No dinner!—not even a sandwich——
[The poet was here overcome by his feelings. He was carried off in a carriage decorated with a coronet, and was shortly afterwards set down at a very satisfactory side-table.]
——:o:——
A Glance from a Hood.
(Thomas Hood.)
[Represent a grave and rather anti-pun-like looking person, turning over the leaves of a pronouncing dictionary, and endeavouring to extract a pun from some obstinate and intractable word, that everybody else had discovered and abandoned years ago. Now and then he finds something that repays him, not because it is good but because it is new. If unsuccessful, he puts the first word he comes to in italics, and leaves the reader to fasten any joke upon it he pleases.]
He comes, he comes! the news afar
Is spread by gun and steeple;
He seems (what many princes are)
The Father of his People.