Baskets well stored with beef and ham, Are there, that they on Richmond's banks, Job's pockets, too, with provender There cakes, gloves, shoes, and oranges, Lie on each other piled. Now, on the packet's level deck Our voyagers appear→ What bursts of admiration rise, "Oh Ma!"-" Oh Pa !""Oh dear !" Till from the sun, or from the stream, Will look'd quite pale, and Tom was sick, While passengers cried, half in wrath, Job thought so too, but mute remain❜d- When, ah! an unexpected breeze, Blew off, O sad exposure that! Loud scream'd poor Mrs. J., for, lo! Job started up, with rash attempt, But by his head o'erbalanced was, Louder and louder squall'd the throng, And still dismay'd, though in such plight, He clapp'd the wet wig on her pate, At length they came to Richmond Hill- Well pleased they were with all they saw, Nor by the children, Ma, or Dad, For, as they walk'd, they talk'd and munch'd By chance they saw glide o'er the path Which little John pronounced a wolf— Said Job, "The boy reads in Buffon, And very soon the rain began Job hoisted now upon his back While Dolly nursed the smallest boy- Quoth Job, "If this be pleasuring, "For which the cockneys mope, "I'd rather pick the raisins-aye, "Or even shut up shop." Now hats, and shoes, and gloves, and boots, Till Job, with all his patience, Sir, And when at last they gain'd the street, But, what was worse than all the rest, The place was full of company,- But Job soon hired a butcher's cart In which his wife and children rode, "Twas daylight when their house they reach'd, Which made the neighbours roar; And when Job told his sufferings, They only laugh'd the more. Job heeded not what people said,— MONSIEUR LE GRAND; OR, PUTTING A STOP TO IT. During the troubles occasioned by the French Revolution, in 1793, Monsieur Le Grand, one of the ancien regime, sought refuge from the popular fury of the polished Parisians in the town of Southampton; where, being rather gifted by nature in his personal appearance, and having, a-la-mode de Français, quite enough to say for himself-of his former grandeur in the vieille cour, and his future expectations when Louis le Desiré should come back again to the Tuilleries he contrived to get into the good graces of a young lady of that town, who, in addition to many other accomplishments, possessed a very competent fortune. In due time they were married; and, as duly, Mrs. -or, as the Frenchman styled her, Madame Le Grand, was pronounced to be in the way that "ladies wish to be who love their lords ;" a way that, as every one knows, is styled par excellence "the family way." This caused much exultation in Monsieur's mind; who, as the period of Madame's accouchement approached, indulged in as many fancies, and gave himself as many airs, as my lady herself could do: according to his account, the future fortunes of France all depended on the welfare of the expected infant, who he had long previously determined should be a boy. The nurse was had in attendance weeks before any symptoms had appeared to render her ministry necessary; and the doctor had been engaged even before it was at all certain his services would be required. At length, after a world of expectation, the interesting moment approached; Monsieur Le Grand was. pacing up and down his front parlour, deeply wrapped in meditation on the future unborn, when a gentle knock at the parlour door announced the attendance of Sally, Madame Le Grand's soubrette. Quoth Job, "If this be pleasuring, "For which the cockneys mope, "I'd rather pick the raisins-aye, "Or even shut up shop." Now hats, and shoes, and gloves, and boots, Till Job, with all his patience, Sir, And when at last they gain'd the street, But, what was worse than all the rest, The place was full of company,- But Job soon hired a butcher's cart In which his wife and children rode, "Twas daylight when their house they reach'd, Which made the neighbours roar ; And when Job told his sufferings, They only laugh'd the more. Job heeded not what people said,- |