. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. Still thereseemed hardly excitement enough, or amusement enough, except tothe spectators, in such playing at soldiers, to induce honest, heariv,fox-hunting farmers to wish to become veterans. To tell the truth,I ha^e heard before now repentant grumblings from pr. ctical agri-culturists, who had too rashly .adopted the uniform, and have seen eventheir horses betray an inclination to back out of the line. I he moretherefore is my surprise, on all accounts, to hear tliat the Yermanryare so unwilling to be dispensed with, and relieved from ina
. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. Still thereseemed hardly excitement enough, or amusement enough, except tothe spectators, in such playing at soldiers, to induce honest, heariv,fox-hunting farmers to wish to become veterans. To tell the truth,I ha^e heard before now repentant grumblings from pr. ctical agri-culturists, who had too rashly .adopted the uniform, and have seen eventheir horses betray an inclination to back out of the line. I he moretherefore is my surprise, on all accounts, to hear tliat the Yermanryare so unwilling to be dispensed with, and relieved from inactiveservice; for though the song tells us of a Soldier tired of warsalarms, there is no doubt that to a soldier of spirit, the most tire-some thing in the world is to have no alarms at all. In the meantime, I have been at some pains to ascertain the senti-ments of the yeowomanry on the subject, and if they all feel in com-mon with Dame , the disbanding will be a most popular measure aniuiigst the faamers wives. I had no sooner communitatcd the news,. AN UNFAVOURABLE REVIEW. 479 through the old ladys trumpet, than she exclaimed, that it was thebest hearing she had had for many a long dav ! The sogering workunsettled both men and horses—it took her husbnnds head off hisbusiness, and it threw herself off the old mare, at the last fair, alongof a showmans trumpet. Besides, it set all the fnrm servants a-soger-ing too, and when they went to the Wake, only old Roger came backagain to say they had all listed. They had more sense, however, thantheir master, for they all wanted to be disbanded the next for the master, hed never been the same man since he put on theuniform ; but had got a hectoring, swaggering way with him, as ifeverybody that didnt agree in politics, and especially about the CornBill, was to be bored and slashed with sword and pistol. Then therewas the constant dread that in his practising, cut six would either comehome to him, or do a mischief to his neig
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