CHRISTMAS DINNER.
The first course consisted of a linden tree, and some poles. The second, of a red-hot bar of iron, a country in Asia, and an ornament worn by Roman ladies, accompanied by a vegetable carefully prepared as follows: one-sixth of a carrot, one-fourth of a bean, one-half of a leaf of lettuce, and one-third of a cherry. For dessert, a pudding made of the interment of a tailor’s implement; some points of time, and small cannon-shot from Hamburg.
My FIRST can be a useful slave,
Obedient to your will;
Yet let him once the master be,
He’ll ruin, rage, and kill.
To do my SECOND through the air,
Oft men have tried in vain,