PINCH-ME-NEAB, FOREST 



Might as well try to follow Halbert Smith hup 

 Mont Blanc as Arterxerxes hup this incorrigible 

 mountain' ; so saying our heavily-perspiring master 

 sought the support of a fallen willow, and dis- 

 tributing himself equitably among its branches, 

 sofa fashion, proceeded to bewail his lamentable 

 condition. * Oh dear ! oh dear ! ' groaned he, * was 

 there ever sich an misfortunit indiwidual as John 

 Jorrocks ! was there ever an independent British 

 grocer made sich a football on by fortin ? Tossed 

 about the world like an old 'at. Tempted from 

 the 'olesomest, the plisantest, the most salubri- 

 some street i' London to take these 'ounds, and 

 then be drawn into this unpardonable wilderness. 

 Nothin' but rushes, and grass that Nebuchad- 

 nezzar 'imself would turn up his nose at. Oh 

 dear! oh dear!' continued he, as his thoughts 

 reverted to home and Handley Cross, ' shall never 

 see my dinner this day, Torbay soles with Budle 

 cockle sauce, Dartmoor forest mutton, puddin', 

 and taturs under the meat, 'stead of starvin' in 

 a dreary desert happed up by cock robins or 



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