And would say more, but I am doomed

To break off in the middle!"

[ODE TO SIR ANDREW AGNEW, BART.][33]

"At certain seasons he makes a prodigious clattering with his bill."—SELBY.

"The bill is rather long, flat, and tinged with green."—BEWICK.

O Andrew Fairservice,—but I beg pardon,

You never labor'd in Di Vernon's garden,

On curly kale and cabbages intent,—

Andrew Churchservice was the thing I meant,—

You are a Christian—I would be the same,