Give me for home a house of brick,

The Kate I love at Kew!

A hand unchopped-a merry eye;

And not a nose, of blue!

To think upon the Bridge of Kew, To me a bridge of sighs ;

Oh, Kate, a pair of icicles

Are standing in my eyes!

God knows if I shall e'er return,

In comfort to be lull'd;

But if I do get back to port,

Pray let me have it mull'd.

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THE FANCY FAIR.

"It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is 'lighter than vanity;' and also because all that is there sold, or that cometh thither, is vanity."

"I named this place Boothia."

PILGRIM'S PROGRESS.

CAPTAIN Ross.

"A FANCY Fair," said my friend L., in his usual quaint style, “is a fair subject for fancy; take up your pen and try. For instance, there was one held at the Mansion House. Conceive a shambling shock-headed clodpole, familiar with the wakes of Bow, Barnet, and Bartlemy, elbowing his awkward way into the Egyptian Hall, his round eyes and mouth all a-gape in the ludicrous expectation of seeing the Lord Mayor standing on his very Wor

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shipful head, the Lady Mayoress lifting a hundred weight by her Right Honourable hair, the SwordBearer swallowing his blade of state, the Recorder conjuring ribands from his learned and eloquent mouth, and the Senior Alderman with a painted York-and-Lancaster face, dancing a saraband à la Pierrot! Or fancy Jolterhead at the fair of the Surrey Zoological, forcing his clumsy destructive course through groups of female fashionables, like a hog in a tulip bed, with the equally laughable intention of inspecting long horns and short horns, prime beasts and lean stock; of handling the porkers and coughing the colts. Nay, imagine our bumpkin at the great Fancy Fair of all, blundering up to a stall kept by a Royal Duchess, and inquiring perseveringly for a gilt gingerbread King and Queen—a long promised fairing to brother Bill at Leighton Buzzard!"

Little did L. dream during this flourish of fancy, that his whimsical fiction had been forestalled by fact; and a deep shade of vexation passed over his features while he perused the following hints from