
you
me
say
too.
so
Amen
Massa
Verywell.
ask
Amen,
thingabout
every
nigger-man,where
him
in a
baptizes
I did.~\Me
'[_So
the sea,
wheres
water.
tell him
river,
any
in the
You
abouts.
at
again,who
me
*ficiates. Me
tell him
[What
Cayman.
could
Jedidiah^
he
mean
Very
The
before
the
other
Bishop
come
to
Governor
at
up
House.
Missis
?]
day
day
dinner
and
verness,
Go-
the
Big
You
Missis
"
de
man^
well.
with
member.
re-
Amen
Massa
ask
in
remember,
Bishop too.
Bishop
set
BT
GUM
I say,
at
me
Aggy,
and my
"
You
AFKRE.
TURBAN
him
and me
candle,
put him out.
Pompey get nothingfor
water, Jedidiah.]
turban afire at
HIM
know
your
Catechism
Massa
You
Amen
remember.
ask him
Massa
212
FRENCH
Amen
giveup
say, you
AND
? very well.
Pompeys and vanities ?
up
all work
up
your
ENGLISH.
Black
Juno
Massa
no.
say you must, and then
{Jt'sa fact,Jedidiak,the Hack femalemade
Amen
Very
Pompey
of Governor's
he must
Juno
very
send
for
more
Agamemnon's
remember
for
no
wife.
heathenish
dummy
II.
They
Black
do I. ^
now.
Black
Diana
kiss too.
more.
LETTERS.
ENGLISH.
speakFrench
!"
"
Addison.
Signs1
Staringlike a fool.
And silent as a mummy,
There I stood alone,
King.
bring
non,
AgamemMe
Assembly. ^Jedidiah,
so
Very well.
AND
go to France
Unless vou know the lingo,
If you do, like me,
You will repent by jingo.
the
see
Bell
No
Never
A nation with
Juno
to
to Blackwall.
me
message!]
FRENCH
even
Black
Give
well.
Very
heaven ! Why
for
more
SHIP
Good
Come
remember
say write
IJedidiakfwhat
You
wish
out, you
Amen
Massa
sometimes.
fashions,
some
Him
smart.
send him
You
rum.
shake
in three months
to you
come
remember.
You
too.
some
you
Governor
well.
give
give
had to make,
For every littlenotion.
Limbs all going like
A
telegraphin motion,
For
Then
IV.
Moo
Never
**
make
Auburn,
an
jingo;
silent as a mummy.
I stood alone,
nation with a dummv
veat
"
thems
of
village
become
!'
our
the
plain." Goldsmith,
"
and
topographer,
easier commencement
of
a description
attempting
whoats
VILLAGE.
loveliest
greatanxietyto
lingo;
There
Sweet
the
And
OUR
"
know
Staringlike a fool,
ride,
"Allons!
can
in it 1
are
If you
that I
hog to change,
France,
to
go
Unless you
You
If I wish'd
HAVE
sows
many
strange.
minute.
was
every
bread,
I set a-going,
And asked for new-laid eggs,
By clappinghands and crowing
My jaws
me
here's
Now
How
sweet
thingssnugger,
I kissed Jeannette,
understood for sugar.
'Twas
If I wanted
their cash
It bored
I ^ot my
When
213
VILLAGE.
OUR
of the
village.It will be
I do not know
than by
character,
found,as my friend
"
the way
thingsare drawn mild."
says, that
I know
I live opposite
that to be the sign,
the Green Man.
in
the landlord
of the
over
because
picture,
am
spite
in three
largegiltletters,
"
of
I'homme verd" is rather
portrait
places. The whole-length
in
sort of wrestling
a
attitude,
imposing.He stands plump before you,
in
the legsstanding
of
dun
brace
decided
with
a
distinctly
boots,
apart,
The rest of
tops,joinedto a pair of creole-coloured leather breeches.
his dress is peculiar
the
and
brown, or, as
coat,a tv/o-flapper,
;
green
several
214
VILLAOB.
OUR
a cocked
tap, half-and-half;
at the
they say
breast
the
crossing
short belt
like
hip of my
the greeny-brown
on
like an entire butt, and the butt
hat
the half
on
in the other
friend,
like
hand
one
gun
brewer's whole
cock
with
stock.
stuck
barrel
On
one
complexionis
his white
India,for
turned
yellow,and
I trust,are
Spirits" All innkeepers,
to make
so
brazen
brag
licensed ; there is
so
of this sinecure
no
occasion
permit.
*
strolled
and
quarter of
the
far,when
thus
written
I had
tarnished
ther,
wea-
pen,
for
out
hour before
an
air,
which, like the
chameleon,I cannot feed.
without
On
return, I found,
my
with
my
that
surprise,
some
papers
good
were
fore
deal discomposed
;but,beI had time for much
tered
wonder, my landladyen-
with
one
of her most
obliging
curtseys,and
that she had
writingin
me
the
it had
and
served
obseen
ing,
morn-
occurred
her
by chance,that I
have
might by possibility
I told her that I had actually
been writing
of the village,
a
description
been engagedon that very subject. If that is the case, of course. Sir,
no
doubt,about the Green Man, beingso close by ; and
you would begin,
about
the sign,and the Green
I dare say, you
would
say something
to
THE
Man
with
his
than
"
half
replied,and
OF
"
OUR
VILLAGE.
pointer,
though his
more
LADY
in
white
gone."
one
to
be
"You
part of the
sure
is turned
yellow,and
his liver is
perfectly
right,Mrs. Ledger,"I
I think I have used almost
description,
are
Oni
your own
L., and
"
eyes.
to save
is
Well, that
curious,
Sir,"exclaimed
not arithmetically,
physically,
castingup
I
to
what
mean
Moreover,
say, is tliis;
trouble.
he studies
has
about
whole
of the
account
an
the
lodgesat
man
young
writ
people
good deal,and
the
There's
who
the way,
The
hand.
over
made
"
words."
very
215
VILLAGE
all her
Mrs.
hands
and
the
Green
and
only say
that
Grocer's
village
alreadyto
your
the
Poet,but, anyhow,
writes beautiful ; and, as I said before,
has
his
head.
own
Now, it might save
villageout of
Sir,if you
trouble.
that,as far as the
to
was
write
it out, and
am
sure
I have
copy,
Sir." My curiosity
goes, is at your service.
the
and
take
offer
the
induced me
to
as
re^y forestalled what I
;
poem
had to say of the Hamlet, I took my landlady's
advice and transcribed
it, and here it is.
loan
"
OUR
Our
that's
village,
to
VILLAGE."
say not
BY
Miss
VILLAGER.
Mitford's
but
village,
our
village
of Bullock
Is
And
Smithy,
of trees,three oak pollards,
two elders,
and
by an avenue
withy ;
and
an
acre
middle,there's a green of about not exceeding
into
come
in the
a
half;
to
common
There's
With
The
and
cams
workshops,and
such-like sheds
can
money
raise
"
And
close
chapelof Ease ;
there's
by the church-yard,
stone-mason's
yard,that
and
cherubims
when
and
reasonable.
and
marble
urns
very
216
OUR
Tliere's
VILLAGE.
In
nothingremains
it with
ale,gin,or
of them
Old Jack
any
but the
thing
upright
post ;
But
for the
pound is kept in repairs
alwaysthere almost.
There's a smithy of course, where
that queer
Old Joe Bradley,
hammers
and stammers, for he
Perpetually
the
Mr.
But
shop of all
when
of Cob's
sort of
chap in
and
stutters
horse,as is
his way,
shoes horses
badly.
very
There's
sake
Task
you
kept by
thing,
the widow
of
go
to
one
thingyou
ask.
You'll know
her house
There
the
by
cask
sugary
six empty
of
swarm
about
boys,like flies,
the old
windows
A
is
seen
that don't
blow, and
As
for
But
hoUyoaks at
cottagedoors,and
you may
go and whistle ;
the Tailor's front gardengrow two
There
one
and
geranium,
are
honeysucklesand jasmines,
of
a dock, a ha'porth
cabbages,
is the
"
"
two
green.
and a thistle.
two dandelions,
pennyroyal,
three small orchards
Mr. Busby'sthe schoolmaster's
chief
With
the
dead
and
plum
; one
by a thief.
every year is stripped
Tliere's another small day-school
too, kept
by
the
apple,that
an
Mrs.
respectable
Gaby.
A
select
for
establishment,
and
girls
There's
There's
once
barber's,
window
with
on
a-
his
like
living
week
two
feminine
men's
heads, and
he won't bake
merchant
on
rough black-bearded
filled with
well
churls.
and a
green-grocer's,
But
four little
smokes,
shock-headed
a
big,and
And
one
baby ;
rectory,with pointedgablesand strangeodd chimneysthat
never
There's
masculine
and
plumber's,
small
baker.
Sunday, and
and
besides,
two
an
there's
undertaker
a.
sexton
that's
coal-
218
SCRAPE-BOOK.
THE
breath
a
four suits of trumps.
They get windfalls,without
in lotteries. On
the
Prizes turn up for them
stirringas legacies.
hold
"
horse
turf, their
dive
they
on
or
worst, in
undiscovered
treasure
some
wins.
always
"
the very
At
of benefits.
season
outsider
an
"
hoard
in the
ceiling.That's
their luck.
hope
it will die
Other
to insert
mine
to
kind
is another
There
"
April 1st.
over
able
bald
torn
it should
by
out
lamp
252
12th.
adored
my
Belinda
snatch
attempted to
Purchased
first time
men
"
found
are
Belinda
myself
by
on
thrown
nothingis so
hard
to
so
the
coll.
per
wounds, and
what
"
as
luck
my
picked up by
provideiitially
afterwards.
Saved
from
single,
brothers and
to
my
be
none
luck !
"
fightme
striking
for
Park
"
put my
instead
saddle
in
foot
of
does it for
"
the
the mare's.
me.
flagor
of
Harley-Street.
ofi"Greenwich, but
coal-brig,
steamer, that burst her boiler directly
scalded !
very
sisters tumbled
to
back
own
my
the
sus.
"
stingsat last
wanted
their horses,but
stone
came
into
warranted
mare,
ride with
to
and
stirrup,
Well,
by
of
arrows
dog. Staggered
sow
oil for my
Other
on
Two
bee-blind
Rushed
the
one,
havingan
operations.
lad who
ride
"
collared
of the
and
"stings
house
; relieved
thanks
swarmed
Others
Tiger,the
by
be
luck.
that's my
and
pig-sty,
into the
9th. Gave
But
!"
bees
perfecthumming-top !
her sucklings
kicking
; recommended
for
but
at
seemed
"
and
horse-pond,
incontinent
head
few
honeymoon,
of the insects
calf.
my
of the
has 252
He
Some
settleon
Witness
book.
in the firstweek
them.
check
to
stings
fifty-two
and
outrageous fortune
by
day
bad
father-in-law's beehives !
my
My
hands.
hundred
the
this
on
to
against
me, preferred
account
my
Married
he is now
to me,
you
peoplekeep scrap-books
; but I, a scrape-book.It is theirs
facetias of all kinds ;
anecdotes,caricatures,
bon-mots, riddles,
in
record mischances, failures,
accidents,disappointments;
short,as
stumbled
that
ill,
so
^but it don't.
"
But
childhood.
down
misfortunes
I remember
stairs,
they
with
never
me
when
alwayshitched
my
little
halfway
It could not
turned the comer.
angle. Mi/ luck invariably
bear to bate me
a single
bump.
17th. Had my eye picked out by a paviorwho was aannq his way,
he did'nt care
where.
Sent home
in a hackney chariot that upset.
Paid Jarvis a sovereign
for a shilling.
My luck all over !
at
THE
money!
school.
charity
fire.
on
enough /or
Lucky
"
all the
flue
My
1st of May.
219
SCRAPE-BOOK.
me
Boys
"
are
Not
^the
he
to
sweep
parish engine
fond
of
playing
for
love
or
arrived, with
soon
and
"
had
indulged their
Every friend I
best drawing-room.
propensity by playing into my
black
had
Nothing but Lacedemonian
dropped in to dinner.
at least
have
Others
pint-luck
pot-luck,but I have not even
right sort.
8th. Found,
garden had
on
getting up, that the kitchen
some
stripped by thieves, but had the luck at night to catch
"
broth.
of the
been
one
in
Afraid
to
call out, for
own
trap.
garden, by walking into my
to a dead
would
have
hit me
fear of being shot at by the gardener,who
certainty for such is my luck !
10th.
My old friend Bill
Agricultural distress is a treat to mine.
Corn-bill
call him
I must
henceforth
has, this morning, laid his
the
"
"
"
unfeelingwooden
leg on
tenderest
toe, like
In
of
Dibdin,
that
oak
spite
believe
heart:
I don't
has
it would
or
my
thresher.
any
be
not
walking tread-mill
12th.
Two
piecesof "my
such
usual."
by
First knocked
mad
picked
bull.
by
up
Any
body
have
found
pick-pocket.
honest
one
of
but
done
him,
bound
and
exporting
I
performed
in
well
justice,for
with
14th.
last
"
My
the
a
tify
iden-
faction
satishim
to
suppose
next
number
not
CORNISH
MAN.
of
court
Middlesex
if I had
pocket,
pick-
to prosecute,
the
Botany bay.
serve
to
over
had
cident
ac-
design.
the
able
to
by
by
and
was
of
bom
done
Luckily forme
mane
hu-
whole
am
suffer, whether
or
would
me
out
down
Secondly,
but
man
crowd
at
day
"
^''Encore
jury,
in the
lost the
at
the
un
Old
lotteryhas
ticket.
coup
!"
Bailey,
come
up
"
for
a
had
summons
to
fortnight.
capitalprize. Luck
a
220
STORY.
TRUE
face
upon the human
yellow jaundiceand the jaundiceblack,
Whoever
The
May
has
form
"With
seen
Case
niggerPompey
Had
And
show'd
Case,
From
the
as
"
Pompey,
In hue
And
cheeks
two
the
was
case
chip of
Coming,
Case
he
did,of
the liver s
wore
some
yolks.
yellowas eggs'*
as
Must
wear,
Like
Greenwich
their
stiffcravat.
claimed
an
akin to
that^
such
liverythat
to denote,
past excesses
that
take too much.
pensioners
And
stain of nature's
We
call
Because
"
fast colours
merely,I
"
such colours
never
go
Colonel,once
long Indian
rubber
plenty of pagodasin
To
Wicklow
harbour
one
fly.
and
sallow,
yellow
pennylessbeginner.
Deem'd
suppose,
With
homeward
or
of dark
From
And
of those
stainingone
a winner.
pocket,
turninghis Hibernian thought,
the very placethat ought
was
whose
rose
wick
his
was
in the socket.
news
Full
The
freaks of
some
these
bloodyjoumalsi,
Killmore
work.
O'Shaunessy's
shillaly,
TRUE
STORY.
Of morning
O'Brien Burke,
fraysby some
nightlyoutrageby some
Daly ;
o
f
the
DeviPs
deserving
ladle,
Or horrid
How
scums
Would
the harmless
fall upon
if he found
And
Stem
Rock
an
would
it,
hardlyhesitate to
and
rock it ;"
killer.
of
Judge then
face
nigger'^s
of that dire
impressions
That Case, ^hismaster, was
a packingcase
To
find
with
"
such
land
"
"
"
Ireland !
For
He
associate with
fame
FitzgeraldsTones
"
"
Those
Emmets"
As
He
"
not
Doctor
felt himself
Irish
O'^Connors
men
plotsis,
Hares
"
"
and then
"
"
piked,roasted,
"
hack'd,
carv'd and
His
A
Oh,
Of
Of
"
how
Afric
"
or
in far Barbadoes
new
Bishop Coleridge's
"
the
sun
one
black beadles.
Full
"With
As
broken
black
Plump'd
Thus
and
in
his
on
fright,
broken
and
raven
any
rushed
Pompey
this
of
peace
as
STORY.
TRUE
and
knees,
croaking,
as
master's
his
upon
English choking,
clasp'd
sight,
his
sable
digits.
"
Massa
Massa
!
"
Colonel
"
Massa
"
Case
"
.
Not
Dem
take
Oh
have
Putting
"
Not
And
"
'
Massa
And
be
Pompey
not
"
(so
killed
I be
killed
"
POMPBV
his
to do
^'cause
FILLaK
his
stop.
Sirrah
yellow,
"
"
mirror
japan,
own
quick
"
Massa
"
made
murder'd,
upon
explanation
'cause
"
"
Ireland, fellow.
to
pointing in
the
drop
every
"
Pompey
should
that
place
distance
anger's tinge
has
bad
existence.
to
saffron, and
what
Massa"
"
answer,
Colonel's
Well,
period
with
for
far
so
Here
why
"
Case,
Pompey,
"
Irish
"
"
Ireland
to
murder'
Cried
The
life ?
dam
dem
go
awful
an
go
"
Massa
him
Ireland
bloods
our
for
why
To
Ireland
to
go
"
"
ran)
Orange
Pompey
not
Man,
a
White
Boy
**
223
"
To
O,
NOTHING
THE
SORROWS
mention
onlyby
name
smile
on
IN
LIFE
CAN
US."
SADDEN
UNDERTAKER.
OF
AN
the
sorrows
Undertaker,will be
words
mere
faces,
suggest a
solemn stalking
parody of griefto the satiric fancy ; but givea fair
the veriest mocker
learn to pity
hearingto my woes, and even
may
likelyto
raise
most
of
"
an
the
"
Undertaker
an
who
has been
unfortunate
My Father,a Furnisher
say of me,
noticingsome
and
for
the
Undertaker."
and
I took
But
was
prediction
wrong
the Black
door,it threw
Sea
crape
the
cares
"
over
and
when
I read my
to
do
never
Parent
my
"
lied,
other alternative,
no
I felt at firstas
name
the
upon
my
line,used
I should
"
that
of
possession
plungedin
some
"
undertakings.
funeral
in the
boyish levities
"
an
Performer
in all his
get
if
shop
rid of for
months.
Then
came
the funerals
Late.
not
were
The
of business.
mutes, who
were
grown
for the lean and lank visagedkind.
soughtabout
fat and
But
that
of the
in the time
performed as
decorously
so
discharged
my
insinuated
scandalous
and
jocular,
demure
these
pruned my
whose
merrie men,"
again to my
fault
of
only
was
making a pleasure their business.
Soon after this,
and obtained
I made
myselfprominentin the parish,
But
a contract
for Parochial Conchology or shells for the paupers.
this even, as I may
down
tressels.
its
first
broke
Having as
on
say,
firstjob to inter a workhouse
and wishingto
female"
^Etat. 96
my
gain the good opinionof the parish,I had made the arrangements
rogues
cheated
and
scarfs,
and
was
robbed
driven
me
"
plucked my
feathers and
"
back
"
"
"
with
more
than
Placing
myself at
of
solemnity
usual
the
decency.
head, with my
the
The
at
were
company
best burial face,and my
thanks
to
my
door.
slowest
deafprofessional
224
^egg^induced
the church
the house.
it
an
"
notion
serious.
So much
jobbersat
chargesof the
Mourning
of my
these
of
Coaches
One
to match.
"
dealer
the
told
never
for coach
Now
last induced
own,
with
to
me
sleek
ebony
me
up
been
and
Hearse
horses
long-tailed
had
"
extravagant
a
sold to
been
vice ; and
that he had
The
set
that
poor
the ferment
contract.
my
work.
under
amongst the
remains,and
arose
so
but
the constant
by
was
consequence
I was
too
ran
UNDERTAKER.
AN
tillat
perceived,
hammering I never
had not stirred from the door of
gates,that the procession
not lost upon my two Mutes, who
So good a joke was
the
But to me
after occasions.
for chucklingon
excuse
"
made
OF
SORROWS
THE
so
he
mo
was,
charger Astley's.
at
his very
on
Accordingly
performance,in
passingthroughBow,
first
time
at that
"
kind
he
Fairy Land,
thought proper,
of
"
on
showman's
hearing
dance
to
trumpet,
nothingto
was
be done
but
three
with
on
travel
to
the
to
sold the
at
caperer
merry
whom
exhibition
this
him
favourite.
my
with
mourners,
made
the
heavy loss,and to
infinite regret of
had
stage, where
next
great
this
From
business
period my
rapidly declined, till
instead
of five
demises,on
an
or
six
FAIRY
average, 1 put in
only two
LAND.
defuncts
and
half per
week.
In this
"
"
extremitya
amends
black
job
was
fine
"
ran
thus
placed in
"
226
SAWE
Mayd
MAYD.
NURSE
CARELESSE
THE
sitte on
Bank,
And
fond ;
She
Vowes
whiles His flatterynge
Her
Nurselyngesliptwithin
For
She
The
Sunne
"With
That
She
Past
She
With
deemd
Her
beingWhipt
for
he
Momente
that Echo
Mayd
was
to be
the Ladde
TO
THE
round
answerde
soe
ACCUSTOMED
Sinne,
nowe
in.
fallynge
beginnesto wayle
Shrikes
the Urchine's
owne
wist
She
frownyngeBrowe,
and
out, but
plucktHim
Kinde
was
before
drank,
Kist,
sett behinde
had
Sonne
O ! foolishe
The
down
went
angrieHands
then
and
they Talkde
fayreand He
was
Pond
Tide
All Even
Another
fayne and
Wooer
Beguiledby
CARE
"
sadde
was
OF
drownd
CHILDREN."
227
FANNY.
TO
Gay being,born
then, Fanny !
faith,
with
chat
What,
every Dun
I'm the one, then, but of many,
Not of many, but the One !
to
flutter!"
Is this your
to
Look'd
littlelike
Mess.
man
and
And
Lieutenant-Colonel
Majors Sturgeon,Truffle,Bodkin,
"
And
Major Powderum
MajorDowdrum"
Major Bye
Major Chowdrum
CaptainTawney CaptainFawney,
CaptainAny-one but I !
"
"
"
"
"
Was
Sale's Glee.
"
true.
busy
;
"
DizzyCobb.
Deuce
You
so
you lov'd
But I now
am
That
regiment
onlythought
it in abridgment,
better taught1 |
I went, as lovingman
To admire thee in
But
Fan, you
With
"l2
the
I
praised,
dance
goes.
quadrilles
;
fandangoes
228
FANCY
THE
before us,
Love
of
to touch ;
On the lay
the
all
But with
Corps in chorus,
!
is
indeed
too much
Oh ! it
You
I am,
with notes
I went
once
ere
"
For the
you
Army
laugh with
sighalone
But now
you
And I may
I know
not
how
But
You're
On
Fan, and I
it,
littlehurt
nothingbut
feel it,
must
a
You have
Of new
dares.
passion
advances,
my
your
THE
taken
It I gave
ROUND
"
you
fine Round
FANCY
"
FAIR.
it is
kept
thither,is
Captain
is
lighter
vanity."
Progress.
Ross.
Fancy
**
fair
there
placeBoothia.""
ROBIN.
Pilgrim's
this
Robin
"
It beareth the name
of Vanity Fair, because
the town
where
than vanity;*and also because all that is there sold,or that cometh
named
in
quitea mob
flames ;
military
airs.
"I
FUrt
"
ever
are
am
it chances,
When
my
But the warmer
Then the cooler
I dreamt
own
my
I don't conceal
Fit for
contracted
seem'd
"
FAIR.
was
one
held
at the
Mansion
House.
Conceive
shambling
shock-headed
ribands
from
with
la Pierrot !
man
eloquentmouth, and the Senior AlderpaintedYork-and-Lancaster-face,
dancing a saraband a
Or fancy Jolterhead at the fair of the Surrey Zoological,
his learned
his clumsy
forcing
and
destructive
course
through groups
of female
THE
hog in
long
inspecting
like
fashionables,
of
primebeasts and
stock
the
intention
equallylaughable
CATTLE
SHOW.^^_
lean
handlingthe
coughing
of
tulipbed, with
short horns,
and
horas
226
FAIR.
FANCY
porkersand
gine
Nay, imaour
bumpkin at
great Fancy Fair
the colts.
the
of all,blundering
up
stall
kept by a
quiring
RoyalDuchess,and in-
to
veringly
giltgingerbread
perse
for
a
King and Queen
long-promised
fairing
"
Bill
brother
to
at
LeightonBuzzard
"
duringthis
flourish of
sical
fancy,that his whimfiction had
forestalled
features
Dont
is no
sea
fair no
the
pintof
Both
allude
coarse
much
atacht
man
to write
libberty
beingHoaxt
to
as
or
up
fancy as
you
to the
about
Lonnon, to
mite fancy on
to
pin.
Have
the
bated
Gaim
the
say with
is no re-comendation
to
England. Ought
Only
it,without
"
But
to
out
of
and
thimbel
rig,no
hone
littleFare
bean
then wot
no
Guvvemess
no
have
could Sea
job
Toy shop
since
Fancy, ever
like fare.
veyed
con-
"
from
fite,
Puglistical
Has
Am
Of
joke.
follerd
Self prays
Revvle
in
after
if you Be a Hamshire
man,
such myself,have took the
no
as
what
meening
his
SUR,
fancy,but
weak.
BEEF.
shade
of vexation passed over
by fact; and a
he perused the followinghints from
Hants, as
bond fideletter to the Editor of the Comic Annual.
HONNORD
every
OF
while
in
Have
ROUND
been
down
at every
Fare
nothin
like
Town
with
Fair "Waik
or
is.
and
nothing
galsskool looking
Fancy
Lots of
ogleinlike Winkin.
prikingin the garterno nothing.
all
at Goos
Grean
Rastlin,a Sopped
Styx. Bulbeating,
Baggerdrawing,Cuggleplaying,
of Cox Jackasreacing
Mane
a
pigtale,
jumpin in Sax and a Grand
Sire Peal of Trouble Bobs puld by the CoUige youths by way of givin
Best
Call that Fancy. Too Wild
to the hole.
Shoes,
a Bells Life
fore theaters besides a Horseplay a Dwarft
Child
She
Giant
fat
a
a
a
230
THE
five carriboo
prizeox
Hares
savidgesa
Call that
Now
for
FANCY
FAIR.
lurned
Fir Eater
Lonnon.
No
Sanderses
boxis to
shy
menageris backy
no
juglingor Dancing. Prest
and trowsers verry civelly
For a bit of
the
got on
hi
rop,
for
riddingbabbit
kicked
of her
out
calld for
the faver
Booth.
that swallerd
laidythere
and
Goos
Dutchesses
hoop.
but Prefer
and
Must
xcept
every
at
by
the
not
"
and
wite
Juddis.
Lonnon
that
enuf
"
I had
as
Countisses
Miss
am
to
you
baggidgeto bye
laidyin
yung
caper
No
poster
riige oheaks
on
"
conestubble.
little horsemunshipand
Askt
But
annother
got
JEW-
Show.
at
Dont
that have
Verry dignified,
Fare.
sea
been
in Watch
anny think
born with
all their
Biffins.
sorry
let alone
besides
says
one
wumwills
no
Boxis.
for my
! Saw a
munny
yung
wasnt
too Partickler to jump threw
PLAY
one
Dump
part of
Greenish
by
out
legs
say
Wurk,
lucky
no
"
the "Wax
Pappers cut
harms
with
Grean
Sord and
FAIR
of
Richardsens
no
"
for
makin
in
Albany
Fare.
no
miss
Pigg an
to
Grean.
say
Never
lost my
singlesovran.
Yung Laidy that
And
for my
five
got
Reader
Tim
of
shillin Pin
Day
newer
but
Cushins.
my
and
pockit pict
Ticker
and
lost the
best
gave
I
was
Wish
change.
gammund
Charrity
TUB
had
stayd
And
the
boddys
Hoam
at
make
her
got
coald
by waitingoutside.
Bran
enuf
in their
hole
Mash.
Hos-
the
told
Am
Mare
ould
231
FAIR.
five
to
The
FANCY
should
Fare and
oght
fokes
do
to
does.
enuff.
Like
and
Fare
Booths
Room
as
notion
that
wood
keep
take
Munny if they
abuv having the
drums
and
Theres
You
at
next
Fare
sea
Green
pint
off Dorters
the dolls
ence.
Differ-
Match-
getting
along with
ar
we
FANCY-FAIRmaS
littel
for Ginuen
out, but
Green
and
in Flur-
and
macking
sur,
Goos
the
out
Maybe
tashun, and
cut
dubble
Hog !
be happy,
Shall
to
wasn't
gongs.
like goin
nothin
the hole
moor
speakin
and
trumpets
Room
at
Have
Peeressis
be
Goos
to Goos
Fancy
Fair
and
Fun
and
Play
its
Green.
Sur,
Remain
Your
humbel
tu
command,
Giles.
Jacob
Fare.
our
Yallintin?
Think
P.S.
Shant
hone
rabits.
Gals
"
"Watchpokitand
butter
no
of straw.
trusses
its
its all to be
by
and
Pickfurd
no
is at
setten
of
of
sowin
kind
the
bran
day
and
up
Am
to
Yan.
markit
at
and
No
it.
keap
large
across
cum
crammin
satten
amung
on
dont
she
and
Fancy
next
going
of
the Bottom
Hens
for
fixter
Good
Tother
else.
nothin
foldingpapper
got
sumthing
just begd a sak
suspect Mrs.
packin egs
sniping ribbins
how
Polly as
Pincushins
be
day wood
Sniff
why.
say
mear
chumin
Turkis
"
All
splittinghole
Horsis.
Dont
no
232
HUNGERFORD
POEMS,
There, in
Poetry
and
respectsthan
GENTLEMAN.
POOR
found
one,
"
are
as
the
like each
rug.
letter,and,
same
other
as
Goldsmith.
"
Ps."
two
"
in
Nine
more
tailors
the
Their votaries
making of a man, but not so the nine Muses.
mutton
onlywater-drinkers,
cold,and dwelling
notoriously
eating
are
are
in attics.
"
Muse
The
BY
MARKET.
Look
at the miserable
Butler,"says
Mr.
"
D'Israeli, lived in
Deserted
St.
carried on
Village.Savage ran wild, Chatterton was
Augustine'sBack like a young gipsy; and his half-starved Rowley
and spinach. Gray's
always said heigho,when he heard of gammon
fabulous.
Falconer was
ode-ious, and Gay's gaietywas
days were
Homer
blind
and
raised
a subscripa
shipwrecked.
was
tion
Pope
beggar,
"
for
him, and went snacks. Crabbe found himself in the poorand Milton was
led up and
house, Spensercouldn't afford a great-coat,
the expense of a dog."
down by his daughters,
to save
It
seems
all but
Pope
has
what
execrable
In
shown
to
impossible
how
rhymes
he
hay-cart
verses
are
Sir Richard
be
poet,
written
by
Blackmorc
Bums.
in
easy circumstances.
of Quality and
Ladies
composed
"
in his chariot.
234
BY
POEMS,
POOR
GENTLEMAN.
STANZAS.
WRITTEN
UNDER
THE
FEAR
BAILIFFS.
OF
things
That
Most
That
Saint
haunts
the
!'
Door
Debtor's
"
Sepulchre's
beginsto toll.
Sheriffs seek the cell :
The
"
And
yet
at every
fright
dread
I've not
quake
tap ;
for
douhle-knock^
single
rap !
SONNET
IN
WRITTEN
Oh, blessed
The
ease
no
more
is gone
overseer
WORKHOUSE.
of heaven
I ask
that vandal
"
elf
"
And
While
In
And
savingin
the works
and Burkes
Of Goldsmiths, Johnsons,Sheridans,
Eat prose and drink of the Castalian flask ;
The
themes
of
humorous
The
I hear
But, hark !
And
Thomson's
Must
be to
the master
Castle,that
a
me
Metiiought
When
change came
"
for
With
A
o'er the
Fancy
Indolence,
SOMNAMBULIST.
of
spirit
is the
I ascended
heartfelt
the stair
on
my
hope of
dream.""
Byrok'
gadder
strangest
Methoughtthat
"
SONNET
"
of
Spence,
of Blair
hence
toil,unletter'd labours
Unlearned
of
ties hath
riven
Jacob's ladder,
gettingup
to Heaven
"
BY
POEMS,
bell,I
Some
When
And
Nor
yet
But
POOR
that
it had
became
of landing-place
with
on,
When,
tears
Tramp
tramp
"
FUGITIVE
on
tramp
"
LINES
pot-a-lile: "
Aurum
from
wiped, and
are
tramp
Gold
Farewell
then, my
We're
to my
come
there ;
all care.
hearts forget
their
sadder
"
ON
"
aware
eleven.
still,
hope, I struggled
steadfast
lo ! I wakened
chimed
seem'd
flight
soundingseven
was
long one-pair;
when
step in endless
235
GENTLEMAN.
whence,
not
Step after
To
knew
ill,
stair
"
the Brixton
upon
"
PAWNING
WATCH.
MY
biles the
Free
pot.
"
Translation.
goldenrepeater,
old
Uncle's
shop ;
And
To
But
oh ! there's
And
Famine
hunger'sa
Oh
I
riot internal,
for the Watch
calls out
terrible trial,
have
reallymust
relief,
"
As
famish'd
And
now
And
I've
as
must
with
play chess
Demon,
pawn."
Two
And
the
"
meal.
By gettinga duplicate
No
Peachum
That
Alas ! I must
And
it is,or
riflesmy
make
pick my
Lockit,
young
fob with
own
gravy-soup
snatch ;
pocket,
of my
watch
Mill !
236
BY
POEMS,
GENTLEMAN.
POOR
I'm
"
oh ! it is
I've been
such
Alas ! when
I've
gone
But now
Folks
But
Since
talk about
fetch
rag
me
walls,
supper ;
go to Three Balls !
"
for dinner.
dressing
I
undrest
am
suit of my
or
Time."
for my
for dinner
Christmas,as
I haven't
I wish
dance
I must
I have
is,
I lived between
I've eaten
To
out of my
"
in Brook
to
UNCLE
Apprentice,
Brownrigg''s
be
In comfort
MY
Poverty'scrime
I thus must
fork.
of
SOUL
PROPHETIC
MY
OH
lay hold
sinner,
best.
mummock
chop
or
steak
THE
When
My
But
LIFE
OF
dishes
were
watch
used
now
have
So go,
Must
off,if you
the old Seven
and
"
But
furnish
denials,
no
I can't fob it
stay,
Dials
tell me
chimes
To
chime-
My cravingwill
Your
garnish
with
warn
repeatermust
my
The
with
ready
to
237
ZIMMERMANN.
I shall
never
day.
hear
more
Tempus
I have
And
Farewell
'em,
rerum,
Feeding-Timetoo
my
then,my
goldenrepeater.
Uncle's old shop"
come
And
Hunger won't be a dumb-waiter,
The Cerberus growlsfor a sop !
We're
to my
THE
LIFE
ZIMMERMANN
OF
(by himself).
This,this,is solitude."
"
Byron.
I may
almost say, an
orphan : my Father died three
before I saw
the light,
and my Mother
three hours after ^thus
left in the whole world
alone,and an only child,for I had
bom,
WAS
months
I
Lord
"
was
Brothers
neither
Sisters
nor
much
for
after-passion
of my
solitude
might be
It
imagined.
and
had
I have
firstwords
she
or
"
"
personalsin the
singular.I
of
game
dummies.
aptitudeto
an
I learnt to say,
it
^but I was
or
was
cards
Of
plural;
fond of
of
of
age I
who
was
reallywere
was
took in
were
my
could
at nine
alone
go
months,
life. The
all the rest of my
thou
or
or he
myself,I
goingalone
"
by
long time
"
"
"
before
little games
could
habits
and
playingat Solitaryor
own
my
books, my
the firstpart,for I
the natives
that I
remarked
was
at
pronounce
was
Robinson
Savagesto spoilsuch
Rev.
Patience,or
another
with
three
Crusoe, especially
Friday,and thought
solitude.
At
ten
years
a widower,
Steinkopff,
had
a
nd
only me
pupils,
Mr.
of six
"ny
equally
were
invention,namely, whist,
favourite
"
238
THE
beginwith
here
LIFE
OF
ZIMMERMANN.
enjoyed myself
very
playingin
and
at once
the eyes of six
Universityof Gottingen,
of
twelve
hundred
and
the
fastened
pupils,
pupils
eyes, seem
owl forced into day-light
me
: I felt like an
; often and often I
upon
for confining
shamm'd
as
an
excuse
ill,
myself to my chamber,but some
officious would-be
on
friends,
insisting coming to sit with me, as they
the
kopff'sto
hundred
enliven my
said,to
which
solitude,I
subjected
me,
on
But
confinement.
solitary
to
of the
heads
found
College
forced
was
as
last
Prison
this
even
out that
to do
resource
of Howard's
principle
the
pleasure did
confinement
solitary
that
Discipline,
last ; the
not
was
no
ment,
punish-
no
days I
independenceof man,
and
in
of
one
in
society,
"
transportof
the
To
this end
sympathy
not
we
keep
even
convincinghim
pleasuresof
eternal
an
ourselves
our
in
thought
the individual
the hollow
views, that in
my
and
friendship,
to ourselves
blanket
of
and
solitude,
warmly adopted
so
swore
with
formed
we
might
we
solid
short,he
in
succeeded
some
screen
associate
as
much
across
with
as
our
each
agreedto
possible.
and
cell,
other,he
and I in English,
soliloquised
onlyin French, of which I was ignorant,
he was
Under
to which
this
equallya stranger.
system my wishes
I felt more
for I think
were
lonelythan I ever
gratified,
intensely
when
remember
this condition
had a
alone.
Of course
more
strictly
conclusion
world, and
to admit
we
broughtout
were
the firm of
six hundred
In this
fellow prisoner
extremity,
my
of oratory. We
to the persuasions
myself had recourse
and of the six hundred
preachedsolitude,and got quitea congregation,
least
f
our
converts
hundred
became
Unitarian doctrine ;
to
at
our
hearers,
strove
of these disciples
to flyto the most
obscure recesses,
every one
and the little cemetery of the Collegehad always a plenty of those
"
partners.
"
Zingleman and
This of course
was
tryingto make themselves scarce.
of puss in a corner, it was
difficultto get a
afflicting
; as in the sjame
comer
unoccupiedto be alone in ; the defections and desertions from
the College
and for a long time the state
were
consequently
numerous,
for
missinggentlemen,with a
gazettecontained dailyadvertisements
of
and
and
their
with
habits,
invariablyconcluding
description
persons
this sentence :
of a melancholy turn,
callshimself a Zimmermanian,
and affects solitude." In fact,as Schiller's Robbers begot Robbers,so
but
did my solitude beget solitudinarians,
with this difi*erence,
that
mine
the
the dramatist's disciplesfrequentedthe Highways, and
who
were
"
"
The
consequence
and
foreseen,
was
what
might have
ardentlydesired.
was
expected,whicli I had
expelledfrom the University
been
THE
Gbttingen. This
of
dinner
three hundred
concerted
dumb
by
by
held
nor
signalthe
in
sentiments,how
thus left to
Number
of
many
steer
each
other,and at a
Solitude" was
drunk,
and
silence.
with
much
was
to
eyes,
thrown
than
principles,
they
to my
with
grand
affected
think, with
such
togetheragain. Being
hand
only one
board,I
on
was
and
took a lodging
at
accordingly
t
hat
held
the
out
Street,
invitingprospect
for a single
In this congenial
situation
man.
course,
warn
"
homage
in my
tears
vessel
to let
room
single
composed that
necessary
themselves
my
in tacit
might be
us
own
my
to
life. A
my
honour, at which
more
Zimmermann
left with
One, in Wilderness
of
triumph of
appropriatesolemn
myself,like
libertyto
at
"
of
toast
show,
tribute,and
this
the
communication
any
239
ZIMMERMANN.
perhaps
was
present,but
were
spoke
never
OF
by Zingleman in
got up
was
LIFE
Companions
to
Zimmermann's
if solitude
Solitude,"as
could have
I may
date the decline
society. Alas, from this work
will
in
tells
terminate
death.
me
presentiment
My
my
my
became
that its
book, thoughwritten against
so popular,
populousness,
be alone.
could never
author,though in love with loneliness,
Striving
which
I could never
the face of man,
escape it,nor that of woman
and child into the bargain.When
I stirred abroad mobs surrounded
me,
flyfrom
to
and
Here
"
is the
European
were
only
me,
that they
journeyed,
Some
alongwith
even
of
as
a
to
Germans
haunt
to
sure
to meet
were
of these
them,
at my
of
my
to have
any
land to be
with
broughttheir
solitude
takingthe
; and
released
by
what
vessel in which
all hands
"
wives
were
inside of
ance
persever-
and children
unreasonable
so
coach,or
some
the
Leghorn,
pair,which
own
no
cabin
persons would
I sailed from
excepting
my
grappleda hen-coop. There wis
seen
nothingbut sea and sky ;
at sea
throughout
and
enthusiasm
an
of my
capable,some
countrymen
the
distance
and reallyshowed
they
by
trine.
readyto go all lengthswith me and my doc-
packet-boatto myself.
these persecutions
I was
unfortunate accident,
an
a
goingdown
with
vain I travelled
are
From
call
Pilgrimseven
in search
murmur
In
me.
Asiatic continent
and
of which
"
sail in
and from
pened
hap-
nor
sight,
the midst
of
could
enjoyment. I was
picked up
by the
; and, schooled
had
the presence
of mind
and to adopt the
to conceal
past,
name,
my
of
this
but
de
Under
one
nom
English
reallya name
Grundy.
guerre^
of peace, I enjoyed comparative quiet,
nacious
interruptedonly by the pertinot
attendance
of
an
unconscious
its
my
countryman, who, noticing
24^)
THE
make
to
what
Lion
the
of
Desart,
be
Hermitage
solitude,but
The
effect of this
for fear of
quit the
and
me
of the
mobbed
for
alone
than
and
me,
moment.
an
uninhabited
make
situation
the
the fate of
man
of
an
to
me
that
instead
was
Hermit
receive
ox
that
me
Lord
able
to
company/.
leave
me
such
at
only
not
and
of
for
procure
make
or
thing
tency
inconsis-
I resented
fit to
to
was
fidence
con-
's rout
me,
pleased to say,
was
in
Grundy,
as
learn
offer to
his
as
wore
any
the
How
Menagerie.
well
disclosure
and
land,
Eng-
ventures
to
as
then
a
A-s such
death, I immediately
in
Lady
so
I should
lunacy,
with
to
to
well-informed,and
unfortunate
herd.
into
he
being, as
wanted
in
happened
meeting with
common
keeper always
left
Lion
well-bred
bear
going
my
fact,he
supposed, as
that
first vacancy
's
on
he
work,
exhorted
Solitude,and
did
w^as
for
only
me
sooner
no
In
converzatione.
own
but
again
knew
of
charms
insisted
he
than
propositionmay
the
the
Winkells
result
the
blush
I must
here
While
but
But
himself.
author
society;
from
myself
Zimmermann,
his
my
and
nature.
painted nothing
detach
the
was
of human
he
to
expected ;
at
that
but
convert
me
out, that
me
ZIMMERMANN.
OF
habits,endeavoured
retired
very
LIFE
Sarc, I
Well,
and
prudence
forbids
at where
**
"
am
would
fate
London,
left
house,
I know
you
"
l" I*
am
have
now
me
been
w^orse
to
livinganonymously
to say
where.
242
PORTRAIT.
THE
^Monthly
Magazine has
another
person,"whilst
*'
countenance
my
I
that
of
am
company
protest,and
rhyme." Againstsuch
if it be
the fault
it is no
For
ing
anti-pun-like-look-
grave
Book
Gems
of
declares
"
that
inference,
however, I solemnly
an
features,I do
of my
it insinuates
person
and
odd places,
times and
the
in
"
as
more
notorious
me
therefore,
grave than merry,"and insists,
"
in
have
never
laughed heartily
pensivehabit,and
is
face to
my
in
or
"
described
amongst
false
Hood,
friends for
when
particular
in
for the
comfort
telling
presents
grosslymisre-
laughingat strange
he has
loss of
mind
not
and
the worst
points,by
of the
his
theory,to
And
thorns.
be upon
than
trulywhat can be more
unphilosophical,
well
vvdth
face
sit
to
as
ruefullyas
whistfuUy,
inconsistently
your
and
hand
at
well
at
as
shorts,
hypped
getting
playing longs
your
as pipped,
talkingof Hoyle," as the citylady said, but looking
and betraying
of the profit
and loss,
like winegar,"
a
as keen
sense
as
if the pack had turned you into a pedlar.
rubber.
"
"
"
"
"
But
would
ill-favoured
said,on my
thing,Sir,"as
CARD-RACK."
THE
digressing
; and
am
have
ON
turningmy
face.
"
The
"
Touchstone
of Lavater
Lawrence's
but mine
*'
says,
there is
own."
precedent. I
easel,an
remember
head
unfinished
For its
of Mr.
Wilberforce,
so
less than the
persuadedme
that nothing
very merry, so rosy, so good-fellowish,
Life and Correspondence
recentlypublishedcould have
that he
would
therefore,
the
the likeliest
be
to this
physiognomy prefixed
indeed
few
earlier
of the
mystery, by provingthat
the
friendlyinquiryof
serious
reallya
was
my
the
thing to
num'ber,is
convince
the
as
For
of my
proposition
Publisher.
"
"
"
one
of those
if intended
nothingelse
that
"
"
memoir,
world
actuallyHood's Own
young
character.
but
to
be mended.
"
half
the idea of
the
appropriating
with
and
personalexperience,
your
Life and Times.
243
PORTRAIT.
THE
quarter of
or
century,mixing it up
On
then
a waste
Memory's w\aste, it appeared so literally
an
five-and-thirty
years ago, that such a demand
laid myself out on purpose, as
have
I
might
upon me,
to giveof every day some
recommends, so as
good account
"
Watts
I would
at last."
life a
longdress
illustrated my
lived like
have
rehearsal
cultivated incidents
The
vanity herself
unpromisingspeculation.Had I
be made
would
my
that
indeed,some
foreseen
Dr.
from
shrank
own
across
biography. I
of the future
memory
travelled
promise,should
! in the absence
made
and
effect,
have
would
"
been
earUer of my
Seven Stagesshould have
Comet
and Balloon-like,
and have
to
for
Frenchman,
been
in
timed
short,my
"
been
have
of such
Wonder
more
more
ing
Life,accordfullyequal to
Scottish
to
nomenon
Phe-
second-sight,
would
of existence up to the present moment
course
hardly
my
"
bald biographiesthat content
the
furnish materials for one of those
whole
"
old
for
Sylvanus Urban.
that
made answer
himself,
of
gentlemanly
pages
Memoir
and
of
that I could
reallybelieve
dozen
Lamb,
it would
compress
own
my
beingappliedto
on
go into an epigram;
into that baker's
sonnet.
"
much
man
at all in
privatelife than
birth
or
who
Hterature,
I have.
and
life has
my
I have
been
have
not
may
surmounted
I been
have
education,nor
of the weary
sir.'
tell,
of their illustriousauthor.
career
favoured
as
'
knife-grinder Story!
no
difficultieseither of
no
by
advantages,
particular
importanceas that
God
is
There
to tell of his
more
any
void of incidents of
"
"
none
to
"
Thus
been
and
birth
my
neither
was
obligedamongst my
the
at the same
muses
I could not
lady of title,
for education,
though on
with Blucher
yet,
on
the
the
so
humble
one
hand
other,I
I have
have
not
taken
not
been
my
degree,
at
rusticated,
the
even
third in
flow^ed
on
knows
has
with
so
me
duel,or
very
littleromance
crossed in love.
like that of
about
the New
The
River, which
of time
stream
has
never
has
everybody
troubled
244
THE
VARIATIONS.
WITH
COMPASS,
"
lis
with
be
Tale.
My
story then, to
own
possess
must
interest,
any
fib.
Truly given,with
advertisements
lesson
its
its egotismand
dead
on
it would
barrenness,
wall.
Moreover,Pope
in the Memoirs
self-importance
to
look too
of P.
has
a
as
amongst his neighbours
and
whims
oddities I
in such practical
Even
of loaches.
swallower
am
deficient,^forinstance,eschewingrazors, or boltingclasp-knives,
vouring
sleepingfor weeks, fastingfor months, deridingon paintedponies,
have
which
entitled
similar
eccentricities,
raw
tripe,and
and
brutes,to a brief biographyin the
sundry knaves, quacks,boobies,
I am
"Wonderful Magazine. And, in the absence of these distinctions,
Clerk,who
only
was
all
after
notable
"
of
pretensions.I have had none
spiritual
not yet in their
which render the lives of saintlings,
those experiences
and
and
in
print,
consequently
weight
paper
teens, worth their own
the
flat
read
would
as
as
a
as
Pilgrim's
Tract,
personalhistory,
my
and
the
combat
the
without
the
Lions,
grand
single
Giants,
Progress
equallydeficient
in
any
To
The
taking.
my
justsuffices for
principal
upon
"
would
any
one,
end.
world
"
and
that I
of
recall of
can
THE
The Needles
close of day
One
Of Naples,bay of
While
lightwas
"
^'twasin the
glory!
hanging
fatal to Mariners."
With
of
crowns
mountains
With
Her
A
she was
bound
and oil for cargo.
nine
of men
some
Leghorn
wine
crew
direct,
or
ten,
name
was
captain's
lago ;
good and gallantbark she was,
del Lago.
Donna
(call'd)
Picture
"
mariners
Bronzed
bay
gold
For
the
life to
the
the
refusal,I
set down
all
number
next
VARIATIONS.
WITH
been
middling
REMINISCENCES.
LITERARY
sometimes
myself,to
foresee
of
COMPASS,
have
of
soften
the
authors,and, accordingly,
other
MY
^but to
"
character
written
or
giving,
worth
it
with
done
La
not
personalhistorywould
instead
willing,
am
The
one
"
be but
assuredly
and
cannot
the beginning
of which I have
forgotten
decline givingmy
I must, therefore,
respectfully
memory
On
life," is
"
life.
my
brown
of
were
Isli
of
Wight.
her'g to view,
cheeks, clear
or
muddy,
Dark, shining
eye8,andcoal-black hair,
Meet heads for painter's
study;
But 'midst their tan there stood
one
man.
Whose
His
cheek
brow
was
was
fairand
high,a
ruddy ;
loftierbrow
THE
COMPASS,
WITH
His e^e
he,
a passenger
was
cabin he had hired it,
His eye was grey, and when
he look'd
it
fired
the
Around,
prospect
"
The
if
as
poeticlight,
Appe-Nine inspiredit.
fine
The
His frame
Six feet
"
manner
storm"
the
STORM
IN
When
From
Came
such
"
a gale,
as
like the aloe
cent'ry,
that he
was
stormy rumpus,
lyingalmost fallow
lo ! full crash,with billowy
dash,
clouds of black and yellow.
blows but
signthere
raise
But
at first
sea
of
sort
"
came
Seem'd
and
And
No
His
Soon
quaff'd,and joked
laugh'd.
Could
just to give
and
ate
"
was
stout, in heightabout
well made and portly
;
Of dress and
A
He
"
"
a45
VARIATIONS.
once
TABLE
Down
BAY.
rush'd the
the wine.
Each roll,its i61e
Roll'd down
clar'd
For
"
parting
"
repeating,
the round
not
gush'd
soup, down
of beef de-
for meating !
righton
end
Mountain.
Down
down
"
went
the
pork.
The
Down
lamb
too
broke
mustard
its tether
went"
each
ment
condi-
"
!
all together
Salt" pepper"
like craft that seek
Down
every thing,
in stormy weather.
The Downs
246
timbers seera'd to
Her
Down,
down,
She
never
ever
Beside
fellthe steward
Down
sore
each papistpray'd
afraid,
VirginMary
was
the waves*
that stood
vagary
composed
ship.
his face.
cock
His
Down
fancy-weaver,
Saint and
But one there
Deuces.
on
Sore,
Amid
and
of
To
sluices,
eye
take
to
of bloodyhue.
sunk the sun
Down
His crimson lighta cleaver
To each red rover
of a wave
:
To
nether jaw,
droptthe captain's
Down
He
sever
drearyderrydown,
for
of down
bed
Thus
Such
A
of the Lake,
plungedthe Lady
Down
VARIATIONS.
WITH
COMPASS,
THE
Check-mate,
To
know, could
sink him.
never
Above
With
Down
"
the yardscame
yelling.
fellthe crew, and on their knees
Down
Shudder'd at each white swelling
!
RUFF
And
Some
as
In under
Now
"
"
ancient
tone,
The
as
not
welcome,
alone
now
Down
"
"
went
went
the
wave.
humming
Gharlie,"
gentlerbillows chasing;
to stern,with frequent
turn,
Stranprer took to pacing.
stem
8RA.
dittythrumming.
and
whistling,
You're
From
"
Gow-
denknowes,"
Kenmure," or Campbells'
Coming."
Fear
quittedthe
The
Saints, I wot,
And
When
Hope
"
The
rose
was
on
most
were
at the
finical;
soon
forgot,
pinnacle
:
high,a frightful
cry
"
THE
"
WITH
COMPASS,
With
The
To
cried,
with
His voice
"
"
The
needle
God
only knows
Jamaica,
Gibraltar !
or
lies,
China
where
The
No
brain-begot,
faney-motion,
Ne'er show'd
is ;
Of Fiction
look'd,
But when they at the compass
It seem'd non
compass mentis.
north,
The
south,now
now
every
There stood
east, now
wavering pointwas
Meanwhile
shaken,
From
Bore
Took
They
found
To
vary
It seem*d
no
gun
its direction ;
a
new
iron
"
Oh
! while
dear
All
down
visage
gizzard;
pullet's
the captain's
wandering
tackinglike an izzard.
in this plain course
down
at
Scott"
To
the Wizard
ruddy face,
falter
much as you,
as
puzzled,friends,
For with no fiends I palter
;
Michael I'm not
althougha Scott
is Walter."
My christian name
magneticcase
"
the
niches.
side which
holds
the
heart,
That
each
"
to
And
blue
I'm
And
A
"
none
Of Poles in Insurrection !
Farewell
It's Michael
"
no
and
last,
taken !
"
plain.
wit.
With
too
grew,
Just like
Such
plainertremor
brown
west.
latitudes were
brain it seem'd
To
Mix'd
Now
Strangergaz'd
whi.te-liver'd
:
"
at
the event
so
The
the
amaze,
them
To
look
every
to alter
seems
deep
see
And
falter
quitea
247
VARIATIONS.
needle gave
them
stitches.
that name,
a spell
Like oil it fell,
On all the fearful faction ;
The Captain'shead (forhe.hadread)
Confess'd the Needle's action.
the North
And bow'd to Him in whom
I
main
its
attraction
Has lodged
///-"^
A
STAR
OF
THE
FIRST
MAGNETUDE.
248
SUMMER"
Parlour
Back
WINTER
A
Camberwell.
at
ECLOGUE.
Sylvanus
is seated
the
at
breakfast-table,and
good morrow
"
friend
to you,
Civis,and
heartywelcome
"
hath
Civ.
"
leaves
your
Syl.
You
here !
Aye, truly:
"
know
dog-days.
You
with
stories,
not how
shop
at that
silks,
south
badgesof Assurance
many
for the
looked
windows
below
seemed
town.
rather
spend,or
once
there in the
week
prospect in
my
I did
misspend a whole
oppositeon a scorching
out
from
and
fire,
not
without
I know
need-r"
geranium-coloured
the
all
books
eyes
my
"
in
were
whole
time
of
my
sojourning.
Civ.
the
"
I confess.
We
picture,
but they givethe more
true
tints ;
warm
down
beside
gate,and which
your
as
refreshing
seen,
of
Memory's
Syl.
zest to your
is the
have
been
little
suburban
the two
strongin
verdure.
tall elm
trees
always
cityopticsas
my
of
all
spectacles.
Surely
spots I have
green
laid hold
as the poet says, that ever
greenest,
to
waist.
It hath been
"
indeed,a
I thoughtonly of
overnight,
pair of
Camberwell
are,
Shall I
aforetime.
greener
But
of this
I pray
you
sit down
salted fish ?
relishing
help you
By your good leave,Sylvanus, I will first draw up these
blinds.
My bedroom, you know, looks out only to the road,and I
I may
am
longingto helpmy eyes, to a little of what, as a citizen,
trulycall the green fat of nature.
I pray you let the blinds alone.
Syl.
The rolls are
Nay, Civis
well cured,and the eggs are
gettingcold. This ham is excellently
new-laid.
Come, take a seat.
Civ.
I beseech your patiencefor one moment.
There ! the blind
Civ.
"
to some
"
"
"
"
is up.
sky
"
What
!" -What
a
a
brave
rare
flood of sunshine
daintyday to
roam
"
and
what
with
in,dallying
Sylvanus,the Dryads
"
blue
glorious
abroad
are
"
all
the
are
bare,
250
SUMMER.
fixed it down
Syl.
to
and
pugilists,
"
thrusted
you
! be
of the
manner
for it knocked
made
so
How
course
No, truly;
"
Civ.
Of
locust.
new
your
entomologists.
after the
down
me
of the
manner
its escape.
they
then ?
huge,
so
To
my
flyingdragonsthan locusts.
of them
is true, notwithstanding.Some
Syl.
nearlysix feet in length; others,that
seen, measured
like
more
"
three
from
likewise
last,the
these
of
took
knocked
grantedyou
for
will do
smallest of animals
The
"
take
One
five.
to
and
biting,
Civ.
which
It
him
Minimi, or
shrewd
some
the
kickingand
bondage.
for the
head,
have
younger,
small fry,I
from
to escape
so
on
were
sake
of
peace.
Syl.
human,
And
No,
"
think I
do not
Macbeth
says,
of
stings
whole
the
more
visagewas
so
like
in the
like
man
strangely
face.
boy.
I
slayhim.
petty
could commit
Monkeycide myself. They look,as Lady
To kill an
Fathers.
like
so
our
plant the
ape would
It would
"
look
not
; the
then
Civ.
the heart
not
could
monkey
or
ape
"
I had
indeed.
an
have been
apiaryin
my
kind
of
mere
murder
to
you
conscience.
pray
with
on
go
description.
Syl.
the
and according
to
"Willingly,
"
Antennae
horns
or
he had
tending inwards
and
brown,
or
fore-legs
and
arms
claws
tufts
towards
terminatingin
the
of the
from
differing
thus
none,
system
of
the
greatLinnaeus.
locust,
common
coarse
the
Two
proboscisor snout.
and the
palpi or feelers,
ten
hinder
feet.
same
On
graspingtruncus, or
cased in a loose skin resembling
the trunk, it was
corduroy,the same
furnished
with
sundry bags or pouches, into
being most curiously
it stuffed the forageit had collected
which, like the providentpelican,
number
from
of toes
or
on
the trees.
"With
"
"
"
"
crib in the
Civ.
Boy
"
monkery."
but
strangegibberish,
wont
was
of the woods
I do remember
! I do
uncouth
estate
pitiful
that Peter
the "Wild
fashion.
Poor
but what
could
savage
move
him
in June
"
deemed
it
you
would
tea-trade
I
have
have
that
hath
believed
been
myself
was
carried
to
be
on
in these
dwellingin
so
no
ragged
many
notion
parts. Many
Canton,
and
of
the
times
that
my
251
SUMMER.
S.,and
feet of Mrs.
huge
I have
Thrice
Hum.
was
name
at the
caught myself marvelling
gropedbehind my nape for the national
have
pigtail.
Civ.
Sylvaniis,
spare
"
I have
me.
me.
Syl.
Plucked
"
by
of the leaves
Blackamoor,
green week
one
of the calendar.
hath become
"What
but
who
I pray
you
in the year,
do not jest
of yon
sycamore
it to the
preferred
?
of
climbing
chimneys.
Civ.
I could
yonderAshes, which
And
"
for in
mourn
appropriate
sackcloth ?
who
Strippedby the select young gentlemenof Seneca-house,
branches of education for the purpose.
left the politer
Scholars,
you
and these had the opportunity
of perknow, will play truant gratis,
forming
One
it at twopence the hour.
Saturdaythey did turn their
found
half holiday into a whole
were
by the geographical
one, and
master
pickingChinese Pekoe and Padre on the sloe bushes and
Syl.
"
willows
Civ.
of Peckham
Oh,
"
Rye.
myself helped to swallow the
may
under.
That the green Druidical
be sitting
in the
clothingthe Dryads, should be assisting
of
sweepingof my
Syl.
reignin
Civ.
my
when
Kidderminster
own
it is.
Yerilyso
"
carpets!
The
great god
was
never
Pan
is
dead, and
Pot
will
his stead.
Such
"
misfortune
Sylvanus,what
is to become
of
before read in
or
patriotism
is turned
love
tea-cup ! Oh,
of the country,
grouts?
to
that
"
our
of the desolation I
cause
have
To think that
survey.
verdure that I should now
leaves,instead
then is the
Sylvanus,such
my
Mistress
Shakerlyof
dash of aspen
in
British Congo ; indeed
palsyto
her
there
be
abroad
shrewd
whether
doubts
the
great
notable
chemist, hath
davit,
his affi-
solemnlyon
sworn
emetical, having
acted
tea
upon
and turn
Civ.
ought
to
as
out.
Of
"
always
his stomach
be
verity it
by the
tested
doctors.
Syl.
it,and
"
They
tasted
have
it to boot.
Botany,hath ranked
GRKAT
PROJECTOR.
tested
it with
Dr.
Budd,
the rankest
the
Pennyroyal Professor
of
of poisons,after experiment-
252
SUMMER.
virtues
its destructive
ing
select
on
parties
tea
his
of
relations
and
friends.
Civ.
College,
Royal
same
added
hath
Syl.
the
tion
confirma-
christening.
this
to
know
You
"
Doctors'
proverb.
do
opinions
together,
their horses.
better than
Dr.
given
hath
Rudd
this
keep
not
match
step, or
with
beverage
of
cream
and
tartar
lead
of
sugar
to
sumptives,
con-
hath
and
satisfied himself
and
phthisic does
an
Rudd
Oh,
my
I
!
Only
since
did
delectable
the
the
of
Civ.
"
be
"
to chaunt
have
fewer
time
under
boiled
locusts
come
Macbeth,
their hands."
down
away
namely,
it will be,
Tea
Deum.
In
boils, though
my
the
at
summer
my
season
stage
"Enter
all been
; but
the
brought
army
"
to
time
be
of the
they
say,
mean
demned
con-
feu-de-
collect
on
I must
borrow
size of
kettles,
I shall attend
the
be
seized, and
French
the
as
singing-birdsought
little
hath
not
Excise.
of the
yard
the
another
by
herb
counterfeit
in the
tea-tray will
This
comfort.
glad on't,for
patience
have
for the
verily all
chimney-pots
JoVs
"
out
sung."
burnt
am
and
can
"
it,when
say,
year,
to
POISON.
friend,take
My
"
SLOE
poems,
how
birds
another
and
days
booksellers
Syl.
at
purchase
book
sweet
joie ;
Syl-
two
trees, but
your
is
sick
am
heart
up
begin
not
Dr.
!
ass
vanus,
in
that
tea.
Civ."
as
morally
physically
with
the
of
Rudd,
Dr.
not
doubt
And
"
with
to
an
their
old
stage
green
the
may
next
direction
boughs
iu
253
RUNNING
PAIRED
NOT
COUNTER.
MATCH'D.
She
Of wedded
blis
Bards singamiss,
I cannot
And
make
For
My
wife
am
song
of it ;
we
in Chief,
Command
I'm but Aide-de-campof it ;
And
For
tall,
When
And
small,
is
longof
it ;
debate
It is my
To
fate
alwayshave the wrong
small
For I am
And
And
And
My
But hers
"
she is
when
And
And
long of
it!
And
am
small,
She
givesto
The
weakest
long of
it!
me
tea.
takes the whole Souchong of it ;
For I am
small,
she is tall,
that's the short and
long of
it ;
She'll sometimes
grip
My buggy whip,
speak
of it ;
And
make
For
small.
she is tall,
am
And
tall,
voice is weak.
she makes a gong
For I
And
of it ;
has, in brief.
And
long of it
And
me
am
small.
she is tall,
long of
it I
254
PAIRD
Or
MATCH
I sometimes
knife.
of it ;
And
And
she is tall,
that's the short and
For
long of
COMMONS
it '
AND
SHORT
make
For
ringher knell,
gay ding dong of it
"
am
small,
Man
wants
Nor
wants
long of
it !
long of
it I
COMMONS.
bell
Would
rd
And
LONG
O, ifthe
think
I'lltake to drink,
I'm strong of it ;
hector when
And
And
D.
life
Against my
She'll take
NOT
am
small,
And
And
but
she is tall,
that's the short and
little here
below,
255
PROTECTING
THE
**
Kings
THE
DUEL.
of Brentford
In Brentford
FARE.
smellingat
Said Mr.
To
And
see
By
Such
Hammersmith,
all it was
alloVd,
fair outsides are seldom
Such
Angels on
seen,
Now
chance
hit
to
sheep's.
silver changed.
that for copper red ;
But these two went away to give
Each other change for lead.
And
your
court
No
May
Cloud.
Said Mr.
nosegay.'
one
shall be.
thoroughfare
I'll pop
it into you.
When
they
Two
To
dead, they
thus
should have
seconds stillto live.
out
measure
the
then forbore,
having taken one rash step
The
And
were
seconds
They
took
dozen
more.
256
THE
They
the
the
the
Against
pistol-pan
If
of
prime
life.
Said
Mr.
But
all
Now
when
But
Fear
made
the
foes,
their
took
they
them
both
They
for
ready
was
tremble
so
shaking
were
the
ramrod
If
B.,
think
we
There
stands,
Mr.
Here
C.
one
like
And
Be
St.
Mr.
to
of
us
doom'd
But
the
do
confess
Misconduct
did
to
"
Courts
shot.
strange
reports.
morning
had
we
it
aim
call'd
is
now
begun
above,
the
out
bright,
;
as
if
sun
now,
ball.
So
attach
your
be
cloudy
can't
We
And
name
bullets
EXCHANGING
RECEIVING
all
may
That
the
into
up
Their
I
agree
Honour's
without
will
look,
Why
Cathedral
have
to
then
will
same
hands.
fall,
may
the
found
they
B.,
Paul's
do
I
of
ofF
go
Though
Said
charge,
do
death
of
prime
withdraw
Your
strife,
deadly
in
putting
By
each
prepared
next
Against
DUEL.
THE
upshot
DIFFERENCB
harmless
they
other
in
air,
did
duels
the
end
send
have
258
THE
belike
Italy,
from
brought over
Baron
friend of
them
bed
to
be
to
a
you
live in
keep
neither
him
as it was
elephant,and moreover
allowed
he
to take
State, was
or
of
why
not
as
no
it with him
ways
in
ing
long-stand-
whims.
We
them,
prison? So Tonio
it
as
take
was
small
huge as an
dangerousto Church
lion,nor
of
marry
to
and
company,
whim
captivity
; for
prison rat, and
world
them, and
fierce
so
his
to
equally,made
know
drink
solace
bon-camarade
"We
daddy-long-legs.
and
them,
eat
DANCER.
ROPE
so
littlebox, which
he
the size of
between
crocodile and
cricket.
