. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. Sternes Miuuu 6iS. , A SPENT BALL.* The flying ball.—Grav. A BALL !s a round, but not a perpetual round, of plensure. Itspends itself at last, like that from the cannons mouth ; or rather,like that greatest of balls, the great globe itself, is dissolved withall that it inherits. Four oclock strikes. The company are all but gone, and themusicians put up with their absence. A few y?>«r^j, however,remain, that have never been danced, and the hostess, who is allurbanity and turbanity, kindly hopes that they will stand up for oneset more. Th
. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. Sternes Miuuu 6iS. , A SPENT BALL.* The flying ball.—Grav. A BALL !s a round, but not a perpetual round, of plensure. Itspends itself at last, like that from the cannons mouth ; or rather,like that greatest of balls, the great globe itself, is dissolved withall that it inherits. Four oclock strikes. The company are all but gone, and themusicians put up with their absence. A few y?>«r^j, however,remain, that have never been danced, and the hostess, who is allurbanity and turbanity, kindly hopes that they will stand up for oneset more. The six figures jum[) at the offer they tlie harp,get the tiddlers into a fresh scrape, and thi- Lancers are put throuj^htheir exercise. This may be called the Dance of Death, tor it endseverything. The band is disbanded, and the ball takes the form of afamily circle. It is long past the time whea churchvards ya^vn. butthe mouth of mamma onens to a bore, that ijives ho!>es of the ThamesTunnel. Papa, to when the ball has been anything but a force-meatone, seiz
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