The house fell down some forty years ago.

And then—a case of adverse claim to meet,

Show how the land lay open to the street;

And there the children held their harmless rambles,

Till Robert Woolwich built his odious shambles,

And never did the playmates fear a shock,

From anything so hateful as a Rock.

Perhaps the above may elicit from other quarters similar contributions; indeed, any memorial of the friend of Charles Lamb must be precious to the Muse.

T. J. Buckton.

Lichfield.