Seek not his future projects to reveal,

Nor draw conclusions to prejudge the fact;

In anxious dread (which most of you must feel),

He waits the benefit of the Insolvent Act.

From Pierce Egan’s Book of Sports. 1832.

——:o:——

Dry Goods: An Elegy.

A Manchester Parody.

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,

The trading herd wind slowly to their tea,