And
as
for the
manner
flew,or
swam,
or
Calendar
oyster,for the
"
"
pet-lamb,if it
a
not
was
piteoussightto
Tonio
going
the two
to have
wearing
a
tween
be-
law terriers
hour's
an
that
of
cravat, which
goes to
see
off
last
never
but
laundress,
of its
be
must
he
had
It
own.
owned,
whim,
his
have
had
me,
say,
firma;
terra
with
I have
that
but
that
whimmed
were
wouldn't
stand
I'm
his
Let
on
tent
con-
the look-out
of life without
covetinga
view.
when
cubits
bird's-eye
Haman,
he
was
forty
high,had not a
Old
LEGAL
CONVEYANCE,
better prospect of this world than I have from the ground floor.
Tonio ! It was
a sorry sight
; and if I didn't pityhim, from my
Poor
soul,
I be
behind
hour
an
may
all
by
throughgetting,
my
time
259
DANCER.
ROPE
THE
for
seeingthe
mistake, into
took
jugulars.But
the
its course
St. Swithin
dogs! First,the
cats and
pitcheda heavy
into thirteen
brief
in dock
by
way
such
saw
over,
run
grippedby
of
up
it
shy-cock for
peltingin
your
life;
his head.
indictment
in his
raigns
Thereupon the Clerk of Arvery teeth,so that it shivered
Then
separatecounts.
scut, and
took
of
greyhound
after,run
have,lapped
backwards, and suppose
shove
Foreman
bill at
blunderbus,
simile to another I
in
no, not
say like
as
that^sa scurvy
when
omnibus.
usual,that is to
after a hare.
Tony was
put up, so-ho'd,run
and
mumbled, scud and
before,turned, tumbled
Well, law
next
blunderbus.
anon
heaved
openinga
shells,
in sworn
he threw
witnesses in a volleylike bombbattery,
and when
they explodedthere flew out from them two melting
and seven-and-twenty
hogs, and every
pots,four moulds, nine bulls,
in
of
them
of
evidence
Finally,
upwards
hog
ninetystone.
weighed
the Chief Pitcher
himself pitched at him his greatwig,and his fui
his mace, and his greatinkstand,and
gown, and his gold chain,and
the King'scrown, and the lion and the unicorn,every thingin short
both hands, he heaved
at him the
he could catch up, and then,taking
Statutes at Large; not content w^th which he took next to pelt him
For instance,
with pairsof missiles at once.
and a hurdle,a
a horse
masked
and
gallo-ws
halter,
shovel-hat and
sermon,
dyingspeechand
last
an
elm
coffin,
and, last of
I die of the
may
next
if
demned
con-
all,
pipthe
he
him
the whole
steeple
of St. Sepulchre,
deathif it had
bell and all,
as
snow-ball.
only a
been
Never
THROWING
THE
LASSO.
phen
St. Ste-
was
ripeones
gulletis very
too ;
for
e2
260
DANCER.
ROPE
THE
times
three
boluses,
or even
requiresto take pills,
have
miglit
givena thousand
such reasonable
day ? I say, he
hanging,
against
reasons
but
the
minute
momentous
very
of
of silence
fourteen.
So the mummy
since he was
ever
pitch-in-the-hole
and
the
hey presto!
Merlinising
began,
beingpreserved,
could
big wig
the
Boaz,
say Herman
into
turned
was
Judges are
you
may tell the world that our
the trial ended,and Tony'ssentence,as taken in the
After that
Thus
cal
thus
ran
short-hand,
Monday
All this
and
time, mark
at it
to look
it whisked
had
Tony
the whim
law
back, like
went
from
off to the
where.
To
take
such
kept
hieroglyphion
Black
coffin."
in the
him
with
conjurors.
no
in
dock,
life, how
only comfort
fed
and
as if there
heartily,
it,
in the
blessed
"
world
of felony,
to be bound
in
and
stone,
and from
cell,
the
to
which
itself,
the
on
opens
as
scaffi3ld,
you
to
in your way
nobody knows
left,
to the gallows,
with one
of a reptile
the
or
whim
in
cap !
whimsical
seems
had
classics,
blandula,to be
A^agula
Well, Fridaycame,
he
to his
the press-room
righthand
is
you
black
sent
his
about
volume
to be
was
whim
the
law-cats
or
with him
that he
thingas
stillwent
and
he had
you,
now
such
no
"
School that
Dumb
and looked
frisked,
and
been
when
and
to the Deaf
namely,
before
with him
his death-bed.
on
and
was
favour
of
ordinaryat
an
to leave off
the
Lord
one,
very
the devil
dining.But
and
Mayor
ordinaryfavour
the
oughtto
Sheriffs.
to
his
have
who
man
due, and
was
so
about
should
had
neglectedTony a
to usher him
at his christening,
gossips
As
they
little,
by not beingwith the other
of
out
into this world,they attended very ceremoniouslyto show him
men,
it,each in his giltcoach ; and, with regardto the coachmen, the footand even
all Malthusians.
the very horses themselves,
they were
Of
the
course
would
know
what
the
was
warrant, and
brought the hanginglike a
was
like,it was
hanging-warrant
Recorder
map
of
Mersey/left out.
if you
who
Extraordinary,
Tony
examined
was,
him
to
to pray,
on
his
Ordinary
besides whom
there
pointsof
faith
fall of Nineveh
whether
were
and, thirdly,
concerningthe
they were
bred
at
Mr.
"Womb
lions in
well's
or
gress,
ProPilgrim's
Mr.
or
Cross's,
THE
of London.
Tower
the
at
To
261
DANCER.
ROPE
all of
which
Tony givingdecidedly
die,and quiteprepared to
pronouncedfit to
longas
the throttle of
claret-bottle when
is ropy.
the
"
came
hadn't the
Life Assurance
if the Law
PhilanthropicSociety,with
the
barelya lengthbehind
and then
the
such
saw
Paufs, so
all the
chevy !
that
parislies
had
the
come
third.
Societyof Good
Next
Samaritans
Luckily there
Clergycantered
any
Also the
to
assurance
was
no
in with
Anniversaryat
all the
St.
children of
Vitus.
part,he
own
Now
the
exactlythe
faith of the
of
"
262
ROPE
THE
DANCER.
sayingon oath whether the other rope might have been used to
stood,Master Strangulator
therefore,how matters
day. Seeing,
and beganbeggingpardonof Tony
pushed in,with an elbowingmanner,
about
to
the
he
for
was
perform,who forgave him very readily,
part
him moreover
to shake hands,and by Gog and Magog, such
requesting
is
no
this
shake
shaked
never
was
At
his hand
with
if
jerk,as
bear's
palm
Then,
after
sect !
Strangulator
pulledaway
had
been
palmed
him
upon
face,he
making a frightful
vault upwards,a deal higherthan the
gave a mighty greatspringor
with his legsa-straddle
when, on coming down, he alighted
gallows,
for
w^here
five minutes ; now
he
the
beam,
kept posturing some
upon
like a fish,
now
hangingwith his head
rowing with his arms and legs,
the
downwards, firstby one legand then by
other,then by one hand,
and then againby his chin ; you never
saw
a
rope-danceror tumbler
nimble.
of them
Then
more
all,at Bartlemy's or Astley's,
coming
instead
down
of
human
the
fingers,
became
paw.
and
for a minute
standijig
might and main,
his
upon
the
the
hotted floor.
as
fast
Never
he
as
was
could
such
a
gallows-tree
; Gilderoywas
and
Lord
and
Sheriffs,
Mayor
the
feet,like
springdanced
after
a-dancingwith
lift his
fool to him.
You
about
round
may
Ordinaryand
all
bear
guess
how
Extraordinary,
as
big as owls' ; and still
caper, tilltheir eyes grew
after
round
0 of his mouth, fall to
they saw Tony,
making a
stared at such
when
more
ward,
for-
the
to
the
Humanes,
if it had
as
been
and
an
the
Samaritans,and
the Bene-
look
quiteas
Quaker's meeting,with a
overbrimming
mob, did
stand
not
and
on
Dumb.
They
chuckled,and crowed, and laughedtillthey brayed again; and roared,
and
bellowed,and shouted, and shrieked like hyaenas in liysterics.
collection afterwards
"
Huzza
anker
Tony
than
what
"
"
! huzza
ancoore,
Tony for
"
the
at
door
Go
"
ever
Tony
"
dancingupon
offer he might
for my
have
made
money
"
Laporte had
them
encore
brawvoo
"
"
and
sort !
nothing." If
danced
Deaf
for the
for
the
same
"
whim
did
not
suddenly take
the
ancore
"
done
Well
It's better
keep
it up !
been
there,who
knows
Taglioniherself never
they jigged,
On
and without music.
that is to say, gratis,
and may
I hang my hat up
however, without let or stint,
so
"
for ever,
or
marshal, janitor,
if
head
seeingthat
dancing,
unfit for
however
gaoler,
flesh
263
DANCER.
ROPE
THE
of his
one
Timber
oak table.
legswas
made
not, he balanced
or
it
on
my
the
foot's
far
other
while
above
his
toe,
great
a
minute,
hip,
his
pointedexactlyat the clock of St. Sepulchre,and then swinging
of the
same
for
whole
arms
like
windmill, he
horizontal
made
that
pirouettes
between
as
the
giddy to
one
with
other two
one
out
in the
three Kirk
there
witches
AUoway
it.
resisting
no
was
sum
look
That
at.
dancing
of
namely, a figure
figure,
to work
off^ into
spun
rule
whirlwind
done, he
of
struck
in
theyimmediatelybegan
of
three,which requiresonly
in and out, the
eight. Scuffle,shuffle,
could not
whim
The
have
took
footed
it better.
In
fact,
the very
Ordinaryhimself,
gravityof his calling,
of the
at first,
by reason
thoughless boisterously
gripwith either hand of his cassock,he
wherefore,takinga graceful
de la cour.
However,
only glidedoff,to beginwith, into the minuet
fast
and
he
the dancinggrew more
furious, gradually
as
danced, in
pipe,
Hornbred, into the College
spiteof himself,having been classically
it
to say they ever
better danced, or
saw
and I defyany one
of
and
Oxford
Doctors
the
more
Cambridge. Mother
brisklyby
very
ball
! The three Fates,though
! What
a
of Almack's, what a quadrille
in
such a
and
winders of thread,
seen
spinsters ordinary,had never
the rarest mad
morrice
the strangestcapriccio,
Cotton ball ! It was
that
danced ;
was
ever
minute
one
ma-
/"-."^i
then
fandango,
bolero,then
then
clia, then
the
'
band,
sara-
guara-
land
HighSometimes
fling!
by
Strangulator,
help
of
which
he
and
way
the
halter
waved
shawl
executingthe
dance
this
that,seemed
he double-shuffled
anon,
like
Dusty
Tony
'^y^^;^'"^^$b$HIGHLAND
appearedas measuring
his steps with
the next he was
FLING.
duchess
Fourteenth
to the tune
of
you
could say
Jack
Robinson
grotesquea burlesqueas
bounced,and
ever
and
shuffled,
(now
Earl of
Ripon) he
started ofi"into
as
and floundered,
and flounced,
and
flung,
and
a
nd
scuffled,
draggled, wiggle-waggled,
was
by
Grimaldi
to behold
it.
264
THE
but
though
the mother's
from
If
middle
still
they were
it, cross
hands, down
of the
struck
nine,
and
back
middle,
dos-a-dos
Chassez-croisez,
yet called
interfere ;
set the foot of the
sooner
clock
the
but
authorityto
for
no
The
of masters.
the whole
than
dog-days,and
masters,
my
Corporationhad
mohawk-
"
dance
partner.
the
of
again 'twas a
was
gettingon
time,
the fifth
he
dancingdog it was
and
otherwise,may
ten-acre meadow, with
man
any
jumped, and
goingfive miles
pickingup
second
seized the
next
He
Fakir.
bull for
whim
The
the
think
ing bully of
worth
was
coach-
sack.
It
arms.
wheel,
trundling
hoppingon one leg,the fourth backwards, and
jumped
DANCER.
ROPE
corporationgave
the
Head
^it
!
"
fresh set !
high
of the
fold,
the scafon
corporation
the
to
whim, and
way
into the
was
swagger
I say,
Sheriffs
The
danced,and
a
did
so
of the
cast
next, and
came
another
skull,and
scaffold to be
stroked
in to
they gave
who
Phrenologists
three
on
old
for
in
were
who
woman
the neck
the
whim
and
waitingto
take
same
had
Though
wen.
the
upon
her dancing
got
day was over, she hobbled her best,ajpdso did a Jew who came
up to
in hangings,
hagglefor the criminal's clothes,and likewdse an amateur
who
meant
God
knows
but
for
which
to bid
how
the
leap
the
knocked
might
that
whim
in
city,
pounds,
He
in
pieceof
more
many
certain
weightin
high for
on
have
joinedthe
leaped by
was
These
the rope.
the head.
mere
flesh,was
littlemore),and
the
if Priam
Lord
Mayor, and
Mayors
Lord
of sixteen stone
matter
goldchain
was
(on
seventy-
had
weighed it himself.
fiftythousand pounds
as
danced,and
corps de ballet,
the
Now
his
all
five thousand
seven
old family
in his fob was
an
copper ; moreover
to
pounds
watch, formerlythe clock of St. Dunstan, equal ninety-five
and
of
bunch
he
carried
his
a
on
a half.
keys,
huge
Lastly,
person
hundred
pounds
in
wine-cellar
what
smashing,flattening,
crashing,
cake-making
panconfounding,
astounding,
short
down
sole of a foot it would
on
come
any reptile
266
call
child's
ODE
TO
TO
OF.'
DISPOSED
BE
MALTHUS.
MR.
My
And
Now
George,and William, go
You
Charles,James, and
Drive
You're
into the
there,
are
"
grounds,
take your
and
string.
You
And
there
sister Margaret's
Your
Harriet
and
At
I want
Grace,
far off
to
Bob
stairs,
up
"
"
thank
Ponty
In
every
Malthus
go
"
"
among
Malthus, I
thingI
such
And
wants
It's plain
"
as
clan !
agree
with thee !
read
deal of
doubt,
thinningout,
plainas Harrow's Steeple
"
"
Who
thus far,
agree with some
say the Queen's too popular,
That
is,
And
"
There
Too
and
can
never
The
school.
"
Enjoy my
Mr.
both at
are
Pool"
to their nursery
Oh
God,
"
bakers,
Jolm,
ODE
Too
267
MALTHU8.
MR.
TO
every-thing-makers,
many
undertakers,
boys,
many
Too many
hobby-de-hoys,
Too many
widows, wives, and maids,girls,
men,
There is a dreadful surplusto demolish.
But
not
too
many
"
Too
"
"
And
yet
some
tluck not
With
Wrongheads,
longheads.
metaphysicians!
Poor
Signpetitions
Capitalpunishmentto abolish
And
in the face of
New
For
censuses
vast
ones
contrive.
hospitals
keepinglife alive,
the
same
AN
HOSPITAL.
OF
STONE
FIRST
THE
LAYING
Deem
such
ones
contrariety,
Society
the two
And
root
Serpentine,
were
The
human
Are
!
of the
design,
SavingBanks.
it givenbut to
By
Oh
banks
their
out here
me
to weed
breed.
and there
some
cumberingelf,
!-
ODE
I think
With
MALTHUS.
MR.
I could go
And
For
TO
throughit,
reallydo it
Who
cannot
And
These, for
But
will not
who
or
pay,
creditors.
all my
sake,I'd destroy;
world's,and every one's,
own
my
for the
"
"
"
only joy."
"
au
Mr.
Himself
alone I'd
pull
"
But
And
put
periodto rotation.
By rootingup
These
are
But
but
all Aldermen
hints
what
good
but
one,
"
ah ! I fear the
publicgood
Is littleby the publicunderstood,
if with flint,
instance
and steel,and tinder,
"
For
"
Great
Swing,for
No
doubt
His
philanthropic
man.
lightupon thy plan,
once
Proposedto throw
some
burningall the
Or, if the
Lord
meddlingMarplot would
blow
up,
Of
critical,
The economy
political
savingtheir fresh yellow plushand
new
coaia.
all the
or
May,
Walk
In
To
walls
say
green,
blue,drab,and white,
gratifying
sight,
ODE
witness
much
so
but
"
269
MALTHUS.
MR.
TO
"
pauperism
"
Suppose,I
Some
the dome
extinguisher,
in the charityGal-yva.y
that immense
I fear would
Save
To
"
Martin
humane
and
come
interfere,
beadle,brat, and
walk
back
overseer.
in their
two-and-twos,
Islington Wapping
"
parishshoes.
or
"
Pall Mall
way
Drugging themselves
with
drams
well
spicedand cloven,
And
Why
should
Or trouble
When
We
let
absorb
so
precautions
with
a
quarantine
shipping
we
us.
"
if I understand
the
ought to importthe
FANCY
PORTRAIT
thingyou
Cholera
MR.
mean.
Morbus
MALTHUS.
!"
270
DIRECTION.
GOOD
gentleman,whose
CERTAIN
he had
Proclaimed
Anchorite
An
yellowcheek
livingquite
in
been
not
"
a well
day ;
Indeed,he scarcelyever
led to seek
At last,by friends' advice,was
named
Aberfeldie.
A surgeon of greatnote
Author
A very famous
Diet,
upon
of old,
Who, better starrM than Alchemists
to gold.
By dint of turningmercury
knew
"
in
Had
quiet.
impatientrambles
Patient,after some
Thro** Enfield roads,and Enfield lanes of brambles.
Our
At
last,to
"
inquiryhad the
Here, my good man.
make
Just tell
Pray
is Mr.
which
if you
me
nous,
"
can.
thus
man
"
"
"
The
"
road's direct
But
From
"
How
"
"
^you cannot
fail to
go it."
!
"
"
see
why you'll
'"AN
blue
ANCHOKITE.
word
more
"
"
it !
at
pillars
"271
consulter
The
of Jolinson's
Dictionaryunder
whether
Sport,or
definition.
"
man,
young
"
the Doctor
"
was
little wit,
greatmistake by
of
the
Amusement,
facts,whether it
I
the term
sion,
signifies
nothingbut Divergreat Lexicographer,
I
but
shall
submit
the
to
with
:
a few
reader,
Play
serious
has not a more
cally,
connexion,or to speak techniit should be Play or Pay.
word, with
When
SPORTING.
OF
be led into
would
Sporting,
ARTICLE.
PLEASURES
THE
The
LEADING
went
upon
the
I studied
and
as
the
"
of
way
a leading
securing
backed
article,I
Duke
of
race
off,and
came
Duke
who
eagerly
and
Jlrst^
but
was
was
by being a
was
paid
Riddles-
preparedfor
Derby.
By
luck I selected
was
but
laster.
puzzle^ but
for my
worth, and
he
slow
stronghorse, and I
informed had got in
This
the
was
told Forth.
was
winner
front
the
placed.
not
was
I asked
The
the
Leeds^but the
good
lent
excel-
an
had
a
"
it
"
booked
thing
"
SWEEPSTAKES
the
day
Derby thore
'.
EVERY
JENNY
before the
was
familywash,
HAS
hung
JOCKEY
her wet
linen
272
PLEASURES
THE
paidagain. I
horse,made
backinga single
took
did
not
his lines. I
on
of
OF
Belle
post
"
my
start
Ducrow,
Fury
"
was
instead
four at
upon
came
J. paid
and
stand,like
Oaks, and
the
advice about
roaringto the
tail'd off.
Comet
was
again
and
wnth
Sweepstakes,
burning my fingers
Terror
luck.
No
once.
SPORTING.
"
the
"
"
"
"
however
itself.
and the opportunity
retaliate,
presented
to
confidentlyinformed
Centipedehad
that
him
laid against
accordingly
the
was
pace,
a
it all his
had
"
hundred
by
tempted
the neck
by
won
Tinker
and it
won,
determine
dead
likelier chance
Bohea
rob
by
I
"
start
freelythat
he
would
N.
B.
I found
when
it
was
There
run
the
me
the
peculiar
I laid that
to say
mean
the
name
like the
a
was
Cup,
dead
and
heat.
"
his
noble
the
Pay again!
difference of
that ho would.
Plate,and
other, and
opinion,
had
owner
I therefore betted
he w:a/^^"^over
"
Pay
late,
too
was
paid in
hang myself
point,from some
opinion.
my
taken
^vas
for
for
of
way
This
offered.
next
would
back
taken ; but
was
and positively
assured
privately
again!
nose."
it is difficult to
the
offered to
and
wrong,
the firsthorse.
was
whether
occasions
two
a
by
when
occasions,
was
Judges declared
A
"
had
that
me
I remember
Elephant by
brains
out my
The
of those doubtful
one
as
'
neck,"and
to blow
and
following
Centipedejumped off at a tremendous
and justified
his name
by coming in
way
hollow" matters however
Pay again! These
and
lost
in pocket. They were
won
easy,
lose
unbearable.
To
were
only by
things"
as
inches of horse-flesh !
"
stick.
it would
on,
"
near
few
"
On
"
been
I had
legto stand
"
save
little,
me
but the
"
Giraffe
almost
own
"
head,
when
race
feet in front.'
fretted
to match
half
the
report of
thick
not
have
did.
The
Great
St.
still in
was
Somewhat
Leger
reserve.
desperate,
I betted
of the
round,in sums
same
shape,and
start.
-
,,
shall I
.
come
in ten
REGATTA.
COWS
forgetthe sight! I
him
THE
1
saw
lengthsa-head
of
everything^lioUow
"
hollow !
274
for
after
for
me,
before I
drawn
been
beat
that
useless
was
birds, began to
of
want
It
it.
to
ascertained
moves,
took
for
dogs,
the
"
few
SPORTING.
OF
PLEASURES
THE
the
therefore
point at
game
to
had
try
to
butterflies.
friends, however,
My
looked
for grouse,
bought them and
so
paid
carriage. Pay
the
"
again!
experimentsI
mast
abridge.I found
as
Sporting,
Pugilistic
with
both
usual
good
hands
at receiving
:
inat Cocking the
goes"were far exceeded
Other
"
"
"
by
the
"
"
and at the
that it
out-goes :"
gamingtable,
was
cult
diffi-
very
to pay
my
way
"
in coming
particularly
back.
at
ed
In short I learnof
school
without
in
Sporting,
and
I have
POINTER
meanings
pages
"
manhood
still
the considerate
an
attentions of my
From
To
And
DISAPPOINTER.
of that one
word,
signification
has
been a long,and an uncomfortable
lesson,
in spiteof
unconquerablerelish of its bitterness,
trouble,
but
AND
the
Friends
:"
when
They
my
regret.
they win
think that I
STEEPLE
smile from
forget."
CHASE.
me
275
POLITICAL
THERE'S
*'
So
while I
I should
aunt's
the
and
consent
"
am
"
Languish.
days of Knights,
valour
stalk'd
No
Bandits
To
Tunis
I hear
lurk
bears
"
"
"
but owl
"
There's
no
Romance
I wish
I have not
any
Or
to
And
For
Lewis
cloister'd
I had
never
quite!
drunk
deep
so
Miss
no
Porter's vat ;
and vreep
to life,
Romance
"
in that !
secrets
the
bat.
A.
Instead
K.
not
fetch
Newman's
press
of lookingthin and
As if I Iiv"d
no
mouse,
griefprofound.
growing red
There's
or
in that !
confess.
My story would
I'm
or
after moth
flitting
Or
onlyturn
"
noises in the
no
shape,
Come
"
There's
off
house.
No
cease,
me
night
Except my mother's cough,
No
Bleeding Spectre haunts
adventures
Of dear
turban'd Turk
no
"
"
Would
were
and
approbation,
Lydia
THAT
IN
all; behold, my
incense them
of old,O
DAYS
ROMANCE
fondlyimaginedwe
outwit and
picture!"
NO
UNION.
on
and
pale,
fat.
beef and
Romance
pound
;
ale
"
in that!
t2
"
276
THERE
hard, by land
It's very
Some
But
strange
Each
I
vow'd, and
to
me
pen'sreport :
temper chafe.
my
rail'd,and
sire,no jealousDon
flinty
hearts upon
No
Polydore,no Theodore
is Mat,
uglyname
The
At
chestnut
My
Alas
To
had
only time I
Brightonone
Took
in that ?
Romance
away
Or
He
And
He
caughtthe
rein at
length,-
With
His
like other
collar he will
not
folks.
He
There's
no
Romance
By
not
in that 1
Bard
all.
Romance
no
"
in that I
Or
"
at
He's
discard,
pensive"not
BOWLING.
cloaks.
plumes or Spanish
long sword hanging down ;
in brown
"
but a sprat ;
really
sandy hair and greyisheyes
There's
no
commonly
in that !
Is
dresses much
Romance
no
is not
TOM
Hewcars
nothing
He
pat
in that !
and
"
But
the Tenth
Romance
"
His
to prance,
Pratt
is not
He
came
steed
stop my
Butcher
There's no
chance
day,
began
mare
and ran
fright,
! no Captainof
fine
There's
the rack
Matthew
more
"
no
smoothly on
"
No
safe,
There's
goes
"
of track
No
Plain
home
came
love
even
"
railwaysort
His
at,
was
THAT.
IN
Love
sea
or
comes
that I
coast
ROMANCE
NO
I court,
event
nothing ever
That's worth
It really
made
"
Of
There's
no
"
Romance
in that !
THE
sing
"
Tom
Bowling,or
piacer All's
Di
He
"
knows
no
Of
no
lightguitarI
the
save
King,
Repeatsdebates,and
helpshim with
about
a
gnat
"
has
John
voice
And
"
choice,"
no
"
in that !
Romance
never
He
He
doesn't
No
stealth,no
it
by
the post.
the maids :
hempen ladder
bribe
no
"
SOMETHING
**
-"
The
draws
speakerswere
honey
My
My
his hat
aright,
long had
she
aunt
Pa's and
Ma's
night-
consent
quiteapproves.
Brother
make
Number
There's
ABOVE
THE
sups.
his coat
Will
hands
Jenkins
I've
boast,
cannot
serenades
He
He comes
at nine in time to choose
His coffee just two cups,
And
talks with Pa about the news,
"
God
well
more
For singingthan
And
to Music
as
There's
sing,
Crudel,
Di
or
what
matter
no
Tanti"
277
ABSTRACTION.
THE
no
me
Mrs.
Pratt,
Twenty,
Romance
Sussex
Place
"
in that."
COMMOK.
ABSTRACTION.
forth that dnves
close under
maa."
men
"
Ij^alla Roukh.
of the
inn,and
as
their
herself could not help overhearing
Curiosity
Mrs. Opie's Illustrations of Lying,"
which I had found lyingin the inn window,
and took a glanceat the
the
in
dialogue.
partners
the sash
was
open,
conversation.
So I laid down
"
"
"
One
of them
seemed
to have
"
I tell you,
was
grown
older than
much
like
Thomas,"
the
other,and much
said
"
was
a
taller ; he
thick-set.
flat. Before
you've
27B
THE
been
have
day in London, they'll
As
of
"
tellthe truth
never
to show
and
Thickset,
'
young
By
No
them
told
"
there
London
I answered
was
thing
or
head.
Take
my
if a
said
Bailey,"
strangeman
them
say
last
are
you
to
name
says
"
"
tell his
before,and know
London
at the Old
Now
"
flat would
how
see
in the waggon.
was
but
one
You
London.
Jacob
you
very
Questions is onlyasked by
put 'em on a wrong scent."
Giles,'
means," answered Quickset ;
of
man.
to her house.
me
are
man,
manner
no
another
about
account.
no
aunt
"
"
on
of your
out
what's what.
know
pumping ;
But
to me,
the teeth
twice,and
there
I've been
for me,
advice
way
ABSTRACTION.
quite
stranger
nightabout
A
flat would
; but
what
have
I've been
to
two."
desperateplace,"said Thickset.
Mortal!"
said Quickset, fobs and pocketsare
nothing! Your
watch is hardlysafe if you carried it in your inside,
and as for money"
be
must
"
"
"
"
If I
say.
"
in
what
shock
began
about
the waggon,
his comrade
went
At
Mark
that.
Say
you
he
and
head,
busy himself
to
stable
contradict.
say."
I understand
his
white, don't
black's
say
I
as
everything
for
the
while
to the
horses.
Old
last
Ball
with
Old
Dumpling
his crupper
on
of
resting
when
the
from
yellrose
head
the
rear
of
that startled
the waggon,
Number
even
55, at the
Inn, at Staines,
Bush
broughtthe company
runningfrom the remotest
and
box
in
garden.
"In
the
of everything,"
name
said the
"
landlord,
It's gone
by goles!"
with
"
all gone,
TKA
cried Thickset,
bewildered
look
said it was
at
Quickset,as
not
gone.
GARUKN.
if doubtful
whether
he
THE
don't
"You
led
Old
say
the
to
mean
alarm, and
some
279
ABSTRACTION.
Dumpling
back
again into
the stable ;
"
don't
you
to
mean
honey-pots ?"
lowing
folhoney-pots,"said Thickset,literally
say the
the instructions he had
"
I dont
"
What
to
mean
made
received.
screech
you
then?"
out
said
Quickset,appealingto
said
Thickset,appealingto
Thickset.
"
made
What
"
screech
me
determined
Quickset,and
then?"
out
to say
he said.
as
fellow's drunk,**'
said the landlord
The
"
the
ale's
got
into
his
head."
"
Ale,
Ale,
"
"
"
all his
"
what
what
ale have
I had?"
might.
He's
drunk,"
not
shouted
Quickset
"
there's
something the
mattei-."
"
and
I'm
with his
"
; there is
drunk
not
he pointedto the
fore-finger
waggon.
don't
to say the
mean
"
"
Quickset
thunderstruck
was
in silence ; while
his hands
search of the absent combs.
When
he
Words,
stamp
found
words
and
dance
"
she looked
him
at
he stood
at
last,they
suj0"ce to vent
about,till the
anythingyou like.
A
plague take
as
wandered
mud
and his
new
no
were
his
of the
part
passion;
flew
stable-yard
honey-pots,too," said
pattern on
"
the
of
and he
her best
Litany
began
round
the
to
like
maid,
chamber-
gingham.
It's no
matter," said
I won't
lose it.
"
"
and
"
"
"
key."
Why, there
I don't know
kitchen there
"
I heard
words
"
was
was
and Thickset.
"
nothingbut
him,"
said John
you
said last
night in
the
brooms."
Ostler
"
I'll take
my
oath
to
his very
280
''
ABSTRACTION.
THE
And
will
so
gown.
"
What
1," roar
of that?"
the
chambermaid, glancingat
said Quickset
"
T know
her
damaged
I said there
was
nothing
said there
was
nothing
but brooms."
"
said Thickset,
I know,"
"
I'm
he
positive,
but brooms.'*
"
He
"
And
"
confesses
saw
chambermaid.
to have
any
honey
in
"
"
"
"
bar of the
shan't pay
farthing."
"
"
"
Thoy
"
for mischief
There
Old
was
time
no
As
voice of Thickset
"
The
crupper
to
London
to my
of each
something
like
Ball and
as
soon
mind,
was
reply
only
somehow,
his
unlucky
last time
the
been
You've
stable,while
companion
they drove out of
possible
they passed under the arch,I heard for the
Dumpling
as
to be lost.
the
from
yard, and
up
"
of
a
the
a
before,and
be
to
the untruth
telling
thwack,
the
horses.
canter
; and
the
sash,and
like the
The
as
STAGE
poor
EFFECT.
don't
report
animals
the waggon
resumed
my
know
sure
broke
turned
"
but
to answer."
seem
of
best
the
on
pistol,
into
directly
corner
Illustrations of
of
the
Lyin^."
**
sorry
indeed
March
to
"
leave
kep',
The
"
March
No
Lord
breast
I want
And
Her
on
the sentinel
to
deeply strike
Appear'd
"
Walk
And
You're
the dead,
'*
in,"he said, among
pick out
which
you
"
like."
His naattrass
was
Alas 1
This
"
THE
the Gazette
of
splinter
shell
At
very
nighta
dance
merry
to be ;
Brussels was
of opening a ball,
ball has open'd me.
"
Instead
A
DANCE."
set in
Patty Head,
last kissing
;
horse.
WAR
to my
As
"
come
I'm
Before
very
sorrow
Patty Head,
"
he lies ?
with reddish hair.
corpse
blue eyes."
sweet
If hereabout
image ?"
used to hold my
That
pritheetell,good sentinel,
"
BALLAD.
WATERLOO
282
THE
OF
OPENING
BALL.
"
Next thinga lancer,with his lance,
Its billet every bullet has,
Began to thrust away ;
And
well it does fulfilit ;
!
I
so
I wish mine hadn't come
straight, call'd for quarter, but, alas
It
not Quarter-day.
was
But been a * crooked billet.'
"
"
*"
"
And
And
He
then there
cut
me
on
came
cuirassier
the chest
ran
rightthroughmy
his spear
arm,
Just
"
He
the joint:
here above
Patty dear,it
was
Although it had
"
joke,
point.
no
MILLER
loss of blood
With
"
dead
As
But
do
women
1 throb
I'm
quiteconvinc'd
Is not
"
why
For
I
did
any
Not
balls and
;
been
myself!
MILLER
alreadya
very
is
bells
bed,
tester !
I used to dress !
changed,and
quiteanother
am
now.
mess.
Except,when
And
am
dead, you'll
go
th' Illuminations."
see
REDIVIVUS.
promisingmiller."
"
BelVs
Life in
Londum
when
one
eveningdown Cripplegate,
walking very leisurely
could help overtaking
him ?
who
a lame
elderlygentleman,
who, by the nature of his gait,appeared to representthe Ward.
he seemed
certain lots at auctions,
always going,but never gone :
WAS
I overtook
Like
is become
"
wedding
regimentalmates,
whom
corps
In
Kernel!
lie in Honour's
isn't worth
With
He
I must
Farewell, my
My
ring at Chester!
never
That
butcher,and
"
Patty dear,our
Here
"
sleepeternal :
my only chance
shell
being made
Will
royalGuelph ?
might have
"
soldier turn
In business for
"
"'
[blows,
sleepmy
ev'n
Of
to.
field of clover
Without
"
And
With
off,
"
by chargingover me,
Coldstream
broughtme
soon
The
*
as
I fainted
283
REDIVIVUS.
"
"
284
it
MILLER
that
was
called
There
was,
spiteof
pace,
he
at
reminded
that
he
slow,
not
was
of
you
at
"
^not behind-hand
repartee,
"
dress and
that
figure,
dweller,if not
with
indicated his
strongly
his
in
jest,
"
short,that
But
accident
an
his
as
was
"
confirmed
soon
lie
locality.
well
palpably
distinguished
equallyby "the
turtle," the good old City of
that clime
native,of
face,in
was
in his
a
lurkinghumorousness
notwithstanding,
that
saw
There
in
terror,made
You
of march
kind
halting. Gout,
backward
REDIVIVUS.
surmises.
my
from
of his capaciouscoat
one
plucking out his handkerchief
tumbled out with it a largeroll of manuscript;
the Bandana
pockets,
and as he proceededa good hundred
yards before he discovered the
he
had
before
mon
I
time
loss,
ample
struggledback, in his Crawly Comand even
to
pace, to the spot, to give the paper a hastyperusal,
The
few
make
MS. purportedto be a Collection
random
extracts.
a
*
*
*
*
of Civic Facetiae,from the Mayoralty of Alderman
up to
In
the present time : and, from certain hints scattered up and down, the
considered himself to have
Recorder evidently
been,for wise saws or
Not
only such
all that
jeux de mots
to forestal the
or
are,
have
as
EXTRACTS
"
Alderman
very
hard
F.
his
on
the Justice-room
the
upon
he
B.
Old
behind
"
to Alderman
one
hearing,and
F.,'he
Alderman
on
'
I have
last
familyprayers
S.jthe
dumb
Alderman
man
B.
was
broughtto
was
B. declined to enter
notes.
'
said ;
when
dumb
man
Nunc
Dimities'
tobacconist
V.'s
his
Hill,wore
favourite seat
B.
"
from
day
V.'s
Now
let
"
of Holbom
a
One
linen-drapery.
in the
pointedhim
out
own
shop,with
once
to
me.
hair tied
his back
*
Look
"
his pigtail.'
is,as usud, advertising
Alderman
for his
of
A.
note
to
magistrate
Rob
MS.
"
had
my
Go
in
there he
THE
infirmity.One day, a
chargedwith passingbad
a
queue, and had
the window.
Alderman
to
of
and give
be, his own
sayings,
parentage.
"
hard
FROM
very
equallyhard
was
came
villa.
us
case.
deaf
utters^a
"
'
was
may
distinct
pleasure of self-publication,
own
was
never
'
absence
"
remarkable
graphy.
for his skill in ortho-
a brother
requesting
the
reason
literatim, following
giving,
off in
Jackson the painteris to take me
gone to giveliim a cit.'His pronunciation
him,
presidefor
and
Ofl"ce,
very
of his
am
and
MILLER
I remember
equallyoriginal.
was
November, whether
the 9th of
285
REDIVIVUS.
his
he
askingAlderman
should
have
any
C, justbefore
in
men
in
armour
his sheic."
"
Guildhall and
A.
It
he
was
he's trod
when
its
who
so
upon,
"
Magog/"
"
editor of
well-known
B., one
Alderman,
he
day, what
inquiredof Alderman
morning paper
thought of his
'
said
journal. I like it all,'
but its Broken English.' The editor stared and asked
explanation. Why, the List of Bankrupts^to be sure V
'
an
"
When
his
Alderman
B.
for
Dobbs,
Mayor, to givegreatereclat
the most
of the kitchen.
command
the
elected
was
for
""
i"
banquet,he sent
to take
the
'
Dobbs
quitean
was
to
time,
enthusiast
deficiencies on
the part of the ordinary
culinary
Mansion-House
him at least to desperation,
he leapt
professors
driving
and
of
the
oration
to
one
dressers,
them, by this
began an
upon
!
call
Gentlemen
do
yourselvescooks !
energetic
apostrophe,
you
some
'
'
"
"
"
One
of the
present Household
of
was
origin.When
singular
first exhibited.Alderman
the celebrated
who
in
men
be
armour
his
happened
was
ing
extremelycurious in examinLordshippreviousto the procession,
at the same
the suits of mail, "c., expressing,
time, an eager desire
The Mayor, with his usual consideraof the helmets.
to try on
tion,
one
to be aired,
insisted on firstsendingit down
to the kitchen
after
were
which
For
then
by
warm
intolerably
rampant
that
the
in
be
obligedto
was
armourer
red and
as
hurry
the fire,and
casque upon
Alderman's
head in its own
G.
the Merchant
him, to
some
blunder,the soldier
hastened
Ninth
"
One
you
ever
day
man
there
"
was
B. struck
there's
one
was
he's
in,
'
one
"
Go
own
of the
one
Tenth
to the
foot.
one
By
G.
of the
' "
of Catch-Singing,
difficulty
the
to Cheshire
in
took
but
fraternity,
of the Tenth
Company,
he
frequentFestivals,
officer of the
for
'
of his
Warden
of their
as
dispute,
appeared,
clapped the
recipefor stewing an
for which
taken
was
mistake
the
correct
parts of
Alderman
to
to
the
be let out,
It
since !
an
dinner,a relation,
with
face could
"
At
Tailors*.
out
steam, and
Common-council-man,
the
his
from
found
thus
"
beingaggravated
by his
An
fastenings.
for before
Lion
Pageant,the
of the
his
the unaccustomed
sent
Brentford
from
first uncomfortably,
became
to undo
struggles
inconvenience
perceiveany
not
with
met
the enclosure
degrees
beaver,but
and
did
he
little time
some
new
to
of the Alderman
the ambition
process
P.,
blishment
esta-
Hangman
Catch.'"
"
he'll prove
286
"
REPORT
To
ZOOLOGICAL
Honner's
with, and
Guardner
Begs to
Feller of the
raeens, threw
witch
well
was
the
Humbel
your
Burds
for
I may
and
was
Bests,considring
Hed
hears
menny
so
say by
favered
happy,
much
sow
sow
the Anyamung
in Parodies,
let alone my Velveteens.
I ham
wen
as
Liv
"
ham
Breading,
Farm,
bavin
Pekin
elefunt for
tacken
As
of Hair.
chainges
up
never
his
Statement
wile
Noats
provintial
Sectarydrawd
morandusses,and
on
is dun
of wat
was
at
a
Report from
respex
his hone
and
Stox
Kettle
at the
Kings-tonwith a
beg to say,
curacy
and
datums
my
M.E.S.S.,yet we
the
Qadripids,tho
has
mem-
tallys
our
Honnerd
the wust
the
Park,
to your
Honnerd
has
carrachter
having Bean
mills to reckin
tho the
and
Satiety,
Zoological
to the
provd sattisfacktry
threw
quailifid
fittable and
to
REPORT.
SUR,
Being maid
FARM."
THE
Harvey Williams^Esq.,Regent'sTerrace,Portland
HONNERED
your
ON
moor
Sir,
"
lux
nor
Babby
with them.
one
afore
Carf.
with
Scarse anny
Has
to the
of the
Anymills
weave
with fore
King Sollyman,but
one
wus
add
legs
then
littel Dear
ZOOLOGICAL
hinds.
she
five femail
betwin
The
Sambo
has to heat
Springwas so unnatral
is of no use for the
Sing-Sing
nor
ever,
to the
grow
the
Report says,
Sur,
Honnerd
assis and
uncommon
Inndever
to
the Mail
"
assis,and
Owen
longharmd
thingsto
Atemps
Babboon
backbord
his
Foles
no
not
as
munth
to
rum
ment
NessessaryConfine-
rich in
Assis,boath
recumends
Commun
will do
Report
my
for your
Honner.
The Kangroses
but looks to be ill nust
and not well
a
dry
to
The
deth.
to
Boney
about
their
one
the
to
but
Zebry
the
as
as
out
consequinsthe
hits moor
littelAxes
too
Carf, but
verry
Cross
gitthe Maltese
in
Mr.
by
sent
was
smal."
Satietyis
the
as
and
for Gorsichan
one
Uttel
Spaiceis verry
regardto
in
increst
has
Quaggys.
up
Has
hiUabis.
Dear
her Forn
as
innqueries
on
Grow
Neil
The
hoki.
the Axis
But
287
REPORT.
prevent
is all so ded
of the
groing out
put
was
voilent and
too
was
to
owen
boath
sholders,
BillyGots
becum
dissorder havin
and
Do
one
the
and
pus
than
brekfisted
Mother
Hairs
as
witch
Brewd,
maid
bean
object,and
an
The
bunnis.
her
the
to Good
up
ous
contigulet alone
Fridy wen
increas in the
advice tacken
was
we
got
we
good Helth
all in
was
on
butts a weak,
menny
As
regardsRabits a
so
Entire.
with the
do away
obleegedto
did
and
vishus
so
Groth
of Mr.
of
Prince
"
twenty
of them
Struthus
About
in
Burds
Pound.
one
is in
the Ostreachos
perfichelth
Committy was
full of
and
sittin and
egs wile the
sittinto
as was
we
hop they will atch,as we put them under a she Hemew
hav
Busturds
not
Mr. Harvy. We
we
xept
got a singel
propos breading
I am
specieman of the specious. Galnatious Burds.
sory to say
Plums.
The
Curryso has
not
Turkys
and
"
air considdered
of the
there
tho
the
for him
to bread
to
maid
day. Lickwise
Utilityfor the Tabel
being of
"
the
be Cok
results hav
sum
Report says
Mr.
Yard
grate Cok
of
"
and
the
now
hav
not
for
the
under
the
witch
degestedtrials
be
Wat
repetidin
is remarkable
provd gratelayers
plentey of Turf.
of the Wud
"
obtained
expearimintsmust
Crockford
and
and
more
deduckshuns."
of the
accuracy
Better
"
by
PoltryFouls
on
bean
them
on
Crismus
on
pressentedby
providedwith
vourd
conas
we
disapinting
a
razing gratemenny
moor
sucksided in
We
report informs
the
was
expearimints
intresting
very
subjex as
Crax.
the Counsel
the
Hits
bread.
our
as
some
Committy and
with regardto
latter head
lade too
femail Hen
The
onely we
aquoticWarter
We
have
Burds
hav
no
we
indeWud
hav
288
risenable
hits
onelythey
is recordid
acount
not
as
the
disturb
to
nes
stock
into
into since
other
they
Hotter.
At
Honner
beg
as
Ponds
but
there
of
go
exact
an
State
unwillinga
the
at
hole
with
of the
Rabits
Farm
and
in
one
Poltryand
the
to
breadingof sich beingwell none
to
principals refer your
he eums
home
for the Holedays. I
wen
Parnassian
Sheap
acomidated
was
riting.But
worth
produst nothin
self but
but
Gorge
say the
furgotto
ears
their methodistical
to
Master
to
dukelings
Too
plaicedtheir out
suckcesful
most
to have
ben
hav
we
wonted
of the
wear
on
swons
leftas bean
number
The
of Yue
Pint
very
Satietycontanes a grate
well as they wood
on
a
there Heds.
one
un-
lo
Polish
of heals of witch
qantitty
by the Pellycanesand
Burds.
Looking
piskiverous
checkt
one
The
is very
Pond
pressent their exists in one
in
others
and
too
of Gould Fish of the coma number
mun
Karps
of
Sort.
as
We
they shook
turned
wear
looked
bean
The
lay.
Dux.
and also
of flownders
qantitty
Warter.
but
Dux
the Mandereen
from
go
the Black
into the
with
the Sam
and
farm
commun
and
cygnitures,
Hunt
did not
witch
and
of Gease
number
REPORT.
any
Mr.
aloud to
not
bread
hav
not
but
to expens
as
con3ishun
wood
theyhav
but
wite Swons
ZOOLOGICAL
the
with
Pen
hav
attemps we
to it
maid
this
"
and Fallo
Buffloo
Mufflons
The
plan is
the
Farm
dears and
to
owen
a
Farm
Omay.
have
cetra to
of the Femail
sum
For
humbly
Fellers,
"
instances
and
the
the
The
Sheaps is to hav Pink ribbingsround there nex.
munkys is to ware
fancy dressis and the Ostreaches is to have their
stuck
in
their
heds,and the Pecox tales will be always spred out
plums
fraim wurks
like the hispaliers.All the Bares is to be tort to
on
Dance to Wippert'sQuadrils and the Lions mains is to be subjective
and
and
to pappers
to
be
the
Pollisht
Drumdearis
and
other
Crukidnes.
Hr.
Howerd
and
Peckaris
and
Kings Patten
candid
with
Flours.
Bever
Balld
The
for
The
is to
the
ware
Vulters
one
baldnes
Grains will be
a
with
waste.
witch
as
Castle
Frentch
defourmd
of
Perren
will be
that I
by
and
dictait menny
smalt
the
Proof
Hats
Whig
Hippotomus
from
more
"
and
Trewfits.
modes,
imbellishing
Honners
obleegedand humbel
former
the
tite laced
am
Your
Yery
hided
lite Warter
Experience will
I conclud
Servant,
Stephen
Humphreys.
290
LITERARY
such
tion at any
establishment,
althoughmuch
at some
spent
REMINISCENCES.
invaluable
time
was
gentlemenare literally
young
of
at one
boarded, lodged,and done for. My very first essay was
called
because
those placesimproperly
se/wi-naries,
they do not half
teach any thing; the principals
that the little
being probably aware
"
often
as
"
physic,and
periodical
whether
repugnance
unwelcome
dim
and
of
compasses
from
our
heads
sure
butable
attri-
be
bed
warm
into
empty
an
on
not
am
not
mach;
sto-
decided
perhaps I owe my
monotonous
walks, or
our
extras.
earlyrisingmay
to
precocious
wintrysummonses,
to
our
damp school-room, play at filling
to
at
invincible
an
other
"
"
the lid !
For
my
part,were
own
would
giveme
to
generation,
and
the
I to revisit such
out
greatestpleasure,
House
turned
Prospect
find
before
factory,
Manu-
but
spoon,
a
prize for
I had
belief which
marble
could
be
cut
Latin
wards
after-
in two
razor.
be
the
as
classical,
Ducrow
would
the
say,
Athenians, the
day
sacrificed a
Theseus, their Founder, gratefully
been
his
had
of Corridas the schoolmaster, who
in fashion,how
such offerings
the present day, were
Festival
of
in memory
instructor ; but in
would the
frequently
animal
appropriate
big a donkey
the
ram,
too
Cloth
Floor
youth,it
the rising
in
To
regardto
mere
into
of my
the
is out of the
with
of
haunt
to
get over
Pons
be
Asinonim
donkey,and
!
especially
LITERARY
29]
REMINISCENCES.
From
what
the
backward
bore
to
all my
friends,and
parents, relations,
"
pedantical
mending of their
acquaintance,by
cakeology."Such
the
was
total of
sum
much
I should
have
as
; being,probably,quiteas
my acquirements
learned at a Charity School, with the exceptionof the parochial
of anthems.
and singing
accomplishmentof hallooing
I have entered into these personaldetails,thoughpertaining
rather
to illiteratethan to literary
the
because
reminiscences,
partly
important
subjectof
Education
hint that
writer
One
A
of my
often
may
mean
schoolmaster
and
pupils,
of
has become
to
answer
to the
that the
serious purpose.
of his
one
the father of
vacation,on
his announcement
informed
was
establishment,
credit for
givenme
called,
duringthe
in
of the
re-openingof
gentlemanwas not
young
declared
The
that
he had
his
to
read
worthy parent
academy.
in the Comic
Annual, and had made
Camaby Correspondence,"
his
the pedagogue,
mind.
dear
"But, my
Sir,"expostulated
up
is nothingbut a
Annual
be serious ; why the Comic
cannot
you
book full of jokes!"
returned
the
Yes, yes,"
father, but it has
return
the
"
*'
"
"
let me
into
few
coming again!
And
of your
tricks.
I believe Mr.
Hood.
James
is not
"
now,
it may
be
at these
"
"
and
drink
deeplyof,the
Pierian
that
spring,
was
an
Idler,Lounger,
Tatler,Rambler, Spectator,
anythingrather than a student.
that the severest
be,first,
punishmentever
my replymust
shoulders
To
which
inflicted on
many
to
In
spileof hundreds
names
distinguished
of
it has
associates,
connected
with science
school-fellow.
u2
nevei
or
reference
to which
Aristotle,
Socrates,
292
LITERARY
REMINISCENCES.
"
Alfred,and
other
order
humble
very
ushers
without
"
Worthii,as
reallyschooled
without
"
of the year
Sponsorsand Patron
beingcomparativelyof a
prospectus, without
premises in short,without
"
"
"
without
almost
consequently,
autumn
their
me
without
sign
commodious
and
ample
and
'pretension,
The
Learnedissimi
school that
The
Saints.
custom.
1811, alongwith
most
portentous comet,
choly
change perplexingmonarchs," brought,alas ! a melanrevolution in my own
positionand prospects,by the untimely
him to the
death of my father ; and my elder brother shortly
following
drew
the fragments
of the family
grave, my bereaved mother naturally
"
fear of
with
"
the next
springfound me
accordingly,
called a High School,in reference
literally
ground.
and
In
house,formerlya suburban
over
a
up two
grocer s shop
Essex
day-school,
kept by
his
had
pupil,he
which
low
his
pupilsthan by
Indeed,he
own.
one, with
modem
he
better
main
than
his reward
the
of brown.
niuince
His
national tartan.
was
dais, some
inches
with
above
set
his desk
the
common
that
had
seemed, of
all
damask,
been
together,
lined with
at
article,
home
floor.
was
From
in
an
sional
his Profes-
regime,
elevated
appropriately
the ancien
was
his
his state,
quaint,carved,highbacked,elbowed
an
Chair, which
it
to
of faded velvet, of
was
of crimson
robe,
emigre^ from a
under
aristocratical drawing-room,
lookinglike
as
proper
content
of
proficiency
in the honourable
cap
good,
learned
had
"
portionof
in
but
pedant,perchance,
Small as was
our
disciples.
covered.
His
and walked
and
gowned
black,or blue,or purple,or sad green, or
with
As
even
done
had
high
boys.
maintained
its Principal
College,
the
was
in
of
realize
Pedagogue
of love,"who
a labour
teachingwas
his
and
of
and
calling,
importance
dignity
a
"
whom
of the
a
little
of
very
been
concerns
favour
to
worldly tradingSchoolmaster
honest,earnest,olden
find
failed
have
brother
my
victimized
contrary, had
Earl
was
wholesale
fortunes,by
the
went
himself ; and my
own
certainly
experience
he
however
to the interests of his scholars,
neglectedhis
have
externals,the
sense
one
from
unfortunate
days,when
been
that he attended
to prove
might
of the
that
inferred,
logically,
be
may
the
on
its distance
to
of those
competence, it
by
of
master
worthy Dominie,
our
his better
many
so
terms,
been
In
have
might
there
pairof stairs,
he
would
decayedDominie, as
"
"
select
seat
at what
this moral
on
and
dozen of
yet kindly eye over some
vigilant
h
of
habits
authority,ad not
sharpened by
youngsters; for adversity,
soured him, or mingled a single
tingeof bile with the peculiarredto the healthier natives of the North.
streak complexion,
so common
he seriously
within
was
On
yet
one
occasion,
memory,
solitary
my
material
eminence, he cast
LITERARY
discomposed,and
characteristically
he
whom
accused
that
all
forgetting
"
of
he
that
because,forgetting
293
REMINISCENCES.
was
regardfor
Dominie
his
by
was
decorum
;"
Parent, she
common
well
as
daughter,
own
as
"
sake
teachingfor teaching's
Nihil
make
with
boy
penniless
the road
and
if he
doubtless,
had
met
he would
have givenhim
learning,
Dick
to
Waggoner
Whittington for love.
on
to
"
"
It
was
so
interested in
his stock
has
schoolmaster
true
an
in
and
teaching
;
not
"
to take
impossiblenot
"
in my
in
interest
what
learning
joke
to
months
few
stand
light."
own
he
seemed
education
my
gressed
pro-
scholar,that I
French
good a
earned
edition
a new
by revising
Moreover, as an accountant,I
fee
"
of
"
few
the
I
so
"
Paul
could work
bonum
summum
i. e.
"
good sum.
In the
time,
mean
undertoned
bashful
Modest
wooer,
Success
worldlyheiress.
diminished
of scholars
came
but
"
fine
one
of fifteen or
that
"
than
increased.
nine
morning,about
that
of
courtship
loud,brazen
line,
mascu-
The
prosper.
At least
no
number
boys
new
a
o'clock,
great
"
she
gal,"
been
"
bag
and
The
apparitionof
any of
books.
Merit,to
rather
but
sixteen,
is the
unfortunate
generally
so
"
our
The
a
so
Governess,with
to be
Proclamation
of
described
Gynecocracy
!
Of course
SHE
instantly
astounding
formed
and
had
the
class
form
herself
SHE
to
:
a
might prefer
;
any
considered as
most
of us
being just old enough to resent what was
afiVont on the corduroysex, and justyoung enough to be beneath
an
The
truth was, sub rosa, that there
to the silken one.
any gallantry
was
a
Boy's
plan for translating
turning the unsuccessful
us, and
could
not
been
have
more
"
School,into
eldest
the
daughter
but
"
Academy
it had
lo !
be
to
conducted
the old.
leash of female
"
Dominie's
be well
to
brief
school Fellows
the
by
thoughtprudent
been
beingoflF with
set before
new
elapsedwhen,
the
Ladies'
on
periodonly
"
They
malice
appearance,
threatened
and
with
accordingly,
greeted,
were
could
nuisances the
suggest. It
sex
endured
is
to
push
us
from
had
like
sisters,
three
their unwelcome
with
our
that
made
stools.
juvenile
to remember
amusing,yet humiliating,
at the hands
of those
who
were
thereafter
the
to
"
294
REMINISCRNCES.
LITERARY
melodramatical
perhaps even
Numberless
the desk-
were
"
"
"
the
removed
from
School
where,
as
scene
in the
the fagging,
the task- work,
flogging,
the same
breaking-upto expect, and the
in the
but
hope
a friend
brief,
holidaysto
In
to
initiate
of the
in those
me
Gresham
and
same
the
pocket-money;
of happy
eternity
Recess.
familyhaving taken
mercantile
profitable
Frank
gildhis grasshopper
; and like another
Osbaldestone, I found myself plantedon a counting-house
stool,which
for a Pegasus,on
nevertheless served occasionally
three legs,
every
In
of
commercial
foot,
course, beinga dactylor a spondee.
matters,
Sir Thomas
the
crew
to
up your
Archangel,come
P. Y.
my
to
memory
receive
their L. S.
C.
THF,
WINNER
OF
THK
LEDGER.
D., you
must
ship's
lock
295
SHOOTING
WITH
AND
ROVER
SHOOTING
"
If I shoot any
ill-luck
With
Zounds,
What
To
My
And
Of my
two
are
we
that
Sir
the whole
for
have
pay
"
leave
Christopher's
pointersI brought,
not a pointtowards
game
he has been
far,were
nice
yet !
advice !
chalker,
his words,
I could go without
If my
no
me,
day
gamekeepertoo, with
course
Not
"
to star
manor
With
But
gun,
I'd better
Macheath.
I'llbe shot,
determined
march'd
matters
his
more
seems
I have
PAINS.
chargeis prepared."
The
For
RANGER.
birds
they'dcry
"
Walker
296
SHOOTING
PAINS.
if,
Hawker
Not
"
My appointmentsare modern
I've broughtmy
And
own
To
mark
down
all he
But
I can't find
The
partridges,where
mark
promised a
As
brace me,
To
the
the birds
I have
tried
'
!
they'represerved
beholden,
shy.
well
are
so
friends I must
"
gettingquitenervous
"
For my
so send
Jervas,
two
pheasants how
not a jot more
My sport's
As
they lie ?
can
even
I'm
"
Antony
leash to Miss
without
To
And
can.
But
buy.
'*
silver pheasantsand
ev'ryform
for
golden
hare,
Every patch,every
man,
for my
"
I have
flaw,
and Mantony
her,
Till my
I cannot
I've been
In the
is tax'd.
patience
be taxed for hare-powder.
roamingfor
hope
of
snipefor
snap at ;
stillvainlyI court
But
The
percussioning
sport,
for
setting
nothing
my
woodcock,
well-loaded
With
But
Neither
this month
"
Right and
"
"
I find
cap
is the
time,
"
readymy
not
lock
for.
double,
spiteof my trouble.
I find a cock
barrel can
rabbit I should
at !
for !
despise,
lowly
But
they
But
day'sthe eleventh,
It is not the seventh.
to be keepingit hole-y.
they seem
For
so
This
And
mallard
haunted
Mine
To
I've waded
each
is not
the
pool,and
the
marsh.
each
luck,
Duck,
Drake, like
lake
"
oh !
obtain thee, O
Or to doom
thee,O
Draco
!^
THE
peoplecall sport,
If this is what
Oh
I
sporting
! of
And
can't have
there stillremains
mischance
More
"
RUN-OVER.
Fined
on
my
gun
shootingwithout
for
BOUBLE
high sense
one
"
license."
any
BARREL.
RUN-OVER.
THE
you see that ^ere gentlemanin the buggy, with the dipt un ?
inquiredNed Stocker, as he pointedwith his whip at a chaise,some
"
Well, for all he's drivingthere so easy like,
fiftyyardsin advance.
"
"
Do
comfortable,he
and
throughhis body
"
him
Rather
for all
It's true
affidavit.
"
and
gig-shaft,
me,'*drawled
than
removinghis cigarfrom
*'
had
once
that's
fact,driv right
"
box, without
his mouth.
with
that,"returned Ned,
The
the
on
passenger
shaft
nod
of his head
equal
to the
in under
run
one
armpit,rightup
besides pinninghim to the wall of the
t'other,
stable
and that's a thingsuch as don't happen every day."
Lucky it don't,"said the smoker, between two puffsof his cigar.
It an't likely
let alone the getting
to come
often,"resumed Ned,
the
it
is
wonderfullest
which
over
afterwards,
part of it all. To see
to
an
tug, and
again at
out
"
"
"
"
him
wall
"
"
pinned to
bowlingalongthere,he don"'t look like a man
with the rod throughhim, rightup to the tug do he ?"
stable-
"
in such
why,
to the
as
case
I said
tug
benefit.
would
"
and
But
have
afore,with
two
somehow
said,it's all
a
shaft clean
man's
any
up
with
through your
alwaysstuck to it
"
people
and
me,
part,most
good reason
inside,
rightup
wall,by
not the
way
wall, you
of
know
THE
but his
"
opinion,that
own
flintsabout
that
"
The
"
I don't know
but
and
"
better for
they do
he should
get
him," said
"
he
say when
off
came
was
firm
as
as
exactly."
the smoker.
the
he
it
over
sure
dextricated
was
"
from
in
and
for I warn't
there
"
the
rod,there was
greatestdangerwas
course
throughhim,
from
the
lungs
thoroughdraught."
said the fumigator.
Nothing more
likely,"
tunnel
regular
his
299
RUN-OVER.
the
of
ketchingcold in the
"
"
"
of
and
at
"
and
first,
then
meat, in
hard
of
course
time
he
filled up.
"
his
it,and
"
was
good
as
"
No
"
I,"said
don't know
remark
and
do
more
Mayhap
says
he
with
man
wont, he
won't
Ned,
he
book
"
"
man
and
he
with
turns
as
"
it's a
"
for certain.
"
one
he
is."
will,he will,
that
it
so
hardlya scratch on
quitecorrectmind, I''m good for
out
but
"
you
may
in
the
wounds
helps
healingkindly, but
what
the Havannah.
on
about
good pluck
the
I don't know
philosophy it,"resumed
if a man
recovering,
says
the
of mine
if he
his word.
as
Nobody
legsagain
"
of
your
small
I'll giveyou
a reason
why."
then,"said the smoker.
that they'reall as hard as nails
is,"repliedNed,
My reason
for
take
more
pebbles
They
regular
thrashingthan their own
game.
and nothing
corn, and that's sayingsomething. They're all fortitude,
else.
Talk
amiss
to
about
'em, from
punishment! nothing comes
butt-ends of whips and brickbats down
to bludgeonsloaded with lead.
can't hurt their feelings.
You
the more
They'rejistlike badgers,
you
welt 'em the more
it's
at
and
when
a
a
they grin,
turn-up
over, maybe
cattle fair,or a stop by footpads,
they'llgo home to their missises all
"
Now
"
''
"
blood
over
holes
in
and
wounds
their heads
as
cool and
enough
to
comfortable
scarifya
as
whole
cowcumbers,
hospitalof
with
army
surgeons."
"
"
The
thing Scott
very
in the person
of honest
has
I ventured
characterised,"
to
observe,
Dandie."
"
middle
of the
the old
Regulator."
"
"
Good
Was
road, before
God
"
you
exclaimed
my
"
! I
was
companion
over
him
with
on
the
roof.
300
RUN-OVER.
THE
"
Why,
But
face,like
have
picked himself
his arms,
all
says he,
I can't credit
That's
it,"exclaimed
jistwhat
spiteof
composure,
eyes, and his
a
wryish
jointhe preferred."
bit of the
course
picked him
you
'*
his head
wouldn''t
a
far from
it ; he
accept a lift
even
bit,and
the roof.
on
his
"
the broke
so
light
on
rib,he'd
one
any
considerable
Let alone
veracity.
bigger than
he made
But
man
Macadaming.
of
But
the
his wife
the slur
in it
flint sticking
basket.
made
and
and his lines,
thighs,
he
toddled."
and
right,' away
in
with
pick of the
himself,and
decided
quietusfor
"
his
and
'
"
your
and
quiteindependent,
up,
He
the box.
"
Take
the road.
on
and
been
"
"
the compassionate
he
ejaculated
passenger,
queer !
the Regulator,
of the
looked dreadful ! I remember
one
on
very
have
that hadn't
man
Looked
must
Though
it would
looked
he
"
"
Ned, with
answered
him,"
out
men
for
the pronoun.
emphasison
nine
much
not
black
two
and not
it all,
clear
beingvery
"
knockt
"
"
with such
I
to know
happen
Mortalityat
months'
two
them
honoured
We
had
overtook
due.
when
date,for
It
many
was
years
scarcelytrotted
half
when
silence,
was
Ned
in his facts.
mile in meditative
who
sturdypedestrian,
never
"
to be confirmed
was
certain
as
well
we
as
the
lengthof the
Liddesdale
saw
two
tops and
observe
his hand
yeoman,
he
below
which
shaggy dreadnought,
you
in
of
a
calves,penned
pair
huge top-boots the
beingof such different shades of brown as you may
wore
well-fatted
the boots
in two
he
the Heralds'
"
carried
formidable
Collegewould
he looked
Earl of Leicester,
have
so
a
soil,
knotted
set him
like
rich loam
and
club-stick,and
down
bear with
at
a
once
a
a
clay. In
member
tenant
raggedstaff.
of
of the
THE
observed
Dolter,and
walked
We
his wheelers
anxious.
almost
and
him
upon
wavered.
passing in
was
waggon,
still a chance,
leaders
was
furrow.
the man
gave a sharp halloo
decided the matter.
He
him
^in
"
looked
the
wheel
of
escaped
he cleared
plainprose,
the broad
ahead
"
minute
back,
Scylla,but Charybdis yawned for
Rocket, but contrived to get under
which
of his
Ned
"
One
far from
were
as
quiteso straightly
not
were
seemed
Ned
that
30J
RUN-OVER.
the
Warwickshire
opposite direction.
There
was
be stopped without
much
fly-waggon may
^but the waggoner
with three maids
notice
was
inside,sweethearting
cried
that were
voice
Woh
! but the
to
out
Coventry. Every
going
The
horses
the wheels
the bells
rumbled
right one.
plodded on
jingled we all thoughta knell.
Ned
their haunches
instantlypulledup, with his team
upon
all alighted,
in a moment
the sixteen
the Rocket
and
we
was
even
"
"
"
"
"
"
licensed to
lay, what
the
In the midst
at the fatal spot.
carry were
of
last
considered
bundle
linen
we
a
justcome
home
from
mangle.
"
That's
"
Poor
un," said
dead
the butt-end
circle
of the
of
smoker, throwingaway
the
he
as
spoke
cigar.
the humane
wretch," exclaimed
the
from
man
"
roof,
what
must
have
!"
shockingspectacle
"
It's
"
It'*s
all over,"said the passenger
"
And
been
said
happy release,"
for
cripple
"
said I.
his chest.,"
over
He
on
right.
my
lady
on
left ; "he
my
life."
can't have
body," said
rib in his
whole
from
man
the
dickey.
"
Hall to
"
The
To
gentlemanfrom
ever
I've had
longsighit
mouth
opened one
eye
Yes
yes
"
bewilderment
close to
"
asked, "Do
"
the
the inside.
luck
good
to
see
many,"
the
it,"answered
you
himself.
human
the
"
and
"
"
"
"
the
Ned
he can't
our
a
see, and
guard.
No,
After
worst
said the
"
hattums," said
the
right"then
at last
nine
still breathed.
masg
dozen
live there?"
?"
voices,and
but
the
"
spoke,though in
even
milestun
"
other
set
was
one
in
rightby
its
the
sufferer himself.
"No"
"
amilefudder."
Where
Better
cigarwith
may
"
want
is there
on
one
the
not,"said
some
a
Is there
German
surgeon
never
the humane
man,
lucifer
"
had
not
"
"
I will ride
lighteda
used to
fresh
saddle
"
yourself."
doctor among
the company
"
inquiredthe guard.
