. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. ianiily Library. XV. Three golden balls ?—I like them not;An au( tioneer I never did —The victim of a slavish lot,Obliged to do as he is bid I broker watching fall and riseOi slock?—Id rather deal in stone,—A piuiiier?—there his toils compiiseAnolliers work beside Ins uvvu. 654 Sir SON AKD HEIR. A cooper?—neither I nor JemHave any taste or turn for that—A fish retailer?—but with him,One part of trade is always flat. XVIII. A painter?—long he would not live—An artists a precarious craft—In trade apothecaries give,But very seldom take,
. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. ianiily Library. XV. Three golden balls ?—I like them not;An au( tioneer I never did —The victim of a slavish lot,Obliged to do as he is bid I broker watching fall and riseOi slock?—Id rather deal in stone,—A piuiiier?—there his toils compiiseAnolliers work beside Ins uvvu. 654 Sir SON AKD HEIR. A cooper?—neither I nor JemHave any taste or turn for that—A fish retailer?—but with him,One part of trade is always flat. XVIII. A painter?—long he would not live—An artists a precarious craft—In trade apothecaries give,But very seldom take, a draught. XIX. A glazier ?—what if he should smash!A Crispin he shall not be made— A grazier may be losing he drives a roaring trade Well, something must be done! to lookOn all my little works around—James is too big a boy, like hook,To leave upon the shelf unbound. But what to do ?--jny temples acheFrom evenings dew till mornings course to take my boy to make—Oh could I make my boy—a girl 1. Son and btuidih NATIONAL TALES PREFACE, IT has been decided, by the learned Malthusians of our century, is too great an influx of new books into this reading apology setms therefore to be required for me for increasing myfamily in this kind ; and by twin volumes, instead of the single ociavoswhich hdve hitherto been my issue. But I concede not to that mcdt rndoctrine, which supposes a world on short allow.;nee, or a generationwithout a ration. There is no mentionable overgrowth likely to happenin life or literature. Wholesome checks are ai pointed against over-fecundity in any Sfecies. Thus the whale thins the myriads of her-rings, the teeming rabbit makes Thyesttan family dinners on her ov. noffspring, and the hyenas devour themselves. Death is never back-ward when the human race wants hoeing ; nor the critic to thin thepropagation of the press. The surplus children, that would encumberthe earth, are thrown bac
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