Making the Dame look rather silly:

The tenants of that Eely Place

Had found the way to Pick a dilly,

And so, by under-water suction,

Had wrought the little ducks' abduction.

[A STORM AT HASTINGS,]

AND THE LITTLE UNKNOWN.

'Twas August—Hastings every day was filling—

Hastings, that "greenest spot on memory's waste"!

With crowds of idlers willing and unwilling