been reckoned at a hundred pounds. Only think, my masters, when such a corporate body jumped, only think, I say, with what a confounding, astounding, crashing, smashing, flattening, pancakemaking sole of a foot it would come down on any reptile short of a crocodile. No wonder then that Tony's whim was completely atomised, obliterated, and annihilated, which it was so utterly, that if you were to search on the gallows to-morrow, with a solar microscope to help you, I don't believe, on my soul, that you would find the least article or particle of the cuticle of A TARANTULA. 24 SALLY SIMPKIN'S LAMENT; OR, JOHN JONES'S KIT-CAT-ASTROPHE. "He left his body to the sea, And made a shark his legatee." BRYAN AND PEREENE. "OH! what is that comes gliding in, And quite in middling haste? It is the picture of my Jones, "It is not painted to the life, For where's the trowsers blue? Oh Jones, my dear!-Oh dear! my Jones, What is become of you?" "Oh! Sally dear, it is too true,— The half that you remark Is come to say my other half Is bit off by a shark! "Oh! Sally, sharks do things by halves, Yet most completely do! A bite in one place seems enough, But I've been bit in two “You know I once was all your own, But let that pass-for now, to you "Alas! death has a strange divorce Effected in the sea, It has divided me from you, And even me from me! "Don't fear my ghost will walk o'nights To haunt, as people say; My ghost can't walk, for, oh! my legs Are many leagues away! "Lord! think when I am swimming round, |