302
RUN-OVER.
THE
"
am
medical
"
the
it," said
Glad
of
Poor
wretch
about
any
"
"
me."
the
other''s
face.
**
the fatherless
like
"
"
Does
any
he
is?"
who
the
inquired
but there
the gemman
Maybe
has
card
answer.
no
"
can
know
one
coachman,
was
The
"
I."
upon
*'
"
blaame,"
not to
were
beyond
he looks
familyman
is
and
widow
the
help
He
"
Heaven
aid.
human
sighedthe compassionateman.
!"
said the
summut,"
or
gentlemanfrom
the inside.
"
there
Is
near
"
house
no
inquired
the
lady.
*'
For to
shutter
get a
Ought
man.
gentlenot
we
to
THIS
IS
YAWN.
CHURCH-YARDS
postchaise,"
inquireda gentleman's
procure
WHEN
TIME
THE
footman.
"
Or
"
Shell
jump
the man
shell,in case,"suggested
be hanged !" said the sufferer,
in
yard backwards.
easy does it
be I flat ?"
"
A
I
Stick
^that'scomfortable
"
"
"
and
"
with
man
with
say,"repeated the sufferer,
quiteflat
as
"
flat like
as
tell me,
now
the
from
which
words
**
an
effort he contrived
he waved
us
best thanks
"
"
Yes
or
and
get up
no
and
"
the
assurance
latelypassedover
the
sit upon
goodbye,accompaniedby
stone,
mile-
ing
the follow-
there,
"
Gentlefolk,my
I go upon
to
"
nonsense,
no
all
us
cigar.
body. By
mile- stun
and
"
his
made
*'
earnestness, be 1 flat
some
sheet of paper
dickey.
that
tone
agin the
up
me
the
from
and
know
my
I shall
get round."
and
pleasant
notliing
what
30.i
ISLE
THE
THE
BOY
AT
Alone I did it !
"
I SAY,
Do
Why,
Come
Bov
!"
NORE.
Cortolanus.
"
from
come
live it
"Which
But
THE
You
MAN.
OF
be,
"
at the Nore
wholly on water,
in
calls living
seems
Gambier
your
how
Boy
clover
"
comes
You"'re
"
Little
Boy
at the
Nore
while you
while you dance
you ride
Never
mind
orthography
;
your imperfect
While
"
"
"
But
giveus
Your
as
well
as
you
can,
watery auto-biography.
Little
Boy
at the Nore
float-
304
In
Half
at the
tightlittleBoy
I'm the
sort
Nore,
I dwells
of
sea
;
a
negus
and half 'twixt saltwater and Port,
rcckon'd
I'm
I'm the
I lives with
look
men
"
lights
gets cold
never
I think
owes
in the
much
beingwell
To
the
Nay
So the
one
!
"
to beat
man
THE
AT
Cits
as
word
caughtfro
soaie
"
at the Nore.
NOIIF,.
in debt
than
goes
above
Is the
*
Boy
thing,I'm never
I liquidates
more
keepingthe head
In
feet
the
BUOY
"
health,
used to wet
As
There's
Boy
is sweet,
of my
THE
"
at the Nore.
head.
salt water
life on
So my
at tho Note
Boy
flounders,
;
throughlongdays and nights
Yet, cruellyeager,
To
"
toes to the
my
watches
And
LOQUITUR.
NORE
THE
AT
BOY
LITTLE
NORE-
THE
AT
BOY
THE
oughter*;
by,
water.
Boy
at the Nore.
American
Trader
in
passing.
306
JOHNSONIANA.
despisepuns
"None
To the Editor
m.ike
caunot
of the
Comic
them."
Swift.
"
Annual.
Sir,
As
but
am
occasional reader
an
I have
of intellectual relaxation,
but
metropolitanpublicationof Mr.
Murray's
Dr. Johnson
been
circumstance
the
of
simultaneouslyaware
I could
memoranda.
bo
Croker's Mr.
BoswelFs
for
deprecated,
amalgamation of
contributed
have
to
more
that
Mr.
if I had
miscellaneous
of characteristic
personalquota
nous
anecdotes to the biographical
reminiscences of the multitudicolloquial
the
of indubitable
founded
basis
on
which, although
lexicographer,
the multifarious effusions of
has never
veracity,
transpired
among
ing
of mechanical
that stupendouscomplication
which, accordingenuity,
modem
technicalities in usage in our
obtained the universal cognomen
of the press.
dictates that the nominal identityof the
to
the
from
whom
and
umbrageously obscured
I derive my
voluntaryaddenda
authoritative
to the
Expediency imperiously
hereditarykinsman,
shall
responsibility,
in
but
nomenclature, has
future
alreadyinestimable
be
varionmi
inviolably
editions
concatenation
his
of circumstantial
be discriminated from
particularisation
might typographically
cious
Boswell
and the vivaof the indefatigable
accumulations
literary
classificationof Boz, Poz, and Coz.
Piozzi,by the significant
In posthumously
the phenoand philosophically
mena
elucidating
eliciting
of defunct luminaries,
in
reference
to
whether
corporeal,
nomical,
physiogdemands
the
strictest
or
justice
metaphysicalattributes,
the
Dr. Johnson
reiterated verbal
aphorism so
with reference
especially
ascribed to his
preposterously
and
inculcation,
namely, that
pick a pocket ;" however
"
he who
irrelevant such
fact,that
irrefrangible
in
erudition erected
stupendousDoctor
by
the
that
colossal
would
make
doctrinarian
monument
himself
of
(of
pun
maxim
to that
sational
conver-
would
to the
etymological
implying
course
his inestimable
adduce
few
which
Johnsonian
will
reparteesfrom
my
evolve
perspicuously
the
of Raeselas
did not
cousin's anecdotical
rabilia,
memo-
conclusion,that
synthetical
such
predicate
dogmatically
307
JOHNSONIANA.
in
degreeof moral turpitude
aggravated
an
the
of
perpetration
double
entendre.
for the epistolary
laxityof
requesting
indulgence
Apologistically
I
efiusiou,
remain,Sir,
unpremeditated
Your
humble
very
obedient
an
servant,
Septimus
Reardon.
October 1, 1833.
Lichfield,
*^
Do
walking after
the dead
doubt
no
"
"
I think
The
Doctor
in the
sheet
"
if he
felt any
ever
presentimentat
mould
like
out
go
but whether
Wick
lady
winding-
%=^'^^^^^^^^
'^^^^^^^^P^.'^
snuff;
at
in
or
Johnson,
death,f|^^B^_
somebody will 'Wailyyjjte
that
same
candle, it
doubtless indicates
and
I have
candle.""
said
Madam,"
a
"
in
said Johnson,
Madam,"
"
"
"
"
in Saul."
March
Dead
The
superstitious.
notoriouslyvery
was
lady,
in-their favour."
are
appearances
him
asked
"if
the
heard
Lichfield
said Johnson,
Madam,"
"
subject;I have
the
on
?"
death
"
You
once
"
you
Hampton
Greece,must
dependupon
the
Dr. Johnson
comfortable
graves."
not
was
rides.
Heb-
in the
"Pray, Doctor,
how
did
sleep?
you
inquired a
"
benevolent
Scotch
who
was
hostess,
extremely hospitable
so
that
hundreds
some
occupiedthe
bed
"
wink
The
and
said
not
nightlong; sleepseemed
all the rest of my
body."
Doctor
and
Boswell
MS.
ILLUMINATED
AN
had
the whole
bug from
to
same
Madam,"
Johnson, "I
ways
al-
once
"
they must
io
fieefrom
lost themselves
spiertheir way
the
at
met."
"
"
I meet.'
"
What
and
eyelids,
my
first
body they
may
spear
and tilt at all
you
"
do you
penetrates my
doubtless the
very
worm
afterwards
think of
soul
"
"
like
of the
'
inquiredthe
Doctor's
that
opinionon
x2
of
never
and
conscience,'
dies.'"
well
Bos-
and
illicitdistillation,
308
JOHNSONIANA.
how
the Excise.
and
the
Doctor
The
"
North.
in
by
I should
spirit
satirical on
always
was
very
said to the
Sir,"he
Providence
may
limbs.
nether
of
especially
may
your
here,but you must import a wooden
leg." At
broke
out.
Sir,"said he to Boswell,
he
in
man's
they had
known
hand.
The
Cathedral
at
said Johnson,
Calcutta
from
of
India
have
it must
and
altogether,
worst
endeavoured
to
company
once
and
doolies,
said
"
usual,to tiffin.
Madam,"
was
battle,
walking-stick
the old prejudice
Macbeth
was
idiot ;
an
might be carried
frogsin the fable : if
the
the moral
and
religious
poorestof Sees
they
is the
nothingbut howdahs,
as
the
been
in
you
a
grow
King
lengthon
a
some
countrymen, and
Kirkwall, and the remains
"
Icombally, who
of it."
remarked
Mull
and
Egg
East
make
Log they
at
day expatiated
of his
like
Scotch, Sir,are
in the
in Scotland
wood
every
one
character
and
that
would
Boswell
have
ought to
of timber
Dunsinane
"
"
assist
the contrabands."
by
preserve
You
smugglers
the
I should
stand
the want
Laird
young
"
and
affraybetween
an
to the
according
but
Customs,
act
If I went
won't
take
providefor
of
all company.
curry
Johnson's
Rum
your
Bishop."
Lady fresh
by talking
favour
he, in
took,
have
that would
tone
scared
tigerout
of
"
jungle,
cake
for
Guzzaratbadbad, it's a
poor
and
^
Seward
to his mother
and
Dr.
Darwin, and
that he would
large
good if she
would
My dear child,"said the parent, feeling
herself in the presence of a great moralist, you ought not to be good
You
consideration of gain,for
virtue is its own
reward.'
on
any
and without
thinkingwhat you are
ought to be good disinterestedly,
said
Lichfield,
him
an
apple.
give
tea
party
at
be
'*
"
'
to
get
for it."
have
you
The
same
"
said Dr.
Johnson,
the hoy goodfor nothing?"
lady once consulted the Doctor on
Madam,"
*'
you
the
are
fool ; would
degreeof turpitude
"
son,
Madam," said Johnrobbingan orchard.
the weight of the boy. I remember
it all depends upon
my
schoolfellow Davy Garrick, who
was
always a little fellow,robbinga
to be
attached
to her son's
"
dozen of orchards
an
and
it
called
was
with
Caleb
with
I
a
pairof
scales."
Whitefoord,
the
whether
he
Dr.
famous
of
inquiredseriously
be
to
man
a
ought
pickpocket,for being guiltyof a
punster,
reallyconsidered
Johnson,
the
transported,like Barrington,
double meaning.
Sir," said Johnson,
"
more
he
moans
the better."
**
once
that
if
man
means
well, the
309
THE
Do
It
was
by invitation to
Mary-le-bone.
Senor
name
The
very
awful
memory,
and
turned
somehow
livelypicture
"
convulsion
if
livelyit
of nature.
may
The
the
and
of the famous
that
surpassing
of remarkably
person
of description.
upon
Lord
power
memorable
and
quake
great earth-
Senor
Mendez,
Portuguesecapital,gave
be called
"
of the
Leaning Tower
of
us
horrors of that
dreadful
picturewas
rent from
house,a substantial stone mansion, was
the steeple
left. impending over
of his parishchurch
own
High-street,
Portuguese,
by
wonderful
year of our
that time in the
the
in
agent at Lisbon, a
most
I went
that
"
mercantile
at
residing
was
18
of November,
P/s
Mendez,
Lisbon,in
at
who
7th
Bull.
John
only
sup
conversation
the
"
MARY-LE-BONE.
with
The
retentive
deviate?"
never
you
evening of
the
ou
AT
EARTHQUAKE
GREAT
the
Senor's
attic to cellar !
it at
an
angle
Bologna!
wonderfullyexpressivecountenance, with a
vivid ; and as I listened with the most
styleof narration indescribably
of the calamity became
intense interest,every
dismal circumstance
1 could hear the drearyringing
of
awfullydistinct to my apprehension.
the bells,
the
the
of
the
churches
to
self-tolled from
rocking
;
swaying
and
fro of the
steeples
the
natural
unthemselves,and
The
Portuguesehad
lings
heavingsand swelof the
Tagus, were
As the
before me.
vividly
agitationsincreased, the
voice of the
Senor
became
awfullytremulous, and
seemed
seat
rock
under
to
literally
him.
and
palsied,
could
his
I seemed
from
see
larly
simi-
was
To
ceal
con-
he
disorder,
kept
his
followed
This
and
rummer,
his example.
"
the
second
followed,
and, to
soon
use
it
expression,
us
both
first
only the
was
shock;
"shake
pular
po-
made
in
our
DO
THY
GENTLY.
SPIRITING
shoes." Terrific,
however,
as
it
was,
the
third
was
more
tremendous;
the
order
of
nature
TU%
310
seemed
reversed
the
their
ponderous
anchors
moanings
from
the
dry ground ;
solid ;
the fabrics
the very
bottom,
iire burst
air,no
swaying
and
forth
tic,
longerelasand
to
fro,and
of ages ; hollow
of the
centre
to the
volcanic
surface ;
stupendous
sank
Tagus
the
from
down
irresistibly
battering
as
the
to
rose
become
to
in
ships
from
EARTHQUAKE.
GREAT
rumblingsand
ing
warning of deafen-
world, gave
seemed
such
no
thing as
Our
chairs
under
rocked
heaved
the
and
firma.
terra
us
tered,
clatin
our
hands.
Mendez
Senor
length concluded
at
his
took
and shortly
narrative,
that
thinking,
realized
by
The
hour
part of the
any
own
my
being late,and
to the door.
me
uncommonly
serene,
of the
morning
from
I had
threw
second
legs a
which
the
on
deck
of
instant.
barelykeep
the wall
as
stirring,
Lisbon
when
ship
the
With
in
at
one
clungto
greatmist
The
of the
smart
as
ment
pave-
the
as
first,
street
it
my
heavingabout under
me
over
but
step I
thrown
was
middle
time
nodded
run,
the
I recovered
difficulty
mean
sea.
been
on
earth threw
of the
shock,
some
the
attempted to
I
second
day had
violent motion
houses
At
panied
accom-
noticed
was
to the
standing,
was
earth
my
at the next
violent I
more
rush.
feet.
on
speedily
so
himself
remark
and
ground.
and
violently
agitated,
fall every
be
to
bed, P.
in
servants
breath
sudden
time,the
like the
me
the
oughtto
not
got partlyup
again
me
was
description
great catastropheat
the step on
"
late
experience!
impossible I could
against
forcibly
was
"
dashed
was
lamp-post,but
it
; as
came
be-
the motion
swayed
with
like
me
perceivepeople
of them
some
hurrying about,
;
be
but
to
a
as
so confusedly
addressing
quiteunintelligible
; one
me,
sought
beI
alarm
her
close
in
evident
to
hand,
me
:
passed
lady
seizing
her to flywith me
from the falling
houses,into the open fields;
a
"
"
what
she made
answer
threw
me
on
my
I know
face with
not, for
such violence
in this state
Providentially,
the
who
nightpolice,
watch-house,till the
Mr.
to
givea
W.,
of the
that he
that
as
render
to
so
much
fresh
shock
sible.
quiteinsen-
me
of
some
of
for
of that eventful
a
instant,
humanely deposited
me,
following
morning ; when
collected account
at
the ingenious
evening,
interested
of drawing it up
by
for
my
tive
narra-
publication
THE
Intelligence.
Police
This
*'
morning
evidently
made,
town
he
till
got
Jack-o''-lanthom
country
rather
as
and
fined
the
in
office,
hogs
for
the
as
tipsy
usual
voice),
by
^IV.J
he
drunk
as
NEVER
make
Sir
COULD
He
it
one."
KEEP
but
MY
found
hard
very
LKGS
of
him,
whole
the
he
Daly,
excuse,
The
having
attempted
some
thought
as
Mr.
Richard.
night
over-
out
that
acknowledged
to
mud,
Mary-le-bone.
declared
defendant
of
Waverly
nothing
and
according
to
in
make
could
suit
new
walked
gutter
He
The
natur.'
in
having
Quaker^
but
that
only
up
state.
sum,
muttering
being
of
sort
Lisbon
strong
(anglice,
voce
^ve
'
him
shocking
much
too
whiskey
of
in
was
in
picked
some
was
with
charged
was
Street.
Boio
"
gentleman,
country
Kennehcorth
his
who
he
that
but
stout
311
EARTHQUAKE.
GREAT
sniffed
with
was
his
to
taken
have
of
sotto
stopped
out
way
to
pay
312
PRIDE
ODE
TO
The
The
ST.
SWITHIN.
rain it mineth
every
uay.
is overcast,the morninglow'r?-.
ev'rywindow-frame
hang beaded damps
Like
HUMILITY.
Dawn
On
To
AND
of small
rows
celebrate
constant
The
The
lamps,
Jubilee of Show'rs
very
And
from
Tumble
the
illumination
the Houses'
eaves
eav""s-droppers.
hundred
to mercantile
Bondsmen
alongthe street,
and
cityschemers.
and
squashing,
sloshing,
feet,
galloshing
the
like
steamei^
wet,
paddling,
through
paddling,
Each
hurryingto earn the dkilystipend
With
Go
"
Umbrellas
And
now
Ijike
an
Umbrella
ripend.
of green.
one
is seen,
314
ODE
As
if there
were
TO
SWITHIN.
ST.
Water-Cart
no
contractors.
you
oh ! how
Yet
Even
Pelted
Folks
They
They
And
Than
The
by
with
every
rail and swear
say
say
are
you
at
a
creature
of
bowel
no
you'realways washing
some
whole
They
They hope
in your
old
Nature's
wringingcloud by
wants
town
face,
! You
are
weary
in your
too
NTVKR
you
! heels
up'ard !
drizzle,
veins to stop it
partialto a mizzle
HAiNb
"
"
BUT
duck
it,
porridgesupper'd,
big bucket,
your own
of your
Pray drop it !
IT
of towel
mud
your
kick
that you may
water-butt go souse
you
way
duck'd,just as
own
short,so
They
the
water
They'd spill
wam'd
you
on
are, in
Be
Court,
spleenand spite.
place ;
you in every
of
term
wish
Or
right,
are, rainingin your own
little flatterM by report !
Queen
315
FIGURE
SPEECH
OF
keep without
only boatman
"
He
"
She's
had
the Firth
on
sail
"
candle
the
"
and
of
wind
like that
it !
was
Dundee
Law.*'
again,
double
of the
Angus-shireand
room,
under
"
with
"
turn."
for
speeches,
foregoing
broad
Scotchmen,
Fife.
a
coarse
white
dimly lightedby a
rosemary,
another
at the feet,lay the objectof
magnitude. In life,
startling
poor Jock
rue
the
"
ferry-boatmen,and
and
Jock
"
"
up
the sound
than
dialect of
head,
corpse
come
of the low-roofed
sprigsof
SCOTCHMAN.
over
belayed with
all Dundee
extra- wide
at
comments
him
blow
was
rather
sprinkledwith
of
sheet
speakers
At
gale of
Tay to do
a
were
usingthe
of
enough to
emptied
standing every
I givethe sense
the
reef in
BKOAD
STORY.
TRUE
To
"
APPARITIOIN.
THE
"
sheet,
small
their
was
a
little,
stretching
perhaps,as is usual in
sions
of the room,
the dimenthe
limits
narrow
advantagedby
seemed
supernatural. During the warfare of the
absolutely
Allies against
native humour, had
Napoleon,Jock, a fellow of some
himself by singingabout the streets of Dundee, ballads,
distinguished
I believe his own,
of Ballad-Jock
againstold Boney. The nick-name
selves,
themnot his only reward
subscribed
was
the
loyalburgesses
;
among
and made
the management of
him that fatal gift,
a
ferry-boat,
which
The
have
reviewed.
we
catastrophe
just heard so seriously
unusual
death,and
stature,but
316
THE
took
the river
"
weak
and
"
such
tay,"at
the
Tay
"
her
the
with
Nelson,
in
aback
"
to hear
their way
on
were
fact,the devoted
fashion, caught
and
went
capsized,
two-and-twenty persons,
takingwith
is
In
seasons.
furious
stormy Sunday, a
place one
tide,down
APPARITION.
sudden
all
gust,"
in
down
forty fathoms,
greaterpart of whom
the
at that
even
"
"
"
fearful
depth to
it had
which
carried.
been
The
of Jock
body
the
was
enough depositedby
strangely
at the Craig,a
own
dwelling,
been hastily
had
It
ferry-boats.
the
by
pieror jetty,frequented
small
caught up,
lying as it
in the
just described,
the public,
in state, and
myself one, being freely
it
crowded
would
was
the room
hold,
by fish-wiv^s,
laid
in its clothes
and
were
out
admitted,as far as
mariners,and other shore-haunters,except
which
narrow
death's
natural
the
bed, all
directed
w^ere
be
lying at
his side !
within,echoed, though
crowd
egress
in the
company
wider blank
mistrusted
sight;
my
of the
the flickering
eye, or
flame of the
after several
became
more
of
"
of horror
by
cause,
towards
horror
the
and
squeezed up
and
left
at
twitchingof the
shadows,
the
door, but
the
dread
all
from
from
compass
dead ! I confess
some
caused
burst
another
far
first I
ol
nerves
by the unsteady
opticaldelusion ; but
thrown
some
watching,the motion
slowlyupward", as if
proceeding
awfully manifest,now
the deceased,still beneath the sheet,was
struggling
up
of
sepulchralsilence and
It is
his head.
popular consternation,
the
have
candle,might
minutes
feeblytowards
the
that
it seemed
the
the hand
livingand
the
between
just
perceptible
be
to
supposed
might
was
their former
to half
room
"
sheet
made
was
impossible. Nevertheless
was
the
"
mariner
ignorantof the
generalrush
without.
nearest
shout
and
scream
of those
one
that
towards
of the dead
the hand
it.
from
was
at
vacant.
and
looking
listening
largesurpluscrowd in
to enter
and sputtering
near
guttering
twinklingout, and sendingup a stream
of the
dim as it was, a slight
motion
light,
candles
the corpse,
The
feet next
kept always
was
the
eyes
few
eager
the
waitingbefore
a
dead
with
crammed
was
buzzingwithout,there
dwellingfor their turn
exclamation
sudden, at a startling
heads,and by
On
towards
awe
door
the
manner
"
gain
strugglesto
impassableby
each other,and
the
very
with
but
to conceive,
possible
the shrieks
the
of women,
only outlet,choked
efforts of
desperationand
not
"
describe,
not to
the shouts
up
fear !
and
"
turn
from
of
men
rendered
Clingingto
the
f)bjpct
THE
conAOilsive
the very
side of the
but
by sound,
now
with
assembly backed
dread,the whole
oppositewall, with
of
rattle
smart
force
threatened
startled
"
with
united
that
energy
dwelling when,
"
317
APPARITION.
before
againstthe
force out
to
silent motion,
by
somethingfell from
the bed
and disentangling
itself from the death drapery,
floor,
displayed
Crab
!
The
a
creature, with some
large pound
design,perhaps
had been secreted in the ample clothes of the drowned
sinister,
seaman,
but even
of this apparition
the comparative insignificance
gave but
little alleviation to the superstitious
horrors of the spectators,
who
that it was
appeared to believe firmly,
only the Evil One himself,
to the
"
"
"
and
as
endure
cries from
the presence
and the
distance,
respectful
and
failed
within, of
itself
cleared
efl*ect,
to
and
twinkling,
wdth
The
of
free
sea.
distinctly
recognised.Many
leaptinto their craft ; one or two even
crept as close
wide
"
own
the
before
and
he's
"
simmer
in
"puir sillybody
Sirs,what
a
for
hundred
sciousness
uncon-
are
ye
voices
aim
no
tance
the dis-
rally
genehind
in
her
let
to
gaun
shouted
out
no
of her
the mickle
the
depositedhim
aware,
In vain
partane?"
fast clutch
was
Hech
"
an
bide,Katie,
a
Craig
Crab-Devil
with
apron,
siccan a braw
kept
where
every-
the
little decrepit
a
them, when
poor old sea-roamer,
"
dexterous
snatch at
Creel Katie,"made
a
as
patch-work
dame
evil
salt water
towards
gang
"
Let him
of
straddled
he
justice,
and
end
"
known
claw,
the
lower
into
in
he could
a thoroughfare
verge of the pieras they could,leaving
the broad path of honour," to the Infernal Cancer.
"
of his
higherthan
as
seemed
disguised,
the
at
door
fast
had
to the
as
do him
mentioned
however
Spirit-,
sinews
through the
began crawling
Satanic
"
herculean
as
native
The
had
passage
the littlejettybefore
beldame
crowd
crab,doingwhat
instinct
natural
before
the corpse
Mahound,
clapperclaw,down
To
infirm
sidelong,
retreated
than
to
straddled
equallyshrank
sturdy boatman
it
crab
the
Wherever
transfigured.
pat, for
gudeman:"
and
or
the benefit
she
kept
of herself and
her
word.
that
Before
wings,and
been
flyout of the
unearthlysmells,as of
and
hoofs,and
to
seen
ever,
Creel Kate, how-
the abominable
the
Crab
recovered
that
hae
was
dune
ain douce
was
as
sweet
Crab
out
of
as
ever
very
was
on
supped
on
and
that
"
"
adding,
it
And
wad
of Darkness
thing,ye ken, the Deil a
Christian body, as my
for siccan a gude man,
and kirk-going
Davie."
318
THE
The
Admiral
Come
"
"
So this
all
morn
"
to
strike."
not
Life
"
of
Nelson.
noise !
there''snothingto
see
most
Palmam
audacious
qui meruit
in the midst
of
jeerat,
boys !
ferat ! "
of the
Psalm,
Miss
leer at.
Siffkins's school you must
complained of Sir ! hold out your patm,-
You're
There
soon
Marsh,
!
MOTTO.
compelledthem
! silence in School
shall
Master
The
FERAT.
SCHOOLMASTER'S
Hush
You
MKUUIT
QUI
PALiMAM
"
"
"
Palmam
qui meruit
ferat I
"
You
You
And
But
There
shall have
!
""
"
are
backward,
pronouns
youVe forward
your
!
"
good
Palmam
"
Palmam
caningat
once
at.
"
you
you
"
not
clear at.
more
enough to disturb,
"
qui meruit
ferat !
"
schoolmaster's
THE
the orchard he
When
"
There
You
make
And
this
And
you
!
There
"
had
you
offence I
his
are
"
There !
You
made
have
off from
run
Come,
"
plotin
the
hand, now.
Palmam
"
ferat !"
night.
other
your
There !
too
Rous,
young
qui meruit
Palmam
"
at !
always severe
am
"
my
ferat !"
qui meruit
pitchtfightwith
at,
ear
Pe^s
discredit to Cicero-House
You
To
likewise distress,
you
Palmam
"
ferat !"
qui meruit
He's my
An
"
"
Palmam
"
are
Then
ferat !
Little Biddle
There
"
qui meruit
Master
"
You
at,
near
fingers thumbs,
or
Palmam
"
was
never
punishwrong
ril not
plumbs,
the
Tvviggstole
said Master
You
319
MOTTO.
at !
rear
the
Sir,
"
right,
"
quimeruit
ferat !
Old
There
"
"
!
"
You
have
That
in
run
but
There
"
at dinner
the soup
I have
There
bill at
twopence
Palmam
"
Then
up
payingyou'llbe
You've
And
Mounseer
you
"
"
Palmam
"
T'other
day
shop,
whole
week.
qui meruit
at,"
year
Sir,to
stop !
ferat !"
you'requitecock-a-hoop,
sippedit
!
when
are
certain to
it's very
at"
sneer
good soup,
"
form,
"Was my tumble
a thing,
Sir,to cheer at ?
"Well for you that my temper'snot warm,
There ! " Palmam
qui meruit ferat !"
"
"
Why,
All my
There
There
you
take
"
!
"
"
that,Sir
Palmam
! and
qui meruit
ferat !"
320
MliGUiDKD
Is
Blackamoor
is utter
turned
dark; his
BLIND
MAN
outside in.
His
like
are
eyes
mock-painted windows
MAN.
since the
shotten
tax
upon
skin
is
"
daylight:
what
his mind's
can
"
The
noon.
sunshine
brightest
object;
like
is like
Venetian
in his tone.
whereof
at for
wall
With
the berries
at
are
"
on
playing,
ante-sight,
his two
his
an
gloomier
he
temned,
paintershe is only conmarvelled
by musicians
invisible fiddle.
orbs,like
blank
he
religion
palpable.
the
He
stands
a
against
howbeit but
figurein high relief,
fessedly
gettingpence, yet he is con-
relieved
blind
him
make
When
in his eyes ;
amongst
for his ignorance
of clare-obscure ; but
with
seldom
In
dark
kettle tied
human
only to
serves
it
stirs,
generalillumination.
blind,beingpulledup and down by a string
; he is a
tin twang
and with much
of the same
to a dog's
tail,
of solanum, or night-shade,
botanists he is a species
house
is
materialist,
puttingno
faith but
in
things
In
knowledge
leading-strings
; in
no
lengthenhis night,
322
SUPERSTITION.
SUPPER
THE
When
VII.
'"
look
give a
Just
The
tells
placeit
very
Clay bottom,
They
there
have
We
are
we
last
at
pug
Kate's
oh,
spiritcannot
my
In
At
rest.
sod.
Jones's
Davy
appear'd
to
Don't
to
and
!"
cat
his
they wept
"
fate.
said,
and
"
on
sup
you
used
XIV.
Spiritfled
"
Till I've
dog
all.
And
But
they
Jim,
The
"
eat.
never
pat.
smell
the
for brother
I had
The
call
know
to
smell,
aloft,'
till hands
'
would
I used
brutes
They'll
VIII.
Well
XIII.
"Don'teatwhatbrutes
The
"
briny grave.
like imps
blood
my
deep,
shells.
with
mix'd
in my
was
suck'd
fathom
twelve
it says
I think
Norey's chart.
in
call d
They
the
Dog, they
call'd the
Cat,
X.
"
live
You
What
Last
on
in the
passes
Sunday week,
That
Cod
was
sea
at
And
;
p.
pickingme
They put
corpse
my
Instead
of
only
so
plump.
But
in many
And
not
do
eat
not
Tray
munch'd
one.
those
touch
and sauce.
do.
never
Quite feasted
Cod,"
on
the
and
littleKit
shrimps !
XVII.
thing
was
shrimps
FHIINDS
AWAITING
minus
Cod
like posts
they
sauce,
of hoax.
fear
for
O, prudent folks,
belief in Ghosts !
Put
no
oysters then.
the
odd, and
stood
And
XII.
O, do
would
shells,
The
**
brutes
nicelydone,
so
see
Puss
what
too.
the Cod
m.
Old
And
they put
down
To
XI.
"Those
little Kitten
And
SAILOR's
KKTURN.
323
THE
feedingof
of
good fortune
my
not
observation,the reptile
dinner-hour
and
Sir W.
"
rather
considerable interval
very
at
a
"
the
prey
livingWhite
piteously
throughone
line in Hamlet
him
were
in
had
Rabbit
"
not
in time
with
who
and
folds,
of the
to see
the world
Gorge the
the serpent's
;
herself round
her
looked
could
coil !
a
both
position,
on, that I
swallowing;
as
marble-still
began
really
as
to doubt
hoax
"
kill-him-when-I-want-
an
"
this
Second
alreadytwisted
Snake
Leaches
in
she
as
intervenes,
the
Gorge
was
the
"
"
The
witness
rare
beingremarkable
the First,and
first dart
Scott.
to
Charing Cross's,
once, at
Constrictor
the Boa
MEAL.
ye."
ye, twine
Twist
was
AFTER
SNAKE-SNACK.
It
BOA
escape
So
long
"
^but her
time
lips
elapsed,
with his
poor
the tale of the Boa's ability
old Laocoon
before
me,
of the
snake, in
"
y2
324
SNAKE-SNACK.
Economists
Public
call the
Gentleman,
Consumer
GeofireyCrayon'sStout
Microscope;a genuine
or,
Solar
Carpenter's
through
seen
and trimmings,
of legsof mutton
of your devourers
and the dread of ordinaries.
of eating-houses,
for wagers ; the delight
between
of mummy,
his
mountain
and
The
contrast was
whimsical,
of the Snake,the reputed Glutton.
the slim Macaroiii figure
However,
Edax
Rerum
Boa
the
began
last to
at
Rabbit
of the
muzzle
in
one
for the
prepare
meal, by
her
with
the
lubricating
then
commenced
earnest,
As
far
The
tedious
was
process
as
in her
lay to
"
fair
apparent, from
graduallybecame
body might eventuallybe "lost
in,
skin.
"
makes
swallow
one
"
take him
so
the fate of
summer
but it
"
the
the
and
the wily
completelybroken
payingherself in full. It was a
winder-up of his affairsrecommenced
for
the
As
Stout Gentleman, he could not
and
sickening.
sorry sight
control his agitation. His eyes rolled and watered ; his jaws constantly
and
with
his hands
convulsive
a
yawned like a panther's;
business
the
"
movement
himself
whole
rabbit
expectedto be
after
Hotel, and
to
overheard
both
swallow
hunger
"
"
but
Here
THE
"
GREAT
his stomach
could
menagerie as
and
waiter 1
"
SRRCKNT
"
but
restrain
if he
really
Anxious
to
engagement.
impulse,I hurried in pursuitof him,
I
SEA
on
snake, he
in
the
of
sharp chase,
Snake
!
out
then
of the
nature
short
and
smothered
was
called upon
"
now
rushed
and
longer,
no
was
clasped every
were
the
when
rabbit
poor
Snack
Quick
DISCOVERED
"
!
"
"
dash
him
saw
the
that had
promised
bellowingout, gutturalwith
same
Rabbits
EROU
THE
UAST-HEAni
!**
325
ABRIDGMENT
AN
THAT
UNKNOWN.
August
Hastingsevery
that "greenestspot on
Hastings,
With
crowds of idlers willing
or
To be bedipped be noticed
or
And
all thingsrose
in
a penny
a
"
"
Meanwhile,
"
window
Accommodation
"
Gladding
Each
bills
pour d in
Flyingfrom London
And
Lacemen
And
A
Misses
wed
new-
and
"
And
So
shilling.
door,in haste
kept coming down.
and
from
coach-fulls of
new
smoke
and
hoping to
both
sexes,
morning'sreadingby
dust
make
town.
cits.
new
annoying.
hits,
much
enjoying
in the
delighting
sect
braced.
quakers of
That
be
was
of letters" in that
the world
day
Unmarried
day
"
from
MAN.
IN
HASTINGS,
LITTLE
THE
PLEASANT
IS
AT
STORM
AND
TwAS
ALL
OF
sea's broad
brim.
lo !
With
Miss
Yet
well
His
face
Crachami
dwarfish
"
quitein stature,
So short and
"
sweet
man
was
never
seen
"
326
STORM
AT
HASTINGS.
thoughthim charmingat
Alas, ere longthey found him
All
in love with
seem'd
He
His ardent
The
He
of
and
staked
and
"
and
"
and
won
and
Small
staked
that vile
too
"
TIDE-WAITER.
Wigginsset
them
won
"
Miss
the bile
"
maid.
many
how
repaid
smile,
a
shade,
won
winning!
chance
her fondest
It stirr''d
of many
a man
To see at every venture
A
"
far too
chance
passionwith
sunshine
the firstbeginning
box,
dreamt
and
needles,silks,
Was
To
lucky
"
that small
Sir Stamford
And
so
wondrous
That
haunted
Of
but she
imp
rode,and
and
the curious
the Parade.
that small
notoriety
by
Pacingit up and
Of duckinghim
"
down
when
Cox
have
topicof
thoughtMiss
no
"
"
"
stocks
but alas !
"
We
saw
would
he climb'd
The
cottons
awake.
gamish'dit with
"
Many
won
"
and
swarm
were
balk'd
form
some
lo !
even
talk'd
dismal storm
walk'd,
Stepp'din
And
head
every
the close of
another
tum'd
was
Of the horizon
fann'd
"
day
"
way
"
seem'd
327
HASTINGS.
Friday,at
one
"
AT
STORM
to rise
brink
by sultrysighs
"
think
I cannot
threatening,
blotches of such
shapen
They
As
seem
deal
And
beach ;
stony-hearted
always rampant, in that
Whereas
the
Like
when
schoolboys,
Who
meekly
a
Some
love to draw
quietawe
idle
have
"
on
the
with
ocean
"and
table-beer,
troubled
on
fashion,
in,subdued and grave,
the master's in a passion,
and take their places,
settle in
With
Like
dash
roU'd
waves
very
so
bards would
some
"
vapour,
rave,
to tatters,and
"
her paper.
fret,and
The
It
heavy
solid than
more
ink
head,
it bounce,
make
froth,and
roar, and
"
"
As
would
one
Who
whisper that
justbeginsto
roar
so
"
"
stillit mutterM
But
Such
continued
It did not
Whilst
hardlycared
But
watch'd
Much
Must
as
the
watch
Meantime
to wed
two
the
breath,
sultryweather,
words
together,
of
rising
the
Negro
swarm
follyceased"
home
wonder
us
the
made
pantingwith
were
beneath
sea
more
pause
we
to the
peal,as
And
Of
"
note of death,
a prelude
long but low
it
if the stifling
clouds yet kept
under,
Growl'd
As
awful
Somethingmore
to
and
cover
"
Armadas,
dismal,coal-black
quell'dand
"
form ;
"
all bravadoes
pokers.
328
STORM
HASTINGS.
AT
So fierce the
The
And
To
oldest
"
With
And
our
could think
trulyone
The
fancy,that
And
black,
and
their
"
sundry
blow,
that
very
In their
The
boat)
same
cry
And
Hope
oft
realms,the
seamen
own
Making
And
of
drops
"
crew
their
calling
"
knew
they
as
get mauling
a
wiselydrew
the beach,
billows' reach.
its despotic
power
of the
daylightdarker
few
some
and
hauling
more
and
"
godsthemselves
our
been in actions.
peculiarto
the
now
Had
"
cow'd,
not
another
"
That
cloud
hand
fractions
were
some
"
the head
heavingup
The
"
quickyeo's.
pullingup the Rose
were
"
Recentby
Were
unlawful.
(No flower,but
With
lashing
awful
attractions,
near
crooked
Lest it should
The
much
own
lightning
througha
some
Began
very
few
remain
d that
some
Only
A few rough sailors,
who had
And
"
"
to make
clashing
bays :
clouds so
coasting
with
as
spirits
fraught
awkward
without
The
now
an
creeks
those
were
For
pretty blaze,
an
skies,
hour,
by
an
size
unusual
"
scarce
twenty to the shower,
from a Giant's eyes
Fell like huge tear-drops
thicken'd in a trice
But then this sprinkle
Few
distinct
"
"
And
Oh
rain'd much
Grandly,and
make
When
we
Whilst
bigas
gusty organs
in music
score
us
"
seem'd
comfits roU'd
bullets
crazy tiles:
"
"
alongthe ground
Lord
And
blow
handled
were
thunder
frozen
the
rich storm
But
Our
would
Handel
As
in
"
! for
How
And
harder
now
"
! how
the
they
did batter
flash'd
lightning
330
Or
with
STORM
linens made
coarse
wind
resolved
house
No
but
green-house
was
J5oM7- windows
No
in
sex
On
each
to the
and
panes,
that had
whole
the
southern
bore
bell-gla"ses
swam
side,you
parlours; Mrs. Snell
slopp'dout of her seat, and Mr.
Was
stillthe
The
recent
sea
into
violence.
Each
"
calm,
galenext
There
was
Before
To
his weather
the
Hitch in
hinted
and
his
speech
when
better far
(itwere
water
then,but waiter^
is serving
at the bar)
"
swell
"
SEE
saw
never
FROM
OCEAN
one
bears
raggedroaring
greater!
RISING.
Black,jaggedbillows rearing
up
Tjike
aira'd
seaman
by
beach
"
framed,
hollow
"
high water
such
Kitchen.
morning
morningbroke,
quiteequalto bespoke."
gale
christen it not
Rose
eye the
and
"
punt
after each
a gentle
murmur
gentlewaves
like
Tapping,
Woodpeckers,the
Howbeit
dwell
was
The
Across
"
"
wash'd
ajlow'r-gsirden
But
brunt,
a
"
Had
"
"
those who
might have
of their
In any
front,
befell ;
the
For
spared!
glasswas
hill
"
candles out.
mishap
same
good,
panes,
in doubt
blowingthe
"
No
the fractions
Stanchingthe wind
Or, holdingcandles
The
HASTINGS.
AT
in
war
againstthe
baiter,
With
Like
No
the
morn
fine
beachyhead.
fare,
trips,
seven-shilling
on
No
shingleshed,
a
to
open
331
HASTIiNGS.
with
pour'd out
stout
Or
AT
STORM
waded
would
dare
none
bathingwoman
their dips,
A dippingin the wave
but waived
No seagull
ventured
the stormy air,
on
And
all the drearycoast was
clear of ships;
"
"
For
two
Are
not
perilousas
so
Awe-struck
Before
A
of mix'd
boilingocean
saw
like
and
green,
last
sometimes
hank
Right
"
seaweed
knee, sometimes
dead
was
batter d
However
by
without
"
snatch'd up
we
chance
after
Then
Curiosity
began
'Twas
And
We
he that
in his
found
bond
His
of
the
corse
of
perjury,
thus
All
it,
of the Small
had
fob,the
a
groan,
her fit ;
with
contract
Unknown
"
monopolies,
signedMephistophiles!
the
blood,whereby
of
dice,
"
jugglingDemon,
"
this surfeit !
of late
cause
throws
thrown,
turf
in
sinner
gave
reversion.
"
ventingPity'ssighand
lo ! the features
And
"
swear
all surgery
to sod and
Intending,Christian-like,
And
bare
was
could
one
beyond
the surge
of hair
he threw
shingles.Any
the
back
view,
to
rose
summerset
frightful
on
lad
"
dabbled
a
a-skimming.
swimming
littleshoe-
skirt
Sometimes
curly!
a
a
and
sometimes
Sometimes
Just like
white
"
last attempt at
hand
And
black
first or
The
"
Sometimes
At
hurly-burly,
of water,
Alps
rolling
Much
scene
"
When
We
the
gazed upon
of copper
colour,grim and surly,
lo,in that vast hollow scoop'dbetween
sky
Two
horrid
river Lea
at sea.
one
sat, and
we
in such
us
the
but
on
sea
in his usual
and
Nick'd
brave
excursion
vein,
him
in the main
332
PKK.Y.
ITS
KETCHING
LINES
TO
Go
ON
LADY
the
where
waves
tempests make
Almost
as roughas
And
rather
run
a
A
Go
the mild
where
wine
more
pass
the
Madeira
Making
Go
where
think
of
me
ripensher juice,
"
praisedthan it deserves to be !
Cape,justcapableof ver-juice,
the
where
sea,
rough Piccadilly,
our
And
Go
Holbom-hilly,
soda-water
And
Go
INDIA.
FOR
DEPARTURE
HER
Tigerin
the darkness
midnightmeal
the Lion
think of
in his
of he and
me
prowleth,
she ;
hunger howleth.
And
think of
me
Or
Go
where
Go
where
own
And
soot
broileth,
think of
me
333
LINES.
human
with
where
Go
like
And
tongue as free,
all she can
revealeth,
woman,
And
to the
Go
Go
to
and
of muslin
land
and
of slaves
the land
think
of
land
the
to
tall bamboos
And
Go
think
where
where
Where
on
for wedlock
think
where
to Calcutta's
Go
to
80W-WE8TER
is very
sun
the land
Where
the
of
pagod
black
every
OFF
THE
of
and
goes,
quay,
same
think
hot and
me
marriageplan
And
Go
me
musquito is a worrier.
the maiden
woman
of
must
the fierce
ConsignM
thee !
Castles,
think
And
where
hills,
always be a currier,
pepperM palatelike a pea,
cook
parch the
And
me
bamboozle
none
And
Go
of
of vast
upon
gaze
^may
be,
palankeening,
Jungles and
"
me
nankeening,
And
Go
of
hats should
where
parasolsof straw
And
Go
dealeth
with
mono-jt?o%-logue
In
Go
Parrot
the
notes
as
of
mangoes,
!
me
fervent,
rupee.
CAPK
:"
PIGS
IN
THE
TKOl'GH
servant,
!
OF
THE
6EA.
334
THE
Thiiihere,your honour, upon
NELSON.
wheels,is the
true
genuinereal Nelson'' s
Guide
"
dickey of the
the
on
the
sea-horses,
guard into
one
the box,
on
"
the
"
Nelson."
up, and
I climbed
all
Now, clapon
wheelers
into
and
Neptunus, brandishinga trident,
so
My fancy instantly
driver into
Triton
vehicle
into
the coach
converted
"
Car.
Hospital.
to myself,as
Nelson,"I repeated
The
Grkenwich
to
shell.
took
said
sail,"
There
"
I, audibly,
for
room
man.
beside the coach-
seat
my
was
the
am
proud to
be
one
of the
crew
"
"
! what
powers
the slaves of
are
*'
I
name
but
as
of Mrs.
for
"
Nelson
Too
mean
is down
Bull,indeed,"I
Jack."
civilly,whether
"
very
Slave Associations
the
to
or
Jack
fond of the
"
"
teemed
mine, it
"
"
world
for
I have made
say,"repliedthe coachman,
Jack,if you
six months.
as
stupefied
As
but
Aldgateoccurred to my memory
;
I continued,addressing
the coachman,
association,"
of Nelson
name
reallycan
the
and
idea !
an
exclaimed,as
and the
stairs for
the Monument.
at
flight
the whole
"
down
pitchedon
we
tumble
yard was
not
these
most
the Bench"
the wonder
of the maritime
opposedto yard,and
seas
with blood."
We're all
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
there's
room
Bears,from
for
'em,with
Saracen
Heads
and Blue
dickeyand
hind
She's
plain
335
NELSON.
THE
"
except
on
the
back
not
how
I know
if
gone,
might
giving
regardto
me
"
had
proof
that
Lonnon
gone
give her
Mr.
her
"
Stevens," said
box
the
in the
"
for he
was
had
a
been
tacitly
with
first-rate,
"if
"
the
please, Mr.
you
lightcart
and
"
you
Stevens, mothers
be
kind
so
as
to
sly
linchpin."
the article with
took
Stevens
of the hand
squeeze
"
If such
where,
no
travelling.
something towards
to
of
description
might have
with
all her
lass,running
screaming retainer to the
of his Nelson
craft
the
please,Mr.
If you
he pulled
difl"culty
up,
some
of
addressed
not
With
its rate
body
the whimsical
further
much
main,
coachman.
her
having
-gammon-board."
capless,curly-headed
strapping,
and
of
had
smile,and
I fancied
with
it.
delivered
that
one's but
mother's,Fanny," he
I should have
was
The
somebody in love."
slylyremarked,
of
allow
further
to
timed
too strictly
parley ; the horses
Dispatch was
in
into
rather
a
gallop, pursuit of the mother of
broke, or were
broken,
the pin secretly
Fanny, the Flower of Waltham
actingas a spur,
; and
a
go
been
any
did
we
In
spite,however,
speed,
Mrs.
tillwe
arrived
we
of
cup
if
at the
found
ale ;
her
linchpinshad
her, as if it had
to
of her
out
"
as
"
and
only a pin
our
his seat
thing for
on
coachman,
the box,
There's
She
Bull.
She
handed
was
the
to
come
may
ning
pin-
no
light
as
one
say
that's this.
at the
vented
in-
been
made
it
sound
and
been
Nelson,"said
he resumed
cart
gown
"Well,I must
Mrs.
her
never
fact,she
when
article,
the
usual
un-
Basing-House,
chirpingover
safe
as
patent
a
away
runFANCY
with
ribbons
but
"
middle
well
of
"
or
bolter
make
you'll never
of the
minutes.
overtook
and
; in
of
this
of
never
Merryweather
where
as
we
in
five miles
the next
your
said it
"
or
"
drop
mistake
see
road, with
because
distributed,
her pins."
Mrs.
in
PORTRAIT
the
MRS.
a
clearing
gate,by being a
Nelson
laying flat on her
smash,
of the
NELSON.
little lushy
side in the
outsides
and
her
yard
without
,
one
336
THE
STAMP
DUTY
ON
SCOTCH
LINEN.
SONNET
TO
SCOTCH
Well
GIRL,
done
WASHING
and
LINEN
HER
AFTER
FASHION.
COUNTRY
Thou
The
mak'st
and
pen
Like
And
As
Yet
were
what
is
I do not
But
while
Of
thy dance
nothing else than
never
there
Skirving,
of duty swerving
from
thy
to
mean
thou
washer,
reward
give thee
wearer,
Bodkin
on
earth !
do
not
start !
damper,
new
fillestthis industrious
would
part
mangier,presser, stamper,
Deservingbetter character
What
Nay,
dirt
"
but
thou
call
"
art
"
common
tramper.
338
SONNET
domestic
own
would
compare
throw
myself
have had
favourite actor
and
your mercy,
leave my warm
me
on
it consist with
would
"
myself with
sort of gap my
to hint what
or
virtues,
society still less
in
SEAMAN.
DECAYED
social
or
make
TO
^but
"
ask,in
as
common
bed, to shiver in
mere
But
was
"
there is
to
beingI
amusement
at
all
"
of
simply
down
littleButcherling,
or
Butcher, or Butcheress,
such
no
modesty
human
would you
charity,
s damp sheets,
printer
loss
the instalment of
amongst you ; and by your good leave and patience,
that is over
due, shall be paid with interest in the
my Reminiscences
NUMBER.
NEXT
SONNET
Hail
OF
HIS
PROFESSION.
DECAYED
down
SEAMAN.
mistaken
Tar, before
stirring
so
thrown
Thou
TO
I'm much
wast
Became
Now,
TOP
cut
seventy-four
Unless
Thou
THE
that
fatal to
on
hop
thy locomotion ;
shore,like a mere weed
"
readest still to
of ocean.
lesson
good,
King and Countryshowingthy devotion.
By kneelingthus upon a stump of wood !
Stillis thy spirit
strongas alcohol ;
Spiteof that limb,begotof acorn- egg,
men
To
"
Methinks,
"
virtue
thou Naval
Historyin
one
walkest
ever
with
thy
"
Vol.^
leg,
Poll,
Constant
Peg
"
339
THE
GREAT
CONFLAGRATION.
Destruction
Dreadful Fire
of both Houses of Parliament"
SpeakersHouse putted Reportsof Incendiarism.
The
"
"
It is our
Commons,
unexpectedlot
to announce
threatened
often
so
with
of Lords
in
combustion, are
and
of
state
actual
"We
the
the
Star.
The
devouringelement
which
destroyedCovent
Garden
and
Drury
the
Wyndham,
The
benches
"Whitbread,and
House
that
roof
very
which
the
In
Wilberforce,
are
re-echoed
weightof
Canning is
possession
classicalitiesof
the
of charcoal.
mass
mere
Fire is in
Parliamentary
language,
Destructive
vative
is on
its legs,
and the Conserspirit
Post.
a
can
principle
opposition.Dail^
The blow is struck.
have long foreseen has come
What
to pass.
we
Incendiarism
!
The
British
whole
Empire, as represented
triumphs
:
ofiferbut
feeble
"
would
translate
it; but
ardent brimstone
ask,could
must
we
of the
sense
At
nothingshort of such
state
perilous
an
rulers
are
subsoil of
opened;
them
eruptionawaken
country ?
of the
treacherous
For
weeks,
but
to
months
nay,
tion
have called the atten-
we
beingconsidered alarmists,
of suspicious
and
to
a
variety
legislature magistracy
toms
sympand signs
in
the
chemical
of the times,and
to
multiplied
particular
for the purpose
of obtaining
instantaneous lights.Well
inventions,
of the
are
certain matches
appliedto
the most
of
Houses
doubt
us
not
it contained
ignite.Britannic
"
fire-boxes called
diabolical purposes
question. Tell
woman's, and
The
or
so
for they
Lucifers,
The
originof the
may
fire cannot
be
is out
milkmake
it
Guardian.
of Parliament
are
in flames.
z
We
340
CONFLACiJlATION.
GREAT
THE
the
"
From
Correspondent.
I was
struck by the
o'clock,
Thursday evening,towards seven
the oppositechimneys with
silvering
singular
appearance of the moon
lunar
I conceived belonged
which
blood-red
a
phenomenon,
a
light,
occurred to me
that there must
be a
only to our theatres. It speedily
and
little
after
in
a
conflagrationmy vicinity,
huntingby scent as well
in
Houses
front
of Lords and Commons,
of
the
found
I
myself
as sight,
a
nd
that I make
bold to
which w^ere
burningwith a rapidity brilliancy
their
characterise
favour
of my
not
did
always
By
proceedings.
say
seemed
to identify
with the firemen,I
natural assurance, which
me
of
the
lines
allowed
to
who
was
guardsand policemen,
pass through
and was
thus enabled to select a favourable
surrounded the blazing
pile,
the
whole
It was
for overlooking
scene.
an
imposingsight.
position
On
The
flames
Book,
Red
Hall reminded
of
vividly
me
familiar in
volume, as
of Commons
red
as
not
was
our
the
of
London
cry,
**
Hall
the
dinary
Extraor-
hand
at all behindWestminster
hood
child-
the Gothic
and
"
the House
and
in
was
the Peers' in
from
rose
chitecture
ar-
Abbey
unusually florid.
seemed
Instead
of
venerable
be
Indeed,so
that
aspect,
red-hot
age.
its
was
itled to
crous
ludi-
misapprehensionon
populace.A
bearingseveral
procession,
in a
male and female figures
the part of the
of
state
rally
natuinsensibility,
gave
ring
inferpainfulconjectures,
life
loss of human
by
devouringelement, but
the
I have
the
Dean
only
Chapter savingthe
was
it
to believe
reason
and
WaxPLAYING
Work.
As
observation
far
the
my
mean
Hall, but
to General
Monk.
time
select
not
HAZARD.
AT
own
resemblance
In the
as
without
some
party had
bore
certainly
eA'ccted
an
entrance
strong
into the
I believe,
serious delay, occasioned,
by
GREAT
THE
soraebodywithin bringingthe
However,
last
at
facetiously,
put
for
is
man
no
First
came
Gent,
this,because
some
and
engines,
have
of the
station
St.
all
noble
play in
confusion
was
without
any
making motions
Rejected Addresses ;
was
sadlyhampered.
he
Mr.
Morrison, and
arrived
next
insisted
noble Lord
from
concert."
applieswith greaterforce
Stephen s Chapel.
and
that the
to the
confounded,and
worse
with
enviable,
compared
was
the
But
their
agreedthat he
director of
"
of
be
journalshave
did not
remark
Here
said to
insinuated
myself overheard
same
duty.
department; and
wouldn't
sit out, but
playing,
thoughevery body
The
his
Hose
who
Crockford's,
the authors
by
alive to
Hon.
one
tea-caddy.
example. The
Higginbottom,so unfairly,but
I followed
the veteran
was
death
to
more
the
directing
on
key,that belongedto
wrong
they entered,and
I beheld
first person
341
CONFLAGRATION.
that of
some
considerable number
House
of Commons.
Higginbottom's
rules,were
parliamentary
all
"
pieces.Every body
but shouts of
of
"
There
Here
"
wanted
"
More
awa,
lads,work
what
ye like !
the
! there ! there
command
to
water
awa
!"
"
it's
"
Oh,
the
no
save
water
more
"
my
for my
Nothing
Coldstream.
like an
Irish echo
savings!"
"
Drunkenness
Sabbath, and
ye may
"
by
My
!"
""
cries
poor,
Work
justplay at
"
In
pleasingcontrast to
unanimity of the members
portablefrom
helpingthe
spirit
"
no
at another
the flames.
Hand-in-Hand.
Commons
in whatever
Peers
and
Commoners
were
alike
seen
burthened
worked
with loads of papers or furniture,
Mr. Calvert,in particular,
like any porter. Of course, in rescuing
the papers and parchments,
curious results
their contents,and some
inspecting
the pathetic
the
were
story in
Every body remembers
consequence.
atre,
the Tatler,of the lover who saved a strange lady from a burningthethe mistress of his afl'ections,
under the idea that he was
preserving
and some
similar mistakes
are
currentlyreportedto have occurred at
the late conflagration
and equallyto the chagrinof the parties.I
and
vouch for the facts,but it is said that the
cannot
go by hearsay,
unpopular Six Acts, includingwhat I believe is called the Gagging
there
was
no
time for
"
Act, were
the Irish
Mr.
was
O'Connell
saved
snatched like
"
342
GREAT
THE
brand
of the fire,"
by
out
CONFLAGRATION.
certain noble
set his
Duke, who resolutely
Amongst others,Mr. Ricardo saved
face
"
on
of
individual
efforts were
beyond all praise. The instances of
energies,
Mr. Rice worked
and
amidst
daringwere numerous.
personalexertion
and
Mr.
baked
that
the flames tillhe was
body
expected
nearly
;
every
be
would
Pease
The
parched.
down
metal
pouring
Gentlemen, were
of tlie Hon.
entertained
were
and roof.
of the
in
falling
of
lead.
of the
one
melted
heads
The
literally
nothingbut
the
from
greatestdangerwas
the windows
from
of
Great
some
hensions
appre-
walls,which
saw
I did not
in it.
Rent
the House
enter
of
Lords, which
was
now
of
mass
one
moment
every
rushinginto the
from which
house,
theyissued
again,laden
with
spits,
sauce-pans,
and
other
culinaryimplements.
I, myself,
saw
one
stew-pan
one
arm,
the
head,
under
screen
under
pan
the
his
on
the meat-
with
"
dripping-
the
other,
frying-panin his
righthand, the gridiron
in
the
his
left,and
in
rolling-pin
mouth.
Indeed,it
the
saved
box
down
was
to the salt-
and
the
anxietyto
she
"
was
cook
whole
number
there
save
cotched
The
corner
was
-ONE
FOR
HIS
NOB
AND
TWO
FOR
HIS
HEELS.
her
up
of
in twelve
Abingdon
of the Foot
of the
was
is
article
kitchen
his
but
police,
Guards
gentlemen's
arms,
and
felt her
never
Street."
were
in
attendance,as well
in
as
great
greatforce,and
which
chocked temhowever
porarily
was
good deal of plundering,
said
be
and
to
the
of
members
by a gentleman
one
magistrates
a
THE
Essex,who
for
GREAT
jumped
on
up
343
CONFLAGRATION.
and
railing
addressed
the
the following
effect, How
of the
the
caper
floor.
countenance
mischief
seems
story certainly
in
originated
the
burnt
and
matches
garden have
another
bear
and
hotted
upon
be
to
out
broke out, at
manufactories
to be believed.
I am.
But
got abroad
such
Sir,your
all,should
us
found
German
will
olfactories
Another
writer
to
these
of
sense
who
of persons
number
and
to
no
it
are
like
much
Servant,
Y.
Z.
Account.
lines,who
of
very
Speaker's
sausages;
obedient
most
on
probablycome
he smelt
half-
of
finding
in the
not
also very
are
been
affirms that
but
that
X.
The
the
is very
Collective
the
of Incendiarism
nothing but
that has
Mr.
Dudley
Cooper'sHill ;
awakened
Mrs.
report that
laws for
cock-and-a-bull
like
in circulation of the
are
other combustibles.
turned
end.
lay
down
Rumours
stories
The
companions
conceive
cannot
to
flues.
to
frail foundations.
better
one
how
lay down
and
prevalent,
generally
how
of his
to
part, I
say that
in his
This
rectly
cor-
as
Snell,whilst
and
is it
nor
was
takingup
insignia,
ginger. Others relate that a Mr. Spell,or Shell,or
viewingthe House, althoughno dancer, began suddenly,
hot
as
mace
populaceto
"
"
resides
by a
conflagration
in
running the
in
Lambeth,
first
was
"
"
Fire
cry
direction of Westminster
of
were
from
bias,strangeas
is recorded
of
it may
of
To
say
I have
an
am
sort
salvo of
guebre,or
of
to others
greatmarshal
some
the liveliestpleasureat
rumble
appear
same
with
oppositetendencies.
It
effect
roll of
the
on
thunder,and
author
of these lines.
is onlyto confess
fire-worshipper,
observatoryerected
on
the
roof
the
the
truth.
house, from
metropolis,it
invariablyvisit this
of
my
circuit of the
bed
look-out.
Every
mine
hobby-horse,and, figuratively
speaking,
the
and
to
fire
with
to
first
run
a
always kept
ready
engine. Many a time I have arrived before the turncocks,though I
an
perhaps had to traverse half London, and I scarcelyremember
man
has
his
harnessed
was
is second
Habit
appear longbefore the water.
I
could
believe
instinct
sniff
a
by
; and
verily
conflagration
344
if I
presentattracts
at
of the
runningalongwith
dog,
publicattention^
by his eager
the
and
the HandBritish,
Globe,
much
so
of the firemen's
trainer
been, the
was
which
CONFLAGRATION.
GREAT
THE
in-Hand.
Of
course
have
seen
three weeks
order to be
clothes in
in my
1780,
riots of
and
good
the
great
when
once,
be
to
the
blazing
able,
I say lamentit was
sible
impos-
because
at
less
no
lamentable
sightit was.
all
the
eightfires were
than
at
the first
ready for
present at them
time; but
same
good geniusdirected me
to Langdale'sthe
Distiller, DISTANCE
ENCHANTMENT
gar
which made (excusethe vulflape-up.
popularphrase)a very satisfactory
my
"
The
Rotherhithe
twenty
years
ago,
TIS
fire,not the
also
was
on
LENDS
recent
little
TO
job, but
grand scale,and
THE
VIEW.
fifteen
some
or
lasting.The
very
of my friends
were
some
wilfullycut ; and I remember
engine-pipes
well-known
of
m
e
on
jocularlyaccusingme
rallying
propensity,
my
a
was
lending my knife and my assistance. The Custom-house
cleared
it
it
done
itself
but
disappointment
certainly
efi*ectually, was
;
and consequentlythe long-roomfell short of my anticipations.
by day-light,
better; but I have
Drury-laneand Covent-gardenwere
observed generally
that theatres bum
with more
attention to stage
efi'ect. They avoid the noon
: a dark
night to a fire is like the black
letters m a benefit-bill,
o
ff
red
ones.
setting the
The
destruction
of
the
but contraryto
witnessed,
lonceive
the
Dartford
magazinesmake
fire than
they are
there
no
is
Kent
the
Mills
Indiaman
opinionof
ofi",all is
"
over
before you
gettingunder, which
not what
are
they used
generally,
steam, and
police,
call slow
one
cause
or
explosions.A body
been
25
can
be.
are
no
on
sooner
you
What
other,they have
with
become
Powder
where
know
quite puts
to
have
to
failure.
indiflferentconflagrations
; they
very
like
should
amateurs
experienced
many
have
must
gas, and
what
one
new
might
at
346
THE
GREAT
CONFLAORATION.
allowed me
to gaze
retrospective
position
it
hear, was a most imposingsight but
I cannot help thinkingthat Westminster
"
would
made
have
that it
many
was
fire.
admirable
an
up
an
Althorp,
long range,
my
Hall, with its
Neither
IncendiaryAct, that
"
Senex.
VarioiLs Accounts.
We
Shrops
bench
concerned
are
Jubb
was
that
burningunder
was
The
him.
seat
the
member
new
in the
House,
for
on
was
several times
him
ten
'
removed
A
of
"
foolish anecdotes
greatmany
of the
contemporaries
gravelyasserts
our
fire are
that the
in circulation.
Marquis
of
One
Culpepper
"
We
the
are
individual
much
so
enabled
to state that
who
displayed
Turret
Captain Back.
was
"
evinced
was
members
to the
of Commons
present
were
the
by
of the House
who
as
fire,
that considerable
the
at
fate of their
Bills.
One
spective
re-
able
honour-
gentleman,in particular,
observed anxiously
ing
watch-
was
"
paper.
Oh,
Observance
"There's
bath
Sab-
my
"
some
he
claimed,
ex-
end
an
of
! There
religion
and
Clerk !
The
"
go the Parson
Public Diarp.
Earl of M.
narrow
when
"
escape.
a
had
His
hard-working
man,
eldest not
The
above
forward
is M'Farrel.
name
exclamation
and
PORTRAIT
CAPTAIN
BACK.
very
Lordship was
labourer rushed
individual's
iDiirru
FANCY
and
We
on
the
point of kickinga
has two
year old.
of a noble
"
bucket
snatched
wives,and a numerous
Daily Chronicle.
who
Lord, high in office,
family;
was
the
very active
THE
has
fire,
at the
"
Blow
"
all !
been
347
CONFLAGRATION.
incorrectly
given.
very
the Commons
save-all."
The
GREAT
The
flare up
! let *em
words
but
"
were
oh,
for
"
lows
fol-
as
a
save-
Moiniing News.
"
has
publicattention
been
New
Coventry
at
the
on
by
nightin question,
near
for
sent
the
by
Tally-
express.
"
Monitor.
"We
in
were
the
at
the
before
actuallyarrived
ho ! and
have
neither
examined
has been
scene
arrived with
his
It must
House
of
British
"
have
the
early
as
was
first engine
Alderman
A.
Guardian.
struck every
Commons,
Atlas
the
statingthat
So
garden engine,and
own
the Thames.
upon
in
error
of action.
there
that
witnessed
who
one
lamentable
was
operationsin
the
"
of
want
the
order !
making pumps
gentlemensucceeded
The
flames.
check
the
duct
conon
producingany
On the arrival
of the military
far from unexceptionable.
also was
in.
refused
the
to
fall
of
Coldstream
at the fire they actually
Many
declined to stand at ease on the burningrafters
but what is the public
"order
! order !
"
in
greatmany
themselves,without
of
"
interest to
private?
Public
"
am
come
obligeto walk
was
last,I
take
the House
my
of Commons
did not
know
flames grew
how
which
very
nobody,
So
to turn.
way
: and
fast
longburnt
keep myself
quiteconvenient
and
to
interested very
am
am
colour ; Mr.
Buckstone's
turned
quiteblack
I
drab.
and
The
the seats,
seats made
blue
flame the
they
dead.
with
much
but
"
other
made
In
The
all alone.
Some
they burned, quitedifferent from one another.
and popped and bounced, and
you call a great splutter,
made
noise at all. Mr. Bulwer's
seats
no
place burned
what
I
At
warm.
look about.
all burnt
they were
; and
up
about
rats,ratting
great many
was
not
was
the floor to
the stove,
there was
on
firstthing I observe
down
and
up
seat
(Exclusive*
C.'s Account.
Monsieur
When
Adwrtiser.
there
some
of
was
one
flame and
observe
of a
one
green
another very
and
at
side
and
hiss
roar
one
they
by side,
orange,
and the seat of sieurs
Mesfurious. The gallery
cleared itselfquitequickly,
a
colour
one
The
of forty-eight
the reporters,
pounds.
explodeditselflike a cannon
all.
at
sound
chair
without
burnt
speaking
any
When
and
thingis quitedone
go to the House
almost
take
every
the
off my
whole
of
great coat.
the fire
Lords, where
I could
I leave them
in the Commons
out.
find
was
was
all in
one
able in this
nothingto be
saved
I carry away
red hot,and which
great ink-stand,that was
hands.
