CONVEYANCING. O, LONDON is the place for all, There's always hacks about in packs, Wherein you may be shaken, And Jarvis is not always drunk, Tho' always overtaken; In racing tricks he'll never mix, His nags are in their last days, And slow to go, altho' they show As if they had their fast days! Then if you like a single horse, As those of our Queen Mab age; The horses have been broken well, All danger is rescinded, For some have broken both their knees And some are broken winded. If you've a friend at Chelsea end, Lon stages run from every yard; "Ye banks and braes," and other lays, And ditties everlasting, Like miners going all your way, With boring and with blasting. Instead of journeys, people now By powers of attorney; Tho' with a load it may explode, And you may all be un-done! To speak of every kind of coach, But there is still one vehicle Deserves a little mention; The world a sage has called a stage, The law will transfer house or land For lighter things, watch, brooches, rings, EPICUREAN REMINISCENCES OF A SENTIMENTALIST. "My Tables! Meat it is, I set it down!"— - HAMLET. I THINK it was Spring-but not certain I am 'Twas at Christmas, I think, when I met with Miss Chase, Yes,- for Morris had asked me to dine,And I thought I had never beheld such a face, Or so noble a turkey and chine. [wild, Placed close by her side, it made others quite With sheer envy to witness my luck; How she blushed as I gave her some turtle, and smiled As I afterwards offered some duck. I looked and I languished, alas, to my cost, Through three courses of dishes and meats; Getting deeper in love - but my heart was quite lost, When it came to the trifle and sweets! With a rent-roll that told of my houses and land, I asked her to have me for weal or for woe, I can't tell the date but we married, I know, Just in time to have game at the feast. We went to it certainly was the seaside; For the next, the most blessed of morns, I remember how fondly I gazed at my bride, O never may memory lose sight of that year, That season the " grass was remarkably dear, And the peas at a guinea a quart.. So happy, like hours, all our days seemed to haste, A fond pair, such as poets have drawn, So united in heart so congenial in taste, We were both of us partial to brawn! A long life I looked for of bliss with my bride, But then Death I ne'er dreamt about that! Oh there's nothing is certain in life, as I cried, When my turbot eloped with the cat! My dearest took ill at the turn of the year, In vain she was doctored, in vain she was dosed, For months still I lingered in hope and in doubt, While her form it grew wasted and thin; |