. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. A Bull of Excommunication. Let the old Fair have fairplay as its right, And to each show and sightYe shall be treated with a Free List latitude; To Ricliardsons Stage Dramas, Dio—and Cosmo—ramas, Giants and Indians wild, Divarf, Sea-bear, and Fat Child,And that most rare of Shows—a Show of Gratitude ! 49«. Artna Virumque Canoe. DRA WN FOR A SOLDIER* I WAS once—for a few hours only—in the militia. I suspect I wasin ijart answerable for my own mishap. There is a story in JoeMiller of a man who, being pressed to serve his Majesty on anotherel
. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. A Bull of Excommunication. Let the old Fair have fairplay as its right, And to each show and sightYe shall be treated with a Free List latitude; To Ricliardsons Stage Dramas, Dio—and Cosmo—ramas, Giants and Indians wild, Divarf, Sea-bear, and Fat Child,And that most rare of Shows—a Show of Gratitude ! 49«. Artna Virumque Canoe. DRA WN FOR A SOLDIER* I WAS once—for a few hours only—in the militia. I suspect I wasin ijart answerable for my own mishap. There is a story in JoeMiller of a man who, being pressed to serve his Majesty on anotherelement, pleaded his polite breeding, to the gang, as a good ground ofexemption ; but was told that the crew being a set of sad unmnnnerlydogs, a Chesterfield was the very character they wanted. The militia-men acted, 1 presume, on the same principle. Their customaryschedule was forwarded to me, at Brighton, to fill up, and in a momentof incautious hilarity—induced, perhaps, by the absence of all businessor employment, except pleasure—I wrote myself down in the descrip-tive column as Quite a Gentlewan. The consequence followed immediately. A precept, addressed bythe ;h Constable of Westminster to the Low ditto of the ofSt M*****, and endorsed with my name, informed me tliat it hadturned un in that involuntary lottery, the Ballot. At
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