Likewise
here,as well as in the Commons, I
off,
sheet,and
room
except
in my
bottled
to
one
two
up
348
THE
and
a-piece,
make
are
play
distribute
to
more
whenever
throat
my
was
water, and
boiling
bath of
Letter
I did not
the pompiers
visible,
afraid of
was
littlehorse.
almost.
myself stuffed
write any
cannot
to
madness
was
and I
water
chest,and
like
reliques,
upon me,
I arrive at home, I find
as
fact,when
in my
CONFLAGRATION.
; for I know
fond after
long stop,for
foolish
be
may
and
things,
smoke,
bottles of
several
GREAT
so
catch-cold.
in my
was
In
am
at full
more
Labouring Man.
BUSHELL,
When
you
fine houses
they
to
the Waxwork
"Whitsuntide
and
head
Seeingyou
vagabond,by
way
of
to be
of
to
see
the
Sightsof
Abbey, you
Westminster
pile of buildingsin
that shock
were.
well-dressed
some
holidaylast
vast
scratched
and
made
Palace
Yard,
and
wondered
yours,
and
no
country clodpole,
puttinga
hoax
upon
you
whose
doubt
the haw--
honest
of
nobody told
you,
lifted up
Of
liberties.
our
his
delivered the
course,
Bushell,you
to be found
men
wholesome
He
in three
and
just,
called them
and the
rights,
the
asser-
were
I dare
those
had
voice,and
onlysound,
rational, and
some,
whole-
and able
upright,
speechesthat
were
in St.
uttered
Chapel.
ever
Stephens
No, nobody
lend
when
you
have
them,
and
read
all my
printed speeches,and
and
you
studied
them
got
bumpkin as
Bushell,
you
as
as
much
all
our
of
spelt
them,
them, and
by heart, o
you
are,
will know
"2-
legislation
bers
preciousmem-
OUR
constitution's
gone
!"
together.
Well, Bushell,the
stood
gapingat
are
burnt
down.
THE
You
walls.
the
There
state.
same
is
nothing is
house,or, at
Parliament
the
after
Gubbins'
Farmer
saw
349
CONFLAGRATION.
the
gutted,as
GREAT
the
least,
the
bare
shell of
it,
exactly in
do
Bushell,how
the
truth,you
you
Houses
! andi now,
for you
news
left but
are
Your
bacon
vinegaron
You
have
rusty
grows
in your
You
with
whole
with
ass, and
old
Your
But
is that the
face is
smack
of
Mayor, and
at night you
snore
bold and ruddy as
the
hob-nails with
an
look,Bushell,if what
case
the well-dressed
?
as
Lord
delight
; and
bond
vagadrink your
You
No.
small-beer
sighand
can
work
you
like
the
an
Red
you
like
horse,or
jews' harps.
young
oratorio of
Lion's.
Your
carrotty
what, say you, does all this tend to ? I will tell you, Bushell. There
well-dressed vagabonds,besides the one
are
a great many
you met in
Palace Yard, who would persuadea ^oor man
that a House of Lords or
Commons
is as good to him as his bread,beer, beef,bacon, bed, and
breeches; and therefore I address this to you, Bushell,to set such
back and belly. And
notions to rights
now
by an appeal to your own
I will tell you what
You shall go three nightsa week
you shall do.
is done),and you may
work
Lion (when your
score
up a
the
And
when
each
time.
the
of
or
at
pint
beer,
cost,
parson,
my
to the Red
or
tax-gatherer,
any such gentry,begin to talk of
and
national calamity,and such-like
the
deplorable
greatburning,
exciseman,or
the
trash,you
you
and
the
I say, Bushell,
letter and read to them
my
this letter to them, twice over, loudlyand distinctly,
shall
pull out
shall read
tell them
wouldn't
from
be such
me,
a
"
that the
national
PRIVATE
To
Mary
burningof twenty
calamityas
fire at No.
Parliament
Houses
1, Bolt Court.
CORRESPONDENCE.
Mary,
"
am
350
THE
GREAT
hear
DivingProvidings,
to
scotched
deth.
off,a
Wen
hav had
ate,
was
it mite
or
of fire ewer
gratedred
I am, altliowgh
with loss of wan
rite
shew.
But I hav bean
my
cap and
noo
in it all
Oh
fell
then
Gudge
and
never
down
terrifid to
stow, and
how
low
I felt
Communer's.
It
agin will
never
Mississis backs.
highhrew
the
on
now
see
tho
prevaled,
temtashun
nine, I
the Lords
never
no,
be
since.
burningalongwith
at the idear of
bean
CONFLAGRATION.
my
go
but
errer,
Wan
had
as
to
hand
Mary,
in
for
good rowt
I had
and
"
on
yure
card in Coarse.
and
I went
hat and
ginteel,
my
verry
fethers to match.
a
say Wot,
After takin off my things,
I had barelyset
to be.
wamt
dubble
nock without any end
a
at the front dore there cums
Cloke
cost
I wont
Oh
As
Mary,
from
the Botcher
deer
dissevers you
saim
time,like
the
as
soon
door
buckits,and
for the
pailface asked
the fire.
the
at
never
throw
were
the fust
was
sects
away
yure
arts
upon.
news
we
had
For
selvs then I do of
earth.
sit yure
and
If yure
are
think
face
sweepingthe
wise
you
as
be,
may
dreeming of
will
menkind
agin all
luv nonsense,
in futer,or
make
parjuringthem-
of
moore
of
with picrust,they
ears
purfessions,
they are ony filling
yure
triflesof yure afections,
and destroyyure comfits for life. They
no
it
down, wen
to it,and
keepin cumpany
triangle
with a
opened a man
Backer
and
that
But
to
meen
wen
brid cake
you
and
wite fevers,
you may find yureself left with
nothink
but
breeches
Futman
of
is
prommis.
proof in
John
pint.
God
him
to idelize me
nose
I ort to
hav
Twenty
to jump
to hav
and
WHY
DON
THE
MEN
PROPOSK.
.''
away,
leavingme
to make
my
THE
hone
there
if ever
and
mobbing
the
up
flams over-head.
to cotch
me
nose, for
they was.
itsfumiter.
before
axingand hollowing
out,
swaring,and the peples
hone
parts,Jl
enuff
man
am
Mary,
fullythort
to
It used
gintlemanwas
one
Sich
pumpin, and
have
cussingand
Hous purvented all gitting
out.
For my
dresser,and skreeked,but nobbody was
behind,and
and flams
and
was
351
CONFLAGRATION.
GREAT
the
my
How
gusberrygam.
bed
was
reskewd
was
tell I found
unsensible
meself
at last
setten
on
of St. Margret's
Church, with my fethers all
pickidpinted ralings
off.
But
and a shew
of all lossis,
most serius,
frizzild,
my ridicule was
the
for it had
and
How
was
Lord
it broke
ware
minded.
under
in there
in it.
puss
my
is
mistery.
Allthorp,who
say
both
Howses
heatid
spit of
Westmunster
grate menny
Sum
members
say the Common
got over
of
deal
was
burned, in
property
grate
fluency. A
conveyancers.
its AU.
They
out
Sum
connectid
was
will
coarse
with
hav to make
was
as
stud
home,
at
the
or
it mite
sufferd,for
hav
down
well,melted
fire verry
who
Taukingof plaita gentilman,
it
got
furthur
"William
off.
Soames,
in his inquerries
efter Mr. Spekers
were
verry kind and partickler
vallybles. I hope he will hav a placegivn him for his indevvers.
Ware
Exter
King
will lend
them
by day
hole
his Bensh
with
and
will go
Refudge for the
me
Sum
noboddy nose.
creturs
Destitut,and
!
to set upon
All I
no
sum
say
say the
is,I've
had
fire
allwayssnifing
to
am
my
grave.
it by nite.
Ony last Fryday I allarmd
the
dreeming
naberhood
out of winder for the warter
to be plugged
by screaching
throes
into fits.
me
or striking
or making tindur,
lite,
Litingfires,
up.
I shall
John's
newer
on
be
the
womman
was
but that is
no
excus
close off to go to
my
by a rop in case, and I
for
bed,
unconstancy.
and
down
practiceclambering
giv
up
to
number
and than to keep a specious
policeM 25 a shillin now
eye
But it cums
in his harms.
to
fore,and be reddy to ketch anny won
of
from
and
bear
time
the
a
pint
inginkeeper
particly
givin
munny,
to time,and
where
there's nabers fires will
drams
to the turncox
:
be youreself. I
howevver
and
cerefull
happen,
precocius
may
you
dred our too nex
dores ; number
three is a Gurmin
fammily, and them
orrid forriners think nothink
in bed, witch will
of smockingsiggars
ketch sum
fiv is wus
day to a curtainty.Number
; since his wifs deth
Mr. Sanders has betuck himself to comicle studis,
and offin has a littel
and I
352
THE
GREAT
CONFLAGRATION.
O !
and morters.
blo up amunghis pistles
"
Fur
livs lick you, as the song says,
hone.
and
you,
the
you
Thenk
throwin
with
to bed
stuff
ware
In
or
of
case
REFINED
WOMAN.
or
and
of lite cottons
gingums, in
by
pusses,
witch
menny
pettycots catchin
yure
case
don't
of the
coles
gains
forgitstandin
persons
uppards,but its a
wonce
swept reglar
in the warmin
Remember
but
sarvent
bad
it
sarvent
for
fear you
visiters
and
forgit
cum
leave
neveer
it in the
spairbed.
it is
wen
gives
notis.
have
we
wen
good
munth's
shure
and
master,
never
munth,
pan,
fire is
enuff
sure
master
be
not
hed, as recommended
yure
To
will
coffens
out
their ends.
and
lamd
newer
bucks
insted
wooUin,
piller.
yure
therefor
Allways
you.
on
to
go
anny
Don
yureselfout
gudnessyou
take
may
xtinguished,
blo
reed,and
to
If
of men."
pips or
boddy
out.
or
allways
befour
as
out ewery
nite,
sole in the hows
rake
and
men
let evvery
thurrowly put
neglectto
buzzy aunts
is them
eyes
for
out
allow backer
longsnufs,and
be
yure
luck
sparks;watever
say, don't
happy
the
take
Pray
Have
gratest car.
about
the
how
its nobbody'sfolt
yu'reinflamd
but yure
from
Mary,
won
in town
that is unmarsy
benone in the country, and
that is Swingeing; there
is
no
heyrixin
Square. That
week
pint,and I
comstax
or
St. Jims's
is yure
trembil
for
rockite
or
del mite
But
say
am,
dear
and
never
bams
roaming canin
set you
hop
will
the
blaze.
trust wat
prove
THE
SWELL
MOB,
the truth,
Mary,
Yure
old and
Gale.
354
but
I would
write more,
where, or upon what
and am, "c.
CONFLAGRATION.
GREAT
THE
going to
am
subject.I rely,Mrs.
Anastasia
Arabella
T.
To
Jdbb.
Shrewsbury,
Shrops.
Dear
Tom,
Throw
you^Usay
Father
joy!
and he
since
dissolved
was
I've
came
the rest.
alongwith
happy
been
never
we
There's glorious
huzza.
news, and so
your cap and
I could almost jump out of my skin for
I tell you.
of Commons
House
dismembered ! The
caught fire,
up
when
don,
to Lon-
up
liament.
and all throughParelection
The
was
ridingup and
and
carrying a
I liked the
down,
the battle,with
flag; and
I huzza'd
ting
myself hoarse at our getthe day at last. But
the jollup,
afterthat came
to say at Old
Theme
writing
Busby's.
as
used
we
was
composed
speech he
composed
and
hundred,
"
and
them
copy
made
he
down
knuckle
me
maiden
one
-^"^
^^^^
"^^"
preciousstupidstuff
it
pomp-.'
"^
was.
regularphy-
made
to take after it. He
us
you, and I'd worse
and hear him spout them, and a poor stick he made.
all sit
sicker,
says
down
that
"Willis,
He's
him.
no
used
worked
year,
"
over
none
seen
go to the
giveme
was
of
it,or be made
pay
than
I had
same.
the maps.
wishing both
the national
at
last month
geographythe
Pedro, all
I've
he'd
a
Handpost,was
much
so
figures,
at
fag,Tom,
sums
more
call
to
better hand
it,but I wish
owes
me
we
have
ever
you
for
Dick
"
the Dons
the
came
were
sightsI
to
well
wanted
hunt
for
at
gallery
compared to
for
worse
Did
me.
who
bankrupt
I've
at
out
at
once.
Don
Carlos and
Don
peppered, as
to
to sit in the
at it
I did
ever
in
dab
the
the Commons
sec.
He
wouldn't
let
me
and would
schools,
only pleasurehe promised
and see him presenthis
are
bad
THE
petitions.Short-hand would
for he
down liisspeechifying
have
says
"
of it all
well out
and
"
Minister ? I
Prime
Junk
give Jack
from the
placehe was to get for me besides,
the Navy Pay, to sit on a high stool and
suppose
a
pound
one
Junk
rather be Jack
355
CONFLAGRATION.
GREAT
and
two
ninepencetwice
himself,wouldn't
Tom
you,
! In hopes of
wicket,and huzza for Shropshire
remain,my dear Tom,
his
I
Your
old chum
and
But
our
I'd
year.
father's lost
meeting,
soon
schoolfellow,
Frederick
Jubb.
gentlemanhas justcome
in,with a knock-me-down-again.He says
ele"tion. I wish you'd
there's to be a new
P. S.
"
court
; it would
something
do
and I will do
as
to set
body
your
father
try, Tom
I will ask
side
giveyour
to
favour,
another time.
Do
fellow.
good
I know
real
is,to get
againstmine.
up
there's
be
for you
of you
I want
What
much
"
every
plumper.
AN
the Shrubbery,
near
Roger Davis, Bailiffs
To Mr,
Davis,
I hope
"
and your
like the
flamingthing
To my
mind
Guardian
and
"
to blow
up
Oh
have
what
"
that
Waltham
for
a
se.
tannic
you broughtus to ! As the Briwell says
England is gone to Italy London is at
I have
all
are
standingon the top of Vesuvius.
an
attempt
Abbey
paper
barrels of
of 513
recentlyrobbed
the members
felo de
"
we
crisis is
Our
on
"
"
were
on
"
"
"
gate Pump.
"VVhigs,
Whigs,Whigs
"
Shrewsbury
"
will have
particulars
you
Naples
UP.
to God
state of mind
come.
ADDER
England
made
says
What
to choke
Aid-
powder, the
and Wales.
government
has been
number
exact
of
diabolical refinement
powder !
can
hardly persuade
spreadto
England.
I mean
is frightfulI supthe incendiaryspirit.The dry season
pose
the springs
all dry. Keep the engine locked in the stable,
are
Let all
for fear of a cut at the pipes. I'llsend you down two more.
I'm
the labourers take a turn at them, by way
of practice.
persuaded
myself I
am
God
in
where
knows
it will
"
"
the Parliament
thingI
kitchen.
hear.
saw
burnt
were
Cooper'sis
Mr.
every
houses
A
on
great deal
bunch
The
purpose.
to the
more
of matches
found
was
somethingsuspiciousmyself
"
a2
some
culous.
flue story is ridi-
point. I believe
in the Speaker8
said
but
treacle,
356
THE
Have
I say tar.
well
as
night
your
and
"
One
stacks.
four
have
gates,day
as
Caesar,but
I
know
you
"
I should
more,
said
you
three
get
"
or
about
eyes
Tiger is
enough
not
CONFLAGRATION.
the
all,v^ratch
above
GREAT
the
mean
tiffs,
house-dog. Good masthe biggestand
"
get.
be attempted
first
ning
begin-
"
M.P.'s.
with
the
You
and
Barnes
Sam
must
turns
and
sit up
and
let
"
by
the
maids
sit up too
men
wohave
sharp ears,
and
sharp tongues.-^
If
them
squall dange
rer
"
market
and
"
Get
saved Rome.
don't stand
"
that
read
I have
"
vigilantcreature
danger. It's
no
or
next
PARTY.
MOVEMENT
THE
stirsI would
mouse
have
in
"
but
price
about
"
the
the
only way
common
is a
goose
them
of
score
sleep
to
choose them
at the
"
with
good
Fire
keep
and all the
the blunderbuss
off every night,and both fowling-pieces
the
it
all
If
did
the Gentry
much,
pistols.
as
country
might keep
middle
in
twice
the
If
alarm-bell
the
to
once
or
were
quiet.
ring
you
then
what help
know
of the night,
be as well
it would
you would
to depend upon.
Search the house often from the garretto the cellar,
cackles.
Alarm
them
and
now
then
watchful.
them
to
"
for combustibles
sort
of
could manage
if you
"
it would
light,
to
go without
candles,
or
any
be better.
about
Tie them
the maids.
it themselves"
unconnected.
The
up,
mean
and
their
taste
housedogs;but
the
scoundrels often
my
me
The
had been
cast
our
any
bane.
Houses
watched
blame
A
on
few
as
have
could not
well
as
been
or
lighted
paltryspiritof
they were
if
they
it is too late to
has been
would
shillings
purchaseda watch-dog;
of
saved the capitol
have
might
two
adjournmentwhen
"
but
"
individuals.
there
were
none
economy
have
one
properlyprotected
how
to
choose
I say,
sitting.
his time
"
and
the
an
because
incendiary,
THE
doubt
no
exist in any
can
transcribe
GREAT
conclusive
357
CONFLAGRATION.
cool
mind, that
from
extracts
enters
conflagration.
the
papers,
all write on
to be
I know
into the
several
editors of
side.
one
uprightmen, and they
the
are
confidently
informed,"says
Beacon, that a quantity
of tar-barrels was
purchased at No. 2, High-street,
Shadwell, about
the morning of the fire.
There was
ten o'clock on
time
abundant
before six a.m., for removing the combustibles
to Westminster.
The
his
on
purchaserwas a short,squat, down-lookingman, and the name
which
"
We
cart
was
"
I. Bums."
the
circumstances,"
Trifling
says
"
of the
resemblance
striking
need not
we
"
own
the
to examine
bore
effigies
These
name.
to
member
some
to
are
particular
party :
any
other of
or
blies
assem-
We
point to
have
We
made
it our
opinion is formed.
in
for
the
versary
Guys
preparation
impending anniGunpowder Plot, and we affirm,that every one of the
Our
great results.
business
Sentinel," sometimes
but
we
impute
reasonablyinquirewhat
Whigs and the Tories.
may
the
possessed
by
The
fair standard.
be taken
first
as
a
Englishlanguagemay
in
claim
to
bob-^"^,
short,
sciatch-ici^,
tie-wi^,
lay
perri-w?^,
may
not
the w^hole familyof perruques, with whi^maleeTy. The latter,
to
territory,
have a vested rightin oratory, history,
mention other good things,
have
doubt
and victory. Can
of
a
a
man
common
patriotism
The
That
last
I don't
to
as
to ?"
which
see
read.
what
care
You
answered.
decidedlyreckon fire
doctrines
Very pernicious
danger,and
our
Take
it is to be
how
see
you
the Western
Channel.
The
across
especially
I'm told they tie the cows'*tails together,
and
for insurrectionary
The
foundations
bugles.
the world
over
Indies,all
to
men
"
to
fightunder
rallyround
themselves
seem
in
the Whiteboys
grow
of
sort
no
I'm
ebb.
sorry
off"their horns
saw
Franklin
shaken
Blacks
all
in the West
to
say
and
publicspirit
measures
reallyfrightful.
societyare
Americanism.
to Indian
Englishwheat
our
apples but
of
abroad, and
are
are
then
colours.
same
but
"
Irish
Ireland,and the
the
argument. Indeed
con.
they are all nem.
an
inflammatoryagent.
I call sound
Davis,is what
paragraph,
pippins.
We
corn,
want
and
strong
demagoguesabroad
There's
"
hats.
white
they wear
tell him
hope
he will
I could
be down
may
tell the
tenantry,and
what
heart's in the
may,
I will
complimentsto
amongst
"
rightplace
"
be
my
preachto
wish
my
Give
an
and
unshaken
devoted
on
pillar
to
Dr.
Garratt, and
take
strong texts.
desert my post. You
out
and
gutted
constituents.
the basis of my
"
but
Come
circular
358
DonH
letter.
in
old
am
my
precautions.I
but
town"
to
am
no
If
of
forgetany
CONFLAGRATION.
GREAT
THE
wink
know
you
it's fire
But
them.
at
for what
as
hand,
and
break
and
under
gettingit
faggotat
there's
"
thing
no-
being taken
than
worse
You
hands
try your
in
every
out.
stack,
by
ready
be
for
moment
say, bucket
I may
Walk,
may
one.
paternal
assailmy
now
may
this letter
surprise.Read
furnace.
the
not
WHEN
SHALL
WE
THREE
MEET
AGAIN
"
least
if
placein parliamentis
Honour
forbids to
or
resign,
on
sitting
I should wish
barrel of powder.
gunI was
nothingbut
a
Jacob
To
Respected
Jubb, M.P.
Place,
Madam,
I received
my
In
best
controversy,I beg to
respectto political
silence
the
domestic
say
I have
imposed a
tacit
the sphere of my
as
as within
capacities
the
Mr.
is
Bailiff,
Davis, a party unamenable
say
and as
such has taken
to my
liberties with
decorum
authority,
However
quite unconsistent with proprietyand the decency due.
reluctant
to censoriousness,
subverpive
duty compels to communicate
on
control,but
conduct
lament
far
to
quite unconformable
to
decency'srules
and order
in
well-
THE
GREAT
behind
from
out
for
domestics,
terrifically
jumping
corners,
the
on
female
able
reason-
no
purpose
dark
in obscure
and
doors
Davis's
Mr.
I allude to
establishment.
regulated
359
CONFLAGRATION^
dis-
can
tliem
in
their
exert
make
to
except
cover,
voices
ner.
alarmingman-
very
The
housemaid,
indeed, confirms
sayingin
her
by
me
words,
own
"he
the
best
skreek
in
the
family." If impropriety
had proceededno further,
I
should
have
to trouble
hesitated
Ladyship
particulars
; but Mr.
Davis, not satisfied with
your
with
thus
the
working on
sophisticated
un-
of
terrors
ignorantfemales,thought
to
horrifywith
proper
inflammatory reports.
One night,
about
as
a prominent instance,
alarm
that
a
bell
the
so
the
at
violently,
law
ambiguouslyhinted
twelve
escaped in a
at, by sayingthat
proclaimingconflagration,
duty, and, as
dishabille only to be
paramount
our
all
we
consequence,
same
MAN.
MARKED
time
became
preservation
of
of
state
time
allow
did not
to
put
on
the neighbouring
to meet
lutestring
gentry and must add,
full
blaze
in the
with indignation,
of a heap of straw, thoughtproper
fire by Mr. Davis in the fore-court.
I trust your Ladyship
to be set on
will excuse
of language,
in sayingit was
littlewarmth
a
highlyreprehensible
but
I
have
the
not depictured
worst.
I, one evening,
lighted
;
what
I
be
mould
and
conceived
to
a
candle,
Ladyship will
up
your
when
it exploded itself like a missile
imaginemy undescribable fright
ray best
of the
"
years
a
and
Mr.
as
me,
be made
may
Davis
to be actors
I
experience,
preposterousnotion
character.
For
females to set up
well
as
his
to
absurdity
confidence
express
on
can
had
in
the
our
own
of the
say, of
I must
to
combustion.
vincing
con-
to, that
own
To
we
at my
suppose
must
of
danger fire,
be
being consumed
all his
mode,
audaciousness
be unsensible
fear of
professed,he exerted
as
unwarrantable
an
squibdescription,
influential
noctumally all
our
beds, as
he
to
purpose,
beings.I trust
but
your
need
not
add
Ladyship
will
were
dispensedwith
by
rational
acquitof uncharitableness
if I
360
suspect it
of vindictive
out
was
CONFLAGRATION.
GREAT
THE
personallypresent
her
feminine
be
to
dairymaid
cousin.
It
department
of
deprived,
male
escaped
that when
to say
memory
all that
at
the
passedbetween
and
servants
adverse
to
be
requiringto
as
even
to
spirited
up
by
the
refused
rest, the
equally
were
go
bed, being
Mr.
Davis
to
and
spend the nighttogether,
likewise
the
being furnished
ale
with
in
the
strong
tions,
cellar,
by his imperiousdirecof
climax
which,by way
best
to
assurance,
be
by
allegedto
was
say
his
on
self.
himtively
reflec-
his
nothing
charging
repeatedlydisat unseasonable
artillery
WAPPING
OLD
hours,the
STARES.
shock
principally
to
was
so
concerning
as
my
requirecallingin physicalpowers ; and Doctor Tudor, considering
advanced
is of opinion I may
requireto be under
age and infirmity,
hands for an ensuing
his professional
Of startling
twelvemonth.
effects
make
other parties
I may
comments
out
more
unreserved,and withupon
harsh extenuation must
his
off
due
without
letting reports
say,
notice,frequentlywhen the females had valuable cut glassand china
own
in their
express
vibrated
in the extreme, to
their trays,was
blameable
feature which
the least of it. Another
caused much
santness,
unplea-
hands, or
on
Mr.
was
entire
which
constitution,
nervous
premises from
forbids to
Davis
top
dwell,and
to
persisting
to
bottom, but
scrutinise and
on
the
rummage
this characteristic tedious-
as mainlyaffecting
himself,
particularly
such as the flow of blood from his nose, and two coagulated
eyes, from
the cellar door, througha peculiar
of lookingfor every thingin a
whim
that Mr.
state of absolute obscurity.I may
add, by way of incident,
Davis walks lame from a canine injuryin the calf of his leg,which I
ness
hope
will not
prove
more
rabid,in
introduced
responsibility
own
the
on
Ladyship's
pardon for the
your
incarnate.
at
end,
"
he
has
from
such
aberration
Davis.
construction would
mild
extraordinaryextravagance of conduct,
of mind
in the
his
reallyresemble,begging
premises,
what are denominated
D.'s
expression,
on
the
but
individual,
affairs
cedented
unpre-
infer,
or
flightiness,
deeplylament
to say
THE
fether of
hearth
tiths.
trooth
was
was
trew.
was
resin.
unsettil
swum.
seamed
slipor
perfeclyunconshunable,and
was
that the
meself
bran
weather
no
the Hirish
meself then
CONPLAGRATION".
My
ren.
did not
and
"
heals.
my
ginny
GREAT
thowsend
But
sich
mite
wack,
could
long Tim
rooted
no
hed
my
or
koUect
more
I cud
befor
dredful
on
the
to
perswade
fire is enuff
to
role
wons
over
our
beds,and not
I was
prodeuce sich a bio to the constitushun.
barleysensible. The
I cam
to the perrygraft
Currier dropt from my hands wen
witch says
of Communs
end.
The Hous
Our hops are
at an
is a boddy of
Flams, and so is the Hous of Pears ! The Lords will be dun !"
Honnerd
Sur, I beg to kondole as becums on yure missin yure seat.
hav
bean
It must
the suddinest of shox, " jestwen
goin to sit after
ears
"
But
I do
hop
emty
rummer
it is
onely an
pictup at
At
publickHous.
an
encinderycrisus
sum
such
frend wood
wust
our
be
General
Elixion,
by stirrin up inflametorypeif there was
ple,particly
a long pole. You
see,
Sir Jacob, I konker
in
sentashus
evvery
mint
in yure
The
respected
Letter.
Yolkano
menshun
you
sente-
I can
enter
into. Theresa
greatdeal
in
sperits
the country that onely
wants
a
spark to conof combustibul
them
vart
-
"
and
evvery
into catarax
I greave
say
tle
litinflammetory
demy
and
to
is nust,
has the caudle support
Gog
of certin
pappers.
countenins the nashunal
GENKRAL
Im
aspec
There
two
is
its brinks.
gratestPublick
Vesuvus
under
Evvery
our
Housis
can
man
be
moor
There
feat,and
reflective
day.
see
rockingand swinging.
next
prospex
gennerashun but
had a grate menny
low thorts,for wat
our
this sort of
From
friteful evvery
gitsmoor
for the
loss of
ELECTION.
must
say
I hav
then the
dispiritin
is nothin cumfortable.
step bringsus
evvery
no
we
are
to
nearer
virginon
prccipus.
Honnerd
and
studid
ticlcr in
Sur ! In the
mean
tim I hav
its epistlery
derecshuns,witch
to the
fulfiling
utmost
xtcnt.
pade
atenshuns
I hav
made
If the most
to yure
meself
letter,
very
par-
THE
to wish
sucksedid
not
on
and
me,
GREAT
other
hope
axident with
the springgun
settin it himself,his tumblin
along with
dore
his shot
in too
they cauld
and
he
was
very
honner
wood
refus
which
leavs
be
not
Sur
"
whits
for two
who
Sam,
another
after
the lik
wile
sanguineconflic
to
promistin yure honners nam
but
vigilings, they stedfistly
dusk, tho they ar agrebleby daylit,
wood
for Firegards,
as
strangemen
ends
theaves,even
waukd
to there
insistid
on
wun
there
as
pillers
swetharts there's
duzzen
I can't
to
say
in
gettin at
minds
me
nothin
give them
xcept
backy-box,with
cruckid
lock
domesticatted
all
car
Becos I luck
dangeruswurk.
to the banesters
to ketch my
strings
after
As
wamin.
and
I
wen
for the
I ketchd
sixpens,a
is
them,
on
luvers
did
to set up
on
but he
fosfrus,
taler's thimbel, and a tin
pocketsfor
of hare witch
servents
tuck
rowt.
mad
gitthe
they
if they hadn't
their allarmin
on
contaned
am
for
sorry
After Bamea
trusswurthy.
Honnered
for
The
for their
after
moor
at my
me
mine.
fall
may
beds.
I have
hansumly
padrolanny
to
and
apprehendinwon
boath
them
I sent
for incinderies.
mistake
reword
over
to Sanders
the stax, by
wotchin
no
is dew
hone
to sea
to him,
surgings
so that he is certin of a
good dressin,but
I
about
t
ill
tolled him yure
a
gitting livin,
him
settle on
of the other
by
moor,
neglex of
was
legs.
down-harted
axident
363
CONFLAGRATION.
match
not
the
feer of
mades
fut,and I
have
with
candels
twice
It
cook's.
they
tie
pitchtfrom
stars.
with
riting
am
and
my forrid brandid
brown pepperd,and my
rite hand
from
in
poltus
gropping
dark
for
in the
in
the
cumbustibils
cole
seller,and
nothin
diskivering
but
the torturous
and
her
kat
kittings.
Honnerd
Sur
six capitol
gees
but
am
weather
the
verry
they
weary
them
got
bargin,
dubbius
possess
propperty that
to make
and
"
ort
wakful
of nites. The
^"^"^^
*^=
"^^**
"'^^^^
be
may
hav
lost. The Roman
wood
certinly
gees you menshun
hone
be
stolen without a cakeling,
themselvs to
as
our
old
specious
''^^'^
"'*''-"
sufferd
newer
did
too
nites
364
for the
As
ago.
gudgment.
they
they
other's
each
on
propensites
in the bread.
and
rag,
I
curcases.
mourning,and
the next
before
Bui
flew in
candied,they
be
dogs,to
to much
was
let lose
were
to deth
wotch
There
CONFLAGRATION.
GREAT
THE
the rest
he
was
evvery
Sur
Accordin
"
sum
bits
kild.
be
to ad it hung
s
to
nite to the
Gorge,and
told him
ot
suppirand
Punch.
allwaysan
was
but
full of bad
so
In
and
fire,
horse at
good, as
vallyble.
verry
Honnerd
lament
caning
wurrid
was
were
obligatedto
and
in liftinit up it went
and he has
the gait,
their
too
say
itf
errers
fust nite
verry
began to vent
regretto
all
were
The
lov nonsins
about
caul
to
*
As
he
yet
deary-made,so
the
for wat
man
suspishus
he
likt,witch
diskivered notliin
as
weather
for by sum
he is a dillygate
or
say a desinin won,
he allwaysmanniged to make
drunk fust,and genneartful meens
me
not
rallylent
hand
to
aney
I think it
home.
me
carry
wantid
thinghe
have
I shood
; but
the
to let him
skore,but
run
unprudent
up to ten
has
Johnson
a
pound. But it isn't all drink,but eatingas well
very
is
stix
tabel
there
and
the
to
as
meet.
as
long
appetit, always
glutinous
Honnerd
Last fridymorning there was
Sur
grateriotism and sines
and accordin I lost no time in berryinthe plaitas
of the populus risin,
derected by yure ordirs. I am
to say the disturbans turned out
gratifid
fit; but owen
to our
hurry and allarm,the spot
onely a puggleistical
We
have sinse dug
the plaitwas
berrid went
out of our heads.
ware
turnin up anny
thingin its shape.
up the hole srubbery,but without
was
"
"
But
it cant
srubs
be
will
trust it is
lost,tho' it isnt
all di from
onely his
Honnerd
Sur
shure to brake
old
The
"
out
to
be found.
sesin
being transplantedat unpropper
grumblinstilewitch he cannot gitover.
^but I
"
is to
wust
suner
latter,so
or
cum.
varnish
the
gardnerswares
The
I may
tail.
as
well
cum
to the
cat-
This
to
on
strophywithout any
morning,according
my
the littel faggitstak,fust takin the precaworder,I hignitted
yure
with buckits,from the
of drawin
shuny meshure
up a line of men
the
of
Nothin
to
sene
can
lay therefor on my
dux-pond
combusting.
for bear, wen
sholders : it all riz from the men
they ort to hav
striking
I
to
bean handin warter
another.
felt my deuty
to won
argy the pint,
cussin and discussin
which
I trust will be apruved,and wile we
were
unitted pours to subdo.
To conthe fire got a hed that defide all our
fess
all lokt up in a stabble with a shy
the fax, the fire inguns ware
we
key that had lost itself the day before,and was not to be had wen
could
the
that
have
wurkd
wantid to lay hands on it. Not
we
inguns
of hands.
if they had faverd with their presens, for want
Evvery boddy
had run
offen at the allarm bell that they got noboddy to go in there
so
steed.
It
thingafter
was
h awful
an
another
fritefulviolins.
as
Were
sune
site ; the
as
devo
wring
cotched,and
the fingerof
ellemint swallerd
rushed
Providins
won
alongroringwith
is the hand
as
does
we
HUGGINS
it,but
not
must
arrange
Heavin
bel Bee."
sow
the
the barn
it wood
the him
as
365
DUGGINS.
"
says,
direx the winds,and not
submit
must
we
and
huni-
As itblue towards
us.
the
piggrysune
That
between.
runnin
AND
all the
was
with
about
cotching,
excep
flaimin
the
from
hay-stax,
At
Jenkins
last,by
to burn it was
no
moor
blessin,when there was
got under and squentbe
of
ched itself,
lif or lim.
Another
comfit
givenwithout loss
prays
in the
will not
refus to make
hone
and
ax
will ketch
couldn't
bustibils
hold of
deni
gud
But
deeds.
a
on
the
to kiver
ground that
fire ofiicisare
of rags,
it ; and
it was
sumtimes
bundil
Sun, enuff
I shud
verry
were
hop they
by our
and
unlibberal,
dun
put
wilful
on
matchis,candel ends,and
and
faggits,
litin up
then
with
my
their oths I
other
hone
com-
hand,
dun
consienshusly
eazy, it was
to reflect
for the best,though turnd out for the wust, and am
gratifid
fulfild evvery particler
that I hav omitted nothin,but have scruppleusly
and in hap of approvalof the saim,await
of yure honner's instruxions,
Tim
In the meenwile
will sho.
am
Davis.
LIGHT-FINGEREO.
Two
swains
Are
Each
clowns
POPE.
AFTER
PASTORAL
but
"
call them
swains
SalisburyPlains,
all that tend on sheep as drovers.
to lovers,
turned to songsters,
or
keepingflocks
While
For
or
DUGGINS.
AND
HUGGINS
on
Began
dear.
clear.
"
366
HUGOINS
DUGOINS.
AND
All
HUGGINS.
Of
about
girls
allthe
There's
one
place,
our
and face
all in fomi
beats
Search
throughall Great
You'll
onlyfind
and
Peggy
one
Little
Bumpstead,
Plumstead.
DUGGINS.
giUsand
I'm
"When
flame
by
inspired
noggins.
SallyHoggins!
rocks re-echo
FOLLOW
MV
LEADER.
HUGGINS.
Wlien
am
I think of
I'd
But
carve
walkingin the
Peggy as I rove.
her
name
I don't know
on
my
every
grove,
tree,
A, B, C.
HUGGINS
AND
36?
DUGGINS.
DUGGINS.
Whether
I think
I'd
in hill or
I walk
of
siugher praise,but
No
valley,
Sally.
nothingelse but
song, except
God
"
sing
can
the
save
King."
HUGGINS.
My Peggy
And
excel.
the
bell,
"
Where'er
Like
DUGGINS.
"
HUGGINS.
When
Peggy'sdog her
emprison,
arms
hisn ;
I often wish my lot was
often I should stand and turn.
How
To
get
pat
hands
from
like hern.
DUGGINS.
stand
But
about
when
And
won't
how
and stare
look, she
bear
blest
they be.
at she ;
turns
and
but their
none
shies.
I
sheep's-eyes
HUGGINS.
she goes,
goes with Peggy where
her smile the gardengrows ;
Beneath
Love
Potatoes
'Tatoes
and cabbagestarts,
spring,
have eyes, and cabbagehearts
"
DUGGINS.
HUGGINS.
For
Peggy
And
As
have
can
She's sometimes
as
joy,
sometimes
coy,
wayward tricks.
sheepwith ticks.
keeps me, by
comfortless
no
kind, and
her
368
DIDACTICS.
DOMESTIC
DUGGINS.
June
Sallyis ripeas
And
For
yet
cold
as
she's asked
when
"
May,
day ;
changeher lot,
to
Sally,she
^but
wool,
Lamb's
or
Christmas
as
wool
not.
HUGGINS.
Only
I'd
with
never
Peggy
wish
and with
for state
havinghealth
Talkingof
health,
wealth
or
and
more
pence,
fourpence.
DUGGINS.
Marry
come
'^'X
f^^X
RAMSAY
DIDACTICS.
AN
OLD
Nine
SERVANT.
descend
that
; it is
areas
John
events,as Winifred
fact."
go so low
in the habit of
they
into
as
all
the
SHEPHERD.
GENTLE
DOMESTIC
BY
marry.
Perhapsit
was
Jenkins
eye,
as
says,
seamstresses
"
they were
charewomen
or
never
to allow
no
"
at
ketch'd in the
and
followers,
370
DOMESTIC
and
money.
accustomed
so
scholar,and
Poet
with
The
merits
of
to read
that he
Horseman,
Editor
that there
to walk
wages,
The
the
not
his
from
made
were
DIDACTICS.
Pegasus, and
of
of
dreamt
never
one
to
as
to say
"
John
behind.
What's
life but
With
With
BROKEN
DISH.
full of
and
care
doubt.
humanities.
walk
about.
parasolswe
and
Long pigtails
such vanities.
We
gatherflowers
And
of every
hue.
for fishes,
paintedblue,
fish in boats
Build
summer-houses
But
"
Walking about
Blue
How
littlethoughtthem
They'd both
WRITTEN
Oh
ON
Peace
THE
! oh
be
ODE
TO
NIGHT
OF
with
come
two
smash'd
Chinese,
to shivers
PEACE.
MISTRESs's
MY
and
me
ROUT.
GRAND
dwell
"
Peace
On
! for thee I
go and
Wednesday, when
In loft or pew
ring,the tarts
sit in
churches.
there's very
few
"
Another
Oh
Peace
Hush
Oh
! there's
Peace I thou
The
Oh
Peace ! thou
Peace
That'^s Lord
from
come
marriagecarriage.
best of earthly
goods"
Woods.
some
I adore
"
more.
Drum's
Birch's.
avoided
come
! thou
art the
five Miss
There
Oh
are
footman,
classical
associate
Footman.
an
but he presumes
Humphreys as a Bard
several Authors, of the present day, whom
THE
stopped,
quiet
for he loves
"
riot.
thus
much,
ought
not
Oh
Knocks
Oh
Peace
That's
Oh
Peace !
will not
! thou
cease.
band.
"Weippert's
Peace ! how
Peace
gladI
! oh
Peace
! with
Peace
And
I've
now
Oh
Peace !
of coaches.
"
Oh
Peace
show'd
Peace
That
serene
worldlyshyness,
Highness!
in
"
disdain
do not
train,
menial
amongst the
and
you
Where
! if you
To dwell
I have
Portsoken,
from
way
Oh
comes
"
Gobble
Peace
np
Guzzle
If that is Alderman
Oh
wander,
Lady Squander,
Captain Hare.
art the slumber of the mind,
and unbroken,
and quiet,
here
Untroubled,calm
Make
"
the stair.
her up
seen
! thou
Alderman
stops
carriage
Blenkmsops.
thee I love to
but
"
"
another
But
thy approaches
welcome
plann'd"
comfort
for human
wert
371
DIDACTICS.
DOMESTIC
call our
I may
tumult
makes
never
business have
Susan, what
At
And
that
entry
you
in my
"
pantry?
Major Monk,
Oh
And
own
an
Peace !
Oh
"
Vander
Trunk,
greatGerman,
Miss
talker.
Apreece ;
great
poets'
quills
their
quadrilles
They'rejustbeginning
Oh
Peace
dear to
so
"
"
Oh
Peace
I wonder
Oh
"
no
put
^but here
Peace
I have
greatestrenovator
our
where
waiter
my
Ode
my
"
"
I'llcease
LINES
FEW
ON
serious sense,
I reflect with
When
While
How
soon
FORTY-SEVEN.
COMPLETING
on.
hence
"
John.
There's cook a-calling
Onr
lives
On
We're
are
built
frail and
so
on
at
hourly standing
There's
some
one
bb2
poor.
rocks.
Death's door
double-knocks,
"
35^
DIDACTTCS.
POMESTie
"
days have
All human
Our
fates
settled teniis,
cannot force ;
we
will feiiKi
the
to lunch
They'recome
And
when
of
"
course.
body'sturned
my
worms
clay.
to
"
I hear the
TO
bell.
upstairs
HOUSEMAID,
MARY
valentine's
ON
on
pen
saves
And
you,
a
many
May
Yuor
such
the
courting
way.
feature,
beingvain,
form'd your
from
p'rhaps,
unhappy
poor
virtues would
day,
conscience
flirting,my
love-nonsense,
no
on
mean
writingin
Or
I've
day.
not
creature
half
was
rise
as
plain.
inch,
an
Great
You
From
But,
red by
getting
hands
your
household
is a moral
coarseness
Susan
And
But
spare
smaller.
duty
Their
Let
try to
never
them
at your
odd
legssneer
let her
That
beauty.
and
scofi^.
WHAT
ODD
LEGS
373
SEE-VIK\T
PAIN
IN
A
A
"I
STARES.
BROAD
PLEASURE-BOAT
ECLOGUE.
SEA
apprehendyou!"
School
"
of
Reform.
Boatman.
Shove
shipthe rudder,Bill
off there !
"
"
Mrs.
She's under
what
"
cast
way
F.
what
goodgracious,
spray I
Boatman.
Run
out the
jib,and
rigthe boom
Mrs.
I
intend
some
keep clear
of those two
brigs!
F.
joke by runningof
their
rig8!
Boatman.
Bill,shiftthem bags of
ballast aft
"
Mrs.
Great
bagsof stones !
of trim !
F.
they're
pretty thingsto helpa
boat to swim
374
pain
in
pleasure-boat.
Boatman.
wind
The
is fresh
"
F.
Mrs.
Wind
fresh,indeed,I
never
full of salt !
so
Boatman.
That
roads,with oranges
Mrs.
If
have
seas
and
nuts
F.
roads,they'revery rough
"
never
Boatman.
Mrs.
The
bar !
what,
heavy lade,and
roads with
F.
turnpikestoo
? I wonder
where
they are
Boatman.
Ho
brigahoy ! hard
up
! hard
! that lubber
up
Mrs.
hard up
yes,
Lord, there's a wave
Yes,
F.
"
steer !
cannot
near
danger's
some
roaringlike
bull !
Boatman
Nothing,Ma'am,
but
Mrs.
What,
little slop! go
full !
F.
daringwork
! when
she
full,
go down
must
Boatman.
off
bit
"
Be
! but
"
they'vegot a pintof
drink !
Boatman.
Bill,givethat
sheet another
haul
"
Mrs.
I'm
I wonder
what
it
is,now,
F.
and
but
they
never
see
it by that
felt so
speech!
queer !
Boatman.
Bill,mind
your
luff
Keep
! we're
"
why Bill,I
Mrs.
near
"
^keepher
F.
our
backs.
Boatman.
Be
We
near
'cause we
tacks :
easy, Ma'am, it'sall correct,that's only
about
shall have to beat
a bit,"Bill,
keep her out to see.
Mrs.
who
Beat
about
keep
"
who
at
375
PLEASURE-BOAT.
IN
PAIN
F.
?
sea
black
how
"
look
they
at
me
Boatman.
round
It's veering
I knew
"
it would
! oflFwith
Mrs.
her head ! whose?
Off with
her head
! stand
by
F.
where?
with?
what
an
axe
shall have
to
"
to
seem
spy!
Boatman.
She
can
t not
keep
her own,
see
you
Mrs.
They'lldrown
me,
and
take
we
pull her
in !
F.
all I have
life'snot
! my
worth
pin !
Boatman.
Look
out
you
know,
be
ready,Bill
justwhen
"
Mrs.
The
sand
"
Lord
! to
stop
F.
mouth
my
! how
every
thingis plann d
Boatman.
The
handspike,Bill" quick,bear
hand
Mrs.
"What
! an*'t I
Well,
Heaven
F.
and
going to be killM
! but I'll not
be praised
"
STERNE
! now
welter d in my
go
MARIA.
sailing
any
gore ?
more
876
SPENT
The
Ball
is
BALL.
flyingball.""
Gray.
"
that
"
it inherits."
Four
o'clock strikes.
musicians
"
"
put
remain, that
company
their absence.
with
up
have
The
never
been
are
danced, and
all but
their exercise.
thing.
familycircle.
every
the mouth
Tunnel.
the
few
however,
^''figures"
the
hostess, who
urbanityand turbanity,
kindlyhopesthat they will
set more."
The six figures
jump at the offer ; they
get the fiddlers into
and
gone,
stand up
"
for
the
wake
is all
"
one
Harp,"
"
The
band
It is
of Mamma
Papa,
is
disbanded,and
when
the form
of
church-yardsyawn, but
giveshopes of the Thames
anythingbut
force-meat
The
few."
assents
to
the
son
378
LITERARY
! Burdett
Grey !
Horton
! Wilmot
Hume
Think
LITERAL.
AND
of your
prose
worse
delivered in
"
Hog's Norton
"
The
founder
From
Mr.
of
for
pic-nic,
the mind's
Not
But
mere
repast,
knife-and-forker,
Had
It chanced
porker.
one
Friday,
big hog,
A perfectGog or Magog of a pig-hog.
of course
made
Which
a literary
high day,
One
Farmer
Grayley stuck
Not
that
Farmer
With
When
our
tastes"
literary
he heard
""
Or
was
'tis
so
mention
I'LRASANT
SURE
very
to go
man
far from
TO
SEE
With
Was
him
was
ONe's
SELF
IN
'em
shooting
quitea log.
In fact in letters he
'em^
suiting
of Professor Crowe,
great Bacon
taken,
literally
for
LITERARY
And
Hogg
As
"
^the Poet
To
Fame,
only recognised
she had
herself
hung
"
daily,
Baillie !
Miss
balance
Had
A
Hog
classic name,
one
thoughtthat
Althoughthey were
And
379
LITERAL.
nothingbut
"
the list of
to all others on
He
AND
"
"
(Though men
May
The
more
The
secret
At
she
future
Of
dippedand
truth
truer)
nothing''s
dabbled
is,Hope,
deceiver.
hint.
apt
the Type-usFever,
Authorship
to
means
call
some
Miss
"
Hemans
Dreamt
Anne
be
burningto
laurels
learning's
"
in
seen
Joanna
Wilson
Mrs.
in the Lakes.
the old
was
Of Mrs.
And
cakes
Producingwhat
Which
yet
"
"
"
Priscilla Isabella
print.
Bailli""
daily
Grayley;
Of L.E.L.
She
"Love
Lays
see
Lyrics
and
A. P. I. G."
with very greatpropriety.
Accordingly,
She joinedthe H. N. B. and double S.,
That is, Hog's Norton Blue StockingSociety
;
And
savingwhen her Pa. his pigsprohibited,
"
Contributed
Her
pork
This
said,one
we
feast,
When
"
Screwinghis courage
Stuck a largeknife into
kind
Seldom
of murder
condemns
Showing the
And
swine
beg
"
*'
place,"
sticking
grunters
throat
:"
by
shake
of its peruke.
littlesympathy of
With
The
the case.
Macbeth
to quote-
from
to the
mess.
Friday was
Grayley
farmer
the
hig-wigs
pig-wigs!
poor
wretch
!
"
with
its life,
resolved to have
squeak
for it ;
380
So
^likethe fabled
"
died
"
invitation to the
And
when
the time
N.
fact,and
came
"
each
"
We
call a
not
Members
S/s,
NO
UP,
all assembled
it,
that bonnet
HOLIDAY
thus,a
rare
woman
At
chosen chairwoman
In
Blues,Miss
Whose
She
whole
pronunciation
alwaysnamed the authoress
As Mrs; Tiggeyl
And
now
What
Bacon
author
or
questionof
for
Hogg
But
While
was
arose
"
dresses.
Lady," in
Pig-faced
poke.
B.IEAK1NG
The
double
joke,
jestupon
might fairly
B. and
and swinish
appropriate
a
*'
the ham
it, when
has
the close of
At
"
"
in the H.
For lo ! it is
"
"
readyto disposeof.
too, to cram,
chit'lings
and
pettitoes
All in
duly,
came
day," as Beattie
Bacon, and pork were
Walked
card,
eveningrout.
The
And
singingout,
yard
the farmer's
note
An
swan
And,
LITERAL.
AND
LITERARY
lecture
? there
more
of
the
was
no
"
Ikey,
piggy.
Psyche'*"^
"
moment,
some
for Fliicher
some
others,with
were
so
"
richer,
for Beaumont,
votes
;
reasoning,
sagacious
Would
prove
thoughttheir pork
1
from Thomson's Season-ing
more
relishing
LITERARY
AND
381
LITERAL.
Miss
Selected
In
Priscilla Isabella
Anne
him
that
make
short,to
evening to
The
Winter's
Her
Were
Of
course,
Till fanned
She
But
on.
and
at
not
her
round, with
sitting
All
snort
big tale,
fancy
exerting
and
talents,
converting
Tale to something like a pig-tale
!
sister auditory.
story
our
Just
Her
Grayley
grave
and
learned
faces,
very plauditory.
clapped her at the proper places;
once
by
fortune
and
the
Muse,
And
There
The
Pleasure's
is
no
heart
in the
bubbles
air
explode ;
"
travelling
through life but
with
will meet
With
that
breakers
on
still
the road !
peculiarvoice
Lets
Imagine
Uprose on
Grunting
"Do
Diss
from
this
the wain
of Dis ;
"
I-
ACCIDENT.
THE
There's
you
him,
to
you
some
he's
months
for
you,
be
you'll!
"
with
up
for
brute
to
to
go
fractions.
sects
Don't
"
he'll
"
lay
gentlemen
in
up
the
on
dirt,and
into his
get
think
like
you
You
are
Murdered
tell the
over
over
you
gallop over
to
you
Wilful
and
you
as
people
f
hirriyor you
run
grind the
top
scrunch
coach, ma'am
the
hard-hearted
will,the inhumane
he
months,
and
do
the
for
respect
no
you'd
"
compound
into
bones
their
no,
created
wasn't
Women
not
to
way
better run
Christians, you
poor
^that's the
"
"
call out
won't
moment
every
Book.
villain
go, you
little boy in the road
There
expected her
it out, and
\^rould ride
never
Sketch
Naval
"
"
she
thought
We
"
pieces."
hospitalfor
varmin
"
had
run
parallelwith the
speaker,a little active old woman,
coach some
fiftyyards, when it stopped to take up a lady who was
as
prompt as ladies generallyare, in giving dinner instructions to the
cook, and settingdomestic lessons to the housemaid, besides having to
pack a parcel,to hunt for her clogs,to exchange the cook's umbrella
The
for her
door-mat,
he
"
run
it
line
I've
Burrowes,
think
of
art
You
the
Look
silence till
and
assailant
her
at
She
ago.
not
his
with
and
figure now,
had
never
waist
must
with
one
He's
of the
allude
on
done
till I
experiments
"
the roof.
Not
by
accidental
little in the
Miss
death
of
to
and
Need,
be
To
Jack.'
You
one
sure,
person,
he's
got
I
now
and
she
fractured
her
"
without
born
woman
in
"
Friend
Fatal
cause
common."
to
the
'
called
the innocent
was
out
I have
over
for it.
it,I
"
these
make
to
apt
very
elderlyquaker
an
very
the road,
All
I've been
the
on
mentioning.
years
kill on the spot ; them
o'things belongs to
sort
drives
as
name
rather
was
to
come
never
quite a
months
Mat
answered
nothing worth
"
Virago
face
to
still poured
the box.
gratitude.
said
figure,"
means,"
no
six
was
hope, friend,thee
the human
on
the
imperturbable
most
reduced
thus
Mat,
volleywhich
her."
over
"
I call
that's what
at what
look
the
escape
kept
children.
seven
There,
whip
he
but
to
fairlyseated again on
was
"
unable
was
him
in upon
and
own,
Biffin," said
the
outsider
legs
"
"
and
the
arms."
Norfolk
phenomenon."
"
Begging
your
was
started.
It
was
and
I drove
it
myself.
one
of the
Very
"
it
before
the
Phenomenon
long-bodieddouble-coaches,
they were
; for springs at that
regularold
uneasy
was
THE
hadn't
time
much
spring in 'em
Piccadilly. You
Macadaming
the
stones,
off, and
or
in
for coaches
"
wasn't
days
such
nobody
could
tell whether
always
I
had
earth
on
was
of
were
you
hour
full
thought
behind
on
time
them
called
by
meters
Chrono-
as
names
and
mistake.
no
363
ACCIDENT.
and
Regulators,
good reason
why.
I'd been
plying a
and
So
hour
full
after
without
except
for
down
last,
at
Jarvey
and
man
water-
Well,
with
up
time
my
team
wasn't
into
and
"
the easiest
the
the
coach
over
the
the
on
to
the
box,
me
of
out
not
unsensible, and
"
To
bellows.
the
at
the
Well,
bottom
head
be
their
on
sure
opening
She
counsel
she
hadn't
but. Lord
a
leg
the
did," answered
with
B.
said
to
up,
insides
breath
for
the
the
door,
coach,
the
but
and
Miss
of oysters !
barrel
of the
out
one
I opens
of
of my
elderly Quaker,
till I
rattle
my
come
waiting
was
almost
was
do
what
Biffin
see
bruised
"
"
that
thou
didst
seats."
enough, without
Miss
pull
to
sorry
hope, friend,"
do
replace them
"
Park
very
my
lying together
springing
I goes,
Comer, where
"Well, away
Hyde
and
"
shook
so
stones.
at
S\RUM.
OLD
PORTRAIT
FANCY
jumped
gate
it
thing
keep
world
seat
to
nished
asto-
gallop
light
and
enough,
bit of
for
the
drag.
fetch
to
and
up,
Biffin
my
one's
lifts Miss
off I sets
in
tomer
cus-
road
hackney-
pulls
load
the
coach
into
side,
in-
barrel
natives
of
time,
soul
their
talked
bless
stand
of
you,
upon
Mat,
mouths
an
when
!'*
and
"
but
;
action
it
came
the
oysters took
it didn't
for
go
it
quite so
quietly
smooth
384
BIUDS.
DICKY
SONNET.
of
I'm
fond
of black
I'm
fond
of wild
And
I'm
cocks,for
ducks, and
that set up
grouse
fond of
I'm
such
their
pheasantswith
of
fond
All these
Some
With
A
To
man
care.
of
woodcocks,
pipes.
splendid stripes
Whig or Tory
glory,
"
"
"
all their
types
Law-giving Peer,
Lordly Babel,
clause put in your
Bill,preciseand clear.
due and fit provisionto enable
when
And
in your
are
fond
cocks"
strange moorish
hares,whether from
in their
I'm fond of capercailzies
Teal, widgeons,plovers,birds in
I'm
of
snipes,
they'revery good
fond
I'm
partridges,
I'm fond
GAME-BILL.
HIS
ON
WHARNCLIFFE,
LORD
TO
you
next
that holds
address
all kinds
your
of game
so
dear
Table.
386
AccordinglyI
North.
that
merrily,
the fourth
on
"
verses
some
"
song?"
Gems, alludes
of
Gadzooks
that it sickened
"
Scotch
the Book
in
My Biographer,
infers from
advice,in
per
Bonny Dundee."
"
old Steepleof
shipped,as
soon
was
''^smacked
which
Smack,
REMINISCENCES.
LITERARY
! must
of the
me
to
swear
one
be
Nothing can
sea.
more
enumerated
in the
disagreeables
who
the
to
ocean
me,
regard
belongto a
poem,
with a natural and national partiality.
Constitutionally
proofagainst
from the afflicted,
I
which extorts so many
that nausea
wave-oflPerings
in my
constant as Captain Basil Hall himself,
as
regard for the
am
tires." Some washy fellows,it is true, Fresh-Tnen
element
that never
and
the like,aifect to preferriver or even
from Cambridge
pond water
the
the prose to
to the wild wave,
for their aquatics the tame ripple
the multitudinous sea,"resting
But giveme
or
poetry of motion."
Memoods
and
variable
with
all
its
changeablecolouring.
rampant,
du
the
maladie
under
when
a hopeless,
sick,
pining
pays^ on
thought,
would
have
relieved
it
those
yearningsbut
bed, inland,in Germany,
that it
element
an
so instinct with
to look across
Englishassociations,
marine
The
unfounded.
and
terrors
Oliver,and
Miss
not
"
"
"
"
would
rather to unite
seem
And, truly,when
under
besides,personally
am,
Twice, indeed,in
with
it !
calm
in
and
the
But
great deep.
storm, has my
Channel.
catastrophe
; but that quarrelhas long been made
and bracinginfluence of
for the blessing
in gratitude
forgiven,
salt-water
up, and
fche breezes
that smack
delightaforetime
what
island.
native
my
actuallycrossed the
to
deep obligations
that I
afterwards
months
many
from
me
seemed
wishes
home-sick
my
to than sever
me
landsman,
in
Even
tolerable boatsman.
Dislike the
brine.
ocean
I to swim
it,to dive in
Woodgate, of Hastings,who
honest Tom
Ask
of the
used
With
!
"
it,to sail on
of me,
do I feel
when
now,
when
made
sea
walking hard
for
in
so easy
the surge,
as
by
spirit,
but distant
of
some
friendly
whisperings
expecting
listening,
I have a
If
!
of
in
Sick
the
ever
sea
voices, its eternal murmuring.
fancy,it is a wish that the ocean brine had been sweet,
water-drinking
body, and
so
if
as
or
sour
cheerful in
instead
of
so
salt,
as
to
be
for what
potable;
"
solar
Champaigne of
soothingsyrup have
the very
and
I not
it has been my
wont
to recommend
in the
or a
depression,
owing to physical
my
personalvexations and
cares, real
water
or
most
be
more
invisible
rocky hollow, a
wake
ship's
can
almost
fluid,
Above
derived
true
livingliquidin
bubblingin the
all,what
from
the
lectual
intelmere
of that
philosophy
practical
present work.
For
ever,
when-
importu-
LITERARY
387
REMINISCENCES
in my
and acquire,
undue
an
thoughts,
by morbid exaggeration,
what
and
then
infallible
to
prominence
so
importance,
as
remedy
nate
in the look-out,
and
thence gaze awhile
in
till
the
that
of
vast horizon,
expanse,
presence
my
and
troubles shrink to their true proportions,
I look on the
mount
to
seat
solitary
my
the broad
across
proper
whole
of
race
!
shrimpers
Dundee,
Burns
"
"
it is called
as
their
pursuits,as so many
insignificant
made
We
have
the harbour of
digression
it is time to step ashore in
stout and original
Scotland,"
in
Doctor
his
German
edition of
by
AdolphusWagner,
this is
But
and
with
men,
*.
Like
other
had
I
shipments,
been
consignee
;
a hobbledehoy,
yet at the same
of having a relative in the same
a
but the
"
addressed
regularly
anxious,probably,to
not
latter,
time
and
under
not
take
the
of
care
chargeof
incur the
unwillingto
town
to the
reproach
roof,
same
Judgingfrom
such
the temper of my
vigorousmeasures
customer,
I afilectedresignation,
instead of remonstrating,
and went with a grave
face throughthe farce of a formal leave-taking
went
on
board,
; I even
but it was
with a stout fellow who relanded my baggage;
in company
and thus,whilst my transporterimagined,
good easy soul ! that the
Abb's
off the
article
round
St.
was
Head, or rolling
rejected
sailing
Bass,he was actuallysafe and snug in Dundee, quietlylaughingin
meeting,some
road to
who
school,
off towards
who
The
no
confused
days afterwards,
a
recollection of
female
cousin
on
her
was
for
sons
to look
now
consideration"
into
accordingly
of his
one
a
but
own,
out
for
would
be treated
treatywith
in
comfortable
some
spiteof
as
roof,
of the
one
widower,
respectable
the
most
undeniable
Baron
informed,that
at
"
I entered
had
concern
which
family.
at
I have
at his back.
four
with the
home
first
My
under
or
the
"
reading
book
behind
the
back.
In
letter
to
Mr.
Robert
he
grew wise
Hebrew
musty
mere
he
grew
weary
He
carried this so far,that an old
way home.
had in a present from a neighbouringpriest,
by
do a blistering
plaster,between his shoulder s^
all the
Concordance, which
we
of applyingit as doctors
dozen pilgrimages,
acquiredas much
of
by fortyyears'perusal its pages."
cc2
dint
Stitch,in
don"
as
rational
theologyas
the said
priesthad
388
LITERARY
and
references,
generalaccordance
mysterioushitch
only
afterwards
came
to
whimsical
possession
pre-
knowledge namely,
inevitably
my
"
would
Englishladdie,instead of supping parritch,
an
requirea rump-steak
successful
beefeater.
She
was
sort of
My
next
not
was
of my
sure
boardingbeing a
husband
as
seafaring
of
unlike a personification
with
widow,
so
more
was
essay
installed in
beingregularly
Scotchwoman, who
"
in her appearance
not
her red eyes, her red face,her
dead," and
as
his breakfast !
to
in my
ended
; and
house,kept by
good
to
as
arisingfrom
arrangement;,
in the
which
that
REMINISCENCES.
yellowteeth,and her
rouge et noir,with
The first day of my term
black velvet cap.
happened to be also the
first day of the new
on
steppingfrom my bed-room, I
year, and
encountered
Hostess
our
like
"
witch
and
familiar
her
with
spirit
"
speak
to
Such
I
was
small
still voice
"
several minutes
for
my
afterwards.
Cakes, where
of
stances
destined to spendthe greaterpart of two
years, under circumand
influence
the
to
likely materially
filling
colouring
up of
was
future
my
"
with
life.
the
properlyestimate
at the Nore, as
fifteen,
To
dangersof
it were,
thus
life,
of
left
his
dependent on
conceive a
safe voyage
to the Isle of Man
; or
without
a
Mentor, brought suddenlyinto the
Telemachus,
for
pilotage
her
neighbourhoodof Calypsoand
expected,that
from
It will
enchantments.
half-dozen
some
of
position,
imaginea boy
my
juvenile
perilous
hardlybe
bachelors, there
of young
own
came
was
the
no
Bible."
For
there
in Scotland,though a
extant
Tolboothia Infelix,
for
It
was
once,
regime
at
an
an
however, my
gentleman
unseasonable
fortune
was
with quaintly
cut
figure,
old Greenwich
she cousin of
Sunday morning,
of this
piousrigour
longercommitted
no
promenade duringchurch
a
sample of the
to witness
of
evening party composed chiefly
very
still much
was
lo ! like
from
one
Anachronism
an
out
came
Pensioner,who
of
some
young
time.
ancien.
rather
times
confounding
corner
three-cornered
takinghis
and
to
an
hat,not
antique
unlike
bread
our
Agnews
sanctimonious
and
that
pretension,
armlong
the
elder
Scotland,so
of such
renowned
for
psalmpreachments,and abundant
collection
liberal
a
posterity
singularly
LITERARY
389
REMINISCENCES.
of songs, the reverie of Divine and Moral, such as " can onlybe sung
when
the punch-bowl has done its work and the wild wit is set free *.**
had none
which, with all its chairs,
boarding-house,
the
t
o
Professor
of
Moral
In
absence
of
a
appropriated
Philosophy.
for myself,had gifted
such a monitor, nature, fortunately
with a
me
which
the languorof ill-health,
taste for reading,
to
me
inclining
to encourage.
Whatever
habits,helped materially
books,
sedentary
to
within
or
come
indifferent,
happened
reach,were
good, bad,
my
To return
to my
perused with
greatestavidity,and
the
however
indiscriminate
the
Virtue
and
Vice.
Of
the material
that ministered
to
this
"
in divers
sometimes called into requisition,
my
pen was
consequence
and sometimes delicate cases.
tlie Gods had
Thus for one party,whom
not
made
I composeda
poetical,
education
had
reference
to
love-letterin verse
I carried
neglected,
been
on
he
for
another,whose
correspondencewith
was
partner;
sleeping
throwingup
Dundee,
by
however, he
at
for him
been
assume
Customs, which
post in the
In this dilemma
his commission.
tearing
up
or
to
that instead of
To
he arrived
had been
procured
his infinite
indignation,
lucrative surveyorship,
he had
and magnificent
the rage
was
with
book
wherein
on
tick
had
he
been
set to
infernal
the very
"
littlebody,with
clover.
no
more
idea of
"
result
the precise
forget
*
A.
"
Cunningham.
in
a
no
field of
duel.
390
THE
OF
INVENTOR
PERRY,
TO
ODE
PEN.
PERRYAN
PATENT
THE
Finn
good work, Penn appears the greatest,usefullest of God's instruments.
when
and
soft
is
it
when
the
rigid
inflexibility
yielding
unbending
exigencyrequires
not
fluent and flowing,
at need, for eloquentrapidity slow and retentive
a desideratum,
in cases
of deliberation
going wide of the mark
or
never
spluttering
by amplification
itself out
rather in
if it can be helped,with
never
splitting,
any one, but ready to wear
hand
the
of Jew,
embrace
their service
all thingsas it were
to
with all men,
ready
or
Christian,
Mahometan," heavy with the German, lightwith the Italian,obliquewith
with the Hebrew,
the English,uprightwith the Roman, backward
in coming forward
and universal
in short,for flexibility,
constitutional durability,
generalability,
amiability,
Penn."
the
hard
it
be
to
find
would
t
o
a parallel
utility,
great
'*
In this
and
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
Perry's
O !
