G6 TRANSACTIONS OP THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
dog called Lion leading the blind man. It was a song celebrating 
the triumph of the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo, each verse 
being sung in the cracked voice of the blind fiddler, with riddle 
accompaniment, repeated by the wife in a shriller cracked key. 
After every verse the blind man gave the dog a kick, saying, 
"Get along, Lion!" with an advance of a pace or two in the 
street. Here are one or two verses of this song : 
Come, all ye vadliant heros bold, 
To you I will declare-are, 
The wonders of great Wedlington, 
What made the world to stare-are. 
( Wife repeats, ) 
Get along, Lion. 
The Zixteenth, Zeventeenth, and Eighteenth 
They foft 6 most desperate-ly, 
And drove the French to Paris gates, 
Where they for quarters cry-y. 
Get along, Lion. 
Nit to forget brave Blucher who 
With his airmy played his pairt, 
In conquering that proud ty-ry-rant, 
Usurper Bonypairt. 
Get along, Lion. 
And now the battle is over-er 
Us will rejoice and sing, 
And drink a bottle of Bur-gun-dy 
To the royal George our king. 
Get along, Lion. 
Hicks was Governor of the Bodmin Lunatic Asylum, as I 
have said, for twenty years. I have been told, that when he first 
went there he found the old system prevailing, and that he 
introduced the modern methods of kindness, in lieu of cruelty 
and severity. One of the great characters in the asylum (many 
great characters were there in Hicks's time, as you may suppose), 
whom I will call Daniel, on the principle that no real names shall 
be used, he found on a bed of straw, chained, in a dark cell, and 
treated as a dangerous lunatic. He discovered that this person 
was a very clever man, though possessed with some mischievous 
delusions, a great wit, and a philosopher in his way. Hicks 
released him ; found him safe • employed him in the asylum 
6 Fought. 
