EARLY REMINISCENCES. 7 



the beautiful Elizabethan windows that adorned the great 

 hall were nothing but old cucumber-frames. 



A jeu cFesprit, written about this time, by the same 

 individual, relative to two incidents in the life of the owner 



of } created much laughter in the county, and may 



amuse many of my readers. The language was such as the 

 old gentleman commonly iised, and the subject first, the 

 arrest of an unfortunate Frenchman who resided quietly in 

 the village, following up his profession as an artist, on 

 the joint warrant of Lord W k and his own, on sus- 

 picion of his being a French spy : second, upon being 

 recommended by his physician to try change of air in some 

 quiet sea-bathing place for the benefit of his health, he 

 objected to the expense of travelling if recognised as the 



great Mr. , and suggested that he should perform the 



journey in a cog. 



Some rides in a coach, and some rides in a shay, 



And some in a curricle jog ; 

 Some mounts on a dicky, so brisk and so gay, 



But I always goes in a cog ! 



For a cog is so snug, as a bug in a rug ; 



And when we to Charmouth do jog, 

 We sees the world dashing, and flaring, and flashing, 



"Whilst we keeps ourselves in a cog. 



Now um do tell me that Bonipartee 



"Will surely come o'er in a fog ; 

 He's a long time a coming, and we keeps a drumming, 



But I thinks he'll come in a cog. 



Last year, devil rot him, I thought I had got him, 



Or some such French rascally dog ; 

 For the miller, d'ye see, ha come and tell me 



That a fellow was here in a cog. 



So I ups with my sword, and I goes to my Lord, 



And my Lord jumps about like a frog. 

 "Mr. ," says he, "Mr. Osborne," says he, 



" What can this chap do in a cog?" 