Characteristics
of
Settler.
Perrian Perry !
Patent, Pen-inventing
Friend
of the Goose
and
Gander,
wander,
unpluckedof their quill-feathers
making merry,
dabbling,
gabbling,
About
the happy Fen,
Untroubled
for one
penny-worthof pen.
all Britain through.
For which
chant
they
thy praise
From
Goose-Green
unto Gander-Cleugh!
That
now
and
Cackling,
"
II.
Friend
to all Author-kind
"
Whether
of Poet
Thou
the composer
yea, patent vehicles for Mind
it on jaunts,or more
extensive
or
art composer
Of pens,
To carry
"
of
Proser,
"
unto
P^rrygrinations
throughthe
Each plyingfrom the Comic to
An
Omnibus
realms
the
of
Thought ;
Pensive,
of intellectual sort !
III.
Modem
Improvementsin their
And
while
Dry
goods,and
Mind
course
to iron-railroads
human
flieson
heavy
bodies,pay
we
feel ;
wares.
their fares.
steel.
to Penzance.
To
Penrith, Penrhyn,even
To
Nay, penetrates,perchance.
Pennsylvania,or, without rash vaunts,
To where
the
Penguinhaunts
IV.
each
man
cut his
quill.
littlePerryan skill.
bunglingtools of trade
!
writingimplementshome-made
horrid,awkward,
Appear'dthe
What
Slit
Pens
hew'd,hack'd,and haggledout,
sliced,
were
with
unslit,
or
391
PERRY.
TO
ODE
various snout,
many
Some
Some
to
some
Or
V.
like
You
And
decent pen.
dip into
lucky box
got one very curly,
a
and
drew,
"
like endive in
split
The
and square
next, unslit,
The
third,incipient
pop-gun,
The
fourth
broom
;
hurly-burly
some
end, a spade ;
at
yet made ;
no
avail,
not
the fifth of
Turn'd
And
last,not
"
Making
"
roast-beef !
VI.
Not
thy
so
Perryan Pens
to their M's
True
do not with
They
and
N's,
split.
whizzingzig-zag
up their noses,
Straddle,turn
sulk,and spit.
Or
drop largedots.
blots,
Huge fullstop
Where
They
semicolons
even
were
unfit.
broom-like,drudge
"
"
"
But
What
"
lays by
means
celebrated
the most
he but
thy
Patent
Pens,"
Pens, my Perry?
VII.
Pleasant
So firm !
so
they
are
flexible !
to feel !
composed
of steel
3!)2
ODE
So
TO
PERRY.
finely
temper d fit for tenderest
To giveher passionbreath,
Kings to signthe warrant stem
Miss
"
Or
But
of death
"
Tragedy,Comedy,
Dramatist
(No
all kinds of
should
ever
And, justconceive
There
the
plays
"
be without
'em)
"
"
bliss,
"
'em.
Vllf.
Ah
! who
Big
When
can
with
the poor
"
"
to
Striving
look
as
if he didn't mind
how
Beazleyvents
it !
IX.
Witness
His nervousness,
He
meanwhile
Squeezesand
That
went
Beaver
Miss
Mitford
to
Afraid
Poole told
Of water
me
own
"
backinghim,
ice-brook's
did not
More
as
for
life.
pail
spine,
pleasantto the chine
all down
temper"
"
his
"
Jerrold,in
doubtful of Nell
Squeezeout
Than
bag,
Glengallnot frame a
Wishing devoutlyhe was Lord
While
all her
Wife ;"
Lord
Nay,
fright,
of his
in
rag.
has confess'd he trembled
Knowles
The
and
mis-givings,
Rat !
night,
longkid glove,and
one
up
Quite
"
out
Rienzi's
Upon
Gnaw'd
had
in,comes
sits it flat,
enormous
mental
pray'r,
knows-
where
drouth.
and suck
1-
394
ODE
And
PERRY.
TO
spiritual
scurry,
Dram-
devil
attic curry
"
All
goingwell,
From
prompter
bell,
Until befel
HIS-TRIONICS.
at
hissing
dull
some
There's
imperfectdunce
My
head
My
legsfor
at once
swimming,while my
was
"
denying,
no
running
"
flying,
were
arms
frying!
was
XIII.
Thrice welcome,
then,for
this
peculiaruse
innocent
For
of goose !
Thy pens so
this shall Dramatists, when
they make
DiscardingPort
Drink
"
and
merry,
Sherry,
"
Perry !
Perry,whose fame, pennated,is let
To distant lands,
Perry, admitted on all hands,
"
loose
Patent
And
Pluto
when,
Perryans approach'dby
ah
me
no
man
gloomy bow'r,
!
!
SKETCHES
Many
shall be
ON
THE
395
ROAD.
thy pensivemourners,
many
And
Penury itselfshall club its penny,
To raise thy monument
in loftyplace;
Time
On
all
due
the
on
shall
effigies
meaner
bury,
pentagonalbase.
Parian, Perryan, perriwig'd
Perry,
of
Penman
!
Mawr
proudestpeak
of War
son
any
PENNSYLVANIA.
ON
SKETCHES
who
have
whilst
they admired
the
man
and
may
should
without
he
be, as
enough
occupierof
advantageof
of
loan
middle
seat
has
traveller's
a
vehicle,
weakly, shy
on
the
an
understand
the
An
ailing
at once
that
Even
to take
in the four-inside
is
an
flyingat
ought to hear,will
coach
unless
equally hopeless,supposing
properlytucked up the skirts of
bold, brassyfellow even, with a
case
is
whatever,
upset.
but do not
must
it,just at
four wheels
man
chance
no
their
one,
set down.
all the
nervous
roof to have
with
be
longstagecoach,
to request of some
torian
stenup his mind
set of lungs. In a six-inside coach, the
the passengers
to
lock
to
probable,a
hesitation make
some
neighbourthe
timid
is
convenient
be
voice
have
not
as
of stoppingwith
the difficulty
it would
pointwhere
inside passengers in a
of starting
off with
facility
travelled much,
remarked
occasionally
have
the
ROAD.
CHECK-STRING.
THE
Those
THE
cannot
hear
not
:
the
the
horses
hear
outsiders admire
896
SKETCHES
ROAD.
THE
ON
the pace too much, to hear anythingbut the patterof the hoofs.
At
the
with
the
has
when
he
stout
last,
succeeded,
gentleman
big voice,
who
wants
yards or
to
run
allowed
two
it out, backwards.
after a
It was
with
man
fond
serious
more
to be
himself
it,after suffering
exhibiting
of
bashful
"
not
was
carried two
so
miles
beyond his house,had at last fractured the small bone of his leg,by
openingthe door in despairand jumping out, that a discussion ensued
in the Brighton"Age" as to the best means
of beinglet out to order.
methods
had
different
been
the littleflorid plump
before
proposed
Many
gentlemanin black delivered his opinion,with his back to the horses.
I should
"For
on
own
part, ratiocinating
hackney-coaches,
my
hypothetically
check-strings."
propose
"
"
Lord
voice from
remembered
have
side.
Nobody
London
Crawley Common.
seemed
friend to check-strings
The
He
himself round
turned
all
at
"
than before
became
"
your
one, and
held
"
could
burr which
so
"
in his head
out
like
neither
kill it
peace
tied
hedgehog,and
It
let it alone.
nor
stick
hat that it may
be transferred to the left-hand
to
flyin
horse's
your
stuck
loons.
pantain
his
However, he
insupportable.
ear.
by
as
whether
am
strict rules of
one
coach conversation
common
still I cannot
logic,
the
suppress
bringsforward a position
gentlemansyllogistically
pro-
appear
His seat
pulloff your
you
like
worse
Doubtful
hated him.
"
it buzzed
Humph
ought to be
time,and
explosion.
didn't like
liked him
"
tillyou finally
alternately
get rid of it on
Lord
like
Macbeth's
forbid,"
Amen,"
on
"
neighbour
look
choke-pear,
very
the
by
"
stole another
"
found
his uncomfortable
does not
again
thunderstruck
look at his
glove,thence
right-hand
last he broke
At
to take
he
terrier,
like
The
throat
^he had
"
bull
clungto him
on
back
then looked
uneasy
like
very
heard
to
screwed
him
to
to my
mind
to be
'
cry
Lord
line of
following regular
a
forbid,'
argument.
But
perhapsthe forbidding
gentlemanwill have the goodnessto explain
the colloquial
anomaly."
The
forbiddinggentleman thus appealed to, good-humouredly
a
mere
apologised.It was
slipof the tongue,he said : the words
from
him
escaped
involuntarily
probably
; but his fellow-traveller would
him, in
excuse
he had
string
"
consideration
lost the
Indeed,Sir
why
of the
onlyhope
then
fact,that
of affluence he
excuse
"
account
had
ever
of
check-
in his life.
the
with
colloquial
irregularity
puttingboth his hands into his
on
must
have
been
very
ordinary
extra-
consequence."
"
very
the
other.
"
The
facts
aro
SKETCHES
ON
THE
397
ROAD.
maternal
; my
uncle
had
handsome
immense
aflPairs. We
were
late
very
and
rode
Nabob, who
uncle, the
my
that we were
extremelyfidgetty,
insisting
goingbeyond
other
minute
destination.
he was
his head out of
our
Every
thrusting
to disputewith the coachman, who, in truth,was
the front window
a
little less sober,and more
than became
And
him.
so we
obstinate,
till
uncle's
worked
went
was
onwards,
temper, always irritable,
my
up
backward, was
almost
In
to combustion.
to serio-comic
such moods
ebullitions ; and
my
he
I was
in the very midst of an illexquisite
sensibility.
smothered
laugh,when my fair cousin,givingme a sudden push, and
her hands,exclaimed
then clasping
that we were
goingpast the house.
I instantly
and
for
made
the
but with no more
jumped up
check-string,
effect than if I had pulledat anythingelse. Gracious Heaven
! I had
better have pulledthe string
hot
of a shower-bath,full of scalding
water, to pour itselfon my devoted head ! By that one infernal pull
muscles
of
"
Sir,I
pulledmyself out
"A
sad
of half
plum
"
pull indeed.
man
"
But
"
humph
begging your
pardon, Sir, I cannot
"
really derive
deduction
"A
from
moment's
continued
Sir,'**
such
any
the premises."
patience,
the
fortunate
un-
coach-stopper.
"
forbid
Lord,
checkforbid all
strings,Lord
! I was
whatever
strings
in despair.
Sir. I could
have sunk through the
!
bottom of the carriage
"
I believe I went
"
on
knees.
my
down
I
said
I could think
everything
of
and
begged fifty
"
thousand
my
'
uncle
Pray
saved
pardons, but
was
obdurate.
fiftythousand
CHINESE
read
pounds. It's
quiteso well in
most
a
my
very
PUZZLE.
caustic tone,
"
it has
joke,
good practical
will.'"
398
"
THE
But
acted
on
You
did
know
not
uncle never
your
such very imperfect
uncle.Sir," answered
my
the
unfortunate
"
OW^hsmt,forpullinghis wide
sterling."
shilling,
Arthur
"
"
kinsman, with
one
ONE.
inferences ?
"
UNDYING
Carruthers
DUCROW.
WITH
SPLIT
ONE.
UNDYING
THE
He
"
fJnc/e Toby.
die.""
shall not
I.
Op
That
I
At
As
so
once
that
And
wiled
ever
knew
never
grave
gay
hour,
an
mingledlay
and sour,
sweet
by Ladye
christen'd
or
"
Norton
spun.
Undying
The
One.'
II.
I'm very
A
That
she penn'd
when
portrait,
pictureof a perfectJew,
days will
Whose
it
I'm
sure
For
he is
an
means
never
niy
Udying
end
Uncle
One.
Lunn,
the
pigtail,
sum
of
UNDYING
THE
These
399
ONE.
twenty
And
may
But
in that time
The
image of th'
score
changeis none
Undying One !
the
"
IV.
They
say
And
climate's
our
lungsare
uncle's much
My
and cold,
damp
tender
things;
abroad
and
old,
when
But
V.
And
Or
But
very
slips
or
at
bleedings
choked
he
the
kicks.
nose
or
by grape-stone,
is the
Undying
FOITATD
One
DRO
AN
needle-pricks,
slender blows
accidental
From
Or
died from
have
Others
bun
WA^KB!';
1NN-QUE8T.
"
400
UNDYING
THE
"
It
kill'd
mighthave
but
"
only cured
asthma
in the chest
not
to be slain with
An
He
ONE.
was
For he is the
gun,
One.
Undying
VII.
In water
longhe dived,
all supposedhim beat,
And
He
seem'd
To
too
once
cold
so
have
but he revived
"
another
Just when
we
And
in
came
heat,
VIII.
To
look at Meux's
And
And
tumbled
he went,
once
in the vat
greaterJobs
"
No
bier to the
spent
that,
underdone,
quite
"
Undying One
IX.
black,
strangulation
bile,of yellowhue.
from fever'shot attack,
From
Yet
cholera morbus
with these
He
stillis the
He
rolls in
dyes
blue
to use
"
;
a
pun
"
Undying One.
X.
His
He
wealth,yet
Three
in his
wife
;
life,
no
Cents, to share
per
married
never
has
shun,
To
judgehim by
The
future
The
Last Man
by
so
quickhe lives,
So
But
slow
declines.
won't be last.
buried underneath
a ton
Of mould
by
the
Undying One
XII.
Next
Fridayweek,
his
boast,
birth-day
wish
"
it really
sounds
like fan
Undying One
"
402
GTPST
ducks,into
by a cow
with Illswhite
stirred up
that Mr. C
heen
did
had
been
to
stay
but
search
of
in the
pond, that
cold bath.
had
The
recently
firstthing
brandy as a preventive
brandy bottle had done
cupboard. Mr. Hodges,therefore,
the last
some
thingthe
for his health's sake ; and Master Carwhere, for the sake of blackberries ;
Man
walked
in
home
at
miniature
muddy
to recommend
was
againstcatchingcold
PARTY.
knew
off,nobody
took a romantic walk
Nursemaid, for the sake of society,
footman.
and
a
with the two twins,
ing
Gipsiesare a wanderstrange
their
and
all
the
the
performerstopped
parts;
race,
very horse
like a horse that had neither parishnor
roamed
settlement ; and
away
have gone roaming after him, if his Wife
Mr. Carnaby would
and
sneaked
naby
while
Daughter had
round
his neck
taking
time
mean
him
afterwards
was
the
lamentingover
to
plan
not to
swear
softened
not without
eatables,
pigeonpie; and when they came
review
and made
littlewalk,
In the
hung
not
leave 'em
to
"
the
the
hearing.
began to
smash
their second
down
of the
they
pinnedon
that Master
the
bull-dog,
Carnaby had
smuggledinto the party. Luckilyfor the dog,he had also gone roving,
with the whole forest before him, as naturallyas if he had belongedto
Bampfylde Moore Carew, the King of the Gipsies.
Mrs. Carnaby was
of
one
those
characters
cally
emphaticalled fidgets
she
;
found
cold round
a
that the chief remove,
favourite
down
by a
way
never
rested when
never
Mr.
C.
was
and
out
rural
He
his
of
foot,before
him
Mrs.
mash
give him
of
the
Mr.
of
turn
his
blood, and
yellow jaundice."
in
Hodges came
impatient
second,but
to the
of Miss
C.
did
certainly
COIL
he
had
HKCOIL,.
the Green
Man
with
rifle. Master
been well
littlered blackberries
did not
AND
proceedfrom
not
of a bullet from
straightness
third,for
who
gone
yard
frightened
Carnaby
it would
"
expected
eye
the
had
it had
that
so
whole
he
yards,on
snake,and
turn,
re-
long-anticipated
by settinghis
walk
hundred
they did.
in the first of
not
tempers.
been
she
first to
the
beef,had
course
vidual
indi-
back, and
came
of
approve
and
of his
trespassing
upon
his
grounds.
Boxer
the
403
PARTY.
GIPSY
nurse-maid
the
of the mother
infinite horror
not
for
return
down
sitting
all
but
the
hour,to
an
Betsey appeared
to dinner
charge,walked
her
with
they did
twins
and the
but
juice;
the
party
and
blue
of
one
no
botanist
was
the
ing
munch-
they were
hips and
were
haws,
deadly
or
bilberries,
or
but
maternal
nightshade,
anxietymade sure it was
the
rank pison." Accordingly
"
dinner
and
make
as
they set
the
soon
as
kettle
get
hot, and
the water
was
enough,these
warm
pretty babes"
drenched, and
as
to
fire to
extempore
an
up
poned,
post-
was
"two
were
well
were
soon
uncomfortable
perfectly
they
as
months
had
been
in
before
rough
Margate. As
trip to
steam
from
an
that
prognosticate
and
that
herself
her
had
they
shed," but
handkerchief
on
the
excellent
groundto
Walthamstow,and
Dinner
time
then
did not
the very
came
had
met
with
omitted
the
of
as
soon,
somewhere
did
"
other
general
our
spreadher pocket
between
"Wansteavl
manor.
especialdelightof the
and
spot,
natural
the
to
finding
Like
forest.
situation, some
to the horse
dd2
gipsywoman
had
"
them
sit upon,
again,to
empty children,
though,thanks
as
middle
reason
left it as
real
it actuallydid, in
comfortable
wipe
nation
exami-
cross
very
it transpired,
end,
placein the
lose
restored
was
children,and
Betty'sfortune,but
told
of
mother," for
and
peace
suddenlyout
she
as
of the
gipsyingwould
servants, when
tears
soon
forest who
NIGHTSHADE.
DEADLY
examination
of the
in the
two
dog,it was
two
principally
"104
GIPSY
broken
PARTY.
and counting
down
heads Master C.
sitting
had a second time absconded
during the last bustle; and, as his
Mr. Camaby was
mother could not touch a morsel for anxiety,
obliged
and
the
look
had
for
satisfaction
of
to set out
to
soon
him,
fasting
and
in
him
suit
wet
hat-less
a
ditch,
finding
crying a
scraping
sitting
victuals.
of brown
off
But
on
with
suit of blue
old
an
oystershell.
His
father,in
broughthim
back
with
collation,
cold
the
to
As
that he should
like,and
wild
the forest
"
if he
the
soon
comfortable
as
the
threat
culpritcould
he had
capitaldonkey with
the most
saw
about
the
"
nobody, and
he
justgot on
like,like they used to do at Margate; and then the donkey set
off full tear, and never
in the
to a tent of gipsies
stoppedtill he came
middle of the wood ; and they all set upon him, and swore
at him like
with their donkey ; and then all of a
any thing for running away
as
belongedto
him
sudden
his money
for his
out
of his
and so
life,
pocketslike conjuring
; then they told him to run
it was
all alongof jumping over
he did,and as for the mud
a hedge
that had
into
no
an
of
agony
horror,
placeby
which
and
pulling
threw
intelligence
co'ild
only
road,an
be
and
removing,eatables
and
immediatelypackingup
their all
This
Mrs.
tliat was
operation
Carnaby
pacifiedby
all,to a less
their
some
lone-
performedby
French
taken
leave of absence.
It
was
Miss
now
to be
turn
Carnaby's
discomfited
her
made
her
disposition
retiring
wince under the idea of dining
in public; for beingmarketday at Romford, they were
overlooked
by plenty of
mers
far-
and
: consequently,
pig-butchers
after a very miffy
with her mother,the
dialogue
young lady took herself off,
she
with
her
desired,
romantical notions,"
to a place
of more
solitude,and Mr.
as
"
was
Hodges,as
in gallantry
bound,
postponedhis
tea
to
dinner
till his
keepher company.
In
the
mean
time,Betsey,who
had been sent up to the Green
for the porter,returned
Man
tale of
being
*'
cotch'd hold
BACKING
with
on
by
OUT
OF
GOING
TO
MARKET.
ruffin in the
good
healths."
wood,
The
terrified
that had
drunk
first impulse of
Mr.
405
PARTY.
GIPSY
Carnaby was
Mrs.
had
that
abruptly,
in a largeplum pie,which
sitting
; of
upon
dozen
raggedboys who
he vented
that
such
proposed them,
to tell him
did have
were
Mrs.
Carnaby
realitywas
that
devil's blessing
on
fervent
their hearts
justset
mend
it did not
course
sharply,what in
it didn
gipsyparties,
and all
gipsyparties,
to
take
it
obliged
up, and
if people
enough,that
was
"
true
that their
t follow
stupidhusbands
was
to what
size and shape
pliimpies." Heaven knows
this littlequarrelmight have ripened,but for the appearance
of Miss
Carnaby,who, with a terrified exclamation sat herself down, and after
to sit down
vain
on
"kicking
off into
went
to recover,
attempt
called
hysterics."The
cause
was
her mother
explainedby
soon
the
home, but
she
that
she
which
smile
in
tea
by
a
were
order,the bread
the
and
Mrs.
wood
seconded
had
set in
were
stoutlycombated
was
resolved to take
was
was
hadn't
sticks
"
butter
Master
once
in
her
who
,
unanswerable
an
the
kettle
boiled,the
cut, and
was
insisted
Carnaby, who
for
and
life,
said they
argument
tea-things
pleasurebegan
to
placidlythat Mr.
gipsyparty so
Hodges was encouraged
In
the key bugle,
near
a
on
Wood,"
Cottage
beginplaying
my
in
but was
the middle,on finding
that it acted as
obligedto break off
and stood round
of observation,
who came
to see
a buglecall to a corps
on
"
to
"
Rural
there
Felicity."Mrs. Carnaby, however, was
happy ; but
is many
between
the
and
the
She
in
the
a
was
slip
lip."
tea-cup
triumphant fact of pouringthe hot water on her best souchong,in her
best china tea-pot,when
off just on the
a
very well-charged
gun went
and
Mrs.
had
born
other side of the park palings,
not been
Carnaby
like
"
her
which
old
Grace,
fashion."
it dashed
in
came
Marlborough,"before nerves
from
her
hand
the
dropped
tea-pot,
upon
atoms, and then lay on its side,hot wateringthe
to
and
single,"
come
one
he
up, and
jumped
the tea
if he
service,as
on
the fire
no
an
had
sooner
the
alarminghowl
absorbed
to
dashed
another
ounce
throughthe
of number
of
rest
six
this new
and with
disaster,
bystanderswelcomed
ments
embarrassto
bitten
cur,"they began
heap
bitinga
the disconcerted gipsyers.They kept pitchingsticks into
cockshies
of the remaining
till it grew a bonfire,
and made
fresh shout
the true
with
luck
that had
of
Sarah
tea-kettle
The
from
of
spirit
the
"
400
COCKLE
As
was
to
which
too
you
must
boys even
principlethat
the open
assailants to
the
there
too many
take to the road
were
pack up and
they found with
of
like,"said
Carnaby, in
Mr.
THE
Those
who
Must
FORTUNE
summing
"
much
have
read
up,
Which
But
seen
we
May
Whether
save
Will
two
no
Now
Mrs.
and
W.
liliesnot
friends
A
ease,
not decide ;
in union
things
Quacks
"
bacon
they reallygiveone
have never
tried.
I, who
But
timely taken.
not
or
Pills,
at, supercilious.
liver and
your
bilLs,
"
assured,if
are
and
advertisements
Physicianssneer
some
which
CACKLE.
puffsof Cockle's
go like these
Ducks
and
save
Pills
"
"
Peasi,
gettingsallow.
was
of the white
portended was
human
Pate
preparingfor
Perigord;
Iler
Of
And"
To
save
tlio' upon
lier
by
the
a
ear
(/ockle
it
knocks
strangely
from
open
shell !
of his
being
may
say what
for
but
my part I
to it without
being
HUNTER.
1^.
Call'd Anti-bilious
She
gravel-pit. You
his
COCKLE
And
"
"
brown.'
'
regularlydone
Her
consequence
to take
gipsying,that it'simpossible
of
Viz.
fast
as
and
knees,the
broken
two
say
audacious
crockeiy; some
butter,as if on
house.
CACKLE.
V.
"
COCKLE
But
Mrs.
"
Who
Bark
Rhubarb
Senna
Powder
To
"
to Boluses
course
her
save
or
lights'
But
they thus
Some
by
hue
To bleach the
"
yellow in
son,
the
on
her
tint.
parentalgills.
Pills,
chargeof Anti-tumeric
jaundiced
visageof
took them
"
place
disease's dint,
lo ! her second
Marking the
Brought a new
case,
stow'd away,
were
stillmore
Kept getting
When
let'ssay
pills
After
Mrs. W.
drugsintended
for
Who
globe!
in
pill-box
sake,
undertake,
at, in such
the
put by
Squills
in lung or lobe,
life,
littleuncelestial
one
"
"
Pills ;
or
Only
:"
"
to
not
and
Assa-foetida,
"
Draught
or
givea
"
the kind
Magnesia Jalap,and
"
Steel
"
"
It seem'd to share
No
407
CACKLE.
V.
Deeper
in her
"
and
his Mother
cupboard
"
"
of course,
still,"
deeper,
dailygrew in force ;
fatal colour
The
from Rome,
daughterW. newly come
pillial,
Actingthe self-same filial,
part.
To cure
Mama, another dose broughthome
Till
Of Cockles
These
Of
And
"
goingwhere
course
then
The
"
the Cockles
not
she had
hue
some
Medicine
so
of her heart !
before,
adorning,
The
The
feed of Mister
Gave
Till
Out
"
littleBarber
Over
"
of
by-goneday.
the way
stock in
Whose
Was
greathead
"
"
408
COCKLE
"
CACKLE.
V.
TV.
"
The
Unfatted
Think
laid in death
"With Bantam's
Burrel's shock,
of poor
Of Nature's debt to
And
died
see
Layers,
Everlasting
as
small
Giving,undone by Cockle, a
To
as
Down
on
last Cackle !
dash'd,with
the floor he
horror
Mr.
And
with
Burst
with
out
And
like his
stare
tragic
natural
voice that
big,
wig ;
Kemble,
own
emphasisenough.
made tremble.
grief
"
"
At
fell swoop
one
Just when
To
the poor
see
After
I'd
their
dam,
!
"
boughta
lamented
coop
creatures
cram
"
And
razor
"
"
"
To
Her
And
by
He
contradiction.
fix'd the
guiltupon
Lord
! how
He'd
bringan
Then, in
He'd
his adverse
he rail'd at her
action
ere
next
neighbour;"
declaring
now,
Term
of Hilary,
make
She, meanwhile
Of
window
distant from
combatingwith
the dimmest
dream
guilt,
yard-armor arm-yard,
410
Walton,32, Lincoln's
Richard
Mr.
To
LETTER,
LAWYER'S
Inn.
Dick,
Dear
In
Pedro.
re
Pike, Row,
"
Mr.
Theodore
Hook's
to last Easter
up
Law
of the Common
business
out-door
the
useful
generally
been
I have
Pedro
that Don
Hearing
Miguel and Company,
wanted, I
took
about
retainer from
the
on
as
circuit,
Does
and
agent of the
an
reallyembarked
call it
to
sion,
professue
out
court.
againstDon
Richard
Roes
greatPortuguese
in the
(Mr.
do
myself
another
action
"
health permitted.
to the
an
bring
to
might
one
my
record, and
and
make
my
line of life into
my
carry
was
and
"
attachment
an
withdraw
professional
gentleman,and have
out here
Chancery Department
doing as long as
been
compelled to
of Certiorari to
Writ
were
I have
to the
Bills of Costs
out
beingstrong,though with
Not
which
"
attend
"
make
"
Being
cause.
the roll
call,and
knowing
benefit
Rolls.
off the
my
he did not
musteringat Gravesend,
on
struck
was
take
in
I
verdicts,
shall write
at intervals the
demand, and
particularsof plaintiff's
Defendant.
of set-off on the part of the enemy's fleet,
account
or
Pray
Law
Clerk at Pike, Row, and Co.,
call on Mr. Wilson, the Common
and tell him I have four hours to myself and a chance of beingpaid,
the knowledge of the Principals.
but do this if possiblewithout
when
I enlisted,
taken the
to have
of the same
White
was
office,
it),and
rius goes
I can't
but
say,
attend
putting
her
on
oath
in the
the waves,
The
rule refused."
sea
that if Britannia
evener
but
it
was
"
does
she
rule
when
me
you will understand
of
There
the
was
thought
my
I took
say
would
ran
rule
them
rough, and
very
nothingby
my
motion.
cause.
remember
You
to hear
title.
that
A
as
few
Hart
Sugden with
he volunteered
to
hours, however,
in the
practised
instrument, assignover
it is
Co.,
"
convince
sufficed to
Marine
and
will not
Don
Miguel
disgusthim
Courts
and
be
surprised
of his defective
with
I heard
ancing,
convey-
him, by
the whole
formality,
and Assigns.
ship to the Devil, his Heirs,Executors,Administrators,
instructions
with regardto
for Butterworth, the Captain gave
As
a
verbal
the stays,and
Butterworth
in
with
technical
goingaloft felloverboard.
We
thought
for
time
some
that
we
revival,
and that
trial,
You
he
had
of
he
dead, but
was
after
rubbing,and other
seeinghim moving for
the satisfaction of
beginningde
w-as
411
LETTER.
LAWYERS
were
our
conceive, professionally,
joy at enteringthe
a
prospect of being invited within the Bar, ^but the
and we
instructed to stay proceedings,
stayed the same.
new
took
notes
Douro
anchors
"
of what
novo.
may
with
means
happened afterwards,I
will
give you
As
a
rough
draft.
Michaelmas
31.
Oct.
Term^
off
Tax
him
that
action would
an
ship opened
battery. Admiral's
the
on
side.
same
laid
at
amending same.
wounds,
Home
Poor
non.
Hills crowded
and
hundred
fifty
and
At
intervals term
struck
was
reports.
Gave
seized with
lockjaw,and preparingfor
long vacation.
5. Notice
of action.
enemy's flagship.
issue with
lodgingin
in
an
"Wetherell
killed
naed
Temple, and
subpoeby a bullet
out
of the
ball
w^mUi\
/^i^^^^^^
^
to
"^^^
"'"'"
tempted
at-
put
an
and
officer
in
them
by
top.
main-
Enemy
but
non
ner
the In-
Denman
men
but
appearance,
demised.
Home
pros.
6. Joined
"
the
undertaking.
an
4. A dies
the
and
died of his
Pollock
opinionwith
hundred.
flaws
Discovering
3.
Councirs
Held
Enemy's damages
with witnesses.
men.
and
took
Michael.
others followed
the
and
case,
assault
of
Nov. 2. Action
Admiral
fifty
possession
served
we
with
eject-
an
ing
Night comon, agreed to
withdraw
a juror.
ment.
7.
violent storm,
and a sail under
A
distress. Taken
in execution
wave,
"
and
longboat
men.
by
levied
and
on
three
all the
DK.AKE
DISPERSING
THE
ARMADA.
hen-coops.
8. Fell in with
not received my
Portuguese
brig,and lodged a
share of
but
prize,
have
detainer,
got a cognovit.
Have
412
lawyer's
Enemy moved
repliedto same.
ships, to
9.
fightwitli
he
10.
office copy
11.
defend
To
time.
But
charge.
work
going
not
am
arm
I do
as
by
the
homeward,
legalmode
Nothing
of
and
sent
am
has been
time
our
to
sorry
bill of
limb
of
Term
extra
no
say
I comfort
exceptions.
lost that
I have
"
costs.
the
law,
remember
like
dear
"
taste
to
your
expressingit.
better than
men
our
from
"
down
principals
the
ever,
How-
if
Thes-
"
others
of
some
For
general release.
part
own
my
received
have
acquaintance,who
our
Dick
the
to
an
the
behave
can
of trover
and
and
Surrey -joinder,
man,
follow
not
Action
Chancery,
that
see
take
to
now
"
I look
one
battle.
chains.
with
overhours, and
at
will
pleadings,you
of
drawn
"
to
quarter
nonsuited
Enemy
in person.
Plenty
Gave
Verdict
action.
fresh
brought a
abbreviate
most
rear-
his "Widow.
to
Enemy
in Ocean's
bill of him
broadside
"
the mizen
from
fired
the
intercepting
by
Attorney.
specialpleader.
Filed
failed.
of
Power
fell overboard
Chitty
entail.
and
up
endeavoured,
oflFthe
cut
Bore
trial.
new
Admiral
all my
such
was
for
letter.
[letter
above.]
the
enclosing
Sir,
Am
of
Was
carried
Job
and
Will
day
to
sorry
tlie
the
Main
down
after
nor
Say
to
the
Hatchway on
Cockpit. But the
saying
Law
and
property,
no
writ
as
man
Sowed
up
was
and
instant
at
Corps.
bit
2 P. M.
pronaunced it
Doctor
times
was
16th
the
three
letter,with
Inclosed
Bad
left
He
no
overboard, same
heaved
in lat. 41. 5 N.
I take
the
there's father
provided
if
friend's
long.8. 50 W.
Liberty of writing This
so
be.
Should
fightingas
hearts
can
mother,
be
you
will
Place, you
or
be
as
that
well
you
as
encouraged to
heartilywelcome,
wish.
So
no
more
to
his
lots of
to
Go
to
the
all about
Duncan's
the
Head
Bounty.
us
in
dren,
chilyour
jollygood
as
present from
Servant
Your
Humble
at
Benyon.
Thomas
N.B.
Parents,
and
widow
out
come
and
inform
may
in
Wapping,
That's
if you
and
mean
Captain BligU
to
'list.
413
HAVE
THE
**
I like to meet
SORROW
SILENT
COMPLAINT.
SWEEP'S
sweep
"
such
as
IIFHI
come
their littleprofessional
notes, soundinglike the peep,
or EuA.
*'
Macbeth
One
voice cried
hath murdered
moming
ere
my
peep,
of
or
somewhat
young
Sweep no more!
sweep.'' Rhakspeare.
"
usual time
as
In
A
Poetic simile to
make,
Day
From
Like Frenchman
And
yet no
He
And
His
who
oblique,
seek,
can
speak,
has friends to
Englishword
breast
lab'ring
appear d to throb.
with
earlier,
sparrow." Essays
"
414
sweep's
THE
complaint.
hiccuphalf a sob
Betray'dinternal woe.
cry the cr^ he had by rote
half
And
To
He
but
gaped
He
"
not
the
him, and
I watch'd
crow
snatch'd
glimpseI
soon
did not
He
hung
"
here's
prettygo!
;
away
he will betray
cause
at last he did.
thus
And
tear-dropstray.
to brush
care
Thought I the
Well, here's
the
saw
Gagging Act, if
ever
there
was
gagging!
the members
bound
I'm
But
as
silenced us, in
magging.
They
send
better
had
all off,
they had, to the School
us
and Dumb,
To
unlarn
mother
our
us
I
Directly
As
natural
Qmum.
regularly
the morningbegins
to peep,
as
sure
as ever
out
can't help calling Sweep
that say Cheep !
among the chimbley-pots
tongues,and
But
"
open my eyes, I
as the sparrows
to
make
and
signs
be
sneezy.
! tho"*I suppose
a
preciousmerry Christmas,I'm
sup !
you
us
we
s border.
cryingSweep, of mornings,is goingbeyond quietness
of
silence
be
fond
Them
to
as
oughtn'tto cry hear,hear,and
pretends
If
order,order.
I wonder
As
God
Sutton, as we've
Mr.
Speaker what
helpus
if
don't
too, don't
sut-on
speak,and
For
the general
postmen, that
instance,
we're
with
Greens
If
up
us
cus.
we
sure
wake
own
not half
I'm
And
with
sympathise
that's exactlyour
have
ringing,
justgot
to
sleep
singing.
to be
oughtn't
they bring in
cried no
more
than blacks
SootyBill,theyoughtto
"
to do the
have
job,
unpartial
brought in a Dusty
Bob.
Is
dustman's
voice
more
the cinders.
Instead of a littleboy like
sweet
he
comes
seeking
arter
?
your windows
cads
There's the omnibus
Bank
and
City;
as
blackbird in
under
merrily
spring,
singing
in Cheapside,
out
and keepscalling
plies
SWEEP'S
THE
Let his
415
COMPLAINT.
if our
call of
pretty.
I can't
see
their
And
Christian laws
be ten times
should
cryingOld
hard
more
Close thro*
laws of Moses.
Why
Why,
Next
year
to
And
If
dance,
live
long as May,
pinchingweather.
Would
how
see
onlywish
Mr.
take
were
to
peep
earn
Wilberforc;
down
of them
some
or
our
brood of littleones
that
and
cellars,
starving
figures,
idle on our empty sacks,and
A-sitting
And
mischance
our
as
For I don't
I
members
we
compell'dto be equallyshut ?
but they never
eat muffins,
eat no sut.
shan''t
heart
at
have
we
no
all,
May-day
of the muffin-men
because Parliament
soul
the
pities
look
at
winter and
together.
niggers,
miserable
our
WIND-FALL.
cryingfor bread
to a
Father
heart-breaking
and Mother.
They
haven't
rag of clothes to
mend,
if their mothers
needles,
But
crawl
naked
about the
like
cellars,
poor things,
a swarm
of
common
black beadles.
If
they'donlyinquiredbefore passingthe
peeps,
Act
and
taken
few
such
416
THE
SWEEPS
COMPLAINT
gentlemanwould
have
against
sweeps.
ancient
an
Climbing's
he wrote
for
But
was
can
me
how
on
beneath, if your
she writ
And
As
heart's
always loyal,and
say God
milk, that's
save
now
There's London
if
of
History's
vally,
any
recommended
Was
When
art, and
respectable
afeard,don't
of the
one
venture
even
cries,
on
the flue.
up
that
all powers
respected
the King, if I an't to be
are
higher,
Cryer?
Sunday the law
a
allows.
ought black
But
black
Do
we
go
cows
sweeps, that
?
about, when
calling
beasts,to
be
time,like
the
human
are
it'schurch
off than
worser
noisyBillingsgate
vermin.
And
But
the
fish won't
Parliament
We
And
For
as
! what's
shan't do to
time
won't,is
mackarel
the
of
funeral
sweeps
think,is
be allowed
to
keep
to
wears
of
to become
elves,
themselves
help us
All
keep,not
"
with
to go
mustn't cry
we
standingat
no
more
death's door.
even
to the Hottentot
black will
wear
off,and
emigrate,
our
if
not
no
on,
us
then
nations.
think of
our
situations !
And
should not
we
of
do, in
lieu of black-a-moor
footmen, to
serve
ladies
qualitynimbly.
For when
we
all clean
desire
us
were
and
drest in
our
neat, and
to sweep
the
sky-blueand
white
hearth,we
RGTRHSK,
IN
and
silver,
largefrills,
if they pleased to
stockings,
couldn't resist the chimbley.
"lk
BUSINESS.
418
I
as
over,
cum
hop
wil, with
you
the french
boath, as
for
and
Burds
now
go out after
kno
there shuting you
SPORTSMAN.
OLD
AN
FROM
LETTER
Horse's
your
Say, at
I have
tainment
good enter-
The
my
at the
cum
lads
rites of
"
is Hits
Wat
what
But
Histerr,
is
is mist is
mistery.
Ubbard's new
hav you seen
guns like wanking
Talkingof shuting,
defence
there a cappital
sticks
agin cappitaloffences ; as you may
ether stick a feller or Shute him ; or boath together.I wish farmer
"
Gale
carrid
had
he
for
friday,
Rob'd
was
him down
Luckly
foot
Stand.
him
bank
Barnsby
bin
had
that
by
that knockd
nothing on
Stopd but sum
of the
notes
cum-
had
he
when
him
last
one
afore.
In
had
my
bait,tho
am
have
in
Good
run
a
m^nny
tim, Partickler when
keeper spideme
hadent
tim
out
went
Lumbago
verry
Back, and
cum
doant
last
hardly
in
joints,and
my
were
could
the
The
Leaf.
got
do my
un
fishingline
the
quiteDead
got
the
wen
bad
found
a
to float and
fish to be
a
sumtims
had, and
catch,the
last
wich
Beside
like.
its atax
to
Kil
but
fli,
as
FLY
jack I
FISHING.
on
am
caut
al in colde blood.
em
our
is
waters
musicle,I
very
with
was
my
so
dont
over
like
boot, and
I used sumtims
fished theres
no
without
trolling
was
only
foot
long.
As
for
betting,I
ajn
I
raceing,
am
Better
never
with
cared
out
much
em
one
bout
it, and
in
regard of
I
I al ways
take the feeld wen
Mite.
Plate with al my
of the members
go on so ; two
it,tho
like anny
are
perpotulyquareling
plays like Hoyle and the other
I doant
thing but
like
double
Vinegar.
The
dummies,
young
of
for
men
interduced
al
FROM
LETTER
OLD
AN
419
SPORTSMAN,
peplego
sum
wen
out
to shute
inable them
crickit Club
The
wether
shuting,
anny game.
is goingon uncomon
rekoningthe byes ;
with out
."
tho
quit
out, wich
wore
took
in
lads
My
if the
youle
running; and
Wake,
our
As
36
are
is
Roomatiz
the
Captin Batty
as
Ball,
verry
Sory
Bal, it is
it,as they
for
em
wich
Bad
at that
fandangoes
there
members
its
is next
no
Sunday weak,
it is Rather
"
for
Low.
The
High
and
waking that I can See, is to pervent folkes Sleeping,
I
jumping and throwingup their Heals, see no Pleasur in
had
will
matches.
our
will be
bolus.
not, I Beleve
galsare
to the
cum
They
at Wickit
man
of
boath
are
best
our
Pilby to
the
grateintrest
and
get Dr.
sumtims
we
wel.
Parliament
of
acts
even
as
have, they
rat, and
woudent
be
for there
as
it.
for
If
they
Dancing
Kickingfor partners.
county Member,
Wiseacre, is
Our
Sir William
the nobul
Cockin,"
art of
buls,wether
by
to be
are
or
irish,
inglish
wich
Made
and
al
game of
al such as
at anny
libel to
Bui
stake
find.
be
Act,
\ vlllMl/
Wfil^
are
They
and
the Cock
cal it here
'iwilnM^
found
are
ring
'^iisareSi^KT
^"^^B^#
longer,
no
or
iCaBM!^,.
WLJ^m^^ 1^^.l|Bl|p||ffl^^^
I think is
wich
It
good name.
very
has causd gratediversion
a
peple'sopin-
in
manny
nions, but
Think
as
Bad
interduce
ward.
The
us
is quite
the buls.
Barrownet
same
to
the cocks
as
of
most
as
The
WilERE
tried
Forkenry,but
forkens
flu at
the first
a
"
YOUR
atempts
lierin,who
E
HAWKFR
as
been
LICENSE
verry
tried to be above
Hawk-
there atax,
420
FROM
LETTER
for the
week
Last
was
there
archer.
so
says she was
of the meeting
miss
Eye
cows
it put her
nervus,
herd
a Bad
we
had
they
were
bin
that
"Worst
shot
target,and
we
in to the
silver Arrow,
prize,a
of the
and
case,
would
and
Seen
never
of
Hood
and
for
for
he
of
"
Byron,
to
say,
hit
the
went, but
by
to look
for
came
had
dropt out
Revd.
Him
mister
jump up
bounding
warrior
was
Men
even
arrow
made
like
Crumpe
and
soiTy
not
the
of
his mery
we
wich
the middle
out
am
she
target;
Harrow,
did
his
raly
seccond
Mister
it,for it
found, but for
been
look
the
the
him,
wear
lawne, and
the
is very flurrishing,
but talk
in wereing peagreen
insted
persisting
for
members
SpanishHats
there
puttin on
lincon,and
Curat
lost
have
have
Revd.
was
Courtenays
Angles
quiver.
buggle, and
had
Body
Miss
nere
prize
ToxophilusClub
The
expeling sum
conservatorry.
on
boy
his fondnes
In
When
agen, as miss
from its Barb."
to
playd Key
hiding,Jumpd
Body,
every
The
came
arrow
every
never
sittin downe
Crumpe
of
have
should
hereingit smash
the
I supose
shood
into
sore, but
the first
arch
Emily
Bow
of
is Rector
; he
asistants
too
of
comparison
propposed
wags
shrubbery,
in
usul, and
as
The
"
Robin
him
and
prizefor shutingin
and
maid
our
made
they
more
togither.
al away
em
SPORTSMAN.
Little Master
by
won
skared
Kite
flyinga
the
more
OLD
AN
and
fethers
the
of
of
side
rong
before.
Thank
wanted
them
Cheated
I
for the
you
shels to make
the
you
her
Pleas
Friten
out
of them
Remember
to
oats, has
to
after
bean
same
members
14
give Him
ears
me.
Humbel
your
season.
notice
Cumel
black
an
servant,
the
apereance
subskripshonStag hounds
kep by the
to have
fiftytoo
like
drest
Pam,
for
rather
the
noo
of
in the
4oant "Wish
to
felde,I
and
who
Room.
put
Mary
you
dooring the
sportingMaggazins,you
is very
pompus,
I have
servant, after him.
got
for want
Axeltree.
write
you
Brown,
menshun
the wist
as
as
jailfor
to
Andrew
forgotto
Stealingbarly.
of Bottany.
inquiringfriends,if they should think
sent
will
From
P. S. I
has took
is very shameful, as
Mark
Lane, the man
Old
com
al
good. Mary
verry
I think
Burds.
the
me
was
wich
groto,of
old Marks
wile to Ask
it woth
to
sadly Afearde
am
Hoisters, wich
Deal
I should
says
to the expense
of
more
Cros
a
the
mean
hunts
with
to
it,wich
Bubble
may
like to
Grate
Creol
Pompey,
Say, but
I
leter.
wood,
his
carnt
but
421
SUB-MARINE.
THE
It
was
brave
cheek
His
he had
For
was
coat it
But
was
yellow faced,
(merman-like)he
trowsers
And
the waist
from
wide
so
were
look'd marine
and
put the
And
ever
Hps,
he
times
many
"
quaflP'd,
drank, the
the
more
fore and
pitching
Sepm'd
ship
aft !
shipseem'd pitchingfore
in a heavy squall
;
As
blue,
jollydraught;
rummer
as
he
more
to his
rummer
drank
raised the
The
And
The
well
soldier coat.
All downward
He
brown,
been
Of red with
He
and
At
His
jollywight,
baked
in many
climes
captainsof renown,
With
And
His
and
and
aft,
he went,
It gave a lurch and down
in his fall !
Head-foremost
Three
He
But
down
he went,
rightdown
at once.
stone he
dived,
any
could not see, or hear,or feel
all deprived!
Of senses
Like
He
At
at all !
rose
never
rise,alas I
last he gave
To see where
And
look around
he,arrived
see
was
green.
every hand !
he tried to sound beneath.
Sea-greenon
And
then
all he felt
And
There
he
Could
"
was
sand !
was
fain to
lie,for
he
stand !
122
SUB-MARINE.
THE
"
And
lass !
strange and staring
in her yellow hair,
hand was
A
One
The
other held
mermaid
there bent
his head
lo ! above
If
mermaid
ever
Her
glass;
surelybe
she must
was
fish-like mouth
open'dwide,
was
blue and
eyes were
the
of
dress was
ocean
pale,
Her
Her
WJien
ruffled
*'
Thoughthe
She
lookM
She
A
To
hides
by
beneath
that
petticoat
salmon-tail ! "
siren
as
green,
gale;
sharpand
ought to look,
bitter
shrew,
lullabies
singdeceiving
For
But
mariners
when
he
to rue,
her
saw
It chill'd him
With
"
lipsapart.
throughand through!
either hand
stopp'dhis
he
ears
Againsther
evil cry ;
for
all
his care,
alas,
Alas,
His
Her
doom
die.
to
voice went
It
He
was
ringingthroughhis
sharp and high !
so
thrust his
At
But
farther
fingers
unwillingear,
each
in
still,
The
**
it seem'd
words
very
were
in
spiteof all,
plain and clear
hold your
With
openedmouth
Up
And
And
No
and
deepswliere
was
no
waters
wet
only saw
With
The
day long,
"
beer !
open'deyes.
had
been
siren with
her
ocean-green
deceptionfrom
and
Kept fadingmore
He
glass!
his eyes
more,
stand
the bar-maid
poutinglipbefore
"
And
the Sub-marine,
rose
gave
Tlierc
The
glassof
head
Ship,
423
BOARDING-SCHOOL.
THE
Oh
Ip the author
much
his
sweet
as
own
I felt
so
Melodies
!"
own
had
possessed,he
ordered
was
Irish
have
mv
"
had
ever
might
Moore.
not
littleIsle
so
it
so
found
have
which
Finisterre,
I
little Isle of
sweet
some
the
of
as
there.
been
the song
Crusoe,and
and
had
ISLAND.
proved
with
of
end
an
being in
of the
that
earth
action off
tremendous
to many
brave
fellow.
rebutted
quarter,was
no
by
the but-end
of
marine's
away,
was
says,
be
we
were
the current
of
anythingbut
the
drifted off by
supposed,our
boat
to spare
provisions
was
"
in the middle
of
an
any
oars,
In short,as
Shakspeare
immense
waste.
We
were,
in
424
in the cutter with
adrift
fact,
blow
that
stared at
is,we
allowance
made
one
salt-water,
stare
to
but
if
short ditto.
each
turn
men
had not
of
us
junk
even
if the wind
even
seemed
another
We
cut.
should
in the face
cannibals, great
a
be
must
for
indeed
Famine
fresh.
nothingto
nothingbut
junketing,and
for
ISLAND.
TUE
^
^
We
trulyin
were
very
disagreeable pickle,
with
brine
of
oceans
beef,and, like
Shylock, I fancy we
and
no
would
have
pound
pound of
a
che
sharplywe
more
inclined
to
Sow,
we
found
we
like
gnaw,
drifted
"
w^hen
but
The
flesh.
drifted Nor,
we
more
exchanged
gold for a
of
nothing
No
pork.
bread
rose
oppositepointwe
pointed.
equally disap-
the
were
could not
We
meal
compass
any
THE
POUND
OF
FLESH.
had
Time
on
bottle-nose.
our
seemed
days
pass
our
no
hands, for
our
fast
bait for
catchinga
hung heavily
we
to
slowly,and
pidly
rastrengthwas
very
sinking from
beingso
Still
afloat.
much
nourished
we
at last
prospect
one
no
may
land
The
so
when
say
in
was
was
as
a
wo
if
land,
sight.
weather
thicker
it
lost all
we
of
got
were
very bad
nothingto cat
and
catching
thinner
getting
look-out.
drink.
At
and
bottle-nose.
426
TIJK
kind
The
grades.
remained
with
tended
could
we
had
sheet anchor.
lived
never
resume
so
long
our
ture
na-
^^J^ \
^
^^
over
nie
like Domi-
me
the
with
Sampson
Bertram
boy Harry
where
we
our
day
Mon-
and
still watched
and
from
our
uppermost
both,
us
of
state
parted
equality,that
libertyand
of
have
rather
ISLAND.
would,
with
go
he
lowed
fol-
the
dogged
Pipes;
might, he
of Tom
pertinacity
and
do what
the
with
interfered
lute
reso-
vigourof John
involved
nay,
hourly, in
the
it had
dissolved
have terminated
not, if
know
been
not
in
the
how
might
I
most
stances
circum-
and
connexion
position
dis-
daily,
us
embarrassing
;
Dory
This
Oats.
in Wild
speedily
very
pected
unexIK
One
manner.
poor
Monday
barely
enabled
morning
which
"Good-bye,
am
go
found
was
him
to
going
"
"
GOOD
ACTION
EMBARRASSED
on
his
MKETS
"
bed
to
ITd
in
hand,
my
grasp
back
CIRCUMSTANCES,
OWN
sort
and
of
to
state of nature."
RRWAHI).
convulsion,
falter out,
427
DOG-GREL
! hark ! the
Hark
**
The
Oh
dogs do bark,
"
beggarsare coming
shall I do for
what
BLIND.
POOR
BY
VERSES,
Old
"
.
Ballad.
dog ?
got a particle,
Glohe, Standard, or Sun,
Of
sightI
have
not
none
Times, Chronicle
give me a good leadingarticle.
"
Can
Mastiff
But
led
once
might have
Without
his
Blood-hound
And
led
me
at
as
guide,
valley;
day
astray.
me
tally.
did me
once
good turns
turnspit
and stopping
At goingand crossing,
;
day
one
spitat
Pointer
pointedmy way,
out quiteso pleasant,
turn
once
Each
At
hour
a
Pug
did not
The
feature
stop
very
suit
high pheasant.
me
at
all.
unluckilyrose
up
When
Because
I 'd
Poulterer"'sshop
pointat
And
speed,
greatfire in Wapping.
did not
But
his breed
off at full
Went
served
after
to supper.
milk- woman's
Till
To
amiss,
got the
at hill and
day
To follow
him.
near
much
not
once
good one
He
To
come
But
not
was
Fox-hound
"
pence
upper
trackingBill Soames,
theives to their homes,
And
never
fear him
to
defence.
instinct at last
But
got
Charitywould
But
about,
me
peopleappeared so
offering
ponce,
turninghis
of his
nose
up.
428
Butcher
once
Bull
A
1
got
dog's
own
toss
he had
Before
dog,
the worst
turn'd out
That
me
gave
BLIND.
POOR
BY
VERSES,
DOG-GREL
one
ot
any
pup,
up,
broughtme
penny.
Dog,
From
regularcadger;
I
But, sightless,saw
My
next
was
Westminster
Aistrop the
He
draw
would
never
well
blind
greyhound I got by
so
man
But, Lord
soon
we
treated my
Of cord like a
He
And
left me
to go
THE
swop.
came
to divorces
strip
slip.
my
BATH
courses.
own
GUIDE.
He
badger.
as
My
next
As
was
POOR
Newfoundland
big as
But
my
back'd
once
His
sheep-dogfor guide,
did not
worth
I found
it no
value
button
go,
Smithfield
stand
To
brute,
slaughter
;
had
Ducrow,
on
was
an
Esquimaux dog,
dog that my bones ache to talk
For pickinghis ways
My
429
BLIND
old cataract
trulyhe
So
BY
VERSES,
GREL
DOG
next
A
On
frostydays
cold
pick'dout
He
Bijouwas
walk
on.
lady-likedog,
vex'd
But
on,
at
me
nightnot
little,
When
tea-time
She would
tail had
Her
had
once
And
And
In
of
post like
brother,
thorough,
could stir,
rabbit the
cur
"Without
goinginto the
My
was
next
trump,
defect,and
one
never
'Od
And
far from
was.
had
I
Shock,
terrier
He
street
blind cannot
One
go home,
trail'd a tin kettle.
sort
kiss'd
come
not
once
was
led
me
Borough.
By chasinghorse heels,
wheels,
carriage
Between
Till I
The
came
boards that
that I had
next
A"nd
upon
was
once
With
And
Right up
Nero,
so
to his den
from
was
favourite
spaniel
led
like
spiky.
Cross,
dead.
now
was
were
Daniel.
4i30
OREL
DOG
As
far
tried, and
mongrel
the
Endangers
breed
The
setter
In
is
alleys or
Till
A
At
one
very
had
once
And
My
dead
set,
Is
Unless
that
mere
can
barrow,
went
mad,
got
him
run.
with
he
profitshave
My trade has
crossing.
that
when
me
I fear
that
was
man
in
horse
to
came
And
Pepper
I met
dog
lossine;,
taste,
my
broad
or
narrow,
day
sorry
It
streets
dead
very
of
quite to
was
did,
blind.
fond
so
BLIND.
POOR
kind
the
that
Except
he
profitand
the
as
BY
VERSES,
gun
ought
the
gone
to
been
such
aim
my
losinggame,
find
*'
Retriever.
OOC-BKRRY."
to
have
shot
dogs,
deceiver,
him.
431
KANGAROOS.
THE
FABLE.
of married
PAIR
(The
Were
kangaroos
is oft
case
trade
littlebrisk and
As
to
son
busy chap,
just then
About
two
some
They'renot
A
to choose
to
too)
one
greatlypuzzledonce
A
A
luiman
so
months
off the
longin
arms
are
"
lap,
"
ar**
men
as
twist in each
parentalmuzzle
hardshipof the puzzle
Betray'dthe
So much
Is framed
And
"
by earlywrong
Kangarooswe
Dependent on
The
know
question,with
Was
quite
are
"
their
right.
or
rearingup."
outs.
And
For
yet they
trades
Such
unfit
notion
had
had
never
For
they had no
Howbeit
they'renot
That
squeamishcarings
no
fit for
or
an
gentry.
entry,
armorial
bearings.
the last
earth
on
might indulgein
Whoe'er
has
seen
in and out
Bob
Would
They
their mother's
with
own,
born
not
are
prideof birth ;
their infant young
pokes,
ready tongue.
very
like
folks.
common
kept the
subjectstood.
pairwatchful nightly,
good,
young hopeful's
old
Debatingfor
he might earn
his livelihood.
And go throughlife (like
them) uprightly.
That
w\iuld not
Arms
do
And
Unless
For
He
was
At
And
He
was
at all ; no,
was
agriculture
they
ever
not
proper.
the lad to tarry
meant
as
marry.
miscarry;
race
mere
well
clod-hopper.
for
preaching.
style:
striking
for beingmercantile
as
for over-reaching.
not form'd
not
cut
out
least in any
"
432
KANGAROOS.
THE
law
The
doctor
In
would
He
haberdasher
But
the
there
For
A
stage
him
see
;
rigging-mounter
had
merit,
some
still ran
counter
counter,
just suppose
chose
lady
him
ask
To
make
not
him,
engage.
the
on
I think
tragicsocks
In
scarce
going
for
as
fee him
ever
could
he
music
And
would
who
"
him
debarr'd
bar
the
plainlyfrom
And
there
why
"
for
of ferret !
yard
tailor would
They paused
Some
and
short
each
anxious
seem'd
And
in the
At
last thus
Or
hinder
"
In
weighing
Theyjump'd
"
Let's make
nearer,
night
their way
saw
musing
elbows
no
no
"
they
course
to
get
posingquite
'Twas
came
Kangaroo
through and through
the matter
By day they
It
his paws.
glanced upon
Discuss'd
Of
"
"
"
Before
In
do because
not
their
on
if you
thought
every
upon
the
knees
"
please
"
was
ever
and
why
it both
imp
clearer
no
brighter!
whether,
together
"
short-hand
writer
'
MORAL.
I wish
all human
Would
Some
argue
would-be
Would
parents
what
their
critics that
be in trades
so
sons
are
fit for ;
I know
tlieyhave
more
wit for.
434
REMINISCENCES.
LITERARY
C
which
tTie letter of introduction to Doctor
delivering
As the sick man
under his medical
care.
said,
to placeme
was
I
trusted
into the gin-shopinstead of the hospital,
he went
when
w
hich
weather
the
was
Whenever
therefore,
permitted,
to natur."
to the fore,I haunted
books
the
new
there
w
hen
no
were
generally
the
with
rod
visits
intended
to
a
bums,
banks and braes,or paidflying
called
fishes
But I
trout.
that
to punish
amongst
risinggeneration
in plenty,but like obstinate
whipped in vain. Trout there were
neither be pulledout
double teeth,with a bad operator,they would
Still the sport,if so it might be called,
out of themselves.
come
nor
the whole
of the
had its own
attractions,
as, the catchingexcepted,
the
at my
"Waltonish enjoymentswere
command,
contemplative
quiet,
and
the
not
wholesome
the sweet
air,
picturesque
country
scenery
the
mill ;
the homely repast at the shealing
or
to forgetthe relishing
from
"
"
had
for
I went
sometimes
withal,for
literary
unwound
and
company,
then
we
line of
in the
still listen,
trudginghomewards
of that
and
an
original,
journeyman tobacco-spinner,
whence
and
in
his
he
anon
he had a reel
ever
head,
Methinks
I
Allan Ramsay, or Beattie,or Bums.
attendant
our
were
we
the recitation
gloaming,to
stanza, beginning
appropriate
"
delivered
with
mechanic,who
the hamlet
"At
had
"
nothingbut
still,"
was
be felt
by
day-labouring
eveningsto himself."
his
he dwelt
Methinks
the
pastoral
images
holiday gave him the
on
chance
when
a
rarelyrealized,
in lieu of the stale odour
flower
the
o
f
living
fragrance
fresh-breathing
understand
I can
of the Indian weed : and philosophically
now
why
sublimed
seemed
to
and
feelings,
poetry, with its lofty aspirations
sound so gratefully
to the ear from the lipsof a
squireof low degree."
to humanity in the abjectThere is somethingpainfuland humiliating
and
dreams
so
"
of
ness
mind,
accompaniesthe
sordid
condition
of
the
to find the
consolatory
mind of the poor man
risingsuperiorto his estate,and compensating
that
intellectual
by
enjojnnentfor the physicalpains and privation
working classes ;
belongto
his humble
in the garner,
ox
the
pride,if
brother
for
to
horse
if resolved that
no
in
charity,of
above
the mill,ought to be
the fellow creature
to
acceptable
music
instance,
and
of
unbendingssome
and
Vitus's,
the
raises him
Whatever
lot.
the
or
not
it is soothingand
whereas
these
the
"wins
The
bread."
bairns'
436
REMINISCENCES.
LITERARY
Tay
is
Dundee
at
It
the
of boat
rudiments
need
at
take
to
found
called
so
"
the
of
for
intrusted with
boyish pride
some
the
sionally
occa-
the Coach-Boat
guidanceof
requiredat
that
the
It not
oars.
"
the laddie
"
of the
learning
by the Edinburgh
passengers
the utmost
exertions of the crew,
when
were
s-men,
quentlyhappened,however
ousted
family
carryingthe
its
in a calm,
particularly
"
contrary wind,
those
without
Not
port.
myself
from
noble
craft ; whereof
I acquired enough to be able
helm
without
either going too near
the wind or
the
least
at
was
broad
unfre-
unceremoniously
united strength,
oldest old gentleman
was
by
the
the
in the vessel to
"
of
Brethren
It
TrinityHouse
our
of these
during one
was
too
the
with
connexion
day, there
and
Rich
livelyturtle.
like Moore's
that
was
will
late conviction,that
the
smile
rare
of
London.
it was,
as
under
comic
serio-
what
forget on
the other
passengers
a fine
gourmand'saffection,
it did
the
sighaccordingto
or
stock-dove
heroine,but
as
jealousof
half-
brief voyages,
Corporationof
it was
pilgrimage
unconscious
baggage, some
not
were
the reader
which
accident,at
gaun."
all the
"
Elder
one
her
The
mile
his
baud
travel
not
of
unprotected
vigilant
guardian,
the eyes that looked amorously at his charge,
who
seemed
ward
been
in Chancery. So far
a
as if the latter had
namely, as far
when
the
of
of mischief,
the spirit
as the middle
or
Tay so good ;
of
the
convenience
and
or
a
sea-bath,
curiosity, humanity, suggested
the refreshment the creature
might derive from a taste of its native
Testudo was
lifted over
the side,and indulged
element.
Accordingly,
was
care
"
"
with
and
dip
that
powerfully,
In
like a giant refreshed with brine.
most
to struggle
vigorously,
which, added to its weight,left no
fact, it paddled with a power
alternative to its guardianbut to go with it,or without it. The event
soon
off.
came
The
tumbled
man
backward
turtle
There
"
over
with
made
at least under!*
or
"
his boat-hook, at
a
blow
with
heaved
confusion,
ought to
have
his
oar
In vain
the
fatal
at the
of the
spot
Tay
was
the waters
one
in
in
into the
splash
"
boatmen
aimed
particular in
vain
"
general
"
closed,and
whilst
ary
moment-
all
a
was
lunge
another
third,in
his
ff2
436
with
reach, and
their
beyond
**
Never
shall
world
The
Its
was
homeward
that
feeling
instinctive
an
and
no
DILEMMA.
DOMESTIC
THE
to choose
its guide."
Providence
capable of reminiscences,the
forget,whilst
face
The
have
utterly and
more
"
"Cauld
THE
that there
was
kail in Aberdeen?"
DILEMMA;
DOMESTIC
THE
FROM
reflection
chilling
the miserable
^rue
GERMAN
OF
Sbtorg,
NEMAND.
PAUL
JEAN
I.
CHAPTER
"
wits' ends !
at my
perfectly
As
Madame
Doppeldick said this,she thrust both h-er fat hands
time giving
into the pocketsof her scarlet cotton
apron, at the same
in which heads
a case
her head a gentleshake,as if implyingthat it was
She was
avail.
and hands could be of no possible
standingin a little
which
her eyes
between
from two
beds,
dormitory,exactlyequidistant
ten minutes
and her thoughtshad been alternating
some
past. They
four
small
cribs,
cots,
legs,such
were
troughs upon
beds, pallets,
"
AM
"
"
"
as
old
the
think
of
of box
painters represent
just too
between
two
when
standing,
at
perfectly
Now,
the
the
my
littlefor
in the
bed, and
way
justtoo
of
largefor
couch
a
than
coffin ?
It
Doppeldick
bedlings,then, that Madame
"
I
out into tho aforesaid exclamation
she broke
such
"
wits' ends !
wits'
ends
sort
was
was
am
"
of
Madame
Doppeldick scarcelyextended
THE
farther from
far
they
to recede
and
4^7
DILEMMA.
the horns
that
were
DOMESTIC
of
was
snail.
short
one
; and
the first obstacle
in from
draw
seldom
They
wits' ends
no
truded
pro-
moreover
countered,
they en-
if she had
that
there
only two beds in the rooms, they left the poor lady in the lurch,
she was
to provide for the
and absolutely
at a nonplus,as to how
who
of a third sleeper,
accommodation
was
expectedto arrive the same
in the house, and it
only one best bed-room
evening. There was
bed-room
for
servant,
also
worst
be
the
to
;
Gretchen,the maidhappened
home
went
To be sure
a
nightlyto sleep at her mother's.
the
but
be
in
shake-down
to be sure
the parlour
spread
parlour;
might
the young
also a shop of all sorts ; and to be sure
ofiicer would
was
to be very sure, Mr. Doppeldick
objectto such accommodations
; and
the
would
to
shake-down, and givingup the two beda
objectequally
were
"
went
the young
officer.
said the perplexed Madame
overhead
God
me,"
forgive
killed at
had
or
Leipzig,
to be billeted
came
"
i'll
take
got
of
us
on
escapedfrom
chapter,it must
gone
be remembered
She
for her
size.
to court
without
was
gloryanywhere
as
aspiration
an
Doppeldickat
was
that
corpulent,
hoop, her
of
II.
that she
so
bed
you."
with
bed
unchristian-like
so
"
CHAPTER
In extenuation
Doppeldick,as she
Captain Schenk had been
but I wish
"
the battle of
else,before he
"
the stairs ;
slowly down
arms
were
too
the
woman
she
the
end
one
which
of the last
cacy
great delimight safelyhave
of
and
as
her
it
legs,
and sleptheartily
heartily,
; and
to do her
good,for she
never
seemed
slept,
till
horizontally,
ceased
growing,
at least
438
DOMESTIC
TBE
she did
ample justiceto
of
the bulk
the
DILEMMA
which
name
Still,as
remained
modesty of her mind
even
more
tremulously sensitive.
the Utopian
to entertain
she seemed
the
In
own
native
the
body increased,
her
her
became
same
spite of
sive
shrinkingunobtruor
by marriage.
rather
it became
her
huge dimensions,
desire of being seen
by no eyes
life
of passingthrough
unnoticed
and
husband
of her
those
save
;
the
with
of
she
unknown
in short
a
was
globe-peony
feelings a
;
her
sensibilities
what
shock
received
violet.
a
blushing
Judge then
the shadiest
idea of the strange captain intruding on
from
the mere
position,
of domestic
haunts
privacy ! Although by birth,education, and disports
as
loyalas the sunflower to the sun, in the first rash transshe wished
and
vexation
of her trepidation
thing but well
any
to her liegesovereign the
wondering bitterlywhy
King of Prussia
his
reviews
and
his majesty could not contrive to have
sham-fightsin
"
Berlin
had,
itself ;
and
at
or
lodgingsto
let for
there
Then
singlemen.
spare
again, if
beds
the
be
to
master
Quarter-
notice,why, Mr.
extra
an
or
they might have
Doppeldick might have run
room,
up
lath
and
with
chamber
plaster or
parted off a portionof their own
thousand
done
a
things; for instance,they might
they might have
had
condescended
were
but
to
give
quarters
"
have
unawares
as
if he
it when
he
came
"
and
left the
sanctorum
own
tumbled
had
and
through
she wondered
country, instead
by
the
roof.
what
Mr.
