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THE DOUBLE KNOCK.

RAT-TAT it went upon the lion's chin, "That hat, I know it!" cried the joyful girl: "Summer's it is, I know him by his knock, Comers like him are welcome as the day! Lizzy! go down and open the street-door, Busy I am to anyone but him.

Know him you must-he has been often here;
Show him up stairs, and tell him I'm alone.”

Quickly the maid went tripping down the stair;
Thickly the heart of Rose Matilda beat;
"Sure he has brought me tickets for the play-
Drury-or Covent Garden-darling man!-
Kemble will play-or Kean who makes the soul
Tremble; in Richard or the frenzied Moor-
Farren, the stay and prop of many a farce
Barren beside-or Liston, Laughter's Child-
Kelly the natural, to witness whom

Jelly is nothing to the public's jam—
Cooper, the sensible-and Walter Knowles

Super, in William Tell-now rightly told.
Better-perchance, from Andrews, brings a box,
Letter of boxes for the Italian stage—
Brocard! Donzelli! Taglioni! Paul!

No card, thank Heaven-engages me to-night!
Feathers, of course, no turban, and no toque-
Weather's against it, but I'll go in curls.

Dearly I dote on white-my satin dress,

Merely one night-it won't be much the worseCupid-the New Ballet I long to see-

Stupid! why don't she go and ope the door!"

Glisten'd her eye as the impatient girl

Listen'd, low bending o'er the topmost stair.
Vainly, alas! she listens and she bends,
Plainly she hears this question and reply:
"Axes your pardon, Sir, but what d'ye want?"
"Taxes," says he, "and shall not call again!"

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Is a jumble of paradoxes. He sets forth clean though he comes out of a kennel, and returns home dirty. He cares not for cards, yet strives to be always with the pack. He loves fencing, but without carte or tierce, and delights in a steeplechase, though he does not follow the Church. He is anything but liti

gious, yet is fond of a certain suit, and retains Scarlet. He keeps a running account with Horse, Dog, Fox, and Co., but objects to a check. As to cards, in choosing a pack he prefers Hunt's. In Theatricals, he favours Miss Somerville, because her namesake wrote the Chase, though he never read it. He is no great dancer, though he is fond of casting off twenty couple; and no great Painter, though he draws covers, and seeks for a brush. He is no Musician, and yet is fond of five bars. He despises Doctors,

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yet follows a course of bark. He professes to love his country, but is perpetually crossing it. He is fond of strong ale and beer, yet dislikes any purl. He is good-tempered, yet so far a Tartar as to prefer a saddle of Horse to a saddle of Mutton. He

is somewhat rough and bearish himself, but insists on good breeding in horses and dogs. He professes the Church Catechism, and countenances heathen dogmas, by naming his hounds after Jupiter and Juno, Mars and Diana. He cares not for violets, but he doats on a good scent. He says his wife is a shrew, but

In Politics he inclines to Pitt,

objects to destroying a Vixen. and runs after Fox. He is no milksop, but he loves to Tally. He protects Poultry, and preserves Foxes. He follows but one business, and yet has many pursuits. He pretends to be knowing, but a dog leads him by the nose.

He is as honest a fellow

as need be, yet his neck is oftener in danger than a thief's. He swears he can clear anything, but is beaten by a fog. He is no landlord of houses, but is particular about fixtures. He studies "Summering the Hunter," but goes Huntering in the Winter. He esteems himself prosperous, and is always going to the dogs. He delights in the Hunter's Stakes, but takes care not to stake his hunter. He praises discretion, but would rather let the cat out of the bag than a fox. He does not shine at a human conversazione, but is great among dogs giving tongue. To conclude, he runs as long as he can, and then goes to earth, and his Heir is in at his death. But his Heir does not stand in his shoes, for he never wore anything but boots.

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To anticipate mistake, the above title refers not to Thomas Haynes-or F. W. N.-or even to any Publishers-but the original old Bailey. It belongs to a set of Songs composed during the courtly leisure of what is technically called a Juryman in Waiting-that is, one of a corps de reserve, held in readiness to fill up the gaps which extraordinary mental exertion or sedentary habits-or starvation, may make in the Council of Twelve. This wrong box it was once my fortune to get into. On the 5th of November, at the 6th hour, leaving my bed, and the luxurious perusal of Taylor on Early Rising-I walked from a yellow fog into a black one, in my unwilling way to the New Court, which sweet herbs even could not sweeten, for the sole purpose of

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