DECEMBER—NOTES OF THE MONTH.
1. Bernard Cavanagh detected.
He went too fast; in hopes his trick would tell
To bite the Bark-shire boys he took a spell;
But Reading sauce soon cured the hungry sinner,
And now he'd jump to get a Christmas dinner.
9. Prize Cattle Show—Blank faces.
There gazes John, delighted on
The blowing bloated beast;
'Tis hard to swear which of the pair
Of brains possesses least.
21. Ladies scold least.
Pray what's the reason they have less to say?
Why, simply this, that 'tis the shortest day.
25. Dine out (if you can).
Christmas upsets the world:—a very slow pull
Have foreign places: Turkey's deem'd divine;
But who cares twopence for Constantinople;
And isn't China fairly lost in Chine?
XII.
Tom Gad got well—no more a swell—
Is home among his friends;
His mind is eased, his wife is pleased,
And here my story ends—
With just this moral—"Unless you'd be undone,
Don't leave your spouse, and come alone to London."