"
It
WISH
WAS
WELL
THROUGH
too
Doppeldick
home."
was
of
IT.
bad
"
would
it
was
say
to
DOMESTIC
THE
ALL
WE
SMOKE
GERMANY.
IN
CHAPTER
He
III,
home
Doppeldickdid come
out
onlypulledhis tobacco-bag
Mr.
of the
other,and
pipe out
as complacentlyas
he had
truth was,
The
partner possessedso
upon.
pipe,with
tube
he said
been
nothingto
and
coat-pocket,
one
his tobacco-
and fell to
light,
Captain Schenk
no
it at all.
smoking,
in the world.
which his
nicetyof feeling
he
took
no
more
eminently,and, accordingly
dilemma
Moreover, when
portraitof Kant
he
on
nervous
had
the bowl
chair that he
in his mouth
of
his favourite
it,he sucked
sort of Transcendental
Philosophywhich
to say nothing of such
life,
ills of human
the
of
of that
none
and
"
then he struck
if there had
439
DILEMMA.
throughits
elevated him
above all
little domestic
veniences
incon-
"
boot
beds and
about
calm
; and
words
of his
helpmate
all her doubts,and difficulties,
a littlesharp and
querulousin detailing
in
could
raise
the
and disagreeables,
not
even
a
ripple
they
should they ? His equable
placidexpanse of his forehead. How
his eyes
grew
contentedly.'Thevery talk
puffedon more
him
lull
into a sort of sleep with
beddingappearedto
"
German
open
good
attacks, which
even
humour
had
so
when
might well be
long withstood
the stomach.
Temper s very citadel,
He
his dailydiet was
of sours.
invulnerable
every
ate
internal
instance,the
For
**
to
all outward
one,
ay,
"
part of
better
and
sauer-kraut,*"
in
"
sauer-
440
brown
"
DOMESTIC
THE
"
then,
"
and
sours,
soured
"
"
being ever
"
"
down,
of
way
"
he
Still,I
salad, and
with
sourish
drank
wliich
of
sauer-wasser,"
mentioned
by
saucr-milch
these
peculiarbrunnen.
own
others
not
many
could
nor
they turn
flowed
that
its
had
Kleinewinkel
wash
to
and
Essigberger wine,
sauer-ampfer
dessert, and
of
way
and
"
and
sauce
DILEMMA.
the
say,
sourish
villageof
all these
by
was
never
kindness
drop of the milk of human
in his bosom.
features
Instead,therefore,of his round
rumpled and crumpled, and furrowed
by the share
ploughup
of
one
Quarter-master,
than
saw
never
any
of
did
he
towards
the
gnat
that
bit
he dropped a
length,his pipe wanting replenishing,
At
him
few
last year.
comfortable
words
his
to
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
*'
ready immediately,for
your
I !
Dietrich
"
we
and
can
then, my
own
good
is mortal
master
dear, we'll
bundle
!"
"
THE
LAST
:N
BED
TO
PUT
OUT
THE
LIGHT.
hungry,
and
off to bed
as
so
fast
am
as
442
DOMESTIC
TUB
the
house, at
time
same
and placinga
rising,
the
upon
table,and
between
he
steadystare.
the chances he had
review ; or, possibly,
calculating
forwarded to Berlin,to
he had lately
an
application
the
Royal
Madame
Guards
her mind
up
that he
be
very
in favour of
exchangedinto
set every
nerve
from his
minutes
in two
was
made
sufficed to
and
Doppeldicka- vibrating,
his
palms,he fixed
of Madame
Doppeldick in a long
was
only mentallyreviewingthe
his cheeks
It is true that
and
guestat
blushingface
the
on
eyes
was
threw
ceremony,
any
his elbows
DILEMMA.
of
arrival,
bold,forward,and presuming
man.
young
It is
when
astonishing,
rapidlyit grows, and how
polypus,it extends
have
we
once
conceived
it finds
plentifully
its thousand
feelers
on
nutriment
how
prejudice,
! Like
the
sea
thing
of
particleafloat in the ocean
it
So
their
from the tenacity
of
was
grasp.
the
with Madame
From
s
captain
Doppeldick.
mistrusting
eyes, she
his
to suspect his nose, his mustachios,his mouth,
chin,and
came
the slight
furrow of a sabre cut that scarred his forehead justover
even
that he had received it in no
the left eyebrow. She felt morally sure
but in some
seen
scandalous duel.
battle-field,
Luckilyshe had never
Mozart's
celebrated
CaptainSchenk
the smallest
as
set down
have
inevitably
masqueradinghero, Don
she would
or
opera,
its libertine
Giovanni
himself !
You
"
will be
sharpCaptain,"
host,
hospitable
said the
pushing
towards
guest
dish
home-made
the
his
lean
of
bacon
Captain
but
took
no
more
tation
notice of the invi-
been
stunned
than
by
the
if he
had
stone-deaf
at
artillery
in the
sham-fight
the
ing.
morn-
he
Possibly
did not
bacon,
or,
at
as
like
set
before him;
put
the
naked
any
was
for
Truth
to
on
her bare
oath,the Kleineed
pigsalways lookif
as
they got their
l
ike
cockroaches,
living,
by creeping through
winkel
cracks.
However, he
HAM
WHAT
FALLING
OFF
WAS
THERE.
never
on
his dark
Ho
THE
DOMESTIC
443
DILEMMA,
mightjust as
well have
of old
"
at the shelves-full
and riveted)
in the
family china
the
door
of
she
which
had
corner
left open on purpose ; but
cupboard,
he had, apparently,
such considerate respectfor female
no
modesty.
*'
Saint Ursula
of
our
years
the Eleven
and
Madame
Thousand
Doppeldickto herself.
and
bulk
be
to
Dietrich would
that
get into
may
make
Dietrich
a
due
haste with
more
sow
wo
BULLFINCH."
PIPING
in
was
V.
to
her
swilling
such
no
swallow
wash
and
hurry.
of the
sense
grateful
CHAPTER
with
us
bed first!
man,
near
"
"
Honest
be
It is hard
obligedto
strange,wild, rakish,staring
young
wish
"
rational,
moral,pious
of certain
sapidity
giftsof
the
post-hasteindifi^erence
Doppeldick did not taste
the
them
with
as
Dietrich
well
sort of religious
as
a
obligation,
oystersonce
years, it was
fish
that the relish of each particular
secular temptation,
as a positive
the palateby an orderly,
on
should
be prolongedas far as possible
in ten
instead of bolting
Accordingly,
deglutition.
for
them
a
the oysters as if he had been
wager, he sate
swallowing
soberly,with his eyes fixed on the two plumpest,as if only awaiting
to
the
good night of his guest to do ample and christian-like justice
In vain hia
Kloot.
of his good friend Adam
the edible forget-me-nots
his toes as longas she could
wife looked hard at him, and trod on
reach them, besides being seized with a short hectic cough that was
any thingbut constitutional
Lord, help me 1" said Mrs. Doppledickin her soul,too fluttered
It's as easy to catch
to attend to the correctness of her metaphors
decorous,and
'
deliberate
'
"
"
"
444
THE
DOMESTIC
me
the eye of a post! He minds
I mightas well
of a stock-fish !
"
In
DILEMMA.
no
more
cough
than
if I trod
into the
ears
of
on
the toes
stone
wall."
honest Dietrich
fact,
the
totally
forgotten
had
dilemma.
domestic
"
will
He
his eyes
Madame
take
never
ofi^,"
thought
Doppeldick,
a
stealing
glanceacross
the table
"
was
never
since
so
!I
tails
pig-
expect every
he will
me."
embrace
ment
mo-
up and
jump
as
Where-
ther
nothingcould be furfrom
the Captain's
talion
thought.The second bathad joined
that very
and
morning, accordingly
had
kissed,or been
by, all its eight
tall
and-twenty officers,
fat
or
or
short,
lean,fair or swarthy, which was quitekissing
enougli
for a reasonable day'sration.
The truth is,he was
a
t
himself.
staring
He had just,mentally,put on
a
new
uniform,and was lookingwith
he
kissed
KISSING
GOES
BY
FAVOUR.
"
of his eyes
the back
Royal Guards.
however,
stare,
at
his
own
brilliant
as
figure,
It was,
wardly,
out-
Madame
at
took
Doppeldick,who
everything to herself,
buttons,
lace,bullion,
frogs,
cufis,
collars,
lettes,
epauand
knows
"
she
the
besides.
what
I would
to heaven!"
"
wished,
never
into
Deuce
he
thoughtof
the
army,
least that
"
had
going
or
at
the Quartermaster
had
never
taken
quarterhim
gay
well
waltz
onus.
Young
Captains are
very
to flirtwith, or to
with,
but
at
my
is
waltzing
!"
question
waltzing
to
nkw
air.
Captainin
the
THE
DOMESTIC
CHAPTER
At
eyes
her
fresh alarm
his.fists
clenched
"
head, as
upwards
his
free-and-easymouth.
then
he
raised his
towards
arms
and
crucified,
only
was
First
then
his
all
jaws
after
give
all
of
turninghis
yawned
day, without prey, in a ten-foot cage
Auw-yauw-au-ya-augh-auwayawauwghf !"
By all the Saints," thought the terrified Madame
!
he will be for packingoff to bed at once
and in
she
of inducinghim
to
seized,yes,
sup beforehand,
"
to
the
such
he
be
to
at
Doppeldick ; but
with
wanted
he
if
VI.
changedhis posture,and
from
DILEMMA.
he
his
face
open
prowling
"
''
"
"
'*
"
seized
dish of
devoted
the
the home-made
with
tread
the
on
Dietrich's
honest
now
oysters,and
turn
to
of stock-fish
toes
try
;
to
made
the
catch
however,
Doppeldick,
the vain
she
hope
actually
relieve
them
the
of
eyes
for this time
guard,
It
Captain'snose.
was
posts, and
the natives
safe.
were
"
leave,
your
said the abominable
By
Madame,"
voice
through
nothing except
"What
candle.
heavy rain
and
first,
artillery
at
the horse
then
with the
ing
ploughingup our marchground,I am really
with my day's
dog-tired
If you
work.
the
me
to my
me
"
chamber
Not
world!"
horrified Madame
"
the
peldick
Dopfor
not
"
world,
whole
do
fore,
favour, thereshow
to
"
will
the
mean,
till you
have hob-andnobbed with us
at least
"
with
the
and,
like
good
a
man"
warm-hearted
she
snatched
barrel.
If she
could
let who
would
be
if she
jumped
enough,
"
but
HOB
AND
NOB.
"
hostess,jealousof the
up
but
the
the
and
spare-candle,
set them
down
into it with
all her
alas ! it fell
clothes
through,like
to
hurried
the
off to
the
she calculated,
drinking,
herself be
on.
of her hospitality,
honour
It
was
the firstin
a
rest !
"
bed,
likelyscheme
Before
she had
446
drawn
half
which
she
flask of
suddenly
for
Holzapfelheimer,
or
Essigberger,
alarmed
was
back
the
on
DILEMMA.
DOMESTIC
THE
by
forget
pushed
a
tramplingof
bottle" and forgot
chairs
screech of two
double
the
"
"
"
could
make,
turned
coat-tails,
Prussian-blue
just in time
red, whiskingin
the stair-foot
up with
to
two
see
room
bed-
at the
door !
**
NEXT?"
WHAT
THE
AS
SAID
FROG
WHEN
CHAPTER
"
On
FELL
was
drawn
few
seconds the
VII.
"
Moselle,in
vacant
Captain's
and
"
no
a
another
wonder
dry
instead
"
; for
was
had
of steam-powers,
tender
"
travelled
up
of
he
attraction,
of his
In
own.
souvenirs,of about
over
sliding
They
another.
and
they
not
schiff^,"
a
sort
some
chair, instead
bun,
"
by
Kloot's
of Adam
plumpest
shape of a penny
went
so, and
little parlour,where,
into the
OFF.
the
to
watering,
or
TAIL
the cruel,the
forlorn Madame
another
HIS
his
were
tongue.
little gone
the Rhine
towed
dampschifi^,"
the
stream.
against
Then
by
and
the
powers,
real horse-
To
tell the
THE
naked
truth,there
DOMESTIC
in the world
words
only four
were
447
DILEMMA.
NONE
No
for
something
sharp instead
could
wished
have
spinningprolixanswers
They are good very !
couple.'*
"
"
the mind
oysters:
I do not
with
was
think
such
fixed
gape
bo
Malchen
Just
"
eat
upon
sit up
the
that
tears
I
no
excellent !
"
forlorn Malchen
of the
it
in
was
long-windedspeeches.
or
"
But
SAUCE.
and
sure, for
but
namely"
down
Kloot
ably
respect-
did
they went glibly,
glibly. The lemon-juice
them, and the vinegarstill more, by making them seem
of flat. Honest
Dietrich enjoyed them
as mightily
as
matter
Adam
VOUR
OF
that
can
was
her
between
squeezedout plentifully
fat littleeyelids.
"
I've found
schloo"
is
00
bad
only one
00
"
ooop
"
"
established formula
no
schloo
"
"
"
for
is
with two
The
"
"
in
"
"
or
justlike
We
can
No
her
"
so
very
bed
warm,
the
so
on
"
and
Schloo
And
man,
"
if
ever
"
gamut
There
to
of
syllables
"
Doppeldick,
won't
open
"
"
"
Doppeldick,
the
over
tent."
general's
Well
00
the
aforesaid
the littlewindow
Dietrich,
curtains,
ooop
"
no," objectedMadame
"
B.
"
schloo
"
"
N.
"
canvass
go
head.
young
crotchets
and
oyster:
an
Dietrich.
"
have
into
maybe blundering
"
was
thick stuff
top
that
"
But
"
and
the weather
and
"
As
00
"
"
of minims
one
honest
slirropped
!"
00
"
no
wrong
00
"
saw
the
Dietrich,
"
to bed
in the
dark, Malchen."
Doppeldick,with
blindman*s-buff work,
grave shake
Dietrich,
"
of
and
beds."
ooop."
wild, rakish, immoral, irreligious-looking
Captain is one !"
448
Schloo
"*
"
Did
')o
"
Schloo
"
And
ooop."
"
stared at
shamefullyhe
observe, Dietrich,how
you
*'
00
"
DILEMMA.
DOMESTIC
THE
me
"
ooop."
"
the cut
forehead,Dietrich,I'll
his
on
bound
be
got it
he
for
"
good !
no
"
Schloo
"
00
"
Confound
offended
burst in
what
can
all
"
do, Malchen?"
honest
asked
nets
ing
Dietrich,look-
engrossingdish, whence
the
from
all
the
the
at
!"
one
first time
!" exclaimed
boot
oysters to
patience
beyond
I
I
wish, do, that the
partner.
connubial
of her
oysters had
penny
his
Doppeldick, irritated
catchingthem
for the
up
and
Kloot
Adam
apathy
"Why,
ooop."
"
Madame
bovine
had
00
"
the
the
one-a-
two-a-penny
ones
behind.
"
Saint Ursula
relapsinginto
will
Then
Schloo
"
its former
you
00
"
00
"
I believe
that
had
cast
Did
Not
talked
all about
Malchen,
00
"
our
"
It
in
for
bed
is
there
sure
dick,
Doppel-
is
door
the
next
and
"
are
you
the
tain
Cap-
window
with
"
honest
soldier,and
as
years
militarymanoeuvres.
But
him
saw
eyes,
did
what
then
took
therefore
was
a
word
far
was
bed
into the
get
and
Not
"
with
of it
"
better,my
patchwork
the
his candle
away
all other
Schloo
"
oop!"
done
was
dish,and
like
own
my
Domestic
months
dish
was
between
Dilemma
her
after
contained
two
"
as
his
the
was
before
way
the ice has
sung,
in
Doppeldick,and
kissed him
saw
ooop"
one
sophy
philo-
little landing-
exactlyoppositethe
the
was
review.
owti
my
two
she actuallypulled up
feelings,
The
oop,
"
of transcendental
sentence
be
answered
his
the
delightedMadame
the
Schloo
all,"said Madame
after
To
his
that
of it !
served
coverlet,with
"
and
"
word
moderatelyinterested
"
Malchen.
it,
coverlet?"
Prussians,had
we
the way
husband's
light.
"
tell him
you
that I
know
"
patchwork
own
only
sure,
"
scuttled
one
the
of
out
be
her
room
must
new
melancholy.
voice
ooop."
"
mind
whose
on
00
"
"
!"
undress
must
Doppeldick,her
sighedMadame
of
tone
in the
undress
never
"
!"
only knows
disarmed
her, as
broken
up.
oysters, the
be continued
bullet-head
the
of
from
her
the
chin.
and
of
clear
revulsion
sudden
round
huge
nose
arrangedfor
{To
the
and
From
its
horns, Madame
open
that
as
at page
407.)
"
oo
peldick
Dop-
Rhine
moment,
air of "Schloo
duet."
the
three
long as
as
"
oo
"
oo
"
450
FOR
ODE
NOVEMBER.
OP
NINTH
THE
For company
bit ;
Over
"
To
To
This is
"
sorry sight,"
but oh, it grieves
me
quote Macbeth
a
"
Wives
see
your
White
and
And
cannot
you
"
"
and sallow.
above
see
Such
sable lilies
And
grim daffbdilies
"
Lud
drought,0
not for
yellow
bud,
and
leaf,
artificialflowers,
rose,
pair.
one
but
Drooping,
"
rheums,
catching
brightand fair,''
Angels ever
angelsever brown
eyes
For
plumes
windows
"
But
With
white
plumes not
at open
Sitting
Not
quite,
Daughtersin their
Lud
! O
Oh
then,with
To
"
When
he who
yet upon
That
A
Do
silk
Diamond
But
or
Tartar,
strike
like
"
or
if I may
martyr
Henry
Carter !
"
! I say
seem
can
your Show
and
like silk,
show ;
really
goldcan glow.
how
they shine in May
Sweepers,
there's a sun
to gildthe coach,
sparklein
"
When
can
you
or
changeyour day
at your
it when
And
Lud
Lud
time when
Have
treats him
Cart-Horse
O
Look
march
Horse, Lud,
Turk
littleFrench
Lewis
some
War
chargedon
ever
And
comes
When
air,say
better tune
sound
Than
To
June,
better
find
tiara
paste
"
"
bracelet
"
brooch
of sister,
mother, daughter
;
grandeurreallymay be grand
if thy Pageant's
thus obscured by
! it'sten times
"
"
worse
upon
the
water
land
1
"
ODE
FOR
THE
Suppose,O Lud,
I
Who's
see
While
safiron bun
Sister
Anne,
out
about the
And
thy
black mud,
I call to thee,
and
see
bridgeyou
view
them
rally
sally,
ARMS
FOUND.
With
The
own
nicelyhung
Lud!
Look
course
of cud,
way
tender lung.
verandah
margin of
O
by
of
fog out
perch'din
Over
Of
its plan,
"
keep the
Now
to show
451
NOVEMBER.
Blue
Chewing a
To
OF
like
call,
To
NINTH
many
"
Of
With
In
goldall
And
Like
Of
silken banners
glowing,
rowing.
in scarlet
men
Doge
course
fan,
of Venice
you
see
to the Adriatic ;
all this,O
gg2
Sister Anne
452
ODE
"
No,
thing!
such
no
see
NOVEMBER.
OF
NINTH
THE
FOR
only
the
see
banners
No
The
Without
merely a gallanty-show,
lamp or any candle in."
sister
But
Although
Of
blow;
is
Show
Anne,
dear,
my
cannot
you
"
Or
Huntsman's
Or
Handel's
Oh
music
the water
from
It sounds
else it
can
it first
rich
some
delightful!
comes
where
no
hear
You
Jn
as
C,
flat.
in A
Music
in
Freyschutzfrightful.
the
from
chorus
Water
"
the Sea
sucks,"set in B
the Bee
Where
Or
that.
of
course
hear ?
stillmay
you
see,
burst,
faintlysighing.
Tenderly dying,
Then
Away
"
And
the
upon
There
is
Through
I
such
think,but
Like
ev'n three
with
fog as this,you
not
am
muffled
sure,
may
I hear
sharps
rely on.
hum,
double
Like
drum.
then a somethingfaintly
shrill,
buz
Fair's
old
at
Pentonville.
Bartlemy
And
now
And
As
very
if from
I'm almost
and
then hear
Pedley'sSoda
ill with
the
strong
and
their way
cut
never
to die on
breeze
no
Could
Lud
! 0
Lud
! O
Lud
pop,
Water
scent
shop.
of
mud,
sneezing.
usual, teasing;
than
chill'd my
! 0
Lud
blood,
! 0
Lud
!"
453
SONNET.
The
A
sky
cry
And
is
glowing
in
of fire ! resounds
westward
The
turncock
And
quick
still the
hastens
unlocks
to
the
ruddy
one
from
door
sheet
to
"
door
throngingpeople
F.
P.
pour
"
6 feet,
fountains
of the street
While
Globe,
the
and
what
And
And
not.
"
THE
HOUSK
ADJOURNED.
"
454
iUlf\:illilI|,;iUai\l;i.|'i,,
I; inil..nui.;i,l..ti.
FANCY
PORTRAIT
THE
LORD
A\\?
MAYOR.
RONDEAU.
[extracted from
CURIOUS
Behold
Seated
worshipful Lord
in his
cast
It is the
May'r
Is
little into
but
pleasant;
high to lowly
From
to
His
blast
by the next November
blushing honours only last
He
casts
One
thy longing-eyes
November
day,
rise from
survey
here
great
moults
The
next
tillnot
sheds
his
slipslike
Ah, could
is
fate
Another
chains,
plume remains
impending May'r distrains
"
His
He
year
in state
Severe.
And
sink
a
is overcast,
dear ?
ninth
state
his shine
soon
Chill'd
this way.
One
To
Too
in his new-born
And
annual.]
well-known
ne'er
So
Then
his
through a
little splendour
water
twelvemonth
"
gear.
sieve
he would
One
"
live
give
ear
455
LONDON
FASHIONS
NOVEMBER.
FOR
REMARKS.
No
has
season
dresses of
Fancy
Short
in the streets.
appeared,even
skirts and
broad
empty,
at all,have
varietes in costume
offered such
been
indifferently
in much
been
have
and
the coats, Avaistcoats,
and stuffed with hay or straw.
favour
few
very
buttons
have been
pantaloons,
We
calls in
none
For
; and
padded
half skirts,
and
skirts,
worn.
earlypart of
the most
have
outre
description
waists and long,full sleeves and
whole
narrow,
the
as
and
are
invariably
several
observed
exquisites
skirts,lappels,
great-coats
; the
scare-crow
making morning
and cuffs,
but not too formally,
dyke.
collars,
picturesquely,
jagged,a la Vanall colours at once.
The prevailing
colours
Wigs have been very
both
buzz
been
these
have
en
commonly composed
general
andfrizze;
of deal shavings;but in some
horse-hair.
of tow, and sometimes
cases
For the eveningparty,a few squibsand crackers are stuck in iheperriigtie
"
"
hat,and the
or
sometimes
and
or
lace,and
littlepitchor tar ;
collars,
coquarde.Frills,
of
cambric
entirelysupersededthose
are
description
quitediscarded. Paint has
shirts of every
in much
rov^e;
clothes
are
Catherine
with
polishedup
are
en
of papiercoup6,have
ruffles,
been
or
and shoes
boots
request,and
patchesare also much
not
essential
ridingwhip
bunch
dandies
would
old
"
of
practice
revived; and it
universally
much
to
Figure
advantage.
on
in the ton
la main
to evince
"
canes
be
are
mauvais
on
the
colour,
they
but
gloves,
discarded; even
gout^ but
to
is indispensable
beingcarried abroad
must
to
preferred
to
not
appeared on
reckoned
be
been
have
seems
materiel
to be
requisites
of matches
aspirant. The
worn,
favourite
corduroy. Several
ruddle
penny
half-
fashionable
456
SYMPTOMS
OF
OSSIFICATION.
observed
coat
the
as
following
Caractere,
of the colour
a-la-militaire,
oifumee de Londres, turned
was
bizarre;
blue
with
white
of red
darker
tape. The hat,brown, somewhat
It had
to black.
no
beaver, but disinclining
noBud
without
the
one
crown.
bust,gave
down
in the World
We
"
of the Phoenix
are
excited
sensation
of Fashion.
requestedto
invented
entirely
was
badge
the Devonshire
and
Bond-street,
N. B.
tarnished
than
and
state
that
the above
Strand,who
Hollywell-street,
metropolis.
described
figure
little Solomon
manufactured
by
varietyalways
has
OF
OSSIFICATION.
on
Levy, of
show, about
the
SYMPTOMS
**
An
indifference
to
that
suffering,
could
only belong to
Time
For
was,
tale
alwayshad a drop
or
sighof sorrow
;
any
handkerchief
My
Till often
I used
how it is,but
seldom
want
a
eyelids
My
drying;
tell
me
"
heart is
I smile,
now^
so
heart is
change of style
I
ossifying
"
now
could
doctors,p'rhaps,
how
I fear my
Belvidera
'Tis odd,
I fear my
to sop
forced to borrow;
was
I don't know
The
At
And
!
ossifying
I never
wish^-as I did then/
O'er Goethe how I used to weep,
The
from my own
means
purse supWith turnipcheeks and nose of scarlet,
pljing.
When
Werter
To turn them all to gentlemen
put himself to sleep
With
!
I fear my heart is ossifying
pistolskiss'd and clean'd by
Charlotte ;
Self-murder is an awful sin,
We've had some
serious things-of
late,
"
"
No
joke there
But
now
at
I fear my
is in bullets flying,
such
heart is
tale I
grin
!
ossifying
"
Our
New
And
TheDramaonce
My
The
Each
Miss
nerves,
plug upon
the main
of
feeling
;
I'm
songs,
Zouch's
case,
sundry actors
Lord
sure
and
tales of
!
"
my
our
eyes to melt.
sad
good-bye-ing.
littlehave I felt.
heart is ossifying
!
so
458
SKETCHES
pheasanthe
To
tried the
he
swore
He
They
such
was
seem'd
He
The
Shooter
In Kent
In
The
the game
Surrey not a
Speaker said
The
LUNAR
wheels, they
going to
And
plots;
got entrapp'dby legalBerks,
ON
THE
ROAD.
DEATH.
SUDDEN
vehicles.
"With two
one-horse
to
objections
dangerous: with four, generallycruel inventions,
are
animal
with
the
labour
of two.
survivor
That
Bucks, alas !
Herts;
to
came
your
off
BedSi
Oxon
used to wish
he had his deserts.
should
sent
to
in
several
are
taskingone
he went
CAUSTJC.
SKETCHES
There
was
at Bucks.
Old
He
Sutton.
THE
even
That
But
he often tried
about
Manors
when
And
littleworth.
was
button
keeperswere
They always
No
safe
was
lucks,
the
often
And
went
tried his
he
when
And
to have
his tricks
county from
In each
satis of preserves.
Jam
ROAD.
No
foe,
keeper'snerves
never
THE
ON
horse
think
proper
to
die
to
back for
coadjutor.
Miss Norman
s dilemma.
precisely
If a horse could be supposed to harbour
so
deadly a spiteagainst
in questionchose.to vent
I should believe that the one
his proprietor,
his animosity
by givingup the ghostjust at the spot where it would
most
cause
he
was
annoyance
drawn
the
had
Binn
Gate
a
J
ill spare
the
"
sum
out
tall elm
and
inconvenience.
For
fourteen months
past
Lady
in
to drop down
prefer
Plantagenet
did
inch
of
if detennined that
as
it,to
house.
her
own
THE
POUNDS
Norman
Miss
But
dead
stone
every
459
ROAD.
THE
ON
SKETCHES
walked.
never
Pedestrianism
her
in
was,
opinion,a
gar
vul-
very
imavoidable
exercise,
with
the
and
poor,
to
people,as Postmen,
ers,
Bankers' clerks.Hawkand the like,a professional
some
mode
but
of sion,
progresbodilyexertion
derogatoryto persons
breeding.
very
of birth and
So
far
this
was
that she
carried,
heard
once
was
declare, speaking of
to
certain
rather
"
humble
she
obsequies,
would
rather
live for
have
walkingfuneral !
On
another
when
occasion,
the
of
in
than
ever
"
ance
great performCaptain Barclay,
walking
miles in
w^as
It
CARE
OF
AND
PENCE,
THE
CARE
OF
TAKK
WILL
THEMSELVES."
thousand
thousand
might be
TAKE
hours,was submitted
not approve."
surmised
from
to her
opinion,she
that she
declarations,
such
said
it
incapable
was
for instance,
infirmity,
personallocomotion,throughsome
original
such as results from
the rickets ; whereas,so far from
allowingany
in
her
the part of her nurse
to her feet.
on
or
deficiency
parents, putting
Miss Norman
all
her
of
to have the perfect
command
limbs,and
professed
would
have felt extremelyofi*ended at a hint that she could not dance.
which
restricted
It w^as
than
quiteanother weakness
any bodilyone
her promenades,and
made
her feet almost as useless to her as those
of the female Chinese.
in fault ; and partlyher surname,
Pride was
of
for
to
suggesting
William
of her
one
the First of
that he
ancestors
England :
notion
which,
was
after
turninghis
all
successors,
the
of the
strength
and
the
Conqueror was
some
dubious
old
that
pedigree,
who
of
descendant
own
as
believed,
"
"
Norman
their
great
Progenitor.
The hereditary
by this imaginarydistinction,
arrogance engendered
had successively
cording
itselfby outbreaks of different character,acdisplayed
to the temperament of the individual who
happenedto be head of
the
family:
with
Miss
Norman,
twigof
line,it took
the fonn
of
always ridden
460
'*
SKETCHES
in ttieir own
this
push
carriage."I
pretensionfurther
back
DESCENDED
"
littlehouses
local
FROM
wheels"
on
several
for
tradition,
quitesure
not
am
than
THE
would
ROAD.
THE
ON
the
whether
date
she did
not
of the invention
of
CONQUEROR.
warrant;
however, it held
good,in
had
and
that the
touched
looked
renewed
thrice refreshed
were
new-painted,the arms
till the dingy vehicle,
by the glaringcomparison,
body
up,
was
more
than
never
evidently
the
got a
new
suit all at
once.
He
had
drab
always old
Sometimes
a hat
brightsky-blueplush ; or vice versa.
in its first gloss
got tlie better of its old tarnished band ; sometimes
the fresh gold lace made
the brown
an
beaver look still more
antique.
to
The
bran-new
same
with
the harness
spankingbrute,who
seemed
and
to
the
horse,which
have
was
sometimes
tall
the concern
; at other
put into the shafts by
outgrown
pony-likeanimal, who had been
mistake.
In short,the several articles seemed
to belong the more
Norman
because
to Miss
they belongedso little to each
especially
instead
other.
A few minutes made
a
groatchangein her possessions,
times,a
short
SKETCHES
ON
she
horse,hightPlantagenet,
living
dred- weightsof dogs'-meat.
of
just
was
with
certain liiin-
this
at
that
moment
of
proprietor
was
It
461
ROAD.
THE
came
gig; and
knowing something of
up
my
the
lady'scharacter,I
pulled up in expectation
of
bay, who
as
steady
own
my
would
as
ing
Leav-
scene.
stand
mute
door,
death's
at
proceeded
assist the
coachman
his
extricating
but
the
royal
dead
stone
in
horse
of
nag
line was
to
and
accompanied Humphrey
to the
"
carriage-door
warranted
to
quiet
ride
drive."
or
to make
his report.
recent
American
high birth
house
on
same
kind
Norman's
essential attribute of
an
and
all
self-command
of
of
which
herself,though
conduct
Pope
fajl."
china
window, or even
more
exactly in
fixed her
of the
and
upright,
praisesin
In
this
her pretensions.She
justified
as
"
mistress
out
has described
posure,
breedingin England,a certain sort of quakerly comalarm
sudden
such
of
the
as
an
possible
emergencies,
in fact,the
into a fit by one's side :
or
man
a
fire,
falling
in
"
author
the
the front
middle
of
the
the back
on
eyes
start
with
nod
the smallest
ever
is
she
only adjusted
herself bolt
of the coach-box.
The
In
this
ladyacquiesced
made.
"
"
seat, drew
who
mistress of herself,
was
glass:
lady
Miss
particular
exclaim
"
got un
out
o' harness
he
she
never
the
to
coach-door,
was
"
"
"
"
moved
muscle
Humphrey
honest
layingout
was
ting
justshut-
recalled.
Humphrey
What's
1"
Ma'am
pleasure,
your
another
Remember,
Yes, Ma'am."
"
When
"
Yes,
Ma'am."
"
Touch
your
The
; and
time
horse of mine
abashed
?"
"
is deceased
"
hat."
coachman
instantlypaid
up
the
salute
in
arrear.
SKETCHES
ON
ROAD.
THE
he had
with self-possession,
by birthright
Unblest
where
in the first families,
experience
he
raw
a
was
good example :
the great merit of being cheap,whom
he
of
to educate
; but
he
stillso
was
importanceof
breakingthe death
of those
minor
tokens
It
now
was
if she had
indeed
I tendered
in
seat
gracious
gestureof head
"If
far from
his
respectwhich
country servant,
Norman
had
taken
under-
that
proficient,
he had
mistress,
in the
omitted
one
she
hand.
and
please,
Ma*am,"
you
Miss
learned
exacted.
always rigorously
and
turn to come
as
forward,
deferentially
as
the last of the Conquerors Normandy pippins,
chaise,which she tacitlydeclined,with a
my
of
own
my
been
to
the advantage
even
might have
uncouth
little from
with
not
said
his
to touch
Humphrey, takingcare
hat,
and
shuttinghis head
into the carriage
so that
overhear
I might not
"
him,
he's
kind
gentleman
enough, and
with
able
respect-
of
connected
the first
of
some
houses."
"
The
name
To
"
the
gentleman's
?"
Ma'am,
be sure,
gentlemancan't
his
help
answered
name,"
Humphrey, fullyaware
of the peculiarprejudices
his
of
"
it be
but
"
Shut
It
Huggins."
the door."
appeared,on explanation
with
that
the
opulent
the
he
man,
coach-
had
for
me
in
mistress
taken
mis-
employ
person
of the
firm
Naylor
of
throughoutBritain with
gig. I did not take the
see
her mind
and
on
all
Jem
with
carriage-door
FARE
AND
THE
HORSE
hope
him,
the
that
time
from
WORSE
SAID.
and
to
was
box-seat
travel
of his
to
determining
lady would change
but
to
time, my
After
declined.
always stiffly
expectationwas excited by the
was
sides,my
offer of
tolerably
appearance
his hat
offer of his
services.
waived
off with
him
FARTHER
coach
GO
I renewed,
accordingly
of the W
(the
MAY
AS
I affbcted
affair,
accommodation, which
long pause
ONE
But
her
off,as
Miss
hand.
"
if he
knew
Norman,
Jem
more
became
and
pressing,
the
SKETCHES
403
ROAD.
THE
ON
"
be driven
her
coachman."
It
by
of
praisedthe quietness
promisingthe
oion
utmost
in vain
was
to
say,
accustomed
that in
answer
"
in
to
he
of her coach-box;
at the back
perseveringly
he
would
take
that
much
of
as
care
which, on an unlucky assurance
her as of his own
mother,"she exchangedfor a steadygaze at the sidein the presence.
to the coachman, so longas he remained
window, opposite
By your leave.Ma'am," said* Humphrey, puttinghis hand to his
be a very civil-spoken
careful
hat, and keepingit there, Mr. Wade
and
loads
his
coach
There's
Sir
whip,
very respectablesociety.
Norman
still looked
"
**
*'
Vincent
Ball
the box."
on
chooses
it is no rule for
to degradehimself,
me^*' vetorted the lady, without turningher head; when, lo! Sir
Vincent
endeavoured
to persuade her
appeared himself,and politely
her
of
out
It
Norman
prejudices.
useless.
was
all
v.
Miss
had
ancestors
and
one
Ball
expressed
opinion
decided
very
against
stage-coaches,
by
into
nover
one
getting
;
and
"she
did
disposed to
line
feel
not
disgracea
longerthan
mon,
com-
by ridingin any
carriagebut her own."
Sir Vincent
bowed
retreated.
So did
and
Jem
would
do the civil
never
thingto the
sex
again!"
The
at
"jack's
as
good
as
his
master/
indignantgallop;
we
were
time, I
endured
a
female
stagerattled away
an
and
the
old
as
signal
was
left once
thrice
Procure
"
some
such
to
rebuffs.
I
many
made
from the
more
me
our
own
resources.
offers to the
repeatedmy
By
obdurate
of passing
way
old maiden, and
when
fourth trial,
a
contemplating
in
and
hat
window,
carriageHumphrey,
was
door.
a
post-chaise."
"
"
election
be gone
time, and
to it !"
there bean't
coach,cart, nor
464
"
SKETCHES
drawing herself
matter," said the mistress,
No
"
revoke
loftyresignation. I
the kind of riding
that
"
Yes,
"
Another
order
my
for it is
air of
an
far,very far,from
"
Humphrey^
prefer. And
with
up
Ma'am."
"
time
"
Yes, Ma'am."
"
Remember
"
for all
once
"
"
Ma^am."
"Yes,
"
ROAD.
THE
ON
the Lord
choose to be blest,or
I do not
help me."
to
of
proceedings,
during which a company
and
came
planted
black-berrying,
up,
around
the
themselves,with every symptom of vulgar curiosity,
had
which
she
Miss
Norman
no
now
singleglassthrough
carriage.
could look without encountering
at
a
group of low -life faces staring
her with all their might. Neither could she help hearingsome
such
shockingill-bred remarks as, Yy don't the frizzle-vigged old Guy
tained
susget into the gemman's drag?" Still the pride of the Normans
Another
in
pause
our
been
had
"
her.
the
like
circle,
bull at
the
by
supplementaryneck
of
sort
bay,with
to be alone."
I CHOOSE
in
; and
very much
"
Fellow,you
teeth
are
her
mind
in which
interval,
inward, it appearedthat
of the
case.
your
You
may
Humphrey
a
rigourof the
black and
complimentsat
a
the Grove
may
on
and two
as
ridingonly
more
"
"
remained
door,but
for
minute
gazingon the
in its hand, defending
blue arm, with a red carving-knife
If he meditated any expostulation,
he
white rolling-pin.
the
boys,one
of whom
was
a second
Plantagenet,
grinningthroughhis collar,
to play at horses with the reins.
It seemed a
preparing
enough that
as
not."
closed the
the dead
strangemode
me,
to
tedious
well
"
speak
as
condition,
favour."
leave.Ma'am, if I
By
panel,at
the
abroad
let her
to receive orders.
Present my
will be esteemed
"
"
doubtless looked
had
to
relaxed to meet
the exigency
had been somewhat
carriage,
summoned
the obsequious
A fresh tappingat the window
Humphrey
"
even
some
scorn.
own
conge,
set off to
insolent."
are
"
in her
each
my
absolute
repelledwith
; but it was
replyto
I took
pride,and urged
of unwarrantable
one's choice.
difficult to have
warmth
of
most
five words
same
out
favouring
ever, occasionally
awful threatening
look,
erect than
rigidly
more
mad
accompaniedever
"
to draw
She seemed
her
his
own
he took
to
back
and
the mystery, in
-explained
secure
the
harness,by hanging
by an aside to
shoulders ; but
grumble.
4m
SKETCHES
The
sudden
drawing-upof
showed
glass,
Bardell's
the
in
sufficiently
It
behaviour.
tradesman
pouringin
estimated
would
convenience
of
ROAD.
window,
violentlyas
so
lightMiss
what
unlucky
called
have
fresh stream
the
the
an
was
THE
ON
"
Norman
to shiver the
viewed
Master
advantageousopening
an
for
of the
side."
and as junior counsel
followed on the same
But he
carriage,
The
took nothingby the motion.
comfited
invincible,or, as the dislady was
hard
for
be
convinced into acart^
to
pairmutually agreed, as
four
The
as
legs."
blackbeiTyboys had departed,the
any thing on
evening began to close
"
"
in, and
Humphrey
no
made
his
The
appearance.
butcher's horse
the
on
was
fret, and
swine
his
the
grumbled
delay. The master
at
man
and
favoured
afterwards
with
the
result,
Sticker
the
old ;
or
what
all
into
the
we
world
do,
to
selves
our-
comfortable
and
to
the fair
to
agreeable
for
sex.
himself,purtect-
females
the road
NONK
BUT
THE
BRAVE
should
never
of its
own
FAIR.
and
providinga
ought to be forced to, like any other
his sentiments, and
was
good. Them
'live beast
unsensible
his master
followed
both
Miss Norman, name
was
They knowed
about for
in their lines,
and I might ax
men
respectable
characters.
"Whereby, supposingI approved,they'd have her,
and
up.
well-known
their
THE
female
will,she
'em
DESERVE
his
was
nature, and he
free
came
make
namely,
ing
was
pretty
ugly,young
was
As
being
duty, he said,to
me
the
It
orator.
man's
it
and
she
fame, and
felt herself
off
respectfully
were
emotion
Pride
the
became
gave
way
too
to
overwhelming
Nature, and
for
short
hystericscream
not, but
proceededfrom
SKETCHES
Norman
carriage.Miss
the
seated
on
fanning
hand
the
for
step
minutes,
hats, whilst
It
cold water.
some
We
tits !
the
contrived
off to
ran
get her
supported lier,
little pool near
at
to
butchers
a
the errand
four or
only of some
had
lady,only half conscious,
was
returned,the
when
but
in
was
467
ROAD.
vehicle,where
of the
tlieir
with
her
THE
ON
five
been
between
and there she sate, in the cart, rightand tight,
the
the
of
two
instead
whatever
or
or
butchers,
Griffins,
Salvages,
caughtup,
two
they
move.
but
I had
hereditarysupporters. They
her
were,
into my
jumped
at
further
in
struggling
end
the
of
shouts
Norman
of
I*M
i'm
thither
the
with
rabblement
AFRAID
my
up with
somewhat
in
two
of the
"
as
quiteas well,by sight,
"
already on the
to his speed ;
them, they were
horse
put
came
and
town,
concert
the whole
were
Unfortunatelyher
the
brightblue,and
Sticker, screaming in
the
when
already galloppinginto
the
own
start,and
lost my
gig,and
her
LOW
h2
own
COMPANY
saw
greasy,
residence
her
arms
swine,and
place,who
V
carriage
!"
was
conveyed,
of
Sam
answered
knew
the
by
Miss
468
1 CANNOT
is generally
reckoned
Timidity
"
CANNOlf.
MINOR
an
GUN.
BEAR
notion
at mice, fits at
for the Leger. Hence
screams
race
a
^ves rise to more
at
from
at
faces
at
p
anics
longlegs,
toads, jumps
daddy
lizards,
flights
wasps, sauve
spiders,
branch
cation
of edumade
is
when
the
exercise
a
of
a
at
Surely,
military
sight
qui pent
gun.
would
ladies' academies, the use of the musket
only be a judicious
at so many
step
in a month's
I should not despair,
of mind.
further in the march
practice,of making the
false starts,than
most
timid
can't be
It
vinced
minced, I'm quite con-
Hints
"
About
by
All
Their
Are
My
Manton
near,
make her
Will
"
at
her
drop,
puff.
with aspen
and
scream
fear
run
not
ask,
belt,
know
justallude
to
dust,
Or
"*
"
I cannot
bear
Percussion
I may
"
will make
if I
And
singlepop
wear
I must
She shudders
not
On
fiask I must
my
I must
Corporal.
not
cap
gun
I dare not
snap,
mention Hall,
voice for Mr. Joyce,
raise my
His wadding to recall ;
I must
book
not
At Hawker's
All shootingI must
shun.
*'
It's hard,you'veno
Or else
1 cannot
bear a gun I"
Or
"
of shot^
!"
look.
regard,
CANNOT
The
A
blue
With
less
no
black
Her
back,
must
Two
His
He
And
to
breech,
"
"
How
gun
!"
not
Or
And
"
young
What
objectsto
yet
none
bear
gun
!"
her smile
whiz,'
But if I talk of morning walk,
as
good
as
his,
is not
shy,
shocks.
Though theyshould be from Battersca,
Her
So
It stirs my
bile to see
At all his bang and
meal.
"
she
pigeon-pie
At
"
I cannot
shots
or
On
And
And
name
As
nines,
I cannot
gun!"
spares.
Yet
"
bear
POWDER.
grain
squibbiilg
dropp'd.
has no fieryfun.
I cannot
overdone :
nerves
are
do not, John, put gaiterson,
I cannot
And
Oh
"
littleJamasshe
His
409
GUN.
By fustian,jean,or velveteen.
JAMES
Ev
mind,
clothe my
swallow-tails behind ;
or
BEAR
Yet
taste
it never
famous
when
My marksmanship has
She
cries
I cannot
"
Lock
bear
up
a
thing
won.
gun!"
470
got her
Drury Lane,
fool and
Like
A
box
And
at
by her
dunce
To
this
"
she
her
excuse
will she
at
very
Is off to
And
I cannot
bear
sits it
she
enough
winks,
never
follow
I cannot
"
or
a
to
can't
It
thus
blind the
All
thinks,
!
Their
"
let
And
bout
where's
Major's
mind
break
out,
the soldier's wife,
at
war
minced,
be
I'm
quite
con-
WOOLWICH
On
I'll
strife,
mock-heroic
In
But
may
ray
vinced.
stun.
even
gun
through,
Are
She
trappings on.
Captain Dunn,
gleam provokes a scream,
bear a gun."
carbine's
My
best,
coats,
army
on
Scrubbs.
Wormwood
noise
With
"
in all her
review
whole
The
"
her rebuffs
I don
when
To
Major Flint,
quickly drest
And
might surely be
yeomanry
from
Secure
she rubs,
hands
gun
regimental cufts.
And
gun!"
hint from
Her
doats
she
If thus
shots! you
But
Yet
"
bear
The
bear
bit
ill,
know,
I cannot
broilingsun ?
My dear, good bye,
cry,
I cannot
spun,
oh, seven
Freyschiitz,
Der
march
take
Or
bill it made
the
read
And
To
Beneath
pride
again :
I felt
side
once
GUN.
BEAR
CANNOT
How
"
WAHUBN.
only
many
I cannot
mention
a
fix,
one.
Miss
bear
not
gun
!"
this,
471
FANCY
PORTRAIT
TRIMMER'S
FOR
Here,
TRIMMER.
MRS.
EXERCISE,
THE
USE
OF
CHILDREN.
Master
You've
been
Timothy Todd,
you'lllook grimmer^
time for the rod,
some
spelling
And
your
jacketshall
come,
Before
You
have
we
don't know
So backward
Don't
kneel
For
"
done
your
A
are
you
you shall
I'll have
you
know
I'm
from
your
in your
go
on
to know
Trimmer.
B,
Primer
my
I'm
knee.
a
Trimmer.
"
But
I'll have
And
you
went
to the
But
parents
I'll have
so
you
Tm
to know
pond,
not
are
dotingand
to know
Trimmer.
Fm
swimmer
fond
a
"
Trimmer.
472
trimmer's
After
dinner
And
You
to
I'llhave
I will
I'm
to know
the bone
to
you
you
made
You
think
And
I'll have
if you
to know
kick
I'm
at my
game
that my
eyes are
I watch'd
you, IVe
got a
think
Don't
It's
Miss
But
you
to
know
"
Trimmer.
back
dimmer^
grown
sly knack !
I'm
Trimmer.
temper is hot.
beyond a slow simmer;
call
to
you
I'll have
you
Edgeworth,
Might
Mrs.
Trimmer,
that my
never
I'll teach
But
trick,
sly pilfering
call you
the nimmer,
I'll have
To-day
But
stout
school-fellows
cut
For
you
have
you
Your
Trimmer.
about,
slighterand slimmer
be thump'd by the
is
he
weak
But
line,
I'm
to know
you
brimmer
little Tomkins
Because
the
to
straightin
walk
I'll make
the wine,
yes,
"
kick
Then
to
help'd yourself
But
Are
went
you
couldn't
You
exercise.
melt
to
Barbauld
or
to know
Mrs.
behold
would
I'll have
Dame
me
you
Trot,
I'm
Trimmer.
Chapone,
your
tears
glimmer;
m"^
tlTTLH
JACK
AND
HIS
TKIMMKR.
474
SOME
ACCOUNT
what
WILLIAM
OF
WHISTON.
his
of
occasionally
hand,
that
"
it
held
literally
nothing."
At
after a longmaternal
the
debate between
sixteen,
articled to an attorney : but instead
was
suits,William
respectableland-shark, he played double-dummy with
Law
clerk,and
remonstrated
him
with
that he
answered
breach
on
of
of duty, and
red
becoming a
the Common-
on
discharged
was
black and
The
William
principal
imprudently
of his
aware
"
"
"
"
"
"
she
looked
William
the St. John
partialto
his hand."
over
short,and
is
of them
without
William,
whist.
and
on
and
knave
His
and
he
Whist
ruhher.
it is like
likes shorts.
likes
I sometimes
could
conversation,except
never
well
could
not
form ;
not
go on
without
on
go
as
"
"
quarrelwith
Sydney : he was
as
saint is
that
because
cards,is wool-gathering;
He
speaksby the card,"
he had
the Olympic once
on
carded.
subjectis like wool
At
givesequivocationa chance.
that
him,
fancy whist
certainlyWilliam
and
nothingof longs^but
seems
of clubs.
whole
He
only takes to
Yestris or Miss
gentlemanabout the lead of Madame
of
Deuce
requiredto givehis card,and gave the
Hearts."
This was
what he termed
out."
calling
Of late years William
like
bad
out
a
earlyishof
only goes
rushlight,
a
night,and quits every table that is not covered with green baize
with absolute
disgust.The fairies love by nightto ^'"gambolon the
and
does
so
William, and he is constantly
green,"
humming with great
a
"
"
gusto,
"
Come
And
unto
then
he
The
to
William
much
may
"
can
leave
honour
They stick,he
as
well
"
and
safelyafter
cut
of
whist, and
to
ring
the
like
or
"
Eloquence,
is
small
cards
on
cared
receive
earth.
breakfast
well
long
as
You
time
erected in
statue
thirteen
or
pay
"
any man
catch him at
He
look.
changes on
as
never
little
deeply as
dinner, and
alteration of attitude
is content
as
say
"
He
heart.
got by
"
him
yellowsands,
hands.'''*
ever
shuffle
without
these
take
up."
Midsummer
He
does not
AND
FOX
THE
THE
475
HEN.
night;for he
he works
"
has upon
"
I do
Whist.
his seal
with
"
is
him
makes
to
accordingly
he
all
has
bequeathing
be
that
rather
"
himself
"
Great
the
for
Mogul
familymotto,
crest
"
the
with
gettingold (nearlyfifty-two),
now
he says
directs to
it is the
whether
he
but
inscription
in Bello."
Packs
William
which
know
not
at
William
low
upon
of
cards
play at
the
down
take
has
or
not,
be
this characteristic
no
"
compass,
as
to
his
plainone, and
thereon,forasmuch,"
"
hold
will,
he
funeral
cially
espe-
says
Honours."
LONg's.
HEN.
THE
AND
FOX
His
FABLE.
fabulousness
preferSouthcote
to
Northcote.
PiGROGROIilTUS.
One
where
when.
day,
night,
laid his pad
Sly Reynard, like a foot-pad,
Right on the body of a speckledHen,
Determined
And
And
Dame
Waked,
help
"
luckily,the
In
with
answer
had
at his
bottle,
her throttle ;
pretty pucker,
as
high
Partlet's
And,
scream
As
or
her in
put
with
bibber
very
to draw
it
course
takingall she
upon
like
Began
Of
matter
no
or
scream
house-dogfrom
savage growl
to the
fowl,
his dream.
preparing
has made
whist club.
they never
AT
Speakingwithin
is
gTavestone a
that
DOUBLK
THE
to
carved
cherubims
document,
score,"and
asthma
an
He
trumps."
his
his
quite private,and
there
in
weak
"
476
THE
He
forth
bounded
HEN.
THE
AND
FOX
againstthe prowlingsinner,
to the Fox
And, uninvited,came
Dinner.
should
of
quiteunconscious
And
And
that
Found
render
were
all,he
old
saw
Coming to play
Tray-Deuce with
old Mastiff
Tray, an
Instead
of
Seized him
But
Juries
Consisted
But
I
mean
snare,
hare
d of
use
no
"
to
him.
surlyTray
him.
bred
Dunstable,
Master, a most specialconstable.
Reynard in a fury,
killing
for legal
trial by a Jury ;
his
Under
Poacher's
"
of
worst
broom
neighbouring
And,
perceived,
brush vv^ithina
Hiding his
But
be
not
"
Jisop was
sheriff then
Elephantsat
the Hen
"
and
the
on
proved
"
of Men.
and not
Brutes
of twelve
firstthe
at
body
that she
"
was
and
Booby
NATIVKS
the
Accordingly,
Quite
true
OF
Stork
the
THE
Noddy.
SILLY
ISLANDS,
broughtin
enough to kill ;
bill
dead.
FOX
THE
And
can
To make
the evidence
Lynx
"
for,mark,
The Owl
The
call'd
was
HEN.
THE
AND
In short there
quirkor quibble
no
was
plain,
more
connected
could nibble
;
legalRat
far
bounds,
hope's
was
as
beyond
Culprit
of
hounds.
if the Jury had been 'packed
At which
The
As
"
Reynard, however,
at the
nick.
utmost
in the
Now,
should
If Jurors
They
to have
are
withdraw.
eatingand
no
starved into
is the law.
Isles such
Silly
one
way
no
of
drinking.
thinking.
Thus
Were
To
they debated
justice,
"
Was
other hens
freed to murder
and cocks.
MORAL.
What
But
Who
moral
Depend
this tale'sassistance
greetsus by
the full
upon
is
stop
sorry Solon,
of a Man's existence
Colon ?
PaO
BONO
PUBLICO.
477
478
THE
I cannot
fill up
blank
ANECDOTE.
ASTRONOMICAL
AN
*'
COMET.
short
historyof
this self-same
Sternk's
Sentimental
Amongst
of astronomy,
professors
Adepts in the celestial economy,
The
of H*******rs
name
often cited/
very
and
And
"Watchingthe
That
In
his
once
upon
time he
upon
the house's
top,
got be-knighted
thus coquetting
observatory
With
All
stars
Venus
with
or
"
Juno
gone
astray,
sublunarymatters
quiteforgetting
In his flirtations with the winking stars.
Acting the spy it might be upon Mars
"
"
Or,
like
Andre
new
Tom
of
Coventry,sly peeping.
At Dian sleeping
;
Or oglingthro' his glass
Some heavenlylass
with
Tripping
pailsalongthe Milky Way;
Or lookingat that Wain
of Charles the Martyr
Thus he was
watchman
of the sky.
sitting,
When
lo ! a somethingwith a tail of flame
a
Made
"
him
Ml/ stars!"
"
comet,
noble
one
"
sure
as
"
exclaim,
"
s :
on
my
I'm alive !
as
I should
wish to view;
It can't be
"
"
"
"
"
With
*'
"
scientificsalt upon
I look'd
no
Than
for
the Great
As
It
No
more
sure
as
"
his tail !
it,I
Tycho
reallyenter'd
more
than
do
Bear
declare,
!
Brahe
in my
is
dead,
head
Berenice's Hair!''
"
Sfarling.^'
Journey.
Inquisitor
Grand
Tliiis musmg,
Heaven
Sat
gazingon
the uninvited
Till
came
John, the serving-man,
Regions,with
'*
4?J
COMET.
THE
visiter
to
the upper
Honour,
Please your
to supper.
come
"
"
Or
On
His
But
"'
ev^i to batten
the
I can't
down,
come
I''m
say
The
odd is,
"
ran
on,
parlour,John,
heavenly bodies."
go to the
"
suppingv\riththe
heavenlybodies
mind
tune
same
POSSE
His
that very
"
And
"
fatten.
still full of
COMF.TATIS.
!" echoed
"
John,
Ahem
!"
famishingalarms,
*'
if your Honour
""Zooks,
sups vdth them.
In helping,
somebody must make longarms!"
He
thoughthis
But
Say
I'm
Go
same
engagedwith
Quoth John,
"
Wouldn't
was
in
danger.
repliedthe Knight,
down, John, go, I have no appetite.
still in the
"
stomach
master's
not
the
much
tone
celestial stranger."
"
an
fait in such
strangertake
affairs,
bit down
stairs?"
480
THE
"
"
No,"
The
He
said
the
At
such
wants
And
one
He
Seeing
has
Behold
him,
look'd
Each
rollinglike
At
And,
is,John, in the
marble
in
South."
eyes,
its socket.
fierytad-pole spies.
what!
rocket
rocket, John!
"
Far
from
behold, John, is
you
of those
reminiscence, cries,
good
rare
What
One
whether
join d together.
are
his portentous
full of Yauxhall
"
"
he
wtih
up
last the
tail
there
John
think.
drink,
quite reasonably
and
"
thing you
mouth.
his head
the
quite
or
doubt
may
wonder,
no
blunder,
meat
no
smiling,and
master,
is not
stranger
COMET.
eccentric
most
it!
comet;
things
in all
ages
That
Have
puzzled sages
And
frighten'dkings ;
With
fear
change that flaming meteor, John,
Perplexes sovereigns,throughout its range"
of
"
"
"
/ haven't
Do
he?"
Well,
got
no
cried
let him
John
flare on,
sovereigns to change
THE
HARVEST
MOON.
!'*
482
in the
me
"
REMINISCENCES.
LITERARY
with
market-placewas
could
stranger,
backward
in
have
been
comingforward
by
was
had
he
renewing ties
dubiouslyextended
as
to
and
manner
off.
if it had been
guiltyhand
dyer's, its fellow
"
and
manipulations
Wilkie
and
Liston
even
which, conscious
here,a short husky cough
inquired
"
"
heard
if I had
ties
have
could
himself
of the
foolish,
puzzled the pencil of
scarcelyhave parodied the
of an
he
unlucky notoriety,
would
it that
upon
say, de
The
the correctness
his cravat,as if nervouslymistrusting
the stability
As for his face,there was
of a buckle.
deprecatorysmile
Indeed,
lawyers
about
or
of
wardly
awk-
might naturally
the
performingsundry involuntarymotions
meanwhile
address.
fresh introduction
as
Man,
him," in the
virtuallycast
me
Bashful
truly,no
individual,thus beginningagain,as
an
novo, and
to
as
of
and
presence
and
sheepish,
divertingly
more
thick upon
blushinghonours
all his
damp
felo-de-se
our
"
"
"
of
anything
?"
particular
"
Not
the
word," was
"Then
you
smile rather
answer.
don't know"
the
sillier,
about
(more fidgetting
"
voice
and
guttural,
more
the
the
neck,
cough worse
the
than
"
"
ever)
"
an
"
with
duel
a
had/oif^A^
For
vividlyimprinted on
seriously
attempt
On
person.
but
gave
and
contrary,it
goingat
once
lady."
and
figure,
to
seems
"
him
fate,"by representing
himself open
weazand, about
own
my
what
Irish illustration of
an
of
storms
the
"
cut his
the above
part, with
own
my
and
himself,
to the bottom.
when
to censure,
a
as
As
he used
ever
own
that the
Englishmoralist
brave
with the
man
struggling
his
own
hold,
wilfully
scuttling
me
for the
a
Censor,he plainlylaid
naked
sword
as
stomachic
"
of enjoying
the
very sorry way, by the way, when weary of conjectures,
benefit of the doubt,and for which, were
I tasked to select an inscription
for his cenotaph,it should be the exclamation
of Thisby, in the
a
Midsummer
Night'sDream
"
Mais
revenons
receptionof
forward
was
my
kind
nonsense
its insertion.
once
into
soul,
"
after
to the Dundee
Winifred
his Honour's
Here
was
German
success
sufficient to
fashion,to
term
equtd!-" nn
says,
Kiver," without
miller,"and
scribbling
the
Magazine,the
Jenkins
lapse of
Ninny'stomb."
nos
enough, as
under
This is old
Tlie
moutons, as the wolf said to her cubs.
letter in the Dublin
Newspaper encouragedme to
a
contribution
"
was
make
"wrap
to
of which
my
bit of
charginganythingfor
turn
him
sell
that minor
not
Editor
tillyears
young
author
at
himself,body and
the
Mephistophiles,
afterwards,and
that
ordinaryapprentioeship,
the
Imp
the
iu
LITERARY
483
REMINISCENCES.
became
question
be
may
demerits
or
use"l to
and
greatlymodified
But, as
press.
retain the tune
a
has
gorse
be
to
of the
of
too well
more
work
in
and
and
MS.,
swell
mob
re-examined
settles
more
than
drift of
through a patch
beauties of the
bad
of
pane
as
glass;and
hand
consigned
to
cially
espe-
of
bad
to arrive
reversed,or
the
impossibleto
an
of scribble
piecewill
medium,
it,as Coleridge
once
it is next
know,
the
stanza, or
The
cover.
through
woman
case.
candid,I have
through such
disadvantage
to
of
form
difficultthan
on
verdict,
previous
seeinga rough proof from
Editors
scramble
to
the value
on
to
readily
more
It is
examined
severally
be
must
at the merits
say ;
the
me
littleefforts.
handviTiting
presents only
the
that
characters,
as
decide
supposedto
when
mind
enable
thus
easy, and
the eflfectof my
readingmore
judgment of
as
stiff
as
scrabble,
naturallyappear
the features
without
pretty
doubt, many
tolerable
for want
aspireto
head
of
over
to the Balaam
Box
fair copy.
meditate
eye
magazineto be converted
by
crabbed
therefore,be legible
things,
; and
If you
to
buy
have
never
MS.
to that
the best
of
opinion. Of all
in penmanship.
end, practise
the conductor
to the same
are
pens,
and
Carstairs.
and
then
Be
sure
sit down
those
follow ; and so, last not least,ye may fortunately
awful
avert
which
ruin
sometimes
sublimest effusion,
mistakes of the press
a poet's
his
by pantomimicallytransforming
and
angles,
all his
roses
into noses,
into pappiness.
happiness
ii2
his
angelsinto
484
THE
OCEAN,
"
"whom
man
It
by
was
"
known
which
the
the
on
the
summers
ago
before
"
goingto relate,
am
ocean.
be
must
application,
of
the
deep
plougher
far less
of its
manner
the
Whether
Needle, or
battle,to extract
with
observations
text,to some
made
Pericles.
"
The
and
pity him."
you
to Margate, many
voyage
occurred which
the littleepisode
^tliat
of
way
have
tennis-court,
and
entreats
during a
was
steam
play upon,
to
S E.
PER
CONSIDERED
the
the
sews
the
mends
stood.
undergenerally
his checked
shirts
canvas
his hard
from
splinters
likelyenough to be entertained
the
tar in the
jostlethe
by
after
tier of masted
vessels from
at the
Minories,the
maritime
more
"
with
Card
its Card-inal
Points,is an
fore,
surpriseme, thereviolently
an
Italian's show-box
the veeringGuide
was
; and
as
to the urchin.
the outlandish reptile
^longenough,if
it
poring at
"
Needle
for the
mutual
sympathy
"
begged for
with
which
the
without
obtained
were
the
The
to
of
occult
one
netism,
maganother by
steersman, and
for the
Fortunately
of
good-nature
as
treat
to the
the
raw
secrets of the
voyager
truths,masonic, may
nautical
by degreesof probation
communication
to the
mystery.
coyness,
cause.
in animal
understood
up
as
tedious
alongwith
of
truth
hension,
appre-
instinct
until after
not
any
made
an
was
to have
the helmsman,
querist,
had none
his fraternity,
not
there
thingof lifeand
It
his callow
to
doubtless,
much
in the
knowledge led to
present
case
anythingbut
deserve
craft,
perhaps
to
be
the unreserved
a
satisfactory
No
one
could take
more
"
"
TJtE
485
OCEAN.
to the
"
"
Well,
all,I don't
arter
littleneedle
can
move
C should have
been
sympathised with
lead.
All
seemed
devils,
the
and
"
of
feelings
of
that
his
'ere
"
but
man,
brute
the steersman.
universal
hiss of
turninground
the
beast,had
Contempt
scorn," ascribed
Cockney-Tailorto his
then
I wonder
"
the
condensed
wishingback
needle
Christian
no
the dismal
"
how
see
the rudder
about
of
Next
to
I not
took
the
Milton's
Resentment,
came
on
shop-board,
sitting
his
own
came
the poor
himself!"
I doubt
and
yet
intense
of
whether
Palinurus,I
Methinks, every
that
"
of the
the
oaths
and
"
Navy
snub
tacitly
learned
tires."
never
Campbell flares up
knock
down
me
me,
run
as
It can't be
with
The
"
the
Meteor
clerks of the
dingy fresh-water
his best
on
"
the element
card.
my
and
to
vows
England,"
Dibdins
Flag of
our
the
"Ard-hup!"
"
very
the
to
Clubs, on
last of
the
a-lee!"
"Elm
up
never
Yacht
down.
me
which
noses
"
glimpsed
with saltwater
bespattered
am
Thames
me
seize
me
The
eyes which
"
bellow
to
their fore-court.
anchor-button, to keel-haul
which
every British
avowal
! Every lip
disgust. I
in
!" agree to
Oist away
Pay Office propose to
Neptune in
me,
tobacco-juice.The
strengthof having
and
and
recoils,
Oak
of
compassion
Envy
Heart
themselves
avert
ocean
at such an
itself,
chorus Rule Britannia,curls itselfup
sniffed sea-weed
never
with
further go :
to the
that
say,
"
material shakes
same
helpedto
ever
look back
British
I ?
"
incurred the
which
sea-ignorance
our
head
pity could
confess
to
"
Sailor
for
asks
King
himself
diates
repu-
like the
sun
Ocean
for
"
I here
"
"
"
"
portmanteau;
swallowed
bolus
or
and,
"
this
a
what
blessed
pill,
"
whether
is
day
worse,
without
of
opium
every
several
have
itself into a
rolling
I
leave
ipecacuanha,
you to
bliss,seems
or
morsel
486
OCEAN.
