The Comic Annual by T Hood Author:Thomas Hood Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SONNET. " Sweets to the sweet—farewell."—Hamlet. Time was I liked a cheesecake well enough ; All human children have a sweetish tooth— I used to reve... more »l in a pie or puff, Or tart—we all are tarters in our youth; To meet with jam or jelly was good luck, All candies most complacently I crumped, A stick of liquorice was good to suck, And sugar was as often liked as lumped ; On treacle's " linked sweetness long drawn out," Or honey, I could feast like any fly, I thrilled when lollipops were hawk'd about, How pleased to compass hardbake or bull's eye, How charmed if fortune in my power cast, Elecampane—but that campaign is past! INFANIBY AT MESS. LONDON FASHIONS FOR NOVEMBER. REMARKS. No season has offered such varietés in costume as the early part of the present month. Fancy dresses of the most outré description have appeared, even in the streets. Short waists and long, full sleeves and empty, broad skirts and narrow, whole skirts, half skirts, and none atall, have been indifferently worn. For the Promenade, rags and tatters of all kinds have heen in much favour ; ve?? few buttons are worn, and the coats, waistcoats, and pantaloons, have been invariably padded and stuffed with hay or straw. We observed several exquisites making morning calls in scare-crow great coats; the skirts, lap- pels, collars, and cuffs, picturesquely, but not too formally, jagged, à la Vandyke. The prevailing colours—all colours at once. Wigs have been very general—both en buzz midfrizze ; these have been commonly composed of deal-shavings ; but in some cases of tow, and sometimes horse-hair. For the evening party, a few squibs and crackers are stuck in the perruque or hat, and the boots and shoes are polished up with a little pitch or tar ; sometimes a Cat...« less