Mama to the woman is—girl—
As daughter-in-law I would rather
Not father the Mother o' Pearl!
[A LAY OF THE "LION."]
At the "Red Lion," Henley-on-Thames, Shenstone scratched the following well-known lines upon the window-pane:
"Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round,
Where'er his stages may have been,
May sigh to think that he has found
His warmest welcome at an inn!"
'T
To flee from its worry and bustle;
To put on your flannels and get your hands brown