THE
dmae.
become
who
should continue,I may
Biffin
!
Master
Every half-hour,on
If the calm
Ball
myself a
elbows,I find jointsby
A
and getting
obtuser.
asperities,
about
!
me
good point
a
"
knees
and
Is such
this
as
one's sentiments
be
to
season
knows
"
losing
and
little more,
candour
open
"
feelingmy
of their
some
shan't have
in
squeamishlyretentive
rather,is not
Or,
friction
this
delivering
; seeing
inevitable
stranger? It
spite,
then, of
of
the
Yacht
the
Club,
Dibdin, Campbell,and
Britannia,
Navy Pay,
Basil Hall, of the Lords of the Admiralty, with Portsmouth, Devonin spiteof the Royal William, nay, in
port, and Gosport,to boot
spiteof my very self,the truth will out ! not sneakingout, or stepping
out, or backing out, but boltingout, in a plain unequivocal
with
his sheer
style. I do envy the simple man,
straightforward
"
"
"
"
rudders
ignoranceabout
the
ocean"
or
with
each
never
be bosom
The
other
^there is
"
I do
compasses.
mildly
more
sure
"
to be
the
away
Tracts and
by
I cannot
us
agree
we
"
can
friends.
distribute
Avillbind themselves
legs; Long
and
between
falling-out
Marine
with
abominate
detest and
sea
the
in
and
to phrase it
Tom
them, againstme
by a round robin to
Coffin himself
the
kick
will be for
as
Smith
Boatswain
me
Elder
my
Brethren
oi
Greenwich
with
fetching
me,
Pensioners
their knottiest
with
shroud
"
would
flatlysay to
him, lying flat on
my
face as it now
happens,
that a few little gravel
and
it,would
be of
advantageboth
and
rare
for show
back, as
present
the broad
I
am
But
of
at this
this is
bullyingTaurus
behind
his back.
is no
There
see-saw.
How
he
THE
skipsin
is
give him
such weather,
miracle I would
I cannot
fain
see
48*7
OCEAN.
his
pick of
ere
thread.
ship,
part
step deliberately
going
into the Doctrine of Predestination,
as
curiously
regardsthe soul,
it may
hold good as concerns
the body. Undoubtedlythere be some
even
over
Perhaps,without
too
bom
men
horses
others
if they
as
had
soaped saddles. Some to slide and skate upon the ice; others
to walk, or at least
only to slip,straddle,and sprawl upon it. Some
decks ; others to flop,flounder,wallow, and grovel
waddle, on ships'
thereon.
Tliat is my
safe on the Serpendestiny. None can be more
tine,
in the saddle; ^but Fate, long before my
sure
or
great-great"
was
put
great-grandfather
pedestrianon
of
Put
cure.
at the
crew
term
you
plank
the
other, like
againstthe
An
sea-legs.
me
am
me
boim
Goodwin,
shall find
footing. Even
as
whilst Hans
now,
on
average
cripple,
hopeless
the
or
unsafe
comfortablypromenading,I rock
are
end
feet,forbade
apprenticeto
me
end of my
I first paid my
to his
the caulked
land, on
Dudgeon Light,
soles
my
when
as
Vandergrootand
his
and
one
totter,balancing
after
some
great rickety babe, until,
I trip up over
posturingand scrambling,
An
everything.
earthquakein London,
nothing,and
when
fall flat
its streets
are
on
is
what
point!
By
of
way
clincher.Fate, who
incapableof
foredoomingme
the power
me
chair,as
back, and
;
standingmy
it. A
settling
if it stood
me
of
does
never
behold
in
me
on
an
Even
off.
coils of rope shuffle me
I throw demi-summersets,
floor,
cabin
or
Parliament
to
representthe
the
on
as
been
Antipodes by sitting
on
deck,
returned
back
the
it"
under
hard
plainbare
if I had
me
to
of my
head.
To
boon
for
me
I should
a
Sea
complete tne
at my
never
sail from
was
are
ordained
fresh water
three
into salt,without
commotion, which
might be called
it
infirmity,
standingand sitting
I tried every popularrecipe
outwards
;
the
wit,raw
boiled
it
"
there
knowing it by
a
figuratively,
at the Nore.
Mutiny
voyage
"
birth
and
generalrising
Like
Curse,
carrots,raw
eggs, hard
namely,
cream
onions,sailors'biscuit
dumplings,raw
cheese,Welsh
is incurable.
the
with
hard
Dutch
Next
stockfish.
On
my
to
first,
cheese,hardones
the
easy
ones
coffee without
these formulae
Then
sugar, bark
all
without
I then
failing,
wine,
without
water
tried them,
as
witches
brandy ;
and
pray, back-
*""
THE
wards
OCEAN.
wine
without
bark, and
forth.
so
TIse
and
followed ; rum
experimental combinations
milk, and mustard ;
tea ; gin and
beer, and vinegar; seaoggs and wine, and camomile
water
and salad-oil,
and
with
mulled,
nutmeg. Of which last.
sugar
I drank by advice most
the Doctors of the Marine
lege
Colprodigiously,
that a large
always on the Homoeopathic principle,
dispensing
dose of anything,whereof a littlewould set you
the land,
on
wrong
the
sea.
necessitarian viscera,
all
my predisposed
failed of any effect,
to
except
aggravate my
of Paris
Nothingshort of liquidlead,maybe, or potableplaster
these
that,with
infallibleremedies
case.
would
have
Happy
proved a
the
settler.
who
hath
been
driven
in his
despairto test,
detest,invoke,evoke,swallow,and unswallow, such drugsand draughts
of the naval Pharmacopoeia
Thrice happy civic simpleton
!
who
hath
learned how the rudder revolveth,
never
at the risk of turninground
man
never
himself !
is visibly
in
Vandergroot
to the cabin
he looks
and
more
me
roundly,and getsblunter
no
small
about
with
my
oval.
an
their
oval to
an
round
how
get
I must
circle is but
sound,
up
"
stool
three-legged
The
!
at
my
of Leda's
guess
one
legsand
last time
I had
felt,
it
figure,
own
is
now
babies,just emerged,
from
arms,
Heaven
At
every visit
He
talks to
dutch-pin.
the egg !
I get
when
help me
How
of cherries !
shall I
get
mine
short way down)
old librarychair,I must
"
of my
From
landed,
home
"
stairs?
own
borrow
its
swims,
in it like
the
the cabin is
or
alreadyas sphericalas
am
towards
blunter
step.
Instead
head
my
roll about
of
(therewill be
shall I sit?
Either
and
they say
as
like
more
If I may
look like
buds
insignificant
a
and
How
back.
to
of transformation.
course
the earth
What
!
;
"
gettingcircular !
If I
a
I shall
merely giddy,I
little flatted,
or
so, that is,
not
am
a
poles.
rough calm ! I will down on my
knees, if I have knees,and with claspedhands,if hands remain to me,
to batter me
into shape
pray, beg, and supplicatefor a dismal storm
again,though it be
I
get
and
more
but
horrible
!
nine-bobble-square
candid
more
keep nothingto
and
communicative
every
moment.
can
myself: you shall have my whole heart. I abhor,
loathe,execrate, the sea ! If I could throw up my hat,my cry would
be " Land for ever !
A fico for Tom
with Duncan,
Tough ! Down
"
"
Howe,
If
Ask
and
ever
Jervis !
I
No
Dibdin
get ashore,able
for Stoke
again,to write
to chalk
a
upon
Parva ! If
upon,
"
and
"
"
The
The
sea
! the D
tcn'ible horrible
!
sea
ocean
a
rare
is all
new
on
the
melody,
490
OCEAN.
THE
thou
that
Devil !
Land-steward, Peter
wast, my
last audit
! after
Siiickey
abate
thy
rents, to volunteer
my
the whole
to reduce them
across
thyselfby absconding,
sea, with
Soland
!
Thrice
land-donkey,
receipt
goose, booby, noddy, sea-calf,
instead of economising,
and loggerhead
turtle was
I,thus impoverished,
before
counselling
me
to pursue
thee
Donner
and
King
John's
in
turn
coming
from
days
"
crash!
rash
I
out-goings
quartersat
Anglersin
the head
is
I must
once
with
foot
the
heard:
was
prayer
proposedto storm
is made
vilelythis bed
how
control my
my
the Powers
as
"
but
what
Blitzen!
there is a storm
I cannot
where
element
an
on
to
needs
yards
two
highest perpendicular.I
and
I
bolt erect on my heels
here
to lie down,
am
standing
designed
be gettingcold : the very trunks, stools
It must
head.
no, on
my
in
and tables are making a move
towards the stove
are
we
nay, now
for
their
best
the
to
all
rush
sudden
are
some
peril, they
doing
up
that sea last shippedmust needs have put all
cabin-etair. Whew
the Dutchmen's
Another
pipes out.
plunge; and a flood of brine
soaks me
sheet,and blankets. There is no washing
through,shirt,
What
I
at home.
a
complex,
; 'tis all done
put out here, perceive
like a wild desert-born
chaotic motion, the ship tosses and flings
horse,that is tryingto rear, kick up behind,turn round and round,
the head !
higherthan
No,
"
"
"
"
"
and
his back
roll on
at
fair
ship,but
and
all
discords,
other
Dutch
and the
one
with
"
the
This is
moment.
same
Dutch
no
; and
brayingtogether
each
rt)cking-
the
on
am
swings,
up-and-down,and
of her
The
is
Yrouw
bereaved
Jung
down
to come
kind of Vandergroot
How
littleone, alias the long-boat.
of
instead
round
the
to tell me
of it,direct,
by
going
sky-light,
through
kind of that table,lyingon its back, to catch him in
the stair ! How
! He tells me, as he sways up and
its legs! Angelsof grace be near
us
down, partlyin High, partlyin Low Dutch, that the Jung Yrouw
horse,the round-about,in
all at
herself is washed
only
the
crash !
Another
once
over-board
But
no
blundering
the
"
Tis
him.
I misconstrued
"
her
of the
Holland
Wenus
"
"
Or, the
in this cabin!
song
"
The
on
yon
Woman's
Another
Sea"
head
shout.
himself in
wholesale.
I do not
Have
utterlycast
all the
German,
oceans,
with
me
next
as
best
the chair
write
down
poop,
by
for
within
me
in
of
that
floating
mermaid's
chucked
own
; he heaveth after my
the last two hours rejected,
wonder
I not
from
sea-
new
the author
singingto
mistake
takinghim
in heavingthe lead,hath
Pietersoon,
Pieter
and
discharged,
calms,the
the
on
sitting
or
oh ! to behold
And
alongwith it !
by
fashion,
"
topsy-turvytable !
deep deep
Young
takinga chair
Or, Campbell essayingto
last Dibdin
the
disgust,
whole
ocean,
nay
the rest.
"
And
do I not
know
and
feel that I
am
now
salt-water
THE
mythology?
comb
I warrant,
me
so much
within
remain
not
:"
about
unsavoury
paint hath
to
will be left
the cabin
come,
syren'smirror,
as
Triton
solitary
one
odour
minutes
ten
ere
491
OCBAK.
her
or
stomach.
my
on
tortoise-shell
marvellouslylike the
"
Some
smell of oil
seous
turn, by conjuring
justgivenme a new
up all the nauof
marine
on
pictures
which, even
steady dry land,
allegories,
used to stir and provoke
spleen.
my
all here,President,
Oh ! that they were
R. A.,and A. R. A., in a string,
after me
perilous
stair,to the more
climbing
up this perilousslippery
crawl
all-fours to the ship'sside,and clingon
deck, there to
slippery
ing
like cats or monkeys to the quarter-boards,
take a tremblingpeep
"
at what
The
wild
Vandergrootcalls "den
is
tempest-tostsky
jaggedbase
of the low
troubled
as
black
zee!"
the
as
cloud,and
"What
ocean
awful
an
mad
if you
billow,that comes
black
worsted
which
fringe
their marine
JLo !
hand
he
yonder
whip
ever
you
and
"
weather
wet
in
no,
Look
taught ye
Zounds
"
"
down,
laid
manners.
! you
to starboard
are
all
to the left
"
like a
attempting,
with a potato-fork.
of bokickers
brutes
as
hath to
he
nor
pony
keep together
to hold
to
at
no
invisible
sea
they are just come
Did you
goingdown a road of his own.
set eyes on
such action ?
No stepping
but all pawing and
out
ever
prancingand puttingtheir feet down againwhere they picked them
dancingstud ; as sure as I am a judge,they have
up, like Ducrow's
all got the string-halt
in their fore legs,
because they can't have it in
at
pace
and
obelisk,
why
yonder
Neptune himself,
comes
hath
no,
unbroke
reined-up,
have
tell me,
indeed overwell
his castor, nor
with his beard lather'd but not
nor
all,'cause
Oh
crest of
tossing
oyster-shell
drag,and
an
four such
I would
as
the wind
! no,
Vandergroot.
without
gentleman,
is,to
see
neither
"
all
he
as
Pshaw
Hans
"
Did
"
hush, yonder
"
But
"
is the
if in search
"
That's the
stands,
honest
gapingat
your
Arabians
in his state-coach
a'nt dead
"
the
sight!
whilst betwixt
to
some
"
their hinder
colds
on
You
rabble of naked
four bad
postilions hanging
are
ourselves,Elias,'tis no
pageant
of
swear
may
look what
besides, and
by
would
ones
"
the water
on
it,you
will be
first-rate hands
great shakes
of
; the
show
Lord
Mayor
as
like to
this
same
water
spectacle
Murder
murder
shutter,if there
be
neighbourhood.0
now
certain and
sure
Help
such
help!
! oh ! oh ! oh !
I
am
comfortable
not
thingsin this
TVoe
Ball !
Lord
is
me
I have
and
surgeon
unneighbourly
am
not
"
am
492
OCEAN.
THE
legsand
! like other
arms
distinct back.
My
lumps thereon,and
The
there
My legsare
and
flat with
up, better
wave,
stools and
Yet
anoint my
tables,on
is it easier with
you,
with
gallonsof
me
foam
down
me
than I firstfeared.
sea-sickness is not
think
worse,
this unhandsome
cature
untimely cari-
then kicked
and
not
or
againtryingto
with
up
very
nine
resentment, I suppose,
me
The
are
the cabin-floor.
planks of
lame
in
of my
after spitting
his state-coach,
nine
King,
in my face, knocked
stairs ; and here I am
and bind them
people's,
only they'rebroke ; and a
Oh ! my head, my head ; there are
head !
am
cured.
usage ?
meanwhile, is
Jung Vrouw,
ten
giddy as ever, nay, worse
man
Gerhigh-flying,
deep-diving,
Romanticism
into her wooden
head,and is trying,
plungeafter
make
a
nd
to
drown
commit
wilful
suicide
to
herself,
me
plunge,
along
with her,whether I will or not.
After that, there is no hope; but
I have a horror of shipdie upon land.
oh ! yet oh, my Fates, let me
board
all ties in this cabin is trebly
! The idea of severing
agonising.
Why, the very table is tied to the floor,the candlestick to the table,
the snuffers to the candlestick,
the extinguisher
! Only
to the snjiffers
the burning
bed !
is
and
into
candle
there
^thereit jumps
unattached,
No matter ; it could as soon
Another squall
set fire to the Thames.
,
times told.
as
tingeof
"
How
she groans,
creaks,
strains,
squeaks,
grinds,
and squeezes, like a huge
in
walnut
Neptune's
crackers ! Accursed
Vrow
Jung
widowing of
dear old
Peter
be the
one
my
poor
! Accursed
thou wilt
Stuckey,
murderingof my
surety, by
reason
that
thingabout me is
quaking and shaking,
every
but I suspectI am
bling
tremlike an aspen.
It
is impossible
to
the
midst
hear,in
this universal
of
weeping
one
may
as
manly exit.
betake
me
But
well make
friend!
DOBT
thee
CXhL
THIS
THE
PACIFIC?"
to
I
or
Temperanceprinciples,
trv
stave
Full
go down.
Ariel."
It was
delicate
fathom
the
the shore,never
Bohemia,
of
out
such
to compose
of the
place. I
What
stage;
I
one
land,on
sightof
sea
the safe
guess
Boreas
that
"
bones
my
mine, turned
what
is
What
into
if
economical
some
Syren'sknell,I
from
wish
pearls,should
to
would
the
hair
do,
real storm.
suffer
sea-
jeweller
splitthem,
as
"
lief have
balls
I think
for
of B.
it
as
of St.
it
should
ring? As
for the
I feel him
settingin
at
long hereafter
Sepulchre's.I
to
of
itself,
or,
crown
yearningto be firstwet-nursed
maids,
Elysium,"by Merthe
it,as
precioususeful
in the British
shine
the
canvas
hear
thing to
of
pests
Tem-
tempting,in
more
even
coasts
serene
and
song
for
of sorts
out
Shakspeare,sailing,
ging
hug-
thing for
it is another
but
much
too
am
comfort
change?
wiU
five-
himself,in
by
throughhoarse ship-ropes,
shall
to me
that everythingabout me
howled
in
in the wrong
looked
have
instead.
two
or
493
OCEAN.
THE
"
as
then
death, and
be,
may
have
"
no
praved
de-
lapped
cold,
most
the ague-
half-and-half
neither
red
good
nor
monsters,
flesh,
fish,nor
herring.
cargo of
whole
them,
them,
glut of
leapingalive,unfit for
is not
lovingor eating,
a
nay
worth
Billingsgate,
at
woman
or
loveable real
one
of
one
the
her
maids
on
could
never
boldest
lone
the
wet
imaginethe
gallantest
encountering
and
boatswain
such
eatable
stall.
sea-
beach
witch,
on
combing
shrimpsout of her
sandy
"
mud-coloured
BOWEK
hair, and
ANCHOIl*
her
wriggling
or
it,or tryingto put
stretching
curling,
that she has no pockets,as a shy man
it into her
in company
foolish tail
about,
pocket,forgetting
does
not
know
494
THE
to do with
what
his hands
he tumbled
of
line of
his
over
I could
"
attached
creature, however
OCEAN.
to the
on
fancy him looking
never
pigtail,
singingout, with
own
such
his
a
recoihngtill
variation
slight
Dibdin's,
*'
Avert
!"
'oman,graciousHeaven
yon
For other
over
! "What
hark
But
in Dutch
death-bell is tolling
"
"
scramble, crawl,haul
I must
I may.
funeral is the seeing
how we
are
the deck how
unto
up
What
hard
cry ?
dreadful
Our
"
best unto
done
witnessingour
own
to death.
Here
sight!
that
means
I take him
as
made
be, with
to
fast to look
is
of breeching,
preposterous superfluity
througha hole,which
to have
seems
for
been meant
to a cannon
; and the carpenter,well pinionedand tethered
stout
danglingtherefrom,
rope to the back-stay,is sheepishly
window
by
Order
of the Golden
is
hands,
if for
as
spliced,
double-turned
long-boat.Should
head
from
even
the
to
by
his
legs
to
like
Oh
the
a
the broad
the anchor
main-mast,
back, iR
be
dropped,Jan
it.
Poor
rattlines,hangs Diedrick
left there to
bound
were
dry, in
myself round
the main
and
round
is
the
place of
Bart
is sure,
Yops,
littleYacob
unto
ring-bolt,
yonder,lashed
Dumm-Kopf,
his
Hendrick
and
of his
both
Yaart
Adam
capstan.
been turned
are
splitcod
! that I
on
the
to
foot,to go alongwith
hath
apprentice,
articles which
the
life,unto
double-knotted
and
of the
whenever
head
by
wards,
down-
shrouds
all the
ribs,from
thus, in articulo
lest even
top to the bottom, with good six-twist,
of laughter. The
a
nd
die
with
I
excess
mortis, burst,splitmy sides,
mistrusts
for he grievously
Skipper,honest Hans, with much difficulty,
the
his
can
tie himself
so
surelyas
substance,
they had
agreement, to such
been
all
another
man
can,
fastened,at their
hold-fasts
as
to some
own
pleased them
more
when
it
into the
no
man
steadfast
specialwish
and
best, by Diedrick
THE
Dumm-Kopf,
who
surest, in
order
should
blown
be
he
over.
he
securelyas
as
afterwards
was
that
to
said Diedrick
able, the
was
49h
OCEAN.
betook
himself
the
to
main
twenty
some
thereby, when
or
Diedrick,beingseized
with
present posture,from
which
dismal
that
was
sudden
they
saw
sightwhich
all of
had
extorted
universal
the
outcry that I
heard.
I
sicker of the
am
and
life,
such
Oh
soul
maybe,
set of Dutch
! that the
to
means
with
much
so
all the
the
"
meaning in
it
gambled
their
on
as
them
scare
Christian
by
away
of
Lloyd's
tenance
Skipper'scoun-
the
a
man's
shoulders ?
Underwriters
sightof
mere
eaten, would
be
to be
Asses' heads
and
this deck
not
safetyof
interest than
more
no
Is the
ever
Chairman
worthy
present on
there,with
for that
of
Bottoms
here
were
than
sea
smoked
from
pig'sface,
ever!
us
Thanks
be to Heaven
"they
come
aboard.
sail.
Pilot ?
well
love
yonder'sa
"
It makes
said !
towards
straight
Oh, honest, good,
as
"
rudders are
and how
the compass
rope'send is, take the biggestbit of
"
c^ble you
"
stand
under-
you
know
what
pick,and
can
give
you, in your
If ye had
drown' i.
look
Now
arms.
hauled
not
My
shoulder
helms
to your
and
in.
am
in
me
againwith
that
'Tis
! I an't !
boat-hook,I
same
forgive. Never
gallonor two of
it,but
bleeds for
sails.
I an't ! I ant
No,
only a
heed
sea-
was
me
water,
I am
used
justswallowed, that is indisposedto go on shore with. me.
blessed
is
the
of
this
boat ? The
name
to it,indeed I am.
Pray, what
!
indeed
The
Yrow
was
a
Quakeress to
Jung
LivelyNancy. Lively
heart leaps also.
she takes,my
At
her !
Pray, pray,
every jump
pray
take in
committingsuicide.
of
am
murtherer
out
What
drivingwith
hold fast
Oh
You
canvas.
some
They
think
mind
me
no
be
you
but
sailing,
than
more
stones.
Peter
are
you
Oh
Stuckey
! oh !
will be
after all !
set
of
by something.
! oh ! what
an
dare-devils !
awful
under
am
water
worse
!
than
baboons
I will shut
ever.
whilst she is
mine
and
eyes
give myself
roaring,
grindingnoise
hissing,
we
are
up.
come
496
THE
into
The
boat
bottom
Hah
soul
kindly
some
beach
made
Stand
Blessed
Nancy
amongst
Neptune
shall
farewell
God
me
but
say
within
I
his
will
see
all
it."
a
be
prayers,
and
you,
of
you
for
and
fast
but
asleep
you
jump
in
you
of
it,
to
then.
and
Hans
like
even
out
in
the
two
Irishman
amen.
say
foh
work
of
to
you
Share
my
Farewell,
me.
Cropton-le-Moor,
meeting
merry
one,
to
look
or
sweet,
remembered
whyijon't
till
if
me
have
Vrouw
Jung
me
in
the
land
both
saved
come
native
my
not
on
Ah
married
get
did
short
stop
the
of
Why
farewell,
that
upon
bottom
sand.
kiss
!
and
to
the
upon
ever
not
and
"
Now
run
If
to
have
upward
going
hang-dogs
ye
'tis all
the
ocean
advice,
my
friends.
part
to
and
one
prohibit
minutes
to
glad
be
leap
me
else
or
was
Farewell,
Take
you
We'll
she
over-haste
my
Farewell,
blessing
gore
farmers.
young
let
in
dry ground
be
Lively
and
out,
heels
am
that
me
aside,
coming
I
help
spout
is
sea
forewarn
all
nose
my
and
Help
the
of
OCEAN.
Jan
may
!
be
land-bed
clipped
who
Pieter
wished,
!
Set
current
forgot
498
THE
and his
if he
as
swinging,
arms
of Andcrnach
that is to
"
DILEMMA.
DOMESTIC
about
were
be admitted
leapingbackwards
by
say,
to
burgess
over
win-
to
"
"Now
"
No
a
then, Malchen!"
then,Dietrich,
Now
"
of
wild
in his
"
Sancta
"
with
room,
the
speed of
and, with
thing
some-
BEARER
OF
GREAT
THE
SEAL.
"
sobbed
Madame
Doppeldick,as
the floor.
Potz-tausend
"Ten
!'*
!" said
out
the
toes
a
scramble, plungedheadlong
somethingmore
Dietrich
was
a
thought later,from
phlegmatic
in his run, to
the whole lengthof the landing-place
leap,so that just as his bulk came, squash! upon the
Maria
hysterics
upon
across
your
of
his predecessor
was
coverlet,
any-how,
rush
on
Malchen
modest
and
THE
over
"
The
havingincluded
helphim
The
elephantmade
jump
gently
run
sooner
young
and
thousand
Mr.
Doppeldick,as
he
crawled
backwards
crab.
devils!"
bellowed
Captain Schenk"
suppressed
exclamation
from
throat,
but which
"
Why,
the second
shock
had
had
now
driven
from
driven out
his mouth
into his
;
LOVE
"
it was
as
And
so
so
there
did,Mister
we
(saysthe author,)but
Wherefore,
caughtthe cramp.
and as honest Dietrich
in the room,
Jemand
Carl Wilhelm
499
LUNACY.
AND
he
said
"
WHY
D(D
LOVE
SUP
YOU
ON
PORK
LUNACY.
AND
The
Moon
Whether
"
who
noon,
new
Who
But, oh
When
thin,when
"
and sweet.
tender,beautiful,
her silent round, serene, and clear,
! how
in
By assignation
lovingfancies meet.
the pangs of absence drear !
So Ellen,dreamingof Lorenzo, dear,
To
But
recompense
Still saw
his
citymapp'd by Mogg,
image in
that silver
kk2
sphere,
500
Plain
as
used to set
That
And
so
That
Was
ancestors
our
in
a-gog.
pretty letter,
exactlyas
to hand
came
with
the Man
LUNACY
AND
LOVE
eleven
ten
striking
then he might have
"
For
eaten
better ;
six
eggs,
more
turkey-legs.
And
Meg's
Saint
been
had
With
relishes from
A.st
ABSTRACTIOK
Is rather
for
spoilt
And
so
The
the
heart is in his
whose
Whereas
man,
mouth,
hot, were
kidneys,broiling
brawn
"
it never
enter'd
in his
thought;
The
German
The
Whilst
sausage
her
Juno, licking
Heav'n
The
man
bless that
Goldsmiths*
Heav'n
nor
scalp,that
bless the
Heav'n
did not
was
lips,
poor
skin about
one
who
can
give
firstdevised
such
Master, and
taught
letter.
publicpilewhich
front with
bless the
setter.
stands
concealing
solid veil !
Sir Francis
Freeling,
501
LUNACY.
AND
LOVE
So felt Lorenzo
he
as
"Where,
And
then, recumng
With
He
He
lo ! with
snubbish
Will
loosen
Oh
a-twist,
once
sound
enough in
with
poutinglook mistaken.
sweethearts hand and glove.
firm
when
word,
screws
love,rock
or
shaken,
chimney-potswere
Towzers
!
cats, and snarling
spitlike hump-back'd
and forsaken.
Till hearts are wreck 'd and founder'd,
knows
Lord
how, sirs,
shipsgo to Old Davy,
To
As
enough for
heav'n is blue
While
"
all at
features
gist;
"
! what
bound
was
summon
Alas
enlist,
to their
to hasten
whistle,wild
gave
To
When,
sweet
phrase I must
the words
gulpd
sheet,
to its contents
thirstyeyes,
In mortal
the
oped
he kiss'd.
darlingsignature
the
first,
moon's
The
would
Who
make
Could
love,and
full,
at
man
certain
And,
trice,the
crumpledlike
Was
Ah
! had
More
He
of
such
you"
"
kind
trowsers
P.S.
teeth,as if about
peoplewhen
His
Like
I think
thoughtthat
have
black, and
Then
Dutchmen's
to effervesce
kiss'd
he had
paper
snowball
in his fist!
scientifics.
is what
what
ne'er had
But
Clubs
To
Birkbeck
With
And
That
The
Mechanics*
"
other
work,
"
Institutes
Bartley
"
men.
lecturing
of
weekly
Combe
And
parts,which
Copper-bottomedMagazine
"
But,
and
"
got
George Robins
"
had
he not
sells
or
"
so
many,
Penny?"
of all learned
Men
dive like
poolswhereon, or in.
dabchicks,or like swallows
skim,
"
Rennie,
502
AND
LOVE
LUNACY.
Some
Some
Astronomy was
(Tis studied by a
Of Addison
"While
whim,
loved those
He
Lorenzo's
most
declares,preach solemn
their
waltzingon
pivotslike
sermons,
Germans.
young
to know
That
made
And
"
espiedthe flaw
him
each
"
moon's
Indeed
But
! does she
"
The
so
"
comer
! that
woman
wrote
twelfth,and
Full !
I know
no
yes
But
word
me
now
the
upon
it must
"
better ?'*
no
vows
be full
fetter,
can
at the
she
me
"
of the letter
moon
Why
The
fancythat
Jove ;
have
thee,"
debtor.
be,
"
to
moon
By
"
gave
O woman
of
ferocious,
rending,pull;
most
I think
her humble
much
she would
either
Herewith, at
He
epistle,
lapseso sheer
such a bristle.
Storm-Shipwhistle.
full,
love,and
at
! I'm very
the moon-calf
not
Zounds
of the
twinklingsphere
"Starry Vere ;"
fond
The
the
"
clear,
his stand,
Milton
fair and
full !
!
d !
reckon
finely
the first
upon
"
twenty-second
"
enough to
burst !
let her go
of all vile jilts
the worst"
Here with his thumbs
he gave contemptuous snaps,
he blubber d like the child that's nurs'd.
Anon
"
"
And
And
stamp'dtillhe
"
moon'^s at full
The
"
No
Here
doubt
And,
and
am
I do believe it in my
he threw
Like
The
frightful
raps.
had broken
thought
"
soul !"
up
young
"
is full
d bowl !
aye, so is this d
the
like
of
sourest
grinning
curmudgeons.
moon
Globe
"
"
water
"
"
the
whole.
AND
LOVB
"
?
memory's vice-gercnt
"
No,
And
no,
paltrypuppy
some
"
round
Norval'a
as
His
fancies grew
weeks
old-
incoherent
thus
"
DOUGLAS.
he w^ent
as
three
"
shield"
HOME
503
LUNACY.
to scold ;
on
This
tails
^heads
^that
"
"
"
"
As
meat, in
onions,turnips,
By
turns
"
Fool that I
A
full
one
like
"
baby
hunter's
"
the froth.
face
"
and red-
round
Ass
"
Within
But
no
"
Well
newer
Juno
Here
The
'
Will
My
"
of all the
are
your
image ?
why
'
sex
she
I'm
got a
Mine
"
"
sick !
kick.
"
thought: that
image thus recall
silver ray
in my
dear
trick.
dandy under-bred
some
"
is full
you
ever
"
artifice
wonder'd
moon
And
an
face
^be it so
"
dead
Almanack-compilers
the
are
all
^'tis
Some
'
"
'Sdeath
''
"
splutterin
to let
was
thoughtsjumbled uncontroll'd
broth.
boiling
'
"
504
LOVE
AND
LUNACY.
Three
"
Such
moons
Oh
"
would
?"
angel-like
so
He
gropedwith
if
flea from
some
But
no
the hand
"
Before
Poor
Who
how
a
moon,
no
And
"
Came
full one,
with
his
arm
it with
hand,
jump'd,thumpM
At
all
"
nights,
noons,
ashamed,
he
touch'd.
spoon
he
clutch'd.
Oh
"
danced
He
But
heroic brandish
and here
"
flood,like
his hat
most
"
I'll write
never
carry,
and mouth.
eyes, nose,
herewith
rushingforth
Ye
and
bland,
it,east, west, north,south,
at
ramm'd
sable
to fetch
the mimic
he would
gave
But
tarry,
plann'd:
"
"
it hurls
pearls.
I'llgo to her,"
And
forth,and down
with
beset
it,and
only saw
Look
chest,
feature scann'd ;
the old lovingardent drouth,
with
not
rip
human
outragecould be
and
seized
He
up
had leam'd
Juno, who
dre"t
you
fleecycurls
on
comes
another
Pick'd
Yet
hand
longupon
lip
have
his vest,
impetuous at his breast.
Juno's
lady'sminiature
Yet
Wherefore
"With sudden
skipp'dto batten
Had
frame
new
And
As
"
six
tore
mad
Doctor
did you
! wherefore
Nature
"
"
Mad
worry
bad
"
"
Antics
so
caper
tore
"
moons,
and
Buffoons
ran-dan-dish
swore,
more
spoons, and
than ten
dragoons
pantaloons!
of such
dancing.
or
a
band.
Weippert's
His rampant arms
and legsleft off their prancing,
And down he sat again,with pen in hand,
Not fiddle-headed,
or King's-pattem
grand,
But one
of Bramah's
patent Caligraphics
;
soon
Without
or
weary,
Collinet's
And
it spoil'd
before he plann'd
a sheet
many
likelyletter. Used to pure seraphics.
sounded
Philippics
Long
after Sapphics.
strangely
Staring
as
he would
in his chair.
through,
506
LOVE
take
But
LUNACY.
AND
On
G.R
WILL
WHEN
As
Ellen humm'd
Her
ear
Which
"
startled
was
thrills the
IT
The
by
REACH
Young May
that
like
nerves
LONDON
double
an
Moon
"
the
while,
knock
electric shock !
Her
And
down
Alas
She littlethought,
when
She
paid a
Too
dear at any
with
sixpenceto be broken-hearted
Nothing and
Yet, worthless
Between
as
the lower
and
the upper
sphere,
Where, seated in
a study bistre-brown,
piercea mystery as clear
She tried to
As
"
that I
saw
once
ReadingMade
clown
a young
puzzling
turned
but
Easy,"
upsidedown.
"
LOVE
Yet
507
LUNACY.
AND
Had
At
In
The
"
called
stand
squares, and
highways,byeways,
'Twas
Two
which
of those establishments
one
Grove,"
"
village
greens
that
name
poplarsstand
Holland
blind,to keep
twenty-fourYoung
But
when
the
upper
Revealed
Each
dovm,
window
to
in
Ladies
of Miss
if Miss
as
lower
one
Bate.
B.
by chance,
dead.
were
passingglance
littledimity white
cool state
left unclosed
were
screens
blinds not
The
means
"
The
Each
always
window
Each
And
her teens,
bed
cropp'dor curlyhead
economies,
were
led.
twenty-four
Along
Like coupledhounds, whipped in by two she-dominies
With
faces rather graver than Melpomene's.
And
thrice
week,
the road
the
And
health's
On
they pursued:
"
Beef,collects,
batter,texts from
Mutton, French, pancakes,grammar
Sunday,
Price
Dr.
of
"
Monday
Chapone's Advice
dumplings,globes,
;
fancy-work,rice-milk (no spice)
^hard
Tuesday
Wednesday
reading;
Thursday pork,dancing,currant-bolsters,
Friday beef,Mr. Butler,and plainrice ;
Saturday scraps, short lessons and short feeding,
"
"
"
"
"
and goodbreeding.
Stocks,back-boards,hash,steel-collars,
From
Came
To
Ellen
once
the
gratify
fatter !
of
parents yearning.
beef,and batter.
bolsters,
dumplings,and rice-milk,she did not smatter,
'Twas
eyes
evident in
Hard
But
learning.
quarter,always
as
heartily,
Jenkins
demoUidge;'"'
"
says,
She
not to flatter.
learning,
leave their college.
often happens when girls
had done nothingbut grow out of knowledge.
At
Long
But
As
And
Her
As
for any
as
Division
History was
French
it
sums
quiteas
too
was
she had
bad
small for
And
Her
drawing might be
globes ^the use
for the
She knew
done
"
when
no
she went
chance.
balk
Petty France,
Englishtalk
with
cheese
or
chalk ;
of the terrestrial
out to take
walk,
508
take
Or
LUNACY.
AND
L07E
ride ;
knowledgehardlysoared
Her
PRACTICE
the beetiaL
above
DRIVES
ME
MAD.
Mars ;
Nothing she learned of Juno, Pallas,
she
what
for
knew, might stand
Georgium,
Sidus,for Master
The
Bear
The
Bull
As
From
As
northern
same
that butted
ergo,
brother ;
at her
any
other.
That
Charles's Wain
That
Venus
Oh, Gods
That
and
was
would
stick in
real West-End
Goddesses
of Greek
would
Berenice's Hair
Chair
Cassiopeia's
deep rut,
slut
"
Theogony !
curl and
cut,
was
"
Judge,then,how puzzledby
Lorenzo's
letter
came
but
Militia ;
good Mahogany,
her
such
was
french-polished,
Nicely
cosmogony
That
Burgo,
stars.
for the
Scales
The
then, for
the
Ram
The
for
now
the scientifics
to
dispense
;
LOVE
509
LUNACY.
AND
hieroglyphics,
of their Egyptian sense
quiteas
;
and
A sort of London
dense,
fog,opaque
and datives
Hung over verbs, nouns, genitives,
In vain she pored and pored,with eyes intense,
lizard,
crawlingover
much
Knows
well
As
is known
oyster-operatives,
to
Mere
Yet
mixed
natives.
she
words, so called,
found
Some
ones
"Words
At
open
pickingout
fault
words
"
speakingdaggers.
With
letters
open
mouth,
and
eyeballsat
full
stretch,
She
No
"
"
Apollo,in
Down-stoopinglike
As
when
Of Niobe,
Tn
old
a
allegory,
falcon,made
justturned to Purbeck
stone
into
fact,since
Cupid grew
Judge if a suinglover,let alone
A
lawyer, ever
Ellen,I
That
will
wrote
no
in such
longercall
time is past,and
his quarry
;
worry.
tone.
you
ne'er can
mine,
come
again
610
LOVE
However
Your
heart
one
poor
intended
feel,
was
fear not,
the
I absolve
"
Use,
^use
"
reign;
meant
never
whisperingbough
Dian, a perpetualround
Nay,
for my
wane.
in it to be content.
man
It must, no
To wander
With
not
was
I
full,
sphere so
"
can
"
dream
With
shine,
may
is plain,
undimmed
lights
truth
one
undiminishing,
And
LUNACY.
other
Which
The
AND
pleasure.
of every
vow,
"
celestial pleasure
now.
own
your
Your
of
and
perigeearrange.
apogee
Herschel might aptly stare and wonder
To
that constant
me
counterfeit is sometimes
Oh
"
Ellen ! I
Such
words
how,
nothingstrange
disk has
"
hard
to
change.
littlethoughtto write
once
you, with
unto
hard
so
pen
Yet
How
And
Falsehood
on
men
and forlorn !
abash'd,discovered,
but
only cusp'd
gibbous then
stands
Had
it been
"
"
"
'*
in occultation, that is
am
My
"
culmination
plain:
that's
past,
"
clear.
quiteas
But
No
my
murmur,
Smile
"
pangs,
not
"
and
"
"
Farewell
! I
hope
Monkey
Nor
or
man,
you
felt
Three
Your
so
in health and
well and
idol of the
I
am
merry
day.
indifferent
"
is the
gay
"
very
Happy Jerry;
sleep,
let me
hint that you will want
a
wherry,
and not a chance of neap.
weeks* spring-tide,
parlourswill be flooded six feet deep!
My jealousyis dead, or
But
are
gone
to
LOVE
"'
Oh
delicious
Ellen ! how
Wherein
Meanwhile
No
Yet
the
melancholybird
Airy
And
take
cycles
"
and
"
let South
dip,I
Farewell
again!
be
of
blend,
night
"
an
end.
friend.
a
so
fond,
recommend
duly conn
beg,in the
POND
"
I would
light
used to
"
advise you, as
pen sentiments
next
Study your
Our
that
was
shadows
plighted
if I may
Before you
611
LUNACY.
our
of that
more
AND
d,
greatPond.
ASTRONOMY.
your
I shall be
"
Or
Or
"
What
That
matters
where
dear meridian
? my
wt)rld
spot from
no
which
longerowns
I dated
matters
where
my
future
life he fated ?
515
Koords
Lapland hordes,or
With
squatterin
What
matters
Leans
! and
Farewell
As
the present,
the Crescent
reveres
well I
fare thee
of my
for his
sexton
no
located.
My bias,at
if for ever,
another
wrote
I ask
where
Afric peasant,
or
woods
the western
"
LUNACY.
AND
LOVE
:
fellow-martyrs
passing-bell,
tear-dropsto be starters.
I may die,transfixM by Tartars,
by Constrictors strangled,
poisoned,
However
Cobras
By
shark
By
cayman
or
lion
By royaltigeror Cape
mangled.
Or tortured
"
slowlyat
in the
smother'd
Or
Or crush'd in Chili
Or baked
dirgedby
Or
stiffen'd to
Or
by
lava,a
in
syrens
Vesuvian
Alpinesnows,
stricken
Or
Or
suck'd
Or
self-destroy'd,
impatientof
"
stake,
earth's awful
stock mid
Indian
an
doom.
woes
my
well,however
I may
fare,
fare perchanceto the Lethean
shore.
in the air,
Caught up by rushingwhirlwinds
dash'd down
Or
this
Nay,
This hand
Prone
heart,once
warm
you
with
cataracts
should have
dreadful
unto
yours
roar
the core.
claim'd in church
or
minster,
"
Some
on
in
as "'twere,
Losingherself,
Of
entangled,
of such
Kidderminster
great.
father,pantingfrom the shop.
rush'd the mother, without cap or tete.
Pursued
with her mop ;
by Betty Housemaid
course
was
In rush'd the
In
The
The
cook to
charwoman
changeher
next
apron
scrambled
did not
up
the
stop.
stair,
"
All
And
then
"
One
sears
Another
phialup
burningfeather.
her
nose
514
LOVE
the
on
list'ning
But
LUNACY.
AND
stairs contrived
Ellen,gazinground
For
with
to
linger
;
of
eyes
blue,
DECAPITATION.
At
And,
"
Oh,
dear Lorenzo"
Our
"
Ours"
*'
liked
Oh
There
Q"
yes
the dear
"
mother,
cried the
never
Q"
"
mother
him,
never,
^you did
"
"
"
name
"
pray
is it tru^"
show'rs
in my
days !"
said Ellen with
"
ours
sob,]
so
I call a snob,
what
His very face was
"West-end
of
coats and
And, spite
"
had
He
I'm
sure
"Tlie
"
He
he has
when
Oh
cruel
"
come
thought
"
once
false
stood
"
He
**
I like him
as
so
of afternoons
I'llwatch
spoons!"cried Ellen,almost
that
pantaloons.
To
Oh,
drew
"
always was
So sweet
"
"
"
cruel
"
and
high in your
spoons !**
my
with
scream,
unjust!
esteem
!"
?" yes^aa
any
body must
LOVE
An
and
bringyou
Devil
bust ?
Bonaparty^s
he calls I
Lord
! when
Ml/
favourite
"Lorenzo?
515
LUNACY.
AND
was
I should
like,of earthlythings,
To see him hangingfortycubits high;
and Swings ?
Doesn't he write like Captain Rocks
Nay, in this very letter bid you try
and tie
To make yourself
particular,
tail ! Oh, daughter!
A tail on
a prodigious
"
"
"
And
And
down
don t he ask
you
to cut your
recommend
brick-bats round
With
writer's
would
Who
Could
have
"
fie !
in
ponds of
the
thought
be
brought!
simple way he taught
Ellen,walkingRegent Street
Tail'd ^likea fat Cape sheep,or
As
"
STICK
AS
YOU
BE
THAT
l2
?*
Airy
likeness could
dreamt
water
may vary
would have
mortal
Professors
to such
Pond
To make
What
"
area
beingshorter.
neck
readers thus
!
sense
your
his
at noon,
a
THE
racoon
COMET
16
LUNACY,
AND
LOVE
And
Or
No
whim
stupidbut
so
jinglebell-like on
To
No
mud
mental
some
No
;
fancy they are making fancy-bread
read.
has
has written,but some
ass
ass
No
And
If any
But
As
The
could not be
man
as
sure
girl well
Accomplish'd
"
"
chuck'd"
I wish
her
of
I had
as
born
on
Zounds
been
by
"
'Ods
night!
BY
nails !
CRAB.
christen'd John
and
"
such swaps
and
tails,
malaprops
HAUL
was
handsome
his area-rails !
THE
OF
'em
stops.
Mjather made
areas"
TAILS
"
full
meanings,heads
I will !
swallow
to such
seized upon
Father
My girldown
And
got to
comes
follynever
the
as
then,
soon,
could
Hahnemann
Of all Lorenzo's
*'
it,
"
No
"
it
and knuckle
^but some
"
it ;
"
bred,
and
with
tail stuck
"
!" chuck'd in
when
that
school'd at Ditton
on
like a
horseponds
"
was
"
written !
"
kitten
LOVE
And
to
doubling
The
With
fist each
for
training
Nobody
ample hand,
with, a-la-Bitton,
fight,
long plann'd,
for love
"
*'
I'llpond
recommenced
his
FOWL
"
But
His
"
Men
So
not
are
voice of thunder
to his
wedded
to write
in buss.
and
ponds
tails to
!"
us
truths,as thus :
fathers can't be mothers,
in with
wife broke
Females
menacing this-that-and-t'others,
so
are
In
"
of those
one
Land
WIND.
!"
Loud, open-mouth'd,and
Like
Man's
at No
"
I'lltail him
"
He
617
LUNACY.
air he boxed
empty
if in
As
AND
women
"
"
"
females
certain
and
"
such others.
few
Looking,it must
And
be
own'd,
as
door.
little silly;
the Carinthian
boor
With
As
just as
Boreas
For
would
much
apology
"
^no
present in such
more
"
case,
rightin
your
face.
thus
kept,
important tete-a-tete
'Twixt dam
and daughter,
nobody except
Paul Pry, or his Twin
Brother,could narrate
So turn we
to Lorenzo, left of late,
And
now,
What
the secrets
passedin
sex
that
"
618
LOVE
snacks,
Snelling's
sugar'd
In front of Mrs.
In such
But
state
waspish stinging
very
and
Fretting,
Because
that
Instead
of
fast four-inside
new
minutes
few
some
from
And
it,
crime.
he had
shorter
less
Nor
the Comet,
"
keepingits appointedtime,
deviated
"
at the Old
now
Had
LUNACY.
AND
or
get any
s
pouringupon passion unslaked lime
A well-grown glassof Cogniac and water,
Mix'd stiffas starch by the Old Dragon's
daughter.
For
"
At
"
Ellen
soundingwith a flourish,
The
bran new,
all bright,
and smart ;
Comet
came
the melody conspired
Meanwhile
to nourish
in Lorenzo's heart.
The hastyspirit
And
soon
upon the roof he "topped his part,"
Fair
length,
Which
had
never
impatientman
more
on.
start
Wishing
Like lightning
greased, or, as at Ballyshannon
shot out of a cannon
Sublimed, greasedlightning
"
"
For,
ever
His
mind
had
Dodge-dodginglike
That
If
and
Love
Till,like
Before
He
"
its way,
left leads
rightor
Hatred
for
For
so
he
notion
no
German
the
land.
on
has
Ocean
"
enjoy'dmonopolies,
his own
potion.
following
could
spellAcropolis,
pig
by
Doctor
learned
Oh,
to
and
turns
himself for
and booked
went
hand.
motion.
vacillating
fluster'd crab
ask
cannot
in
been
the
"
rather four,
horse,"or
put
metropolis.
our
"
wish
into the
with
wings!"
plural
"
architects
with
fast
How
Which
Blind
In
all with
thoughtswere
"
not
the horses'
they
London
paupers
"
Nature
could macadamize
he
picturesque,
one
the murals
stones
heap axidpile
the milestones
as gallor
pass'das tediously
to the
and
ne'er
bile stones.
perceived
ai'tistical
fine stroke ;
For
how
instance,
The
Or
the red
how
how
the
Threw
that
beggar-woman
And
in the
gipsy-poke.
cow
noble
of beech
mass
and
off
519
LUNACY.
AND
LOYE
grey,
and oak !
Such
thingshave
That
Coachmen
and
every
Then
And
see
Would
care
worried
anxious
men,
smart
artists then
your
how
make
cared he
Nor
and
horses,are
for
delight
no
fall of
travel
they
a
will draw
difference
about
more
"
Four
!
"
or
the
I'm
'em start,
let loose
screws
goose !
promisedcrops.
If oats
were
fliesin
For
Or
In
LORD,
JOHN,
HKKh
could
Peas, beans, tares,'taters,
Nor
did he
answer
BURROW
his mind
to the servant
beguile
;
maid,
520
AND
LOVE
That
"
always
Where
Nor
do
asked
LUNACY.
other
at every
we
he listened to the
more
mile,
her sweetest
smile.
Politician,
lectured
Called
one
his
on
sad bad
Poet
and
"
first-rate proser
and
So criticsjudge,now, of a song or
And
one,
Nay,
when
"
the coachman
a
a
Whig,
Tory ;
story.
spoke about
the
'Leger,
Of
The
theme
Though
For
leaningforward
seem'd
He
Ellen's
Would
not
to
givean
to the
ear,
man
rivet
of
"
giveit.
her slips)
Eclipse."
If any
It
He
whips.
"
(thatsaddest
new
by a
moon
be hidden
of
He
Nor
did it shake
Because
the Comet
THK
so
cocky
shock it,
or
singlenerve
the Rocket.
raced against
HKAU
WAITER
AT
HATCHETT
8.
622
LOVE
In letters such
'
Lord, they
My
I wonder
"
Five
Ellen
moons
say five
'"Jive
with
all at
lived in that
"
in heav'n !
once
prolific
reign!
seven,
The
knocker
very
if it had
As
With
The
parch'dwith drouth,
so
"
dread.
teeth
so
he had
engaged to put
his head.
Its
He
As
"
What
A
business have
of
to shed
caper
"
hopelesspassionthus
Instead
livinglion's mouth.
In which
"
of all his
Th' abode
His
John
(he thought)a
fan and foster.
to
its wick
puttingout
at
once
dunce
She's gone
it'svery evident I've lost her,
And
to the wanton
wind I should have toss'd her
"
"
toast and
some
cram
Or make
"
Yes
And
her,"and
as
thus he
spoke.
with
as
wildlythrougha
abruptdivorce
course
tillhe made
ringing,
Whilst
To
then he went
Between
And
singleGloster,
it,as good green clieese,
honey-moon,if so she please.
eat
pliedthe knocker
It almost
Of
it,like
"
at ease.
fool with
here I leave
"
He
her moon,
ran
its dumbfounded
Betty,out
of breath
thrust into,
his face her blown-out
the ^uthor of
recognise
handle
and
hoarse.
candle.
such scandal.
to boot,
Who, presto1 cloak,and carpet-bag
Went
stumbling,
rambling,up
the dark
one
well done
one
Here
King
moons
and
"
run,
I recollect
yes,"
moons
content
was
have
should
She
'"oh
all full !
"
read,who
those may
as
JOHN
KING
'
"
LUNACY.
AND
pair,
LOVE
"With
AND
Had
music
And
then
his
no
more
up
Like
fond Medora,
Yet
not
sat
of any
The
watchingat
Corsair bark
of
juttinglodging-house
The
House
Cheapest
privatehouse
declare,
bow.
to
marble
bear,
how.
matter
Ellen, with
there
than
manners
He
very foot
the stair :
"
came
head, no
And
"
his whose
in't as he
with
"tt
LUNACY.
brow
her
window,
in search"
Mrs.
Lindo,
"
in Town
of Todd
and
SturcJi,
Birch,
closed nightlyat eleven,
The public-house,
And
then that house of prayer, the parishchurch.
Some
roofs,and chimneys, and a glimpseof heaven,
"
The
up the whole
Made
Yet
Doctor
of Number
look-out
Seven.
somethingin
She
As
of Reverend
seemed
if her
belov'd
own
"
MEET
ME
full
BY
Lullingher fancy in
With
still orb'd
moon
MOONLIGHT
some
lunar
her,
ALONE.''
scheme.
"
524
LOVE
Yet
when
She
As
if
Had
"
within
come
Lorenzo
!"""
They
tried to
were
Such
like
And
"
"
came
at each
great Mac
else
leaf each
aspen
They
some
Alas
come
Loren
"
word,
quiteabsurd,
due
joiner's
glue.
common
"
"
hap
hap
"
Lorenzo
"
happy
"
cru
"
cru^
"
cruel !
"
"
dwell
must
man
"
"
"
so
There
The
take
"
face of
Bestow
it on
Your
And
They
"
And
them
South
"
vow's
"
or
"
"
you
by tears, when
cannot
by
To
Covent
"
And
here's the
Should
once
leave to steal
it from
"
leave
nor
my
zeal !
and
Garden
"
torn
O'Neill
only harden
your
"
white
do not feel
mistaken
birth-dayring
have
and
Miss
"
Bartley's
Orrery,not
"
resignthem quite!
gloveyou gave
so
handkerchief,
pure
"
better
me
did not
had
you
"
benefactions
rare
"
"
! each letter !
infractions.
Children
take them
pray
sanctified
no
"
Transactions
Philosophical
there's the
But
fetter
"
there's the
Once
forgether,
now
into your
epistles there
will be novelties
Take
to
I crave.
haplessslave
are
them
shine in
And
whatever
your
record of your
no
Send
^take it back
"
^but I must
"
there
I wish
To
art
it,Madam
one
!'
was
without
"
more
Madam
throughand through,
made
jellies
share of
"
heard,
stirr'd,
was
nerve
thrill'd them
like
Adam
fare" farewell
^to bid you
thus began to fight
their verbal duel ;
Since
For
then
efibrts to be stiffwere
proper
"
to fold her.
arms
Englishnever
an
Ellen ! I'm
"
bony
flint for
shook
They
his
speak,but hammer'd
chillytremor
Their
shoulder,
the
on
abortive scream,
an
Ellen !""
broken
For
touch'd her
with
up
LUNACY.
midnightghost,from regionscolder,
some
As if it
Lorenzo
started
AND
man
pardon
"
nor
d^vil
hand,
living
AND
LOVE
Perchance
'twill look
that
And
And
and not
fair
as
"
he ceased
there
Neville
band
"
eternal sickle
land
foreign
to stickle
false and
so
fickle !
trulyit was
as
I stand
now
lives ; in this,
or
for
be found
truth
and
farewell,tillTime's
so
Mr.
on
"
of each
Absolved
And
well
as
"
525
LUNACY.
"
time,
One
themes
of the various
For
She knew
About
Who
"
Children
North, was
Except
of
largergrowth,"
of the F. R.
proceedings
notes
Kit
more
no
that
justas
S. *s ;
strangeto her as
Orrery defied
Nay, Hartley's
**
Howbeit
RAN
some
IT
thro'
e'en
expresses.
her guesses.
FROM
notion of his
South,
BOYISH
MY
DAYS.'
jealousdrift
So like
**
Alas !"
These
Your
And
Othello,with
she sobbed,
*'
faded charms
and
fancy palls,
lay your
own
your
no
you
cruel
course
attract
longer
can
wander
would
apostacy on
me
see
free,
526
AND
LOVE
"
LUNACY.
and
The
"
lives,of
all that
By
to you
incline
witness
divine
earthlyor
true
am
"
as
"
soon
"
True
True
True
And
the streamlet
as
as
as
the tide to
as
that shine
stars
"
at noon,
sun
'
yonder blessed
moon
"
she
above
Somewhere
chimney-potsof
the
Betwixt
'
to the
Mrs.
Lindo,
and
Todd
And
cheapest of all S'hops
For ribbons, laces,
muslins,silks,and fops :
Meanwhile, as she upraised her face so Grecian,
Sturch's
"
And
eyes suffused
Lorenzo
To
"
see
the
Seem'd
His
At
"
he
all at
fix'd his
And
scintillating
drops,
troubled
sphere so
Moon
The
with
cried,and
mouth,
is your
Ellen
The
Moon
Brute
! savage
The
Moon
"
(0,
that's the
ye
new
"
rock
I am,
Romantics, what
Illuminated
ST.
"
sightindeed
that
BLAISE.
"
shrilly
sort.
sea-gull's
wheelinground
"
distort.
gaping chasm
all amort
of most
Why
and
and
faculties benumVd
electric spasm
an
dumb
Speak
"
repletion.
his features to
once
Just like
with
Clock
"
so
and
shock
!
"
short !
block
!)
527
"i'd
many
Yorkshire
And
parody."
be
Those
Of
BELLS.
EVENING
THOSE
How
BELLS.
EVENING
THO:"E
cakes
only just in
letters
tells,
crumpets prime,
time
!
"
The
The
Postman
For
down
And
does
And
so
and I must
pay,
gone
Deaf
below
Mary dwells,
"
not
't will
That
tuneful
And
other
Forget
to
hear
those
Evening
Bells
she is gone.
peal will still ring on.
be when
maids
stay
timely yells
Evening Bells
with
those
528
LINES
A
TO
'Tis
With
to hob
And
and
death
kill.
meat,
cock, you'llhave
will oft unthrob
stock.
'em,
"
"
orchard
Cobham
at
me
of
trees
course
will sometimes
boys
(you know)
friend
Remember
at
me
You'll sometimes
And
pass
Some
at Cobham
me
Remember
And
at such
at Cobham
me
friunds,
'em
Of hen
absent
nob
"
Remember
And
COBHAM.
we've
and
Memory's glass
Remember
But
AT
pleasant,when
Sometimes
Have
FRIEND
friends of
Should
Remember
you
be
me
you'lllease,
rob 'em,
before
Cobham
have
course
foe
"
wax-lightedrooms,
to mob
short of such
at Cobham
)ULL-PRAC
TICK.
'em.
a
sort,
530
QUAKERS'
THE
associations; it was
members
and
twice
to meet
in rotation,when
CONVERSAZIONE.
the
weekly, visiting
original
essays
or
houses
be
to
were
papers
of the
read,
afterwards
Debateable
article earnestly
a
special
recommended,
regulations,
rules and
the selection of
that in
lead to differences of
Such
was
of whose
"
"
existence I became
but
aware
to live next
fortune,tilllately,
make
acquaintancewith
the
eldest
justwearing out
the
brown
parents she
of her
eyes
of their
flock,beinga
to be
especially
was
who
seemed
starched
sort
teens.
and
in
considered
strictly
muslin,
ribbon,that
white
she
wore
of
structure
woman
"
casts of
mere
"
morning.
flowed down her
ringlets
the flower
as
caps,
fanciful
airy
an
Parisian
good
my
as
nonconformists,
among
"
was
am
been
at least of a
To
of nonconformist
in
It
familyof
Quakers, and to
a
livelymaiden
daughter,
young
not
was
accident.
by
to
last of her
seen
to have
door
on
"
braids,her auburn
Unloveliness
of Love-locks."
circulation ; whereas
demure
brown
orbs
nailed
in their faces,as
immoveable
as
Instead
of
bad
her
halfpence
if she had
as
lips,
screwingup
of Cartwright's
into an east wind,
she sometimes
cent
innoby smilingat some
gave her ivory teeth an airing,
to
which
she
would
without
to
fancy,
giveutterance,
trying send
her clear sweet
North- West
voice,by a New
Passage,through her
her
for
of those shapes which have no
As
it was
nose.
none
figure,
be
swaddled
and
without
detriment in dingy drabs,
shape,
may
up
to
justcome,
counters.
minus
out
masticator,
aud snuffybrowns,
slates,
olives,
shapeswhich nature makes on her
of
instead
days,
basin-pudding
using her best jelly-mouldsshapes
like the bonnet-shapeswhich balance baskets of live mackerel.
To
the symmetricalRachel
either of her sisters,
see
standingnear
you
"
"
would
warp
those
gayer
Foxites,
severer
"
silken hose
seen
of
woof
of
one
some
sometimes
"
which
she put
hereafter,
I
even
in
fleshypink
short,she was
sad-brown
sort
brunette.
a
only
With
the old Friends,her parents,I
more
the
is reckoned, among
profanationof the Rainbow, deservinga second
deluge." As will be
the
shot with
Quakeress,but
not
of the
"
on
had
the
cannot
boast
that
was
even
and lively
Rachel my acquaintance
; but with the lovely
her by her Christian name
ripenedeven to the calling
; and
speakingterms
of her
reciprocation
thou
and
thee,to
which
was
led,not
as
THE
QUAKERS
but
convertite,
from
that the
the second
of
use
intimacyand
In
this
was
singular
person
Grammars,
and German
French
token
especial
an
of
our
course,
interof
system
in my
learning,
tion.
affec-
neighbourly
mutual
531
CONVERSAZIONE.
tion
accommoda-
sprang
by
not
us,
but
bills,
tween
be-
up
books
by
for which
she drew
upon
by pretty
me
littlenotes
of
hand,
ulyhonoured,
th at I d
them
making
able
pay-
the
over
gardenwall.
and
back
ings
Draw-
pieces of
music
new
were
equally negotiable.
If I
rememberright-
ly,it
for
in return
was
Moore's
dies
MeloDISCOVERY
"
me
against
that I received
"
for
tome
lover of
"
Fox's
not
have
fallen
on
Sunday
wet
very
certain
proceed to
make
Literature
"
MSS.
they would
With
EsTABLiHSED
unbendings. Now
eleventh
month,
Mumford,
most
our
In
one
deserve
vicw
first
if St. Swithin's
derous
pon-
Festival
themselves, thus
custody,and which I now
"
Curiosities of
"
distinguished
place.
FRIENDS'
SAZIONE;
CONVER-
sobcr. Intellectual,and
to
held, namely,
thousand
rather
was
edition of the
new
TOTTENHAM
THE
It
not open
intrusted to their
public.
OF
MINUTES
and
in the
they did
"
lettingfall
REMAINS.
Martyrs."
lightreading;
had
and
ORGANIC
exchange
time being
the
at
OF
the
the
on
fourteenth
thirtyand
eighthundred
Literary
day
four.
of the
Brother
of the
proceedings.Firstly,a
Secondly, a
thereon
draft of the
until the
word
between
Many congratulations
hour, when
the
M
season
Thirdly,an
rules.
tenth
in
our
brethren
2
on
from
Friend
Oliver.
tation
mediopening poem;
was
completed.
sitting
and
the order,quiet,
532
THE
CONVERSAZIONE.
QUAKERS
decency thereof
"
so
was
Friend
in the chair.
Black
21.
the
unto
The
gottenover,
Friend
thereof.
24.
end,
me
in the chair.
Thorne
much
senting,
con-
sion,
persua-
the Sorrows
reserve
Sambo
save
Rumble
Sister
on
of
were
in the deliverance
meeting.
Complaints
Negro
brought to an
to
more
spare
The
one;
three
with
tion
Aboli-
the
for
Anniversary. Friend
WooUey in the chair.
28.
Friend
read forth
Greathead
original
paper
an
the Manners
on
Much
Beavers.
thereon.
of the
meditation
Friend
Stillfox
in the chair.
Friend
1-12.
in the chair.
read
ing
forth her
in
but
Silence,
on
Essay
ble
hum-
so
of
tone, that littlethereinward
taken
was
debate
No
ears.
Dorcas
to know
speak on
at
our
the
and
subject,
Sleep. To
was
objection
this
which
no
on
up
Universal
WOE.'
were
permitted
upon
Where-
of
addressing
self-composed
made
by
any
herself
present. Friend
courage, and
Love ; but my
was
"
Descend
this my
on
ye Dews
Flies that suck the Dews."
12.
OF
midst, it
did
night I plucked
Stanzas
own
whereof
"
MOCKEllY
in the chair.
8. On
who
was
forth
mine
THE
ABOUT
to in the affirmative.
replied
Knapp
the
BEAR
5. Sister
unto
*'
thereon.
visiter,
whether
Friends,not being members,
Fysche,
craved
to
Seagrave
Sister Meek-
No
other
member
Head."
And
again,
"
"
Ye
painted
Sister
originality,
Rumble
forth her
read
thereon.
Sorrows
15. No
call made
untimeliness
silent comment
suflferedhimself
shamefully
Friend
.against
askingthe priceof Anglo-Mexicansat
order
to
Much
chair,who
Kersey
surprisedwith sleep.
and, by course,
lecturing,
to be
Sambo.
of
in the
Brother
533
CONVERSAZIONE.
QUAKERS
THE
in
quarter before
ten.
unto
Friend
their convictions.
lecturing. Sister
No
22.
amongst
risk and
own
26.
No
House
Welcome,
before
spread
Rumble
lecturing.It pleasedour
of
most
with a great
abundantly,
of the foreign
outpouring
luxury,which
declared
distributed
worthy
Sambo's
caused to be
Sorrows
imprinted
the chair.
Brother
Upham,
at his
givehira
time to
to
the
us
comforts
creature
fined
con-
in the chair.
unto
one
us,
at her
Roper
one
i^^lll
is called
rebuked
for
the same,
for that it was
of the kind which
not
is still.
29. Friend
forth
narrative
Life
own
Some
the
us
the
for half
which
an
hour.
debate
touching
imprintingof the
same,
at
in
Society,
a
of his
Personal
and
Adventures,
held
read
Stock
shape of
the
which
Tract;
agreed to,
but
HOPE
was
put
oflp
DEFBIUULD.
shape of
Stock
himself,in order
Friend
pamphlet.
to
Smallbones
went
through
the chair.
2-1-35.
No
assembly,by
Moral
humble
5.
Gipsy."
self and
Friend
The
family,and
tending
to
defence
our
read
Jocularity
; the which,
in
of
of the
new
outrageouswind
originalpoem,
which
Broadbent
reason
with
exceptingSister Rumble,
forth from
Simon
serving-man,
forth, in part, an
and
called
hail,
"The
the chair to my
Dunny.
Essay on
Innocent
as
sundrypassages, provoked dissentients,
stiff
A
debate
in
which
thereon,
levity.
534
THE
by
in
his
9. The
with
There
no
own
cient
suffi-
not
were
Sister
sitting,
Rumble's,by
of rotation.
member
offensive.
chair.
16. At
course
and
silence.
friends to make
and
again
on
way,
of
nothingsavouring
12.
gravity,
of Innocent
decidedlygrave
Followed
at Friend
instead of
gravy,"
tongue.
remains
Jocularitybrought
in
merriment
Great
to censure.
agreeable
rebuking,saying,"Christian
were
slipof the
CONVERSAZIONE,
QUAKERS
No
present, save
self,as by duty
otlitr
mine
bound.
deplorable fallingaway
from
the
Whereof
cause.
more
liereafter,
"
can't
IT
Tlie Record
died
but
farther,
and
ford
Sister
them
society
probablydid not proceed
of Innocent Joculai-ity
complication
The
the
spot,of
and
was
on
Rumble,
off.
buried
readingof
with
tacitly,
"
"
in
SONNET.
BY
How
sweet
With
No
Verdure
M.
clad,in Autumn's
Eye, the russet Scene
The
sad
The
Skies,no longerof
mellow
Tone,
to view
alone
Reflected show
In the drab
Meanwhile
In Garb
R.
thus
serious
Subdued
Mum-
in verse, and
other papers
are
mourner.
will certainly
persuade the reviewers that they were
The
of
Quaker Poetry
applyingthe designation
lays and lyrics.The firstis a genuinebrown study after
second a hint bow Peace ought not to be proclaimed.
premature
the
here breaks
HF.LPED
be
their
Waters
yon
garishBlue,
Tints,and
slatyShades
of the
And
Bonnet
And
chasten'd
Yea,
all is
Save
gaudy Robin
puce,
as
Wool,
anew
clayey Pool.
CottageMaiden
of Chocolate
soft
wends
to
School,
neatlydrest,
fit objectfor the Tool,
"
so
Pigments,of
our
Brother
West
Breast.
gone
to forenature
QUAKERS*
THE
6S5
CONVERSAZIONE.
LINES
ON
THE
CELEBRATION
BY
OP
DORCAS
PEACE.
DOVE.
is it thus ye welcome
Peace !
of forty-pounding
Mouths
From
Bores ?
And
Oh
explodingCannons, cease
shun our
aftrighted,
cease,
Lest Peace,
Not
the
so
But
like
With
Nurse
Shoes
And
to stillour
Cotton
or
in her Ears
triumphalArch
no
No
Down,
Or blasted
She wants
no
Trumps
Noise
this Parade
War
of scarlet
like
come
need there is of
Eye
Loves,
Olive Branches
With
Lungs.
Coats,
Captains should
March,
mobbing Throats
is drawingnigh:
Domestic
Returningto
When
brazen
War
When
from
of
No
come
Fears,
List,demurely dumb,
of
Wool
Why
should
quietQueen
shores !
suckingDoves,
in their Bills.
vulgarShout,
And
To
Oh
let Us
mild should
Sweet
Peace's
that Peace
Lo
Echo
come.
Signsand meek,
!
Advent
to proclaim
be the
is
should
speak.
same.
! where
With
Shall
The
we
consume
in coloured
Glass
pour'din
Wounds
536
SKETCHES
ROAD.
THE
ON
The
cheer
Crackers
Or
GENERAL
SKETCHES
conceive any
CANNOT
than
the
approach
Tale ?
PEACE*
ON
THE
Widow's
the
THE
MORNING
ROAD.
CALL.
prospect more
to
agreeable
weary
valley reminds
traveller
him
of
Bedfordshire.Each
like
clouds
seem
blankets, the lakes and
fleecy
clean
the
sheets
looks
like a warming-pan.
are
s
un
ponds
;
setting
He
of dreams
dreams
to come.
His travelling-cap
transforms
to a
the
the
coach
feels
softlier
horn
night-cap,
lining
squabbed ;
guard's
Each
plays Lullaby." Every flower by the road-side is a poppy.
of
jolt the coach is but a drowsy stumble up stairs. The lady opposite
is the chamber-maid
He
slides
; the gentlemanbeside her is Boots.
and
into imaginaryslippers
winks
nods flirtingly
at Sleep, so
; he
be
the
wheels
be
his
to
into vigilant
soon
own^
Although
rattling
may
to
'^
Wakefield, it appears
whole
County
of
to him
to be
Down, spread
"
sleepyWare,
all before him
with
where
its
greatBed,
to
choose
his
placeof rest.''
It
was
in
journey,that
similar
I entered
mood,
after
the
Dolphin, at
blinked
at the
door,winked at the lights,
rooni, yawned for a glassof negus, swallowed
the
as
though
it had
been
"
pint of
company
it with
in the cofteemy
nappy," surrendered
eyes
my
shut,
boots,
538
SKETCHES
coat!
Now
and
it
giveme
on
"
cravat
my
If I
what.
stood
side,certainly
signof a
surveyingthe
any
smoke
from
came
and
window,
door.
from
the
chimney;
the door
was
"
Yes, you
coach
The
vengeance.
well
may
had
look
must
again!
stoppedof
his
accord.
own
Boots
at the
I could
have
them
without
wreath
over
every
visageof
black-lead
out.
oversleptyourselfwith
hour
passed an
of
tain
hardly con-
kept rubbinghis
rubbed
opposite
aghast,and
infernal somnolent
he
"
have
you
have
"
"
the
on
square ; and
the sign of the Dragon, but
awake
the fellow,hardly yet broad
if
would
he
his
with
as
hands,
eyes
-I'll
"
small
I looked
keep
"
further
"
closed and
when
indignation
my
inn with
at the
house
"
"
Boots
into
an
coach
foot
"
comer
to
"
"
while
"
Confound
that stone
you !
I suppose
for a run
!
you
week
do
?
a
gentlemen may you
hanged
nice road
run
"
beingcalled.
without
late
too
"
many
for wind
turned
had
We
How
ROAD.
THE
myself
be
A
coat.
my
paused
and
"
purpose.
tell you
wake
I could
Why
"
ON
ago
"
and
they
"
coach, sure
Boots, slowly
enough," soliloquised
he had been
the road, where
for the
his eyes from
searching
raising
them
and
with
of
recent
track
a
wheels,
fixing
deprecating
expression
face.
on
my
honour
No, there's
"
^but you
"
see,
on
her, and expecting
life,
your
case
as
is
honour
"
coach
thousand
pardons,your
sir,what with waiting on her,and talkingoil
her,and givingnotice on her, every nightof my
no
I sometimes
why
"
ax
dreams
on
"
now
*'
you've
waked
slumbkr
must
me
too
soon,
again."
her
"
and
that's the
539
THE
HEAVY
To
Why
was
for
spitted
Not
But
dance
must
For
to
Of what
well
as
men,
middlings?
spell
to
letters?
drew cash,
once
learning
fame's
unstaVle,
public
must
turn
a pig again.
Alas ! my
So
I
And
fiddling?,
And
To
"
classics up.
and
barley-meal
PIG.
dangerousthing." Pope.
why
"
fortune's
give the
woe
TOBY,
But
roaster
of
farrovv'd
ever
OF
LEARNED
little learning
is
day ! oh day
miserya poster.
BIHD.
LAMENT
THE
"*
STUFFED
To
leave my
My
eyes
line
literary
and
red
leaky;
get
But
Old
Mullins used
But
Giblett
And
not
bluet
streaky.
cultivate
to
My learninglike
me
gard'ner;
only thinks of lard,
of Doctor
Lardner
about my braia
He does not care
are
pigsmade scholars of ?
The value of two
It baffles my discerning.
coppers.
thinks about my head
he
that
All
and
What
chitterlings,
griskins,
fry,
Is, how I'm off for choppers.
Can have to do with learning.
O, why
540
Of
LAMENT
THE
all my
literarykin
be taken,
A farewell must
Good
bye
Farewell
after
My
day
1 have,
and
sty
"
not
and
not
study
Will
desk,
why
did
I at
up
the
Rout
and
little month,
then
ends, like
progress
The
Will
chopp'd
be
pig
I loved
that
sages
seven
Buuyan's
with
up
and
head
over
For
They'll souse
My
turn'd
logic into
My
like
me,
mathematics
in brine
ears
to
salmon,
knowledge
of
roots
that's been
college !
to
In
is
conscience
thing
be
rash
I'm
Greek,
My
The
thing
One
retrograde.
And
put up to fatten ;
it will all go to grease
will have
Dogs
To
to
Oxford
Milman,
!"
Crowe,
Latin
my
r"IS
and
and
I ask"
when
to
"
'Twas
Bliss !
Glossop,
LEARNED
dead,
am
ditches
he
I ne'er
Farewell
in roan,
rasher
And
Now
myself.
dasher
be
that would
would
me
stick
I could
sorrow
brawn.
gammon.
will all
Hebrew
My
will kill
onions
But
Then
Brazen-Nose
butcher
My
to
!
O
Another
farewell
!"
"
Instead
gets muddy
intellect
trough
chats.
!
the latter,
quite outgrown
head
of Trencher-cap my
be in a platter!
soon
I've
fade.
lessons
my
gossip
"Town!"
to
Gown
"
Day
with
content
of learned
philosophicBacon
The
be
must
now
Instead
poetic Hogg
the
to
TOBY.
OF
PIG
"
GKOWN
who
taught
mistook
or
Simply by ringing at
According to Belts
OUT
OF
KMOWLEDCK.
my
letters
miss'd
the
'em,
nose.
system.
so
541
AT
OUT
TO
BAD
RIDER.
Mr.
Why,
Rider, why
nag so ill indorse,man
Your
To
ELBOWS.
make
You
observers
re
mounted,
cry,
but
no
horseman
II.
With
elbows
This
out
far.
so
can't debar
thoughtyou
Though
no
You're
Hussar
Dragoon
the
surelyof
army
"
"
III.
hope
to turn
have
You
So awkward
At
"
M. P.
not
you
any
notion.
would
secondinga
be
motion
^^
I"
me
"
542
SON
SON
MY
My
bids
mother
But
not
the
bind
me
trade
bind my heir,
I should
where
HEIR.
Seedsman
Grocer's
A
"
"
It
HAIR.
AND
To
AND
"
have
I'd not
him
"
"
many
Like
A
so
"
Too
II.
She
The
buyer send
to
pack ;
see
we
cellar back.
horse.
VII.
What
To
"
line
to
choose
somethingin
Fast
of
Hardware
likelyrise.
the Stocks
at
last,
"
Statesman
Is
light
On
spikes and
nails,he
leans
won't
have
ease
bind
so
fast!
can
never
When
James
he retires upon
his
means.
VIII.
be
that
But
IV.
"
please,
cries,
I find I cannot
dealer ?
"
alwayscuttinghis
concern.
Soldier ?
"
nerves
Sailor seldom
laysup pelf:
A
Baker ?
no, a baker serves
His customer
before himself.
"
MY
SON
AND
5^
HEIR.
IX.
Dresser
of hair ?
Churchman
And
?
to
cannot
church
Paper-maker ?
short.
rags
Miller
To
aspire.
before
he sells
sheet
"
"
make
he must
come
"
To
"
is very
James
"
the sort
that's not
"
"
XIV.
Lawyer
Publisher
If he could
Just
that's
"
might
into
plunge at
hardish
give him
Longmans
"
once
term
ease,
in medias
"
Chandler
Rees.*
That
by
favour goes
"
Undertaker
An
firm,
that
Currier ?
do not
of those
one
"
hope to
I
get their living
XV.
XI.
Golden
Three
A
Such
Their
"
Coppersmith
Nor
A
not
petty Usher
Publican
Would
I can't endure
lies !
"
A, B, C-ing ;
father sure.
be the author of his
no
being !
never
did-
slavish lot.
Obliged to do as he is bid !
The
be
I like them
Auctioneer
An
Builder
shop
Balls ?"
of
victim
Broker
Of
Stock
Printer
Another's
"
"
there
work
beside his
own.
ii!::!iiii^i"^iii.;i.iiijMi;."(ii
IllliilliiiiiiilliiilJ
t^
TU"
FAMILY
LIBRAHY.
544
AND
SON
MY
HEIR.
XIX,
XVII.
any
Fish
retailer
or
turn
Crispin
but
with
him.
Grazier
flat.
Although
nor
of
part
trade
is
what
if he
shall
not
"
"
One
that,
"
taste
Glazier
Jctn
for
neither
Cooper?
Have
always
"
he
be
may
he
drives
should
be
smash
made
"
losing
cash,
trade.
roaring
"a
XVIII.
Painter?
long
"
An
In
liut
Artist's
trade
very
would
he
precarious
Apothecaries
seldom
Well,
live,-
not
craft
James
But
From
What
Oh
what
to
do
to
could
dew
take
make
RON
till
my
AND
boy
SHADR.
boy
"
ache
to
a
the
morning's
my
done
to
around
"
upon
temples
my
"
evening's
course
works
big
too
leave
To
draught
is
be
must
little
my
"
give,
take,
something
all
On
pearl.
make
girl
"
boy,
shelf
like
book,
unbound.
look
546
these
water
nothing
nothing
with
so
alas ! all
only sky
"
and
"
"
merely stared,but
ill at the German
tongue and
nay,
But
eye.
wrote
"
correctly
say
may
He
he
(I am
"
"
Wie
its pronunciation)
befinden
sick?"
sea
Now,
of
one
ground.
drew
"
"
the
to
"
if
fell
intentions
beyond the
shores of Albion,
"
REMINISCENCES.
LITERARY
own
my
unfortunate
our
been
do not
done
at
sea, but
describes,I
Rambler
ill wind
preciselyakin to that
promised much,
him, too, I have been a
him
I have
little. Like
shore
on
delayed,with
left
down
blown
and
been
Like
undone, or
perform,I must profferthe
the
As
German.
Cousin
projectedstill more,
sick man, though not
has
gentlereader,has
case,
and
"
other
in
Performers,when
old theatrical
have
erected
; I have
they
plea of indisposition.
which
schemes
plans,and
formed
of all that
excuse
have
been
been
by
For
beaten, like another Murphy, by a change in the weather.
Annual
for
have
the Comic
been
1839
instance,
ought properlyto
but
earlier
it
was
a
s
published some
forty days
obliged,
;
were, to
of a clean Bill of Health.
for want
Thus, too, the
perform quarantine,
the
trouble
the
has
Work
who
taken
to peruse
patron of
present
an
chaptersunder
weather-
the title of
less
LiteraryReminiscences, will doubthave compared the tone of them with an Apology in Number
Six,
at
an
a promise was
wherein,declining
Auto-biography,
any attempt
anecdotes
and
bad
made
of givingsuch
bad memory
a
as a
hearing
friends aud acquaintance.
Hitherto,
might have retained of my literary
however, the fragmentsin questionhave only presented desultory
instead of any
glimpsesof a goose quillstillin its green-gosling-hood,
certain
"celebrated
recollections of
forced
pens."
wherefore
The
is that
truth
the kind
my
reader will be
malady
pleasedto
temporise:
false starts,"
and that
chaptersbut as so many
make
Memory has only now
play as well as she can.
got away, to
thus closeted in the Confessional,
Whilst I am
it may
be as well,as
clean breast of it,and at once
the Pelican said,to make
a
plead guilty
to
me
"
all those
to
Old
of
Baily counts
these crimes
did
not
and
"
that
"
relate
haunt
my
letters that
to
refer
of their heinousness
little volume
by
how-it
W.
from
some
Others
answer.
example
a
counts
"
and
it
M.
to
have
long-standing
The
conscience.
would
the
not, could
receiptof
misgives
me
that I
Howitt, without
become
most
not,
books,
was
ever
very
numerous
at least
or
and
an
as
with
favoured
tellingthem
it was
concern
pleasedme.
offences,
to fulfil,
impossible
althoughdoubly bound by principleand interest.
I
have
Seriously
perforcebeen guiltyof many, many, and still many
sins of omission:
but Hope, revivingwith
strength,promises,
my
A
grantingme
to redeem
life,
extenuation,I
can
engagements which
few
all such
only plead
pledges.
that
particularly
In
the
time, in
mean
deprecationwhich
"
there is
no
Health
in m."
"
is
We
And
LITERARY
It is pleasantafter
mateli
reconsider
decisive influence
if we
Chess,particularly
which
important moves
at
those
the
on
54^
REMINISCENCES.
result.
It is still more
have
to
won,
have
had
in the
interesting,
have occurred during
chess is
board
matter
of human
"
beingsometimes
the mind
determined
of the
player*.
combinations
by
To
such
an
which
entered into
never
accident it is
able
perhaps attribut-
instead
now
"
memory,
periodicals.
It will be remembered
physicalone,
mental
my
however
constitution,
weak
my
most
printand
boards.
Perhaps I
bread,had
choked
themselves,
learned
to think
and
had
choly
at the melanread, and trembled
of those unfortunates
who, rashlyundertakingto write
l
poisonedthemselves,ike Chatterton,for want of it,or
annals
for
that
was
like
it. Possibly,
obtaining
having
ness
humbly of myself there is nothinglike earlysickthe
for
of
conceit
out
one
vanitydid
taking
my
Otway,
on
"
"
"
sorrow
"
not presume
to think,with certain juvenile
that I " had a
Tracticians,
call
to hold forth in printfor the edification of mankind.
Perchance,
"
the
my
very deep reverence
Bards and Sages,deterred
of
Beingsthat
seemed
only a
in
with
literary
authority,
the press was
of the
branch
view
to
for my
Arts
Fine
"
for
farther.
pushed no
perhaps,that
Wisdom, whispering
than Pye
chance of a beefsteak inside,
daughterof
a
better
the engraver,
the Laureate
and
imitators,
member
Moreover,
Lalla Rookh.
to
of
"
"
the
companion
privateselect
this
about
time,I
LiterarySociety,(alludedto
became
at page
97
"
waited on Ladies and Gentlemen
present work) that
houses."
Our
speaking,was
Minerva, allegorically
at
of the
own
personage, in blue
*
To
Twist.
same
the
borrow
There
horse.
that
; not
in
was
quitegiven up.
verse-spinning
I
still
with
Castaly,now
fortis^
played
match
had
Pye,
Though working
aqtia
all
are
monkeys
writing
all young
authors are monkeys
now
writinga Bandit,
Lalla
Crow, by way of
and
a
Corsair,
hatching
anon,
the
to
angels. However,
publication,the advice of a
of my
MSS.
the submitting
to a
his imprimatur,
acquaintance
my slight
excuse
spiteof that very common
who
recommended
friend,"
seriously
with
the
than
an
are
stockings,flounced gown,
a
from
example
few authors
It is intended
historyin questionfrom
Dodger on his road to seek
quakercap, and
their
motley
kerchief,
whom
would
one
care
to
see
compliment,that
122, supposinghis hero not
therefore
as
page
his fortune.
n2
running two
heats with
the
I wish
Boz
would
to have
met
re-writo
548
LITERARY
French
flowers,and
blowpipe in the
and
hat.
held
She
votaries
Her
in
fan
were
hand, and
one
of both
sexes,
old
and
assenters,dissenters,
single,
High Church, Low
Church
Church, No
man's
other.
married
young,
REMINISCENCES.
in
Doctors
physics
Physics,and Apothecariesin Metain
dabblers
natural
;
Logic,Chemistry,Casuistry,Sophistry,
and unnatural
DemoHistory, Phrenology,Geology, Conchology,
in
of
kinds
all
short,
nology;
including
Colledgy-Knowledgy-Ology,
had
we
our
Cakeology,"and tea and coffee. Like other Societies,
President
sort of Speaker who
a
never
spoke ; at least within my
he
himself
of
unbosomed
never
experience
anythingbut a portentous
shirt frill. Accordingto the usual order of the entertainment,
there
Small
which
Tea
and
Talk
was
first.
original
Essay,
; secondly,an
should have been followed,
Great Talk ;
or
thirdly,
by a Discussion,
nine
times in ten, it chanced,or rather mumchanced, that,between
but
those who did not know
what to think,and others,
who did not know
how to deliver what
they thought,there ensued a dead silence,so
buried into
very dead indeed,"as Apollo Belvi says, that it seemed
the bargain. To make
giving
misthis awkward
more
awkward, some
pause
out some
voice,between a whisperand a croak,would stammer
allusion to a Quaker s Meeting, answered
from
left
to
by a
right
the
o
r
titter,
wilfully
speaker
running
having innocently, perhaps
;
"
"
"
*'
that
forgotten,
one
coloured
were
gowns,
that the Friends
contented
They
in hand.
once
way
in slatemany
in the circle. Not
thumb-twiddling,
sitting,
two
or
often
coats, and
friends in drab
as
with
cussions.
playingdunihy at our dismatter
to the
characteristically,
themselves
spoke,and
very
t
heir
favourite
doctrine of non-resistance
instance,
For
was
"
"
gravelytold
rather
than
melodraraatical
lift
his
even
lamblike,suffered himself
story
of
conscientious
little fingeragainsta
to be butchered
Friend, who
Foe, passively,
yea,
and
an
assassin,
by
in bed
died
he thought,with
like a
Fox
as
consistently,
principles,
very
As regards
and
in
share
the
own
Essays
Arguments,it
my
misgivesme that theyno more satisfiedour decidedlyserious members,
Goose.
than
they
night,in
propitiateMr.
now
escorting
a
female
Rae
Fellow
"Wilson.
towards
At
her
least,one
Society
she
home,
suddenly
and its
stopped me, takingadvantageperhapsof the awful locality,
a
nd
in
criminal
front
of
chief
our
associations,
looking
just
prison,
what
earnestlyin my face,by the lightof a Newgate lamp, inquiredsome?"
abruptly, Mr. Hood ! are you not an Infidel*
In the mean
time,whilst thus playingat Literature,an event was
"
ripeningwhich
make
was
to
introduce
whom
me
to
I had
"
In justice
it ought to he recorded, that two
to the Society,
themselves
of " London
in print: the authoress
distinguished
the author of a " Historyof Moral Science."
of its merahers
in the
Olden
have
since
Time," and
LITERARY
should
fate of A
destinyof B,
natural
and
over
turn
the
on
mysteriousinfluence of the
said partieshaving no
more
the
or
the
occurred
the
549
REMINISCENCES.
in my
for
did not
know
by sightthe
untimely exit depended my entrance
the literary
of the year 1821, a memorable
on
stage. In the beginning
took placeat Chalk Farm,
in a pen-and-ink
duel,originating
quarrel,
unfortunate
and
ow^n
gentlemanon
even
whose
terminated
London
case;
John
Scott,the
able Editor
of the
The
in
melancholyresult excited great interest,
which I fullyparticipated,
littledreamingthat his catastrophe
involved
of
But
to
loss
the
of
on
its conimportance
myself.
ductor,
any consequences
the Periodical passedinto other hands.
The new
Proprietors
friends
for
after
and
sent
I
were
some
me,
preliminaries,
; they
my
Magazine.
duly installed as
was
It would
be
There
regret.
it is
sort
of sub-Editor
of the London
Magazine.
wearisome
unwholesome
sit
to
to a
as
copper-fastened
if
scoopedout to accommodate
stomach,
your
you
have one, painfully
or
ruling,and still rulinglines straight
ruling,
crooked,by the longhundred to the square inch,at the doubly-hazardous
risk which Wordsworth
of
so
deprecates,
growing double." So
farewell Woollett ! Strange! Bartolozzi ! I have said,my vanitydid
as
board, with
cantle
"
rashlyplunge me
legitimate
openingthan
not
and
speedilybehind
judgeby my zeal
was
To
at last found
its natural
candidates for
I
dreamt
inserted
The
jumped
the
in
delight
bias *.
with
"
it,
a
la
by
the
of
editor,
irksome
to
w^ere
me
there
was
Grimaldi,head foremost,
my
with the
course
which
articles,
if it had
been
deputy.
as
a
all
were
of his
concurrence
such
parts of authorship,
I received
labours of love.
Mr.
sooner
no
scenes.
and
holy orders
at
wrote
articles,thought articles,
more
press,
authorship
; but
into
revise from
win's
Bald-
Mr.
proofof his
a
Parker,as
regard; forgavehim
all his slips,
and really
devils w^ere not so black
thoughtthat printers''
in
But
tributors
Conas
our
they are painted.
top-gallant
glory was
my
"
"
How
all round
Hazlitt,and
to Allan
Cunningham
writers
of
I used to look
"
rare
"
It is
an
! and
backward
for
defunct,and perhaps no
apostrophizedwith the Irish
now
be
appropriately
to Elia
for Edward
Herbert, and how I used to look up
had a goodlylist
! for at that time the London
company.
ex-periodical
might so
funereal
forward
did you
die ?"
Had
you
not
and my brother
of ink in my blood.
My father wrote two novels,
for a time of an anxious parent.
literary
turn, to the great disquietude
She suspectedhim, on the strength
of a very despondingcast, of
of several amatory poems
and catechised,
and
being the victim of a hopelessattachment ; so he was caught,closeted,
after a deal of delicate and tender sounding, ho confessed,not with the anticipated
sighs*
and tears, but a very unexpected burst of laughter,
that ho had been guiltyof translating
was
some
There
was
dash
decidedlyof
fragments of Petrarch.
550
REMINISCENCES.
LITERARY
"
"
"
for
It
ever
was
to Colebrooke.
Reynoldsand
Thomas
and
out of the
went
"
old Londoners
of those
sorry scattering
country :
Some
retreated
one
Museum.
a
stanza,
gave up literature.
Benyon
of pride,
and pain,that I revert
pleasure,
mingledfeelings
and admired
the writers I had long known
to those old times,when
I
in
flesh
when
had
the
of
the
to
in spirit
were
me
delight
present
from
of gazingon
their own
to their wit and wisdom
lips,
listening
Familiar
their faces,
and graspingtheir righthands.
figuresrise
before me, familiar voices ring in my ears, and alas ! amongst them
never
are
hear,again.
shapesthat I must never
see, sounds that I can
of the few who
Before my departurefrom England,I was
one
saw
It is with
"
Never
malice, and
envy,
author
of
the
perhaps (giving
descend
the
the
friend
was
better world !
imputation of
did an
brotherhood),never
to
"
and
mole
hatred, amongst
as
common
T. Browne
into
"
*'
the land
golden opinions,and
and elegies,
by his
eulogies
with
and
due, for
I lost in him
invaluable critic;
use, I
borrow
Mr.
might well
the
whom,
one
name,
earnest
only a
not
such
were
languageof
dear
literary
adoptionsin
called
Cotton
as
nently
is emireminiscences,
but an
and kind friend,
"
Walton, my
old Jean
Cary
noble spirit,
for whose
Thou, chiefly,
loss
Thou
didst excite
me
after thee.t'ascend
The
"
May graciousHeaven,
Make
Nor
That
the conclusion
let it
answer
"
"
honour
of
our
ago I
thy presage,
I have
"
father."
To
Englishedby
Bertaut, as
"
"
modem
"
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one
sitting
morning beside
Editor,busilycorrecting
proofs,
was
announced, whose
grumbled by a low
name,
from
the hold throughthe
ventriloquial
voice,like Tom Pipes calling
hatchway, did not resound distinctly
on
However
tympanum.
my
the door opened, and in came
a
at a
stranger, a figureremarkable
with a fine head, on
small
a
glance,
spare body, supportedby two
was
when
our
visitor
"
almost
immaterial
from
his sedate
would
costume
certain neatness
he
bearing,
be
might
anomalous,
for
and
in
sobriety
have
been
Quaker
his
dress,
coupled
taken, but
in black.
that such
He
looked
still
like
Modern
(what he reallywas) a literary
Antique,a NewOld Author, a living
witli Burton
Anaclironism,contemporary at once
the Elder,and Colman
the Younger. Meanwhile
he advanced
with
rather
h
is
walk
and
a
with
was
cheerful
peculiargait,
a
plantigrade,
of the blandest,sweetest
How
smiles that ever
d'ye," and one
out
two
a manly countenance, held
brightened
fingersto the Editor.
black
into
The
in
fell
two
soon
discourse; and whilst
gentlemen
within me, set to w^ork upon
tiie
they conferred,the Lavater principle
thus
its
to
specimen
presented
a
interesting
speculations. It was
full
of
intellectual
face,
and
wiry
lines,
striking
physiognomical
quips
There
much
was
earnestness
cranks, that gave it great character.
deal of speculation
about
the brows, and
in the eyes, which
a
were
brown
and bright,
and "quick in turning;"the nose, a decided one,
more
*'
though of
about
no
established
Altogetherit
the mouth.
which
willow-pattern
ones,
potteries
;
"
to
the
could
have
In
^but
order ; and
more
was
Nature
like
there
chance
no
turns
was
smartness
face"none
by
out
specimen of the
of
thousands
Chinese
those
her
at
one
ware,
it.
seen
unique, antique,
quaint. No one who had once
tenance
pretend not to know it again. It was no face to lend its counin a Comedy of Errors. You might
to any confusion of persons
to it piecemeal, a
sworn
separate affidavit for every feature.
set
"
"
short,
character
his face
was
as
his character
as
his figure
his
as
original
; his figureas
his
the
his writings
most
;
writings
original
business
of the age.
had
After the literary
invited his contributor to dinner,adding " we
*
The
And"
hesitation in the
and"
and
"
speech,and
handsome
common
alreadyas
recognised
and
many
Friends
the readiness
whom
individual,
the
been
the Editor
settled,
shall have
hare
"
"
X""
of the
were
illusion,
perchance
capitalCritic,
the
delightful
Essajdst,
the
pleasantWit
and
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presentedanother
a letter of
Euglieh,
chance
I wrote
thanks to him
and
in
paper,
of his mendicant
coarse
on
if from
ragged
clients,
producedno effect. I had given up all hope, when one night,
sick and sad,in my bed-room, racked with the rheumatism, the
sitting
door was
suddenly opened, the well-known
quaint figurein black
a
nd
with
cheerful
in without
walked
a
formality,
Well, boy,
any
bland
extended
and
the
two
how
sweet
the
are
smile,
you?"
fingers.
They were
eagerlyclutched of course, and from that hour we were
as
one
it
but
'*
firm friends.
intimacywith
commenced
characteristically
my
and
recentlybecome my neighbour,
Thus
had
ask
"
to
tea,
the contrary,the
me
with
Cottage
and
joints,
But
wind.
In
spellin
alacrity
f than
had
name
more
risk,to be of
some
Wordsworth."
to meet
North
in
few
days
spiteof any
it that drew
willingto
He
again,to
idle
jeststo
to Colebrooke
me
consisted with
was
C. Lamb.
called
prudence, stiff
at least hobble,
run,
and
HartleapWell.
man
by many, who has met with a simplefracture through ridinghis
If he
that it broke down with him.
far and so fast,
so
theory-hack
has now
next-door
and then put on
a
nightcap,so have his own
If he has
*"'
and in
room,
with
the
the domestic
sightof
did
man
As
as
palaver,
say, fell short of my
is in fault ; 'twas many
memory
years ago,
of Johnson, I have never
made
Bozziness
excepting
discussion
the value
on
Wordsworth
poets,wherein
our
took
younger
John
Keats
for
of the
choice,there
was
brown
for the
Bridget.
not, perhaps,disappoint
one;
the Indians
looked
room
Wordsworth,
the excellent
hospitableElia,and
Rydal, his
The
hearth.
"'
"
bard
but
of
the
anticipations.
Perhaps my
and, unlike the biographer
my
business.
However,
promissorynotes
issued
by
named
and Lamb
Shelley,
of
interest
literary
nothing
*
A cottage of Ungentility,
for it had neither double coach-house nor
wiugs. Like its
**
the
denant,it stood alone. He said,glancingat the Paternoster one, that he did not like
*'
fond of Men
he professed,more
There was
Row."
a bit of a garden,in which, being as
Sects than
Ho
had
of
been
said,** I
never
Entomology.
God," he
she darted
was
caughtin her fatal spinning,
out, completelylapped in a shroud ! It
probablyhis
Insects,"he made
watchinga spideron
such a thing!
saw
Directlyhe
down
in a minute
turned him
upon him, and
reminded
of the Fatal Sisters in Gray."
me
"f
to
have
sort
of rheumatic
green-room,
of " Enter
at
his
-,
of
celerity,
last observation
which
Sir W.
Scott's favouiite
"
in
Good
dramatiser
seemed
very accurate
will bo able to account
a
firstand
a fly.
gooseberrybush, entrapping
with
"
"
Those
lack
"
who
ri
"
remember
ty !"
"
poor
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LITERARY
Jew
amongst Quakers, by
as
indulgein
he would
formality,
his
REMINISCENCES.
his
little enormities,
such
some
Esquire.
My visits
at
unrheumatize
myself
I received
Lamb's
letter in
correspondentBernard
as
but
Hastings;
well-known
againsttlicir own
levity. I well remember
him
addressing
shortly interrupted
by
were
at
set-off
littleextra
chucklingat havingspiritedon
to commit
of
way
Barton,
C. Lamb,
as
sojourn to
hand, quaint as
the
it
sentences
conveyed.
Priory? CucuUus non facit Monachum.
Englishme that, and challengeold Lignum Janua to make a better.
River has presentedno
novelties lately.
extraordinary
My old New
there Hope
sits day after day speculating
But
traditionary
upon
has
I
know
the
think
she
taken
the
fisheries.
I
now
gudgeons.
denominated
East and West Angles.
reason
why our forefathers were
*'
And
is there
Yet
at the
dost thou
what
lack
no
for I w^ash
of spawn,
morning, thick
through the pump
every
taste the
thingsthat perishuntimely,and never
as
come
tell
Seat,neither
Angel that
if Robinson
of
apart
from
and
reading-desk,
pulpit,
finest
in
week
(he'llremember)
is
far
the
black
and
of
foremost
You
Savans.
the
His
what
as
agreeable)
letterets.
return
murmurs,
But
in
to the waters
fresh
was
to both
good
He
To
of
I
earnest
of old Sir
and
ripples,
have
wife
decidedlythe
They are
I
end of my
have
made
an
Well,
Hastings.
I could have
is gone by when
scribbled as
thine
old
himself with
She
Saint
only to
has
sea-
name
last
see
of human
old Gentleman
the
name,
fantastic.
trace
reared it to soothe
had
forgetits Xtian
dragons,polypi,mer-people,most
not
goest to Lover
should
You
by
You
brook.
thou
as
town), that
It stands
Crusoe
church-goingimages.
its gossip.
was
the
little
do
it
habitation,yet hath
the
the
from
furlongs
Loretto.
littleProtestant
marble, as
Bays
motelings
tired of
was
shift to
other he made
my
that be
fishets that
"
oppositedirection nine
the
Land
of those romantic
me
in
hands
my
our
sang in meads
the rough ocean
us.
my
"
dwindled
most
There
is
funniest
of
green
time
epistolary
long (I will
am
shall be
Hugh.
say ;
is the
Lions
happy
not
to
to
say as
and
notes
hail
thy
native minnows.
how
and
sweet
the brooklets
ran.
designto giveup smoking ; but I have not yet fixed upon the equivalent
have
vice.
I must
quid pro quo, or quo pro quid^as Tom
Woodgate would
correct
me.
My
service to him.
C.
L.
"
LITERARY
The
letter
to hand
came
on
we
howbeit
man,
tried at every
The
we
or
fictions which
those
of
one
$55
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hunt
to
me
Cinque
the
"
"
Lions
but
Port with
wife,though
my
could not find the Baker, or even
his
shop that had the least signof bakery
whole
batch
of fancy bread ;
a
was
the writer
ofi" upon
to pass
apt
was
his
friends.
The
"
There
was
was
I had
introduce
Olden
On
been
guest,and
of the
whereat, I have
sketch
of
characters
principal
righthand then
the quickeyes
the
heard,the
scent
of them
one
of
"
our
may serve
in the
London
as
Procter
"
up
wit
"
in the
and
fallow,behold
Jack
our
peach-blossom.
a
wonder
door-keeper of
the
suit,linked
countrified
arm-in-arm
boggleat admittingthem
into
seeingthat veri/
and
best pun
In his bright,
coat,and
grass-coloured
Clare !
sables,made
the
out
his
quick as
as
of the
course
the
stubble
turnipsamidst
and
and
pins and needles
Hazlitt described,
to stammer
from
out
verdantly
(thereare
of the Editor
"
John
were
some
of
be merry,
Feast
Time."
smile, and
if
one
chance
my
however,
to
Venison
than breast
lay more
it
indeed
yellow waistcoat
looks
have
the
very
done
Soho
with
his
"
slip,
Cowhis
in
Bazaar,
the Editorial
repository,
having
"
"
playing at playing at
the gentleman*'s
wonder
about the
gentleman,
thimble-rig
W
for
's,was
in the drab-coat and sealing-wax
smalls,at
cutting
in
the
the
last
off our
Green Man, who was
modestly
ascending stairs
amends
afterwards
by waiting
as
an
interloper,
though he made
seen,
almost
perchance,such
made-up
Square. No
exclusivelyon
eccentric Notable
some
the
of
Peasant
the same
sion
occaon
either,that in wending homewards
and
et
Peasant
the
Urban,
the
Elia,
St/lmmis
Strand,
through
Little wonder
"
Look
the frequentcry of
arose
; there
comfortablytogether
in
Clare
for
and
Tom
tnily,
and Jerry there goes
Jerry!"
at Tom
little
not
in his black, were
a
his square-cutgreen coat, and Lamb
London."
Life
in
in
the
and Logic,
platesto
of Hawthorn
suggestive
linked
"
"
But
to return
to the
table.
Elia
"
much
more
of House
Lamb
than
Pastoral
;
avowedly caring little or nothing for
and
the
Poet,
Northamptonshire
cottons, nevertheless,
very kindly to
and
Clarissimus,"
him
his
again as
stillmore
to
again
ale,pledging
of
Grass
Lamb
"
"
656
and
"
cast
an
"
London
and
Hodge
"
beauty
certain
on
"
"0!
at
and
the Humorist
Anon,
and
"
Clare-obscurities
the
respect he
been
at
such
he
look
Man
own
banter
nating
origi-
verses,
the
accused,
shools.
like
"
much
as
of
"
delicacyof
Omee.
Ferme
genuine
features
than
the Garden
with
the
man-trap
it !
inventing
was
hardy,rough,
Ingram'srustic chair.
an
beneath
of
sort
a
"
He
C in alt."
trulyrustic
about
slightness
Hilton
time,that
"
was
was
swearing
Dead
whereupon
Priscian,
and
Clare
knappin hammers/'
when
was
fair!"
was
beginsto
in his
?
ser'es their grammars
ta'ea
better
They'd
up spadesand
clumsy enough to
There
Table
besides the
Mr.
What
Or
of C
portrait
delightsof
she
if it isn't like
a
contempt for the rules of
thinkingwith Burns,
It must
country
Poetry in general*,
Lamb
on
particular,
insisting
turn
"Dal!
n)
"
the
discuss
in
in
"
"
Alice
own
preachingout
Peasant
Lot
his
clarified d"
(a
tangentalsharp
of
with
Podge,
neebors
Common
"
thinking,mayhap,
"Dal!"
e.
drouthie
"
the
of
i.
and
unlettered
"
aliis
Montgomery's
the
his tankard.
society Elia,and
multis
Talk, cum
the
two
tankard,
the latter
as to make
lustily,
By his brighthappy look,
so
the
inwardly contrasting
is
Clod, and
of
company
the
sometimes
PrincelyClare,"and
anxious glanceinto
Helpstone Visiter
the
*'
REMINISCENCES.
LITERARY
with
In this
bronzed
stalwart
I remember
Plough-Poet,Burns, as above the Farmer's Boy, whom
in
miniature
in my
he lived
a
to have
seen
house,
childhood,when
in
the
the
the
and
now
near
City
Shepherdess,
Eagle tavern,
Shepherd
The Suffi)lk
-^olian harps,and kept ducks.
Road, and manufactured
Giles
had
like
more
infinitely
happy
It
Clare !
Poor
"
Boys
Farmers'
thriving
; but
from
the natural
to
hear
that
he
was
of Peasants
transplanting
the
into
; he looked
appearance
handicraftsman,town-made.
would
greatlyplease me
well, and
and
in his
agricultural
littleof the
very
does not
artificialsoil,
an
and
always
doing. I trust
happiness,or health,or
the true Friends,who, with a natural
hankeringafter poetry, because
it is forbidden them, have ventured to pluck and eat of the pastwal
conduce
to their
that
they took
was
nmch
and
averse
patronisedCapel
account
off whole
about
Talking
of
iiuc
Clare for
Poetry, Lamb
ever
"
Lofft's
I do
One
trust
who
on
and
hope
protege
There
Northamptonshire Bard.
tender-hearted,
Quaker to like ; he was
"
read.
he recoiled once,
How
told
"
me
one
Where
?^*
day that ho
"
Out
of the
his
bodily-taking
had
just met
Camden's
"
To
and
editions of the
to violence.
of nature,
the innocence
dallyingwith
most
sorts, as
well
ultimate
Hundred
Pots
of
Porter
."218"
with
chau*
the
most
Head, all in
one
LITERARY
from
friend, who
surgeon's
from
abruptly,that he was
just come
seeing
! ""Clare, from
his look of horror,evidently
thought
infant, like Marsyas, had been flayedalive ! He was
"
let
child skinned
that the
poor
gentleand
both
young
or
surgeon,
"
simple. I
have
heard
that
his firstvisit to
liOndon,
their porter to meet
sent
him at the inn ;
publishersconsiderately
when
Thomas
necessarily
inquiredof the gentleman in green,
his
but
"
667
REMINISCENCES.
Are
Clare ?
Mr.
you
tricks of London
"
the
on
latter,willingto
sliarpers,
repliedto
the
foil the
traditionary
suspiciousquery
with
"
positive
negative."
The
him by the whole
Brobdignagdiannext to Clare, overtopping
head and shoulders
the grenaa
physical Colossus of Literature,'*'
dier
"
"
of
is
Allan
Allan, not
corps
"
"
"
"
"
a-Dale, who
sometimes,
to
was
between
that favourite
"
Allan
"
of the true
Variable
from
face,alternating
At
Covenanter
liftshim
he
when
sees
of his
of his pony,
Why
from
run
formed
wast
to
according
Pope
"
And
alas !
are
we
tailors do
to
answer
To
to
now
him
he
rises at
finishes with
Has
his
he
wrote
Pegasus,as
the Mermaid
? Has
for
snatch
on
man
grace
bing
rub-
smart
Scotch
stories,
old-new
rare
he
of
joke
once
Galloway
Morison
by
or
related
left
dead ?
stature
too,
of Art."
Longman,
fallen
more
no,
chair,for
store,too, of broad
"
littlelike
"
of his
to Set Fair.
Stormy
traditional
fly,and
is something
"
there not
are
not
for
has
he writes
imder
? Is Bonnie
littleones
Thou
He
and
sayings;
at
trout
ample palms.
ballads.
new-old
no
like
his
from
and
clears up
from
two
or
and
There
in the barometer
Showery,
earnest
suddenly
inch
an
one,
shrewd
and
he
but
"
Sea.
Solway
observable
to
gloomy and
times he looks
that
the
Water,"
weather
moody poetical
now-a-days would
the LiteraryFund !
or
be
an
Ode
(with the
proper
nials)
testimo-
with
the studious
the Editor's right,
on
personage
modest
mild
and
the
is
Cary
brow, deep-seteyes, and bald crown,
He
blank
Miltonic
verse.
into
Dante
turned
who
the same
English
and
relish
will
he
which
the partridges,
towards
his
is
The
Reverend
"
plate
sending
digestas though they were
as
"
an
Somebod7
Birds
the
Peasant
"
And
of
Aristophanes.
ought
where
to
figurein
the
He
has his
Percy Anecdotes,
me,**asked Clare,
558
LITERARY
eye, too,
found
Translator
made-dishes
French
the
on
better
no
REMINISCENCES.
and
panic,it
no-popery
to Purgatoryhe had Romed
that,in
Pity, shame
*.
some
pity,such
Is it
possible
goman
thought by merely being Dra-
was
from
faith ?
the true
"
"
Londoners
once
pleasantday we
spent at a Chiswick
parsonage, formerlytenanted by Hogarth, along with the hospitable
!t
The last time my
Oary, and, as Elia called them, his Caryatides
the Interpreter
(of the House Beautiful as well as of
eyes rested on
the
the Inferno),he was
on
Library steps of the British Museum.
reached
the
Ere this, I trust he hath
tiptop nay, hath perhaps
unto
and had
attained beinga LiteraryWorthy, even
a
Trusteeship,
of
the
few
Blue
Ribbon
of
Literature
!
to buy, at Ellis's,
a
yards
Procter, alias Barry Cornwall, formerlyof the Marcian Colonnade,
the kindlyProcter,one
Inn of Court
of some
of the
now
prosaical
into the Brotherhood,with a too-flattering
foremost
to welcome
me
Dedication
(another instance againstthe jealousyof authors),is my
he says shall be kept as strictly
file. But what
left-hand
dential
confiown
A
very
"
"
"
it into my Martineau
for he is whispering
ear.
shadow
a
side,when I turn that way, I see a profile,
On
of
other
my
which
ever
opening my writing-desk,
after seeingthe original
J. In oppositionto the
memory,
of
size"
the
man's
extra
Cunningham,
party in questionlooks almost
beneath Monsieur
Queteboyish,partlyfrom beingin bulk somewhat
let's Average Man," but stillmore
of coma peculiar
so from
plexion
delicacy
confronts
me
on
"
sketch
taken
from
day
the
"
"
and
wearing,in
of
smallness
which
features,
compliment,probably,to
the
Nevertheless
than
more
marks
the crowd
Sampsons of Teutonic
whoever
of
looks
common
his
rature,
Lite-
again,
men.
Philosopherhe
is every
inch.
He
"
"
here
is there
he
"
he
"
and
speaks slowly,clearly,
talk flows
it was
full." When
"
once
poem.
Belleau.
It
cut
out
proved to
from
be
"
a
a
my
frequentand agreeable
duty to
country newspaper
what
seemed
naturalization,
by Gary, of
to
me
French
very
Song
to
call
on
Lombard
I have
never
Street Banker."
seen
Besides
the Gentleman
that
alluded
one
would
to, or
even
rather draw
a
on
of
portrait
him
Banker
in my
than
at
life.
him,
LITERARY
I)e
Mr.
Quincey (beingan
associated
and
it,on
quiteat home,
storm,
uncommon
the Memoria
always pronounced
in the
it
Technica
with
principle
Quinsy),and
midst
of
books
listened by
willingly
the
his eyes
fixed
on
one
hour
I have
whilst
and
the
throat
sore
him
home,
in a
Literature^
chairs, ^billows of
at
of
the
"
such
on
"
found
Ocean
Genuan
the servant
remember,
to
name
"
550
REMINISCENCES.
occasions
I have
with
Philosopher,
standing,
be
less
to
speakingthan
seemed
"
Now
and then he would
readingfrom a
handwritingon the wall."
for
Scotch
mile
tillI was
or
diverge, a
two, to the rightor left,
tempted
with Peregrinein John
to inquire
Bull (Colman's not Hook's), Do
"
you
where
deviate V
never
he
the end.
left,not
But
look !
of that
spirit
the
cheek,
eyes are
growing shadow
he
we
''
scent, and
familiar
certain
*'
with
stain
Within
his
on
own
"
active
durst drink
it
by
that Potent
been
Drug
eloquently
so
I have
Marry,
of his
one
apologyfor a
beinga largepurplishring.
to
an
"
"
but
of laudanum
changecomes
is surrounded
Pains have
mark
MS.,
tumbler
and
name
coloured,of
That
his
point
topicto
his
"
the
to
hunted
hours, and
face."
whose
Confessions
thence
in the small
are
old
safelyback
always came
lost the
"
o'er the
the
but
"
had
in fact the
he,"
"
impression,
without
negus, warm,
sugar.*"
head,
oppositewith a game-cock-looking
his
forehead
and the hair combed
with
over
fashion,
smooth, fighter
one
fingerhooked round a glassof champaigne,not that he requires
it to inspirit
him, for his wit bubbles up of itself is our Edward
of that true pieceof Biography,the Life of Peter
Herbert,the Author
Corcoran.
He is good with both hands,"like that NonpareilRandall,
at a comic verse
at a repartee
serious stanza
smart
a
sharp at a
or
smart
person
"
"
"
"
"
and
retort,
"
not
averse
to
bit of mischief.
'Twas
he who
gave
the
set
Generally,his jests,
then
and
now
are
they
by a happy manner,
only
Would
I
the
of
the
like
are
pine-apple.
sharpness
sharp-flavoured,
could give a sample. Alas !
What
a
pity it is that so many good
and
and
uttered
Humorists, at chance times
Wits,
by Poets,
things
like sparks struck out
and they are
always the best and brightest,
the
flints should be daily
hoof,in a curvet amongst
by Pegasus'own
in this
But
of a recorder !
and
hourly lost to the world for want
has been discovered
drawing-paper
Century of Inventions,when a self-acting
Wordsworth's
ring at
runaway
Peter
off
Bell.
ticklesome,but
"
"
"
for
*
On
visit to
knows
who
copying visible objects,
vulgarlycalled,was
in the vicinityof
Norfolk, I
quite in
use
the Fens.
It is
not
in
the
that
future
find that
surprisedto
much
was
common
but
form
of
probablethat
persons
Dennis
in such
rank
of life had
driven
Confessions, or, might
Heath, so the Fenprospects of Muckslush
by the stale flat and unprofitable
had flown
of Cambridge and Lincolnshire,
People in the dreary foggycloggyboggy wastes
read the
to
to
not
"
one
suspect that
as
Brulgrudderywas
drink
the
Drug
Historian
of the
magnificentscenery
splendidvisions
of its
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LITERARY
before
rise up
shades
Contributors
other
are
me
justdescribed.
dead
are
some
"
exclaimed
print,
of
the
gone, when
round the same
assembled
out
whose
"
tainments
at the Enter-
them
anywhere again?
days of Social
meet
ever
we
with
met
never
instance
for
dispersed
; and the
and
over
are
but I
Shall
Hazlitt
poor
"
some
and
Professors
! who's
Lads
of Literature
Patrons
steamingbowl, and
Alas
Clubs
Johnson,always
for Poonch
best
"
who came
to Colebrooke
Cottage,I had
Amongst other notable men
first
twice the good fortune of meeting with S. T. Coleridge.The
dine
with
Charles
from Highgatewith Mrs. Oilman, to
time he came
"
and
Mary."
his
waving
What
hair,and his
Apropos to
white
Friar's !
holy
of
description
to Lamb
contrast
which
of his
round, ruddy,and
face
face
Poet,with
unfurrowed
he
the
came
popularity.So
canvas
: down
sitting
as
sure
the
on
sort
his
of
name
easel,and
sank the
as
humorous
gave us a
him
for
served
that
portrait,
unfinished
an
the full-bodied
was
in
Original
till soma
went
the copy
a
corner,
publicnotice,and
the Poet; and
accident againbrought forward
fresh publication
or
I sincerely
for a few more
touches.
then forth came
the picture
hope
What
!
it
face
it has been
finished ! What
a
was
a benign,
smiling
! What
as I watched
a model,methought,
figure
comfortable,
respectable
for a Christian bishop! But he
and admired the
Old Man
eloquent,"
orthodox
enough to be trusted with a mitre.
was, perhaps,scarcely
of his voluntaries would
have frightened
common
At least,some
a
of
other
from
their
matters
propriety.
Amongst
everydaycongregation
into
back
the
"
he
discourse,
form
persons
are
of
no
to the loss
who
persons
a
the
Heaven
literal-minded
strangenotions some
mere
; joys they associated with
in this
no
delight
part,finding
without a changein his nature,
bliss hereafter,
he said,
of his personalidentity. For instance,
could find
tantamount
there
joys of
of the
in
temporalthings,
world,he
speak of
to
came
place the
own
beatitude
angelical
whole
with, like
"
sort
in the possession
of celestial
fro,with
laughingly
for an
itinerant preacher; now
hinted, as if qualifying
fetchinga
and
then
simile from Loddiges'
at
flyingoff for an
garden, Hackney ;
his fine,flowing
With
illustration to the sugar-makingin Jamaica.
it
of
the
still-beginning
voice, was
gloriousmusic,
never-ending,
in the
It was
kind ; and you did not wish it to end.
as
rare
flying,
walking,as
Lamb
"
"
Nassau
own
you
knew
not
Marinere, he
bright-eyed
let you
been
Balloon
go.
To
attempt
Like
did you care.
spellin his voice that would
whither, nor
had
to describe my
carried,
spiralling,
up to heaven
by
own
a
his
not
feelingafterward,I had
whirlwind
intertwisted with
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LITERARY
found
are
in the manner,
yourselfup,
My
and
send
me
dear
love
to
Charles
! so, Mr.
the
lawyers say
line,by way of
a
Mary. God bless
as
token
hang
ment.
acknowledg-
and
and
you
Unsham-
your
abramizer,
S. T. Coleridge."
be mentioned
It may
"
of
unpleasance at beingAddressed
presentedto the Authors,
an
Hunt
Mr.
From
times,for
operationat
all
"the
accident
moving
I called
with
for
not
was
found
and
him,
upon
bit of
garden,and
as
sent
He
its revenges.
celebrated
once
"
Permanent
invitation to dinner.
an
Enfield
Chase,
painful
misapplied Wordsworth,
feelingly
his trade."
As soon
as he was
settled,
him in a bald-looking
yellowishhouse,
to
"
nest convanient,as
wasp*'s
Lamb
door.
he stood at
laughed at
pony
of
time
clown
the
whirligig
broughtround
says,
was
one
day banteringmy wife on her dread of
the
all at
when
wasps,
the
infinitesimal
he
stung my
; but, as the
one
the fun
Odes,
removed
Lamb
Colebrooke,
in the
Kitchiner
Ink," and
"
feeling the
of
he
once
uttered
horrible
shout,
"
wounded
"
commentary
Macbeth
on
"
"
Something wicked
There
There
would
doubt
been
have
comes,"
pastoral
yearningsconcerned in
which of CaptainMorris's Town
no
were
is no
thumbs,
this wag
most
would
Pall-Mall,"
have
to Lamb's
"
taste.
and
Country Songs,
shady side of
to
a
friend,he
courtesy
The
In
carried it hollow.
sweet
"
select
was
Distances, not
"
Nojv
I have
in these
walker."
stout
matches
delivered
to
againstMeux,
cheerful and
not
porter
of
He
calculated
Beer
Measure.
one.
Ale
and
I have
accompanied him
sharing in
without
talk
profitable
orallythe substance
me
in
Imagination
was
then, what
and
Lamb
the
For
Essay
the
stake,
instance,he
on
once
the Defect
of
in the Athenaeum.
Artists,
subsequently
printed
But besides the criticism,
snatches
of old poems, golden
there were
of
and
lines and sentences
culled from rare
anecdotes of men
books,
note.
Marry, it was like going a ramble with gentleIzaak Walton,
minus
To
act
the
fishing.
make
these excursions
Lamb
never
the Grand
respect,which
of the
Modern
mere
of my
to one
ment.
temperadelightful
did
he ever
spuriousgravity.Neither
more
affected any
did
He
Senior.
not
exact
that
common
fain command
what
if,forsooth,
copy-book
on
account
is bad
in
LITERARY
could
itself,
503
REMINISCENCES.
keeping;
if intellects alreadymothery^
as
to
his Poem
So
So
my youth
thoughtless
throng;
would
More
"
He
was
laggedbehind
than
younger
himself.
in
thought that,
However,
without
well
"
met
and
made
never
gay
the contrary,at
to
like the
standing
relation
Eternity,we
to
feel,in
me
account, very
asserted
that
dog Dash,
my
the
chased
dog-days,had
in
remember,
pompously, by
"
Hail
quarter of
"
never
walk
strolls,
being
our
proprietorof
who
fellow,
century,
takinga
was
of
one
the
contemporaries.
always
excursions,that
our
all
are
reckoningbirthdays,it was
althoughhe was my elder by
schoolmaster."
the
Yilla,who
his
and
they.
the first to
was
manners
with
grave
the young
among
than
"
duck-weed.
called
seem
among
On
nothingof Sir Oracle about Lamb.
solemn
that
creamed
and
mantled
visage
pool," he
he
appear
was
sightof
his
Holly Tree.
serious should
The
There
the
on
Enfield
an
hunted
anythingin
takingthe dog's
Elia
sheep; whereupon,
emphatically, Hunt Lambs., sir ? Why he has never
But he was
always ready for fun, intellectual or practical
D
to
a modern
Dennis, with puns;
now
helping pelt *****,
and
God bless her ! by a vox
then to persuade his sister,
et preterea
the
deaf
adder.
In
as
an
same
as
spirit,
nihil,that she was
being
of
his
take
flock
to
for a
Schoolmaster
a
requestedby young
charge
he willingly
absence
of the Principal,"
day, during the unavoidable
his
of
brief
made
other
the
but
undertook
no
use
authority
charge,
than to givethe boys a whole
holiday.
I was
stitute
subAs Elia suppliedthe place of the Pedagogue,so
once
in the Gem, was
A prose article,
not from
himself.
for Lamb
had promised a contribution,
He
his hand, though it bore his name.
"
"
"
"
for
him, and
It will be
"
seen
Dear
We
and
Tragedy
"
dine
her two
may
be
Widow
"
taken
forgerywas
You
at
the
was
that the
Lamb,
secret.
Sarah
the result
Ayrton's
beds
d,
so
"
on
for
in
not
you
something
of his
manner.
good part.
Thursday, and
that night only.
may
write
in imitation
impudent varlet,but
an
are
spare
d
I should
suggestedthat
sister
but
and
I will
shall
Miss
your
keep
to
your
find
and
her
try
M.
Health
rib.
Yours,
attend you.
T. PIood, Esq.
Enfield.
Miss
BridgetHood
How
many
of
whilst thinkingof
such
sends love."
pleasantreminiscences
him,
like secret
revive in my
writingbroughtout
by
memory,
the
kindly
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LITERARY
But
of the fire !
wannth
which,
seemed
what
his
in
good
the
conversation,
havingimpaired
my
in
story my own
the
bury
to
He
If he
was
have
been
Rabelais,)of the
warrant
scriptural
evil-speaking,
hated
occasion
having slippedout an
during a very confidential
literary
man,
under
man
eyes.
one
with
moment,
next
even
each
own
On
the Silken
would
in the fiction of
save
existed,
(if the foundation
where
of
order
Thelemites,
Utopian
did
He
of Intolerance.
had
"
is
says,
of all Virtues."
Chain
Stringrunning
it was
intolerant
of anything,
Miller
as
expressionof
an
opinionof the
In another
bosom.
for
remorse,
party, he bound
solemnly
me
he characteristically
case
rebuked
the
Mrs.
Candour
that
Miss
*, the teacher
she
"Has
publican.
so?"
Ladies'
the
at
School, had
"then
said Lamb,
married
I'll have
beer
my
there !"
As
to his
Elia)with
for
thence
"
One
its usefulness.
the
at
of the
end
proceededto
Keep
your
in truth
And
great miser.
power,
that
of
in a pecuniarysense, he passed (saysLamb
liberality,
but
settled
moderate
a
some
income,
people,throughhaving
hand
of
out
me
your
the
knew
nighthe
January
late year
read
he
had
he
been
serio-comic
Pocket."
value
told
of money,
me
able to
lecture
The
its
with
"
the
on
truth
greatglee
lay by and
text, of
like
is.Lamb,
tempore, what
of his sympathies,could
feel,pro
universality
belongedto the character of a Gripe-all. The reader
will remember
his
Shakspeare,in
the
capitalnote
in the
"
Dramatic
Specimens,"on
"
the
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
Hill!
"
hardly
allowed
and
have
This
on
antiquatedpersonage
this
been
Lamb's
consideration,though
retrospective
taught him
her in her
had
more
than
to
a yearlysum,
decline,
read
his native
equal to
"
what
mistress
Schoolshe
could
tongue
"
he
shall I say ?
LITERARY
665
RBMINISCENCES.
to the
"
active
their children.
Such
Say, thirtypounds
Charles
was
of
principle
Lamb.
he
antagonising,
opposite of Crabbe;
Byron ; in Prose,of
and
in
in
the last
subtle
too
to survive
levityof
wit
Novelist
new
of it
Of
Agnew.
occurred
much
too
occasion.
the
only witty
himself
pick up
Lamb's
"
own
"
do you think,"asked
in Stowe
Gardens ?
Answer
'
It is
now
was
I shed
no
were
for
of
"
criticism.
called
not
died young.
not
in
have
'
Day
and
above
of him
still more
and
had
much
die
could not
"
man,
the
him
watched
but
over
him
left behind
fellowshipwith
owns
man
had
all,however
that
survive
had
which
care
He
but
selfishness,
prayed to
Finallyhe
little child.
"
Lamb
that tender
should miss
legacy!
rare
had
who
sister,
He
noble
that
would
unique afi*ection,
departed,there w^as
Humanity endures
Charles
particularly
as
and
ill be-stowed."
"
comfort.
of
before
day, lest he
upwards from
works,
me
other mourners
in
ago, since I stood with
all that was
mortal
beside a grave in which
sources
happily gone
devotion
eggs
good fortune
my
of the book
he,
Yard,
deposited. It may be a dangerousconfession to make, but
There
did a sighescape from my bosom.
tear ; and scarcely
many
him
"
Church
of Elia
somebody,
A Day
:
laysher
five years
some
Edmonton
once
M.'s
What
said
Ostrich
and it struck
foundlings,
a
style,containingat once
pun
of Mr.
one
the
essays.
but the
isM******"
voured
endea-
brevitywithout
of whole
who
to
in
the germs
There
in others.
by example
own
nature, the
married
had
his
to me
They
of
Poetry,of Lord
of Kant ;
Philosophy,
in
some
"
Moreover, like
occasion
and
the
of human
Criticism,of Gifford;
givesuch samples as
sayingswas
the time
his character,on
up
in his views
was,
the education
annum
per
sum
of Sir Andrew
Religion,
to
*'
To
had
of him
for
the
his
longas
as
spiritof
******
On
were
took
minister
The
Scott.
kind
made
once
the paper,
number
notice
no
these
And
That
of
but
eccentric friend in
"c.,
colons,semicolons,
you
are
may
pointsthat
my
put
no
surprise
one, to observe
little leisure for punctuation.
Walter
of the
Odes
Scott
to
has to make
Great
placeat
the
writing
at the bottom
of
the foot
It will
copy
An
manner.
little volume;
the
adding
"
"Sir
of
to
thankful
People with
put."
of
Waverley
had
acknowledgmentsfor
which
he
was
as
the
favoured and
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REMINISCENCES.
LITERARY
d Melrose
Abbots/or
The
first time
of
one
Mrs.
May"
saw
the
'*
of
Picture
Unknown, was
Nineveh," when, by
allusion to
an
"
in
My
Mr.
dear
did
you
Hood,
great pleasurethis
of
one
as
answer
was
incident
piercing
write
to
to
contains
:
partialities
"
very
oddities to
and
whims
I received with
me
and
of your
kindness
it
letter in the country which
and
only my
delayed my
was
address
forgotthe
favoured
occasion
mark
new
volume
leavingyour
private
dence,
coincistriking
which
letter,
following
the
was
was
to inscribe your
me
the
in me
to leave you
ungracious
with
otherwise
the honour
or
gratified
It
"
whether
day'sdoubt
I received
of his characteristic
some
of
our
greatestmen,
simultaneouslyup opposite
hands in front of the painting.
whom
"Walter,from
perusal.
livelyvein
at
"
his
Great
celebrated women,
and
Scott walked
Sir Walter
and
the
encourage
most
our
Siddons
Ath
ever
of Martin's
view
from
satire
humorous
inoffensive and
support and
best
good thingscan
other
good health
author
the unknown
wishes
He
he has received
the amusement
for
particularly
more
with
Mr.
beautiful
Cooper s
of the dead
greyhoundwhich
sketch
of
is executed
the
with
hearta
force
and
fancy which
and
in
ends to send
few
expect
to be in
am
very
Edinburgh
At
It
mentioned
the
he said,for he
his
of
Sir
number
week
next
purpose
Mr. Cooper of my
dog
an
area,
circumstance
was
very
with
fond
him,
to
of
Scott."
escaped my
without
be
but
he
"
London,
told him
did
for
I had
reminded
of
in
Lockhart'*s,
Mr.
the wrong
one.
It was
not
Sir Walter.
about
I then
had
the honour
I had
at
I knocked
dogs;
tion
inten-
servant
Scott
house
when
London,
Walter
of the
down
Fair Maid
his visits to
happened, however, to
animals
own
taken
The
fine
the door.
do
to
in acknowledgment.
years
Walter
with
interview
a
seeing
unable
my
4 March
Place.
Sussex
but
at
any
trulyyour obligedhumble
last,during one
personal
make
can
I will
I
if I
verses
not
fear
memory
hesitation at
I afterwards
a
bad
he
point,
to
care
have
should
latelybeen
be
reading
very pleasant
of
day spent many years before,beside the Linn of Campsie, the scene
Conachar's catastrophe.Perhapshe divined what had reallyoccurred
that the Linn, as a cataract, had greatly
to me,
disappointedme ;
and
shook
had since seen
he
said
he
his head archly,and
for
srailed,
the
"
of
Perth, which
had
me
of
LITERARY
it himself,and
have
done
there
was
smiled
rather
was
than
worse
none
In the
of Kent's
the
noticing
of
in
now,
But
before
he
fine massive
put
fear,Mr. Hood, I
a
finding
Monasterywhere
was
plenty(here he
there
though
"
Thistle."
his toilet,
in
finishing
was
and
of it.
Bcnedictus,or Holy
time he
mean
Duchess
before
found
Carduus
again)of
ashamed
that
be
to
567
REMINISCENCES.
his cravat
on
I had
an
his bust.
proportionsof
tunity
oppor-
It served
in my
well
me
methought
had
he
After
Land."
asked
gladto
at
me
see
that
head
in my
ever
in
than
more
"
sense
one
the
in
conversation,
more
some
if I
me
been
Giant
course
in
the
which
of
he
came
never
and
were,
now,
alas !
be, realised !
can
never
*****
And
gentlereader, to present
to
Thou'rt
"
comical
I want, and
just what
to raise
at Bedfont
owe
A.
"
in my
"
wishes
to
of
feelings
James
of the
'
by
knows
you
You'll
the
hope. Perhaps,if
at your
there's
this county. Now
whom
drugs and against
"
fit for
more
no
v(dlljustgivehim
to
me
shall
a palpable
by post,directed to
ever
be
remembered
i^
deepest sincerityand gratitude.His name
If you
disapprove
Chemist,' Bedfont
of course.
Booker,
above, I trust
He
"
the
SPLITTING.'
him.
I'lltell you
vouring
has been endea-
you)
Of late.Lord
more.
in
of yeomanry
compounderof nauseous
"
I would
power
body
me,
with
'
mean
am
if you
I for a punster.
transmit them
in verse, and
two
or
so
allow
followinggenuine letter,the
beingdisguised.
Now
than
fighter
hit
no
grudge,who
"
(if'twas
obligeme
wilt thou
write what
to
man
chap
melancholy a tone,
Hood, Esq.
T.
To
too
the
you
obvious reasons,
merely,for
names,
in
conclude
to
not
now,
you
will not
say, how
abuse
can
handwritingfull
feel a
first convenience,ere
placedin you,
by showing this letter to
the confidence
I ?
"
well
"
but
you'llnot
do
so,
you will do
stale.
will be getting
to oblige
disposition
me,
the matter
Yours
I
so
truly,
A. B.
have
will be kind enough to let me
you
accede
to
to
condescend
if you will not
my
He's
sufficient particulars.
not
Perhaps
you,
even
the
two
of Miss
possession
answer
from
wish.
little
fellow,
preciousugly, housekeeper as ugly, lives
nose,
Peacock
Inns, is a singleman,
very anxious to get
Boltbee, a ward in Chancery with somethinglike
Perhaps you've
flushed face, long
between
an
LITERARY
REMINISCENCES.
9000^.
(wish he may get it),is famous for his Gout Medicine, sells
him
swallow
an
ounce),always knows
jalap (should like to make
other people's
business better than his own, used to go to church, now
goes to chapel,and in the whole, is a greatrascal.
Bedfont
is thirteen miles
from
London."
(AWJH.
TRSSERVED
IN
THE
SPIRITS.
END.
LOfWON'.
RRftDBURY
AND
KVANS,
PRINTERS,
WHITKrWAIia.