Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, ill, À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856 · London : Pub. at the Punch Office · leaf 155
resounding through the plain ; This year we should have needed a great-coat,As a protection gainst the rattling rain. The murmring breeze is well enough, no doubt.That gently dalhes with fair Phcebes curls ; But not so pleasant when it blows aboutYour hat in rapid and successive whirls. Adieu, dull… … CHAPTER I, WAS in the good old days of chivalry, whenevery mountain that hathes its shadow in theRhine had its castle—not inhabited as nowby a few rats and owls, nor covered withmoss and wall-flowers, and funguses, andcreeping ivy—no, no ! where the ivy nowclusters there grew strong portculUs…
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