. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. A So v\ -we^iier off tlie Cape :—Pigs ia the Trough of the Sl^ 60S. Tbe Stamp-duty on Scotch Linen. SONNET to k SCOTCH OIRL, WASHING LINEN AFTER HER COUNTRY rASHIOM. Well done and wetly, thou Fair Maid of Perth !Thou rankest a washing picture well deservingThe pen and pencilling of Washington Irving: Like dripping Naiad, pearly from her birth, Dashing about the water of the Firth,To cleanse the calico of Mrs Skirving,And never from thy dance of duty swerving, As there were nothing else than dirt on earth 1 Yet what is thy reward ? Nay, do
. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. A So v\ -we^iier off tlie Cape :—Pigs ia the Trough of the Sl^ 60S. Tbe Stamp-duty on Scotch Linen. SONNET to k SCOTCH OIRL, WASHING LINEN AFTER HER COUNTRY rASHIOM. Well done and wetly, thou Fair Maid of Perth !Thou rankest a washing picture well deservingThe pen and pencilling of Washington Irving: Like dripping Naiad, pearly from her birth, Dashing about the water of the Firth,To cleanse the calico of Mrs Skirving,And never from thy dance of duty swerving, As there were nothing else than dirt on earth 1 Yet what is thy reward ? Nay, do not start 1I do not mean to give thee a new damper j But while thou fillest this industrious part Of washer, wearer, mangier, presser, stamper, Deserving better character—thou art fihaX Bodkin would but call— a common tramper.* * Comic Annual, 1S31. 6o6
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