While we're all coddlin'
At our house at home!

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BY A SMALL WESTERN.--Orientals take off their shoes on entering a
Mosque. We remove our hats on entering a Church. Both symbolical; one
leaves his understanding outside; the other enters with a clear head.

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HORACE IN LONDON.

TO THE COUNTY COUNCIL. (_AD REMPUBLICAM._)

[Illustration]

New vessel, now returning ship
From this thy tried and trial trip,
Refit in dock awhile: I fear
Your ballast looks a trifle queer.

Your rigging ("rigging" is a word
By other folk than seamen heard)
Has got a little loose; you need
An overhaul, you do indeed.

Your sails (or purchases?) should stay
The stress--and Press--that on them weigh:
This constant playing to the gods