SONNET

TO LORD WHARNCLIFFE, ON HIS GAME BILL

I'M fond of partridges, I'm fond of snipes,
I'm fond of black cocks, for they're very good cocks-
I'm fond of wild ducks, and I'm fond of woodcocks,
And grouse that set up such strange moorish pipes.
I'm fond of pheasants with their splendid stripes-
I'm fond of hares, whether from Whig or Tory-
I'm fond of capercailzies in their glory,-
Teal, widgeons, plovers, birds in all their types:
All these are in your care, Law-giving Peer,
And when you next address your Lordly Babel,
Some clause put in your Bill, precise and clear,
With due and fit provision to enable

A man that holds all kinds of game so dear
To keep, like Crockford, a good Gaming Table.

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LITERARY REMINISCENCES

'Dornton & Co. may challenge the world, the house of Hope perhaps excepted.'-Road to Ruin.

TIME was, I sat upon a lofty stool,
At lofty desk, and with a clerkly pen
Began each morning, at the stroke of ten,
To write in Bell & Co.'s commercial school;
In Warnford Court, a shady nook and cool,
The favourite retreat of merchant men ;
Yet would my quill turn vagrant even then,
And take stray dips in the Castalian pool.
Now double entry-now a flowery trope—
Mingling poetic honey with trade wax—

Blogg, Brothers-Milton-Grote and Prescott-Pope-
Bristles-and Hogg-Glyn Mills and Halifax-
Rogers and Towgood-Hemp-the Bard of Hope-
Barilla-Byron-Tallow-Burns-and Flax!

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ODE TO PERRY

THE INVENTOR OF THE PATENT PERRYAN PEN

In this good work, Penn appears the greatest, usefullest of God's instruments. Firm and unbending when the exigency requires it-soft and yielding when rigid inflexibility is not a desideratum,-fluent and flowing at need, for eloquent rapidity-slow and retentive in cases of deliberation -never spluttering or by amplification going wide of the mark-never splitting, if it can be helped, with any one, but ready to wear itself out rather in their service-all things as it were with all men.ready to embrace the hand of Jew, Christian, or Mahometan,-heavy with the German, light with the Italian, oblique with the English, upright with the Roman, backward in coming forward with the Hebrew,-in short, for flexibility, amiability, constitutional durability, general ability, and universal utility, it would be hard to find a parallel to the great Penn.'

Perry's Characteristics of a Settler.

To Penrith, Penrhyn, even to Pen