. Christmas cheer [electronic resource]: in three courses, more than ordinary ones, and where every guest will get his dessert, and a taste of those choice spirits, "that cheer but not inebriate," . bouring tap. But near this was anannouncement, more attractive to our hero, to theeffect that H. M. S. Mammoth was in want ofpetty officers and seamen. So, revolving hisprospects in his mind, he determined to proceedthe next day to Plymouth, and ascertain whe-ther the Temple of Fame could not be reached bywater as well as by land. Having made up his 10 HEARTS ARE TRUMPS. mind to this, and sauntered
. Christmas cheer [electronic resource]: in three courses, more than ordinary ones, and where every guest will get his dessert, and a taste of those choice spirits, "that cheer but not inebriate," . bouring tap. But near this was anannouncement, more attractive to our hero, to theeffect that H. M. S. Mammoth was in want ofpetty officers and seamen. So, revolving hisprospects in his mind, he determined to proceedthe next day to Plymouth, and ascertain whe-ther the Temple of Fame could not be reached bywater as well as by land. Having made up his 10 HEARTS ARE TRUMPS. mind to this, and sauntered about for some time,meditating on the project, he returned to the inuto dinner; and counting over the golden drops,which his last operation of phlebotomy had drawnfrom the disconsolate relatives before alluded to,he sallied out to get a glimpse of the pleasuresof London, before he started in the night was very fine, and innumerable starstwinkled about the heavens; but, somehow orother, we have observed that nobody ever looksat the stars in London—why, we dont know, butpossibly, because they cost nothing, and we re nottaxed for them. He first went into a theatre, where he found. VJ i I I HEARTS ARE TRUMPS. 11 the audience enjoying a farce with a slang chief actor in the piece was being kickedand cuffed every now and then by another of thedramatis personce, a joke which gave rise to shoutsof laughter, swelling into positive enthusiasmwhen he tumbled down with tremendous force onthe stage. The choicest humour, however, gets tiresomein time, so leaving the theatre, he turned into ahouse where extraordinary attractions wereheld out to the visitor, and where he found somescores of persons assembled in a large room, atone end of which a young man, in a white neck-cloth, was playing on a piano, and another gentle-man accompanying him with a song. He satdown in a corner of the room to observe the com-pany, as well as he could, through the grey vapourwhich was emi
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