The conviction that it was my Opinion, and mine alone, which FIBBINS dispatched, probably out of sheer laziness, to ROGERS & CO., Solicitors, Chancery Lane, is one that I still retain. But it is FIBBINS who retains the fee!
AT THE CLOSE OF THE SUMMER.
(By one who idled. To his Lady-help.)
I am back at my work, which is far from exciting
After nothing to do for a month at a time,
So I am not astonished to find myself writing
To you, dear MELENDA, and writing in rhyme.
In my rooms very often the scent of the heather
Brings back with it sweet recollections, and so