SIGNS OF THE SEASON.

(By a West-End Shopkeeper.)

The voice of the horse-dealer's heard in the land,

The Season, it says, will be full, gay, and grand;

He is happy, and gives the most hopeful accounts.

Well, the horse-dealer rises by virtue of "mounts,"

The thing in mid-March to keep hope well alive

Was the prospect, in June, of a jolly full Drive,

The wiseacres Long-Acre stir with delight.

And oh! don't we hope the wiseacres are right!