. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. 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 mann
. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. 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. Not up yet I gimile, to be sent in search of a salt-cellar ; or when hunting for a rhyme, to have to look for a missin;.; teaspoon. By a whimsical leculiarity, the causes of these lets and hindrances are recorded in is verses by way of parenthesis : and though Johns poetry was of a • Comic Annual, 1S32. I DOMESTIC DIDACTICS. «I1 decidedly serious and moralising turn, these little insertions give it sowhimsical a character as to make it an appropriate offering in thepresent work. Poor John ! the grave has put a period to liis didactics,and the pubhcntion of his lays, therefore, cannot give him pain, asit certainly would have done otherwise, for the MSS. were left bylast will and testament to his very worthy master, Joshua , to l)e printed in Elegant Extracts or Flowers of EnglishPoetry. The editor is indebted to the kindness of that gentlemanfor a selection from the papers, which he has been unable to arrangechronologically, as John always wrote in too great a hur
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