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 230 CARICATURE.

ward against the threatened invasion of Napoleon the First, led one of our party to describe a caricature, exe cuted at that period in London, which mightily delight ed the people. Bonaparte is represented on the very verge of the coast of Calais, eagerly pointing a spy glass towards the heights of Dover, where John Bull, in full military uniform, and with his usual portly figure, is perambulating at leisure.

&quot; Says Boney to Johnny, I m coming to Dover, Says Johnny to Boney, t is doubted by some ; But, says Boney, what if I really come over ? Then, doubtless, says Johnny, you 11 be overcome.&quot;

It was not without some misgivings, heightened, probably, by those November fogs and rains, which in the English clime make demands on the most elastic spirit, that we prepared to cross the angry Channel, and enter another foreign land. A discourse to which we listened in Trinity Church, the Sunday before leaving Dover, seemed to impart strