is Captain Parry's ship, the Nor' Poler!-Indeed! Pray, did they reach the Pole ?-Why, they think, ma'am, if they'd had more fur on, they wouldn't have been fur off !-Ah, I don't like Polish expeditions; it's risking human life; they'll come to a stick in the ice!-Ax pardon, sir, but that's jist what they're sarching arter!-Waterman, I believe that's a guardship.-Yes, ma'am, a blackguard ship, what's called an 'ulk, and chuck full of thieves and bad characters !-What a shocking idea!-Pooh, pooh!-Why? Because, if it should go down, what a sink of iniquity!-Come, pull ahead there! the oars 'll be foul in a minit !—Papa, how can oars be fowl? -Pooh, pooh, pooh; when they feather 'em!-Now, sir! now, ma'am there's the launch, a beautiful craft, the Royal William, pierced for 96, carries 110; round starn, you see, sir! -Ah, there's great improvements in naval architecture since Noah's arkitecture !-Waterman, what is that ship made of? -All hoak, ma'am, except the rudder, and that's helm.Wonderful! Who would think that prodigious vessel came out of an acorn !—Mrs. B., pray admire that figure head!— I can't say I do: a naked ancient Briton with a toasting fork!-Ax pardon, ma'am, that ere's Neptune, as stands proxy on this occasion for the Lord High Admiral! Directly as she leaves her cradle she'll be christened by Lady Hogle, who will shy at her starn a bottle of port wine that has been round the world and back!-Mr. B., how can a lady be godfather -Pooh, pooh, pooh; sex signifies nothing in ships; for instance, we may say our three-masters are mistresses of the ocean!-(Bang )—There's the gun, sir! there she goes. Oh! beautiful sight! off she goes! Hearts of oak! Rule Britannia! There's a plunge, there's a foamentation! Huzza! huzza! huzza! That I call adding another brick to our wooden walls! Pull away, pull away, out of the swell! My eyes, Bill, there's a crab cotch'd! Vy, that's overboard VOL. VI. 12 he vent!-Overboard! Who! where! what !-0, don't you be afeard, ma'am, he can swim. There he goes! pick him up. I say, whaler, ahoy, vy don't ye pick him up with a harpoon ?-Well, if ever I come on the water again.— Pooh, pooh, pooh! What, not to see a launch ?—No, not if you'd launch me to all eternity! I've been starved alive, and frightened to death, and I didn't see the bottle thrown after all!—Ax pardon, ma'am, but I see it quite plain, and the lady miss'd.-Pooh, pooh, pooh! Miss a Seventy-four! -I'll tell you how it was, sir; she shut vun eye to take a wery good aim, and forgot the t'other eye was a glass 'un! Now off we go, row, brothers, row, For we have seen the launch now, GOG AND MAGOG. A GUILDHALL DUET. MAGOG. WHY, Gog, I say, it's after One, And stand here to be starved? GOG. I really think our City Lords Must be a shabby set ; I've stood here since King Charles's time, And had no dinner yet! MAGOG. I vow I can no longer stay; I say, are we to dine to-day? GOG. My hunger would provoke a saint, I'll tell you what, they'll starve us both, MAGOG. I wish I had a round of beef GOG. And yet they feast beneath our eyes A feeding like a horse! MAGOG. Such loads of fish, and flesh, and fowl, GOG. I wonder where the fools were taught, That they should keep a giant short! They'll stop our growth, they'll stop our growth; They'll starve us both, they'll starve us both! I'll tell you what, they'll stop our growth! GOG. I'll tell you what, they'll starve us both! вотн. They'll stop our growth, they'll starve us both! VALENTINE'S DAY. SURELY the mornin' Cupid was born in This, that and t'other may preach as they may, PATTER. Well, I wonder if I shall have a valentine; I know I shall wonder if I don't !-Ah, I know who from !-No, you don't! -Yes, I do!-Who, then ?-Why, from each of the young gentlemen at Prospect House Academy!-(Little Girl.) I say, Mary Maggs, shall you have a Valentine ?-(Little Girl.) I do' know; is it dood to eat?-(Big Girl.) Hush, you little fools, you'll bring Governess!-Well, I never saw such a post. It can't be called post-haste, can it? He's been this hour in the row, and got only to Number Four!-Ah, that's Miss Latham's, she takes in a limited number of scholars, but an unlimited number of Valentines!-Does she really? -Lord! what a delightful school! how I should like to run away from it! As for sweethearts, our Governess won't allow them; she's got the palsy, and shakes her head at the most innocent things in the world!-(Mimicking palsied Governess.) "I do not approve of Valentines-love indeed !— It's only fit for young people when they're old people. Remember Miss Robinson last year, she curled her hair with a Valentine and it turned her head!"-(Girl.) Oh, that's just like her!-(Stuttering Girl.) Well, I'm sure of my Valentine! -You are? (stutters.)-Yes, I gave Cook a shilling to |