THE HULL 



LITERARY & PHILOSOPHICAL MISCELLANY. 



No. Vir. APRIL. Vol. II. 



SIMON FLAT'S COURTSHIP. 



BY SLIM SLAM SLUM, ESQ. 



Yes, in no other place than Yorkshire, where all the people are 

 considered sharps, lived Simon Flat the tailor, an individual of no 

 hi«;h standing in society — being in height from five feet three to that 

 of five feet four, with a body rather larger in proportion to the pair 

 of understandings which supported it; and as to his physiognomy, 

 why I only lament that Lavater himself had never seen it, for 

 being no proficient in the science myself, I cannot describe him to 

 advantage ; but what I know is, that it is not unlike a child's fiddle, 

 with a coui)le of garret windows in. Nevertheless, this said Simon 

 was possessed of that big bump of majesty (or, phrenological ly speak- 

 ing), self-esteem — for he ever considered himself a man of import- 

 ance in the sphere in which he moved. 



Well now, gentle reader, would you be astonished or surjnised 

 that such an individual should, to use die common-place j)hrase, 

 " fall hi love." Be your decision as it may, his penetrating day- 

 lights were once so fixed upon tlie features of a buxom maid, full 



