. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. althus rail at babies so ?The smallness of his severs man and wife ? a simpleDelect of the Adhesive pimple :Or weak women go astray?Their bumps are more in fault than they. These facts being found and set in orderBy grave beyond the Border,To make them for some few months enterd monthly in a journal,That many a northern sage still writes in,And throws his little Northern Lights in,And proves and proves about the phrenosA great deal more than I or he knows:How Music suiidY?,,par exeinple,By wearing ti
. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. althus rail at babies so ?The smallness of his severs man and wife ? a simpleDelect of the Adhesive pimple :Or weak women go astray?Their bumps are more in fault than they. These facts being found and set in orderBy grave beyond the Border,To make them for some few months enterd monthly in a journal,That many a northern sage still writes in,And throws his little Northern Lights in,And proves and proves about the phrenosA great deal more than I or he knows:How Music suiidY?,,par exeinple,By wearing tight hats round the temple jWhat ills great boxers have to fearFrom blisters put behind the ear ; 23* AN AFFAIR OF HOXOUR. And how a porters Veneration Is hurt by porters occupation ; Whether shillela;^hs in reality May deaden Individuality ; Or tongs and poker be creative Of alterations in th Amative ; If from scaffolds make us less Inclined to all Conslructiveness : With more such matters, all applying To heads—and therefore /iifrt^ Honour calls him to the field. AN AFFAIR OF HONOUR. AND those were the only duels, concluded the major, that evert\ I fought in my life. Now the major reminded me strongly of an old boatman at Hastings,who, after a story of a swimmer that was snapjjed asunder by a seaattorney in the West Indies, made an end in the same f-ishion :—And that was the only time, said he, I ever saw a man bit in twoby a shark. A single occurrence of the kind seemed sufficient for the experienceof one life ; and so I reasoned upon the majors nine duels. He must,in the first place, have Ijeen not only jealous and swift to quarrel; but,in tlie second, have met with nine intemperate spirits equally forwardwith himself. It is but in one afiront out of ten that the duellist meetswith a duellist : a computation assigning ninety mortal disagreementsto his single share ; whereas I, with equal irritability, and as muchcourage perhaps, had never exchanged a card
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