CONTENTS.

PAGE

The Boy at the Nore

[1]

The Run-Over

[4]

Johnsoniana

[11]

The Great Earthquake at Marylebone

[16]

Ode to St. Swithin

[20]

The Apparition. A True Story

[24]

A Blind Man

[28]

The Supper Superstition. A Pathetic Ballad

[30]

A Snake-Snack

[33]

A Storm at Hastings, and the Little Unknown

[36]

Lines to a Lady on her Departure for India

[45]

The Nelson

[48]

Sonnet to a Scotch Girl Washing Linen after her Country Fashion

[51]

My Apology

[52]

Sonnet to a Decayed Seaman

[54]

The Great Conflagration

[55]

Huggins and Duggins

[97]

Domestic Didactics. By an Old Servant

[101]

Pain in a Pleasure-Boat. A Sea Eclogue

[107]

A Spent Ball

[111]

Literary and Literal

[113]

The Accident

[120]

Sonnet to Lord Wharncliffe, on his Game Bill

[123]

Literary Reminiscences. No. I.

[124]

Ode to Perry, the Inventor of the Patent Perryan Pen

[132]

Sketches on the Road

[139]

The Undying One

[144]

A Gipsy Party

[148]

Cockle v. Cackle

[157]

A Lawyer’s Letter

[162]

The Sweep’s Complaint

[167]

Letter from an Old Sportsman

[173]

The Sub-Marine

[179]

The Island

[182]

Dog-grel Verses. By a poor Blind

[188]

The Kangaroos. A Fable

[193]

Literary Reminiscences. No. II.

[195]

The Domestic Dilemma. A True Story from the German of Jean Paul Nemand

[201]

Ode for the Ninth of November

[222]

Sonnet

[228]

Rondeau. (Extracted from a Well-known Annual)

[229]

London Fashions for November. Remarks

[230]

Symptoms of Ossification

[233]

The Poacher. A Serious Ballad

[234]

Sketches on the Road. The Sudden Death

[237]

I cannot Bear a Gun

[252]

Trimmer’s Exercise for the Use of Children

[257]

Some Account of William Whiston

[259]

The Fox and the Hen. A Fable

[263]

The Comet. An Astronomical Anecdote

[267]

Literary Reminiscences. No. III.

[270]

The Ocean. Considered per se

[275]

Love and Lunacy

[295]

Those Evening Bells. “I’d be a Parody.”

[331]

Lines to a Friend at Cobham

[332]

The Quakers’ Conversazione

[333]

Sketches on the Road. The Morning Call

[344]

The Lament of Toby, the Learned Pig

[348]

To a Bad Rider

[351]

My Son and Heir

[352]

Literary Reminiscences. No. IV.

[358]

The Carnaby Correspondence

[395]

A Rise at the Father of Angling

[425]

Right and Wrong. A Sketch at Sea

[431]

Patronage

[440]

Animal Magnetism

[452]

The Forlorn Shepherd’s Complaint. An Unpublished Poem, from Sidney

[464]

Anacreontic. By a Footman

[468]

“HAVE I A WOTE FOR GRINNAGE?”

HOOD’S OWN:
OR, LAUGHTER FROM YEAR TO YEAR.

THE ISLE OF MAN.