. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. t fail to show it,That he must throw a summerset,Or stand upon his head, to blow it. And was there then no ar<jument To change the doctors vile intent. And move his pity ?—yes, in truth, And that was—paying for the tooth. *Zounds ! pay for such a stump ! Id rather—* But here the menace went no farther, For, with his other ways of pinching, Hunks had a misers love of snuff, A recollection strong enough To cause a very serious flinching; In short, he paid, and had the feature Replaced as it was meant by nature; For tho by this twas cold t
. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. t fail to show it,That he must throw a summerset,Or stand upon his head, to blow it. And was there then no ar<jument To change the doctors vile intent. And move his pity ?—yes, in truth, And that was—paying for the tooth. *Zounds ! pay for such a stump ! Id rather—* But here the menace went no farther, For, with his other ways of pinching, Hunks had a misers love of snuff, A recollection strong enough To cause a very serious flinching; In short, he paid, and had the feature Replaced as it was meant by nature; For tho by this twas cold to handle 2l6 THE DECLLXE 01- MRS SHAKERLY, (No corpses could have felt more horrid),And white, just like an end of candle,The doctor deemd, and proved it too,That noses from the nose will doAs well as nosts from the forehead jSo, fixd by dint of rag and part was banda-ed up and chair unfastend, Hunks arose,And shuffled out, fur once unshuffled ;And as he went, these words he snuffled—Well, this is paying through the Wholesale—Retail :ind for Exportation. T THE DECLINE OF MRS SHAKERLY. INWARDS the close of her life, my Aunt Sliakcrly increasedrapidly in bulk : she kept adding growth unto her growth — Giving a sum of more to that which had too much,— till the result was worthy of a Smithfield premium. It wns not thetrium[)h, however, of any systematic diet for the prumoiion of fat(( xcept oyster-eating, there is no human system of j/rt//-fceding) ; onthe contrary, she lived abstemiously, diluting her food with pickle-acids,and keeping frequent fasts, in order to reduce her compass ; but they THE DECLINE OF MRS SHAKERLY. 217 failed of this desirable effect. Nature had planned an oiig-inal tendencyin her organisation that was not to be oveicome ; she \\ould have fat-tened on sour krout. My Uncle, on the other hand, decreased daily. Originally a littleman, he became lean, shrunken, wizened. There was a predispositionin his constitution that
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