He turn’d ’em one by one down stairs,
And shew’d the cook his ’tarse, sir,
While with his sword, as she pass’d by,
He pink’d her in the a-se, sir.
THE
CROPT COMET.
Tune, I have a Tenement to let.
The Comet passed its perehelion on the 20th of June, 1797, and was seen in the Southern Hemisphere, passing from Argo through Orion, up towards Auriga; near the head of which, it was seen by Miss Caroline Herschell, and to her wonder and disappointment, without a tail.
What’s all this bustle and alarm,
This buzzing ’bout the nation,