. Thackerayana;. on chop, Soon it grows cold ;All its attractions hop Ere it grows s like the cholic sure,Both painful to endure ;Brandy s for both a cure, So Ive been told. When for some fair the swain Burns with desireIn Hymens fatal chain, Eager to try her,He weds as soon as he can,And jumps—unhappy man—Out of the frying pan Into the fire. As to the humorists pencil, even throughout these early days, itmust have been an unfailing source of delight, not only to the ownerbut to the companions of his form. Draw us some pictures, theboys would say, and straightwaydown popped a caricatu
. Thackerayana;. on chop, Soon it grows cold ;All its attractions hop Ere it grows s like the cholic sure,Both painful to endure ;Brandy s for both a cure, So Ive been told. When for some fair the swain Burns with desireIn Hymens fatal chain, Eager to try her,He weds as soon as he can,And jumps—unhappy man—Out of the frying pan Into the fire. As to the humorists pencil, even throughout these early days, itmust have been an unfailing source of delight, not only to the ownerbut to the companions of his form. Draw us some pictures, theboys would say, and straightwaydown popped a caricature of amaster on slate or exercise pa-per. Then school books werebrought into requisition, and thefly-leaves were adorned withwhimsical travesties of the sub-jects of their contents. AbbeBarthelemys Travels of Ana-charsis the Younger suggested the figure of a wandering minstrel,with battered hat and dislocated flageolet, piping his way throughthe world in the dejected fashion those forlorn pilgrims might have.
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