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100 NO!
 * No sun—no moon—
 * No morn—no noon—

No dawn—no dusk—no proper time of day—
 * No sky—no earthly view—
 * No distance looking blue—

No road—no street—no "t'other side the way"—
 * No end to any Row—
 * No indications where the crescents go—
 * No top to any steeple—
 * No recognition of familiar people—
 * No courtesies for showing 'em—
 * No knowing 'em—

No travelling at all—no locomotion— No inkling of the way—no notion— No go, by land or ocean!
 * No mail—no post—
 * No news from any foreign coast—

No park—no ring—no afternoon gentility— No company—no nobility— No warmth—no cheerfulness, no healthful ease—
 * No comfortable feel in any member—

No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds,
 * November!

Hood.

THE MENAGERIE. you ever? No, I never!
 * Mercy on us, what a smell!

Don't be frightened, Johnny dear!
 * Gracious! how the jackalls yell.

Mother, tell me what's the man
 * Doing with that pole of his?

Bless your little precious heart,
 * He's stirring up the beastesses!

Children, don't you go so near!
 * Heving's! there's the Afric cowes!

What's the matter with the child?
 * Why, the monkey's, tore his trousers!