BREAKING.
[In his spot-barred Billiard-Match with H. COLES, PEALL made breaks of 108, 133, 64, 52, 78, 77, and 80.]
Break, break, break
On thy Billiard-board, oh P.!
As easy as cutting butter
The business seems to thee.
"Oh, well that the spot is barred,"
The knowing ones glibly say,
"Or we might get no chance
Of a COLES' strike here to-day."
And the marvellous game goes on.
Till the watchers have their fill;
And one drops off, and dreams
He's taken the "Red" for a pill.
Break, break, break!
And there's one that will broken be;
For the Pony I put on the other man
Will never come back to me.
SUGGESTION FROM "CHILDE HAROLD" AT OLYMPIA.—"I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Size And paint," &c., &c.
