7. A wooden spoon presented by an old woman to the Queen.
All the spoons of the nation soon made known their wishes,
To be speedily plunged in Her Majesty's dishes;
Yet 'twas found to be useless to take any more,
For the spoonies at Court were too many before.
14. Reported destruction of the Falls of Niagara.
'Twas said that the Falls, with a terrible din,
Had fall'n from their perch on high;
But now it falls out that they ne'er fell in,
And so 'twas a fals-i-ty.