A man that holds all kinds of game so dear

To keep, like Crockford, a good Gaming Table.

LITERARY REMINISCENCES.
No. I.

TIME was, I sat upon a lofty stool,

At lofty desk, and with a clerkly pen

Began each morning, at the stroke of ten,

To write in Bell and Co.’s commercial school;

In Warnford Court, a shady nook and cool,

The favourite retreat of merchant men;

Yet would my quill turn vagrant even then,