This curse, at which courage may shiver and shake,

It only condemned the Old Buffer to take

His Annual Holiday!! What can be worse?


THE VACUOUS TIME.

["Sea-serpents are now in season, and running very large."—The Unlicensed Victualler.]

Let Cowes delight in barques that bite

Their furrows o'er the fallow main,

Careering round the Isle of Wight,