. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. Follow my Leader. hugg:ns. Love goes with Pegjy where she goes,—Beneath her smile the garden grows,Potatoes spring, and cai^ba-^t- starts,Taloes have eyes, and hearts ! HUGGINS AND DUGGINS, DUGGINS. Where Sally jjoes its always Spring,Her presence brightens everything ;The sun smiles bright, but where her grin is,It makes brass farthings look like guineas. HUGGINS. For Peggy I can have no joy,Shes sometimes kind, and sometimes coy,And keeps me, by her wayward tricks,As comfortless as sheep with ticks. DUGGINS. Sally is ripe as Jun
. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. Follow my Leader. hugg:ns. Love goes with Pegjy where she goes,—Beneath her smile the garden grows,Potatoes spring, and cai^ba-^t- starts,Taloes have eyes, and hearts ! HUGGINS AND DUGGINS, DUGGINS. Where Sally jjoes its always Spring,Her presence brightens everything ;The sun smiles bright, but where her grin is,It makes brass farthings look like guineas. HUGGINS. For Peggy I can have no joy,Shes sometimes kind, and sometimes coy,And keeps me, by her wayward tricks,As comfortless as sheep with ticks. DUGGINS. Sally is ripe as June or May,And yet as cold as Christmas Day;For when shes askd to change her lot,Lambs wool,—but Sally, she wool not HUGGINS. Only with Peggy and with health,Id never wish for state or wealth ;Talking of having health and more pence^Id drink her health if I had lourpence. DUGGINS. Oh, how that day would seem to Sallys banns were read with mine ;She cries, when such a wish I carry,** Marry come up ! but will not Kjua^ayb Ceaile biicplierd. 6io DOMESTIC DIDACTICS, BY AN OLD SERVANT.* IT is not often, when the Nine descend, that they go sotow as mtaarens ; it is certain, neverth^Iess, that they \v(_re in the ha))it ovisiting John Mumphieys, in the kitciien of No. 189 Portland Place,disguised, no doubt, from mortal eye, as seamstresses or charwomen?—at all events, as Winifred Jenkins says, they were never ketclid inthe fact. Perhaps it was the rule of the house to allow no followers, andthey were obliged to come by stealth, and to go in the same manner ;indeed, from the fraginental nature of Johns verses, they appear tohave often left him very abruptly. Other pieces bear witness of thesevere distraction he suffered between his domestic (Juty to the Umphra-villes, twelve in fnnily, with their guests, and his <;wn serret visitorsfrom Helicon. It must have been provoking, when seeking for a
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