XXX11 MISCELLANEOUS VERSES. 



Then MARTHA BENTON so chubby and neat, won the " HEAVIEST 



BABY" prize ; 

 Twill be many a month ere she " feels her feet," if her mild-looking 



mother's wise ; 

 For such cherubs a roll on the floor is meet, or a go-cart Paradise. 



QUEEN KOSE of the rose-bud garden of girls, of the " PKETTIEST 



BABIBS" A 1, 

 Proud SPILSBY need grudge not the ocean its pearls, to compare with 



LOUISE it has none ; 

 The heir of a hundred Plantagenet earls might deem thee fit bride for 



his son. 



Well may MR. SMALL talk large of this treat, since he marked seven 



thousand head 

 Of visitors, passing his check-taker's seat, and Oh ! when I got to 



bed, 



On baby -touches so soft and sweet my slumbering fancy fed, 

 And I dreamt till morn of their fat little feet, and dimples of white 



and red. Punch. 



CIRCUIT GAMBOLS. 



(From our Legal Reporter.) 



" Several members of the Bar went to Bridport to play a Cricket 

 Match to-day." 



Western Circuit Report, Times, July 19, 1854. 



I entered an appearance, and I gazed with sage abstraction, 



At the joinder of the issue at each flannel chose en action : 



I heard a writ of summons, and I saw a wicket fall, 



As a proof of actual ouster in ejectment by a ball : 



As with twisters or with rippers, each in turn was then nonsuit, 



Each granted to himself a rule his notches to compute : 



As the cricketing coparceners to the scorers' tent did stroll, 



But few there found an entry of satisfaction on the roll : 



When a writ of execution fierce was sued out 'mid his pain, 



The bowler only heard the plea of son assault demesne ; 



One in trover shapes his action for the ball, where long grass lingers, 



While another makes an effort for a Capias with his fingers : 



At last a Stet Processus is granted to the play, 



And a long account is stated of the tent costs of the day. 



Punch. 



