. Thackerayana;. 202 THA CKERA YANA. stroy, and cultivates sedulously those plants which others root upas weeds. His cash consists much in old coins, and he thinksthe face of Alexander in one of them worth more than all hisconquests. Character of a City Militiaman. After describing the contests in Flandersbeing re-fought by the newsmongers inthe coffee-houses, the sketch proceeds :Our greatest actions must be buf-fooned in show as well as talk. ShallNamur be taken and our heroes of thecity not show their prowess upon sogreat an occasion? It must never besaid that the coffee-houses dared moreth
. Thackerayana;. 202 THA CKERA YANA. stroy, and cultivates sedulously those plants which others root upas weeds. His cash consists much in old coins, and he thinksthe face of Alexander in one of them worth more than all hisconquests. Character of a City Militiaman. After describing the contests in Flandersbeing re-fought by the newsmongers inthe coffee-houses, the sketch proceeds :Our greatest actions must be buf-fooned in show as well as talk. ShallNamur be taken and our heroes of thecity not show their prowess upon sogreat an occasion? It must never besaid that the coffee-houses dared morethan Moorfields. No; for the honour of London, out comes theforeman of the shop, very formidable in buff and bandoleers, andaway he marches, with feather in cap, to the general rendezvousin the Artillery Ground. There these terrible mimics of Marsare to spend their fury in noise and smoke upon a Namur erectedfor that purpose on a molehill, and by the help of guns and drumsout-stink and out-rattle Smithfield in all
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