TO LORD WHARNCLIFFE, ON HIS GAME-BILL.
I’m fond of partridges, I’m fond of snipes,
I’m fond of black cocks, for they’re very good cocks—
I’m fond of wild ducks, and I’m fond of woodcocks—
And grouse2 that set up such strange moorish3 pipes.
I’m fond of pheasants with their splendid stripes—
I’m fond of hares, whether from Whig or Tory—
I’m fond of capercailzies in their glory,—
Teal, widgeons, plovers4, birds in all their types:
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All these are in your care, Law-giving Peer,
And when you next address your Lordly Babel,
Some clause put in your Bill, precise and clear,
With due and fit provision to enable
A man that holds all kinds of game so dear
To keep, like Crockford, a good Gaming Table.
LITERARY REMINISCENCES.
No. I.
TIME was, I sat upon a lofty stool,
At lofty desk, and with a clerkly pen
Began each morning, at the stroke of ten,
To write in Bell and Co.’s commercial school;
In Warnford Court, a shady nook and cool,
The favourite retreat of merchant men;
Yet would my quill5 turn vagrant6 even then,
And take stray dips in the Castalian pool.
Now double entry—now a flowery trope—
Mingling7 poetic8 honey with trade wax—
Blogg, Brothers—Milton—Grote and Prescott—Pope—
Bristles9—and Hogg—Glyn Mills and Halifax—
Rogers—and Towgood—Hemp10—the Bard11 of Hope—
Barilla—Byron—Tallow—Burns—and Flax!
MY commercial career was a brief one, and deserved only a sonnet in commemoration. The fault, however, lay not with the muses12. To commit poetry indeed is a crime ranking next to forgery14 in the counting-house code; and an Ode or a song dated Copthall Court, would be as certainly noted15 and protested as a dishonoured16 bill. I have even heard of an unfortunate clerk, who lost his situation through being tempted17 by the jingle18 to subscribe19 under an account current
“Excepted all errors
Made by John Ferrers,”
his employer emphatically declaring that Poetry and Logwood could never coexist in the same head. The principal of our firm on the contrary had a turn for the Belles20 Lettres, and would have winked21 with both eyes at verses which did not in
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trude into an invoice22 or confuse their figures with those of the Ledger23. The true cause of my retirement24 from Commercial affairs was more prosaic25. My constitution, though far from venerable, had begun to show symptoms of decay: my appetite failed, and its principal creditor26, the stomach, received only an ounce in the pound. My spirits daily became a shade lower—my flesh was held less and less firmly—in short, in the language of the price current, it was expected that I must “submit to a decline.” The Doctors who were called in, declared imperatively27 that a mercantile life would be the death of me—that by so much sitting, I was hatching a whole brood of complaints, and that no Physician would insure me as a merchantman from the Port of London to the next Spring. The Exchange, they said, was against me, and as the Exchange itself used to ring with “Life let us Cherish,” there was no resisting the advice. I was ordered to abstain29 from Ashes, Bristles, and Petersburg yellow candle, and to indulge in a more generous diet—to take regular country exercise instead of the Russia Walk, and to go to bed early even on Foreign Post nights. Above all I was recommended change of air, and in particular the bracing30 breezes of the North. Accordingly I was soon shipped as per advice, in a Scotch31 Smack32, which “smacked through the breeze,” as Dibdin sings so merrily, that on the fourth morning we were in sight of the prominent old Steeple of “Bonny Dundee.”
My Biographer, in the Book of Gems33, alludes34 to this voyage, and infers from some verses—“Gadzooks! must one swear to the truth of a song?”—that it sickened me of the sea. Nothing can be more unfounded. The marine35 terrors and disagreeables enumerated36 in the poem, belong to a Miss Oliver, and not to me, who regard the ocean with a natural and national partiality. Constitutionally proof against that nausea37 which extorts38 so many wave-offerings from the afflicted39, I am as constant as Captain Basil Hall himself, in my regard
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“for the element that never tires.” Some washy fellows, it is true, Fresh-men from Cambridge and the like, affect to prefer river or even pond water for their aquatics—the tame ripple40 to the wild wave, the prose to “the poetry of motion.” But give me “the multitudinous sea,” resting or rampant41, with all its variable moods and changeable colouring. Methought, when pining under the maladie du pays, on a hopeless, sick bed, inland, in Germany, it would have relieved those yearnings but to look across an element so instinct with English associations, that it would seem rather to unite me to than sever42 me from my native island. And, truly, when I did at last stand on the brink43 of the dark blue sea, my home-sick wishes seemed already half fulfilled, and it was not till many months afterwards that I actually crossed the Channel. But I am, besides, personally under deep obligations to the great deep. Twice, indeed, in a calm, and in a storm, has my life been threatened with a salt-water catastrophe44; but that quarrel has long been made up, and forgiven, in gratitude45 for the blessing46 and bracing influence of the breezes that smack of the ocean brine. Dislike the sea!—With what delight aforetime used I to swim in it, to dive in it, to sail on it! Ask honest Tom Woodgate, of Hastings, who made of me, for a landsman, a tolerable boatsman. Even now, when do I feel so easy in body, and so cheerful in spirit, as when walking hard by the surge, listening, as if expecting some whisperings of friendly but distant voices, in its eternal murmuring. Sick of the sea! If ever I have a water-drinking fancy, it is a wish that the ocean brine had been sweet, or sour instead of salt, so as to be potable; for what can be more tempting47 to the eye as a draught48, than the pure fluid, almost invisible with clearness, as it lies in some sandy scoop49, or rocky hollow, a true “Diamond of the Desert,” to say nothing of the same living liquid in its effervescing50 state, when it sparkles up, hissing51 and bubbling in the ship’s wake—the very Champaigne
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of water! Above all what intellectual solar and soothing52 syrup53 have I not derived54 from the mere55 contemplation of the boundless56 main,—the most effectual and innocent of mental sedatives57, and often called in aid of that practical philosophy it has been my wont58 to recommend in the present work. For whenever, owing to physical depression, or a discordant59 state of the nerves, my personal vexations and cares, real or imaginary, become importunate60 in my thoughts, and acquire, by morbid61 exaggeration, an undue62 prominence63 and importance, what remedy then so infallible as to mount to my solitary64 seat in the look-out, and thence gaze awhile across the broad expanse, till in the presence of that vast horizon, my proper troubles shrink to their true proportions, and I look on the whole race of men, with their insignificant65 pursuits, as so many shrimpers! But this is a digression—We have made the harbour of Dundee, and it is time to step ashore66 in “stout67 and original Scotland,” as it is called by Doctor Adolphus Wagner, in his German edition of Burns[2].
Like other shipments, I had been regularly addressed to the
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care of a consignee:—but the latter, not anxious, probably, to take charge of a hobbledehoy, yet at the same time unwilling68 to incur69 the reproach of having a relative in the same town and not under the same roof, peremptorily70 declined the office. Nay71, more, she pronounced against me a capital sentence, so far as returning to the place from whence I came, and even proceeded to bespeak72 my passage and reship my luggage. Judging from such vigorous measures the temper of my customer, instead of remonstrating74, I affected75 resignation, and went with a grave face through the farce76 of a formal leave-taking; I even went on board, but it was in company with a stout fellow who relanded my baggage; and thus, whilst my transporter imagined, good easy soul! that the rejected article was sailing round St. Abb’s Head, or rolling off the Bass77, he was actually safe and snug78 in Dundee, quietly laughing in his sleeve with the Law at his back. I have a confused recollection of meeting, some three or four days afterwards, a female cousin on her road to school, who at sight of me turned suddenly round, and galloped80 off towards home with the speed of a scared heifer.
My first concern was now to look out for some comfortable roof, under which “for a consideration” one would be treated as one of the family. I entered accordingly into a treaty with a respectable widower81, who had no sons of his own, but in spite of the most undeniable references, and a general accordance as to terms, there occurred a mysterious hitch82 in the arrangement, arising from a whimsical prepossession which only came afterwards to my knowledge—namely, that an English laddie, instead of supping parritch, would inevitably83 require a rump-steak to his breakfeast! My next essay was more successful; and ended in my being regularly installed in a boarding-house, kept by a Scotchwoman, who was not so sure of my being a beefeater. She was a sort of widow, with a seafaring husband “as good as dead,” and in her appearance not unlike a personi
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fication of rouge84 et noir, with her red eyes, her red face, her yellow teeth, and her black velvet85 cap. The first day of my term happened to be also the first day of the new year, and on stepping from my bed-room, I encountered our Hostess—like a witch and her familiar spirit—with a huge bottle of whiskey in one hand, and a glass in the other. It was impossible to decline the dram she pressed upon me, and very good it proved, and undoubtedly86 strong, seeing that for some time I could only muse13 its praise in expressive87 silence, and indeed, I was only able to speak with “a small still voice” for several minutes afterwards. Such was my characteristic introduction to the Land of Cakes, where I was destined88 to spend the greater part of two years, under circumstances likely to materially influence the colouring and filling up of my future life.
To properly estimate the dangers of my position, imagine a boy of fifteen, at the Nore, as it were, of life, thus left dependent on his own pilotage for a safe voyage to the Isle89 of Man; or conceive a juvenile90 Telemachus, without a Mentor91, brought suddenly into the perilous92 neighbourhood of Calypso and her enchantments93. It will hardly be expected, that from some half-dozen of young bachelors, there came forth94 any solemn voice didactically warning me in the strain of the sage73 Imlac to the Prince of Abyssinia. In fact, I recollect79 receiving but one solitary serious admonition, and that was from a she cousin of ten years old, that the Spectator I was reading on a Sunday morning, “was no the Bible.” For there was still much of this pious95 rigour extant in Scotland, though a gentleman was no longer committed to Tolboothia Infelix, for an unseasonable promenade96 during church time. It was once, however, my fortune to witness a sample of the ancien régime at an evening party composed chiefly of young and rather fashionable persons, when lo! like an Anachronism confounding times past with times present, there came out of some corner an antique figure,
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with quaintly97 cut blue suit and three-cornered hat, not unlike a very old Greenwich Pensioner98, who taking his stand in front of the circle, deliberately99 asked a blessing of formidable length on the thin bread and butter, the short cake, the marmalade, and the Pekoe tea. And here, en passant, it may be worth while to remark, for the benefit of our Agnews and Plumtres, as illustrating100 the intrinsic value of such sanctimonious101 pretension102, that the elder Scotland, so renowned103 for armlong graces, and redundant104 preachments, and abundant psalm-singing, has yet bequeathed to posterity105 a singularly liberal collection of songs, the reverie of Divine and Moral, such as “can only be sung when the punch-bowl has done its work and the wild wit is set free[3].”
To return to my boarding-house, which with all its chairs, had none appropriated to a Professor of Moral Philosophy. In the absence of such a monitor, nature, fortunately for myself, had gifted me with a taste for reading, which the languor106 of ill-health, inclining me to sedentary habits, helped materially to encourage. Whatever books, good, bad, or indifferent, happened to come within my reach, were perused107 with the greatest avidity, and however indiscriminate the course, the balance of the impressions thence derived was decidedly in favour of the allegorical lady, so wisely preferred by Hercules when he had to make his election between Virtue108 and Vice28. Of the material that ministered to this appetite, I shall always regret that I did not secure, as a literary curiosity—a collection of halfpenny Ballads109, the property of a Grocer’s apprentice110, and which contained, amongst other matters, a new version of Chevy Chase, wherein the victory was transferred to the Scots. In the mean time, this bookishness acquired for me a sort of reputation for scholarship amongst my comrades, and in consequence my pen was sometimes called into requisition, in divers111 and sometimes delicate cases. Thus for
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one party, whom the Gods had not made poetical112, I composed a love-letter in verse; for another, whose education had been neglected, I carried on a correspondence with reference to a tobacco manufactory in which he was a sleeping partner; whilst, on a graver occasion, the hand now peacefully setting down these reminiscences, was employed in penning a most horrible peremptory113 invitation to pistols and twelve paces, till one was nicked. The facts were briefly114 these. A spicy-tempered captain of Artillery115, in a dispute with a superior officer, had rashly cashiered himself by either throwing up or tearing up his commission. In this dilemma116 he arrived at Dundee, to assume a post in the Customs, which had been procured117 for him by the interest of his friends. To his infinite indignation, however, he found that instead of a lucrative118 surveyorship, he had been appointed a simple tide-waiter! and magnificent was the rage with which he tore, trampled119, and danced on the little official paper book wherein he had been set to tick off, bale by bale, a cargo120 of “infernal hemp.” Unluckily, on the very day of this revelation, a forgery was perpetrated on the local Bank, and those sapient121 Dogberries, the town officers, saw fit to take up our persecuted122 ex-captain, on the simple ground that he was the last stranger who had entered the town. Rendered almost frantic123 by this second insult, nothing would serve him in his paroxysm but calling somebody out, and he pitched at once on the cashier of the defrauded124 Bank. As the state of his nerves would not permit him to write, he entreated125 me earnestly to draw up a defiance126, which I performed, at the expense of an agony of suppressed laughter, merely to imagine the effect of such a missive on the man of business—a respectable powdered, bald, pudgy, pacific little body, with no more idea of “going out” than a cow in a field of clover. I forget the precise result—but certainly there was no duel127.
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The Baron128 Dupotet de Sennevoy and Doctor Elliotson, will doubtless be glad to be informed, that the inspired Scottish Poet was a believer in their magnetismal mysteries—at least in the article of reading a book behind the back. In a letter to Mr. Robert Ainslie, is the following passage in proof. “I have no doubt but scholarcraft may be caught, as a Scotchman catches the itch—by friction129. How else can you account for it that born blockheads, by mere dint130 of handling books, grow so wise that even they themselves are equally convinced of and surprised at their own parts? I once carried that philosophy to that degree, that in a knot of country folks, who had a library amongst them, and who, to the honour of their good sense, made me factotum131 in the business; one of our members, a little wiselook, squat132, upright, jabbering133 body of a tailor, I advised him instead of turning over the leaves, to bind134 the book on his back. Johnnie took the hint, and as our meetings were every fourth Saturday, and Pricklouse having a good Scots mile to walk in coming, and of course another in returning, Bodkin was sure to lay his hand on some heavy quarto or ponderous135 folio; with and under which, wrapt up in his gray plaid, he grew wise as he grew weary all the way home. He carried this so far, that an old musty Hebrew Concordance, which we had in a present from a neighbouring priest, by mere dint of applying it as doctors do a blistering136 plaster, between his shoulders, Stitch, in a dozen pilgrimages, acquired as much rational theology as the said priest had done by forty years’ perusal137 of its pages.”
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