. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. ? Massa Amen ask himat me and my wife, Black Juno, sometimes. Vou remember. MassaAmen say, You give up a Devil? verv well. 1 hen him say, Y<iu giveup al work? very well. Then hin; say again, Black Juno, you t;ive up your Pompeys andvanities? Black Junoshake her head, and sayno. Massa Amen s lyYou must, and then mywife cry ever so much.[Ifs a fact, Jedidiah, theblack female made thisridiculous mistake. ] Very well. Governorcome to you in threemonths to see the too. You re-member. Come for meto Blackwall. Me bringShip Letters.
. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. ? Massa Amen ask himat me and my wife, Black Juno, sometimes. Vou remember. MassaAmen say, You give up a Devil? verv well. 1 hen him say, Y<iu giveup al work? very well. Then hin; say again, Black Juno, you t;ive up your Pompeys andvanities? Black Junoshake her head, and sayno. Massa Amen s lyYou must, and then mywife cry ever so much.[Ifs a fact, Jedidiah, theblack female made thisridiculous mistake. ] Very well. Governorcome to you in threemonths to see the too. You re-member. Come for meto Blackwall. Me bringShip Letters. you some of Governors rum. Black Juno say,Tell Massa Agamemnon, he must send some fashions, lemember? Black Juno very smart. Him wish for a Bell As-sembly. \Jedidiah, so do /.] You send him out, you remember?Very well. i\lass I Amen say write no more now, I say, O pray one little wordmore for Agamemnons wife. Give him good kiss from Pompey.[ Jedidiah^ what a heathenish message.] Black Diana a kiss remember? Very well. No OUR VILLAGE* Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain.—Goldsmith. I HAVE a great anxiety to become a topographer, and I do notknow that I can make an easier commencement of the character,th in by attempting a description of our village. It will be found, asmv friend the landlord over the way says, that things are drawnmild: I live opposite the Grren Man. I know that to be the sign, in spiteof the picture, because I am told of the fact in large ^ilt Utters, inthree several places. The whole-length portrait of ? Thomme vert*is rather imposing. He stands plump before you, in a sort of wrest-ling attitudf, the legs standing distinctly apart, in a brace of decidedboots, with dun tops, joined to a pair of creoie-coloured h ather breeches. * Comic Annual, 1833. OUR VILLAGE. 527 The rest of his dress is peculiar ; the coat, a two-flapoer, green andbrown, or, as they sav at the tap, half-ami half ; a cocked hat on thehalf-cock ; a sho
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