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Title: Whims and oddities : in prose and verse
Year: 1836 (1830s)
Authors: Hood, Thomas, 1799-1845
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Publisher: London : C. Tilt
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s and stray Godsends. But, hark!—what a shrill, feline cry startlcth the wide Aldgate ! AS IT FELL UPON A DAY. 65 Oh ! whats befallen Bessy Brown, She stands so squalling in the street;Shes let her pitcher tumble down, And all the waters at her feet! The little school-boys stood about, And laughed to see her pumping, pumping; Now with a curtsey to the spout,And then upon her tiptoes jumping. Long time she waited for her neighbours,To have their turns:—but she must lose The watery wages of her labours,—Except a little in her shoes! Without a voice to tell her tale, And ugly transport in her face;All like a jugless nightingale, She thinks of her bereaved case. At last she sobs—she cries—she screams!— And pours her flood of sorrows out,From eyes and mouth, in mingled streams, Just like the lion on the spout, 66 AS IT FELL UPON A DAY. For well poor Bessy knows her motherMust lose her tea, for waters lack, That Sukey burns—and baby-brotherMust be dry rubb d with huck-a-back !
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AS IT FELL UPON A DAY. 67 A FAIRY TALE. On Hounslow heath—and close beside the road, As western travellers may oft have seen,—A little house some years ago there stood, A minikin abode;And built like Mr. BirkbecFs, all of wood :The walls of white, the window shutters green ;~—Four wheels it had at North, South, East, and West, (Tho now at rest)On which it used to wander to and fro,Because its master neer maintaind a rider, Like those who trade in Paternoster Row ;But made his business travel for itself, Till he had made his pelf,And then retired—if one may call it so, Of a roadsider. Perchance, the very race and constant riotOf stages, long and short, which thereby ran,f2 68 A FAIRY TALE. Made him more relish the repose and quiet Of his now sedentary caravan ;Perchance, he lovd the ground because twas common,And so he might impale a strip of soil,That furnishd, by his toil,Some dusty greens, for him and his old woman;—And five tall hollyhocks, in dingy flower,Howbeit, the th

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