THE PUBLICAN’S DAUGHTER.
In George Colman’s musical farce, “The Review, or the Wags of Windsor,” Looney Mactwolter falls in love with Judy O’Flannikin:
Judy’s a darling; my kisses she suffers:
She’s an heiress, that’s clear,
For her father sells beer;
He keeps the sign of the Cow and the Snuffers.
In Hood’s “Retrospective Review,” “Oh, when I was a tiny boy,” etc., occurs this stanza:
Oh for the lessons learned by heart!
Ay, though the very birch’s smart