SUMMARY PROCEEDINGS OF WINTER.
Of Hook's improvisations, while at the Mauritius, a stanza of one, in which the names of the company seem to have furnished, each, the subject of an epigram, is extant; it runs as follows:—
"We have next Mr. Winter, assessor of taxes,
I'd advise you to pay him whatever he axes,
Or you'll find, and I say it without any flummery,
Tho' his name may be Winter, his actions are summary."