The last Chapter is like the first, written in the style of the Butterfly's 

 Ball and the Grasshopper's feast, and is, it seems to me, no less 

 admirable. If I pride myself on anything in this translation it is 

 on the concluding lines : 



** The evening star went flicker — flick — 

 Over tlie bedroom candlestick ; 

 And round its silver radiance shed 

 To light the sleepy moon to bed." 



" I've done I dofp my EiDisra geab, 



"And oedee Peoasus— HIS BEBE,."— Pa^s 72. 



Baierische Bier is infinitely superior to any Hippocrene. But no 

 drink in the world can hold a caudle to genuine "Wienische Bier,'' as 

 it comes cool drawn from the cellar. The Eomans knew not beer, and 

 so had to put up with "Falemian," or even the "vile Ccecubum." 

 I say put up, for the wine that now goes by the name of Palernian is 

 detestable. I suppose, however, that two thousand years ago it 

 was far more carefully made, as I trust it may again be in 

 "Italia Unita." The Romans, knew not beer, but the Greeks 

 had tasted it, though brewed by the hands of barbarians. In 

 Xenophou's Retreat of the Ten Thousand we are told that they 

 came upon a race of people from whom they got 



'Ek K^iOoJv jJieOv. 



Let us then leave Pegasus to enjoy his drink of barley wine, though 

 like Baron Munchausen's famous steed, he hath not the wherewithal 

 to stow away his beer. My dear old Peggy, alluded to in the first 

 of this series of notes, and therefore the fittest subject for a wind up, 

 was, when hard worked, very fond of a quart of good ale, with 

 half a quartern loaf broken into it ; she would drink up the ale 

 at a draught, then quickly munch the sop, and start with fresh 

 vigour for another ten-mile trot. 



CORRIGENDA. 



The reader is asked to excuse the following errors, excusable — as for the sake of 

 having its original wood blocks, the work, with the exception of the notes, was printed 

 abroad. 



Page 6, for 'ts read t'is. 



Page 35 should be — " But every sweet-toothed school-boy knows. 



He can't eat honey with his toes." 

 Page 36, for hinder's read hinders. 

 Page 70, for A^ U Tree read Ajyple Tree. 



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