Hood's Own: or, Laughter from Year to Year

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latras 46, Kensington f ark (Barbens, m.n. HOOD'S OWN: OE, ILaeiglfe torn ¥esr to ¥£&r« BEING FORMER RUNNINGS OF HIS COMIC VEIN, WITH AN INFUSION OF NEW BLOOD FOR GENERAL CIRCULATION. LONDON : EDWARD MOXON, DOVER STREET. 1855. LONDON : BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WBITEFRIAR3. CONTENTS. fAOE Preface ... ..... 1 The Pugsley Papers . . . . . . . 7 An Ancient Concert ; by a Venerable Director . . .19 A Letter from an Emigrant . . . . 22 Sonnet on Steam ; by an Under-Ostler . . . .2+ A Report from Below . . . . . 25 The Last Shilling ... . . . . .23 Ode to M. Brunei . . . . . 32 The Death of the Dominie . . . . . .31 Over the Way . . . . . . 33 A Plan for Writing Blank Verse in Rhyme, in a Letter to the Editor ........ 39 A Letter from a Market Gardener to the Secretary of the Horticultural Society . . . . . 42 Domestic Asides ; or Truth in Parenthesis . . 4t Black, White, and Brown . . . . . . 44 Epigrams — Composed on Reading a Diary lately published . . 4') The Last Wish ...... 49 The Devil's Album . . . . . . . 50 The Schoolmaster Abroad . . . . .51 The Lost Heir . . . . . . . 56 Sketches on the Road — The Observer . . . . . .60 The Contrast ... . . . . .

PARE IV C0NTENT8. John Day ; a pathetic ballad . . . .63 The Parish Revolution . . . . 65 The Furlough ; an Irish anecdote . . . . .73 Number One ; versified from the prose of a Youug Lady . . 75 The Drowning Ducks . . . . . .76 An Assent to the Summut of Mount Blank . . , . 78 Sally Simpkin's Lament ; or, John Jones's Kit-Cat-Astrophe . 81 A Horse-Dealer . . . . . 82 The Fall 84 The Uluminati . . . . . 85 Sonnet ........ 90 The Steam Service . . . . . . . 91 A Lay of Real Life . . . . . .94 A Valentine. The Weather— To P. Murphy, Esq., M.N.S. . . 96 The Elland Meeting . . . . . .97 Poem, — from the Polish . . . . , 104 A Step-father . . . . . . .106 Conveyancing . . . . . . 108 A Letter from a Settler for Life in Van Diemen's Land . . 109 Sonnet . . . . . . . . . 112 A Serio-Coniic Reminiscence ..... 113 Epicurean Reminiscences of a Sentimentalist . . . . 115 Saint Mark's Eve — A tale of the olden time . . .117 I'm not a Single Man . . . . . . . 123 A Greenwich Pensioner . . . . . .124 The Burning of the Love Letter . . . . j26 Sketches on the Road ...... 127 The Apparition ..... 129 The Discovery ..... j30 Little O' P. — An African Fact .... 133 The Debutante . . . jo.

The Angler';. Farewell . ,00 Popping the Question . , j Sea Song . . . . , _ . . 144 The Black and White Question . j<a Stanzas on Coming of Age . . ,.., The Pillory .... ns A singular Exhibition at Somerset House 15« The Yeomanry . . CONTENTS. V PAGE An Unfavourable Review . . . ... 163 I'm going to Bombay ...... 169 Look before you Leap . . . . . 171 Ode — To the Advocates for the Removal of Stnithfield Market . 173 Drawn for a Soldier . . . . . .177 Ode for St. Cecilia's Eve . . . . -.179 Reflections on Water ...... 182 A Blow-up . . . . . . . 185 The Wooden Leg . . . . .189 The Ghost — A very Serious Ballad . . . . . 192 A Tale of the Great Plague . . . . . .193 Ode to Madame Hengler, Firework-maker to Vauxhall . . . 197 Rhyme and Reason ...... 200 The Double Knock . . . . . . . 201 A Foxhunter ....... 202 Bailey Ballads . . . . . . . . 204 Lines to Mary — No. I. ..... 206 No. II. ... . . . . . 207 No. Ill 208 Letter — from a Parish Clerk in Barbadoes to one in Hampshire, with an Enclosure . . . . . . . 209 French and English . . . . . . .212 Our Village ....... 213 The Scrape-book ....... 217 A True Story . . . . . . . . 220 The Sorrows of an Undertaker ..... 223 The Carelesse Nurse Mayd . . . . . . 226 To Fanny ........ 227 The Fancy Fair . ..... 228 Poems, by a Poor Gentleman ..... 232 Stanzas — written under the Fear of Bailiffs . . . 234 Sonnet — written in a Workhouse .... 234 .