Your obedient Servant,
GILES GAMMON.
No. 1, Blarneygig Place,
Salisbury Plain,
next door to Stonehenge.
P.S.—I forgot to add, that the poor woman, in the hurry of the moment, made a small mistake, by placing the head of a donkey, which had been blown off by the explosion, upon her husband's shoulders, instead of his own; but she says it is of very little consequence, as very few of his acquaintance could perceive any difference.
| NOVEMBER. | [1835. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Now razors and ropes are in great requisition; | |||
| So I humbly propose that 'the House' we petition | |||
| (To prevent this sad use of the halter and knife), | |||
| That each felo de se be transported for life. | |||
| M | Season's | Odd Matters. | WEATHER. |
| D | Signs. | ||
| 1 | fogs | ||
| By the past | |||
| 2 | bogs | GUNPOWDER PLOT. | |
| ♅ ☋ ♌ ♃ ♓ | |||
| 3 | and | 'Tis good to remember | |
| The Fifth of November, | we do | ||
| 4 | vapours | Gunpowder, treason, and plot; | |
| There's abundance of reason | predict of | ||
| 5 | blue | To think of the treason, | |
| Then why should it e'er be forgot? | the future, | ||
| 6 | devilry | ||
| Our sympathies thrive | by which | ||
| 7 | capers | By keeping alive | |
| Such sweet little hatreds as these; | I do | ||
| 8 | good | And folks love each other | |
| As dear as a brother, | discern the | ||
| 9 | bye | Whose throat they are ready to squeeze. | |
| likelihood | |||
| 10 | hope | I delight in the joys | |
| Of the vagabond boys, | |||
| 11 | welcome | When they're burning Guy Vaux and the Pope; | ⚹ ♀ ♈ ☍ |
| It the flame keeps alive, | |||
| 12 | rope | It makes bigotry thrive, | of the |
| And gives it abundance of scope. | |||
| 13 | dangling | weather | |
| 'Tis a beautiful truth | |||
| 14 | strangling | For the minds of our youth, | being |
| And will make 'em all Christians indeed; | |||
| 15 | frowning | For the Church and the State | |
| Thus to teach 'em to hate | ♈ ☍ ♉ ♋ ♎ | ||
| 16 | drowning | All those of a different creed. | |
| in some | |||
| 17 | oh! | It is two hundred years | |
| Since our ancestors' fears | sort the | ||
| 18 | Johnny | Were arous'd by this blood-thirsty fox; | |
| But often, since then, | |||
| 19 | Bull | Our parliament men | ♈ ☊ ♍ |
| Have been awfully blown up by Vaux. | |||
| 20 | what a | same as | |
| Now, they cannot deny | |||
| 21 | silly | They're afraid of their Guy; | usual, |
| And some of them earnestly hope, | |||
| 22 | old | He may fancy a swing | |
| At the end of a string; | ♊ ♒ ☿ ♍ | ||
| 23 | fool! | And they promise him plenty of rope. | |
| unless the | |||
| 24 | wait | ||
| Comet do | |||
| 25 | to the | ||
| make an | |||
| 26 | end | ||
| alteration | |||
| 27 | and | ||
| therein as I | |||
| 28 | all | ||
| have heretofore | |||
| 29 | will | ||
| noted. | |||
| 30 | mend | ||
NOVEMBER.
