PAGE Mr. Molony's account of the Ball to the Nepaulese Ambassador........... 187 Misadventures at Margate; a Legend of Jarvis's Jetty.................. Elegy, to the Memory of Miss Emily Kay,......... The Merchant of Venice...................................... PAGE I wud knott Dye in Wintur, &c................................................... The Courtship of our Cid..................................... A BUDGET OF HUMOROUS POETRY. THE FIGHT WITH THE SNAPPING TURTLE. FYTTE FIRST. HAVE you heard of Philip Slingsby, Every day the huge Cawana Lifted up its monstrous jaws; Riled, I ween, was Philip Slingsby, "Listen now, sagacious Tyler, If I take this pest away? Then sagacious Tyler answered, And a lot of wooden nutmegs Straightway leaped the valiant Slingsby With a strong Arkansas toothpick "Come thou with me, Cullen Bryant, So they went along careering "Tell her that I died devoted, As he spoke, an alligator Swam across the sullen creek; And the two Columbians started, When they heard the monster shriek; For a snout of huge dimensions Rose above the waters high, And took down the alligator, As a trout takes down a fly. "Tarnal death! the Snapping Turtle !" "Fare thee well!" he cried, and dashing Through the waters strongly swam: Meanwhile Cullen Bryant, watching, Breathed a prayer and sucked a dram. Sudden from the slimy bottom Was the snout again upreared, Still and stiller grew the water, |