Warmish work, and quite fatiguing—let's refresh ere we renew.
Vulgar hinds may sneer and welcome. Vive, say I, the good battue!
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Surely those who so love slaughter might, when close time comes for grouse,
Find congenial occupation if they donned the butcher's blouse.
D. EVANS.
The Weekly Dispatch, August 31, 1884.
GODIVA.
(A Pose Plastique, by Madame Warton, before the forthcoming picture by Edwin Landseer, R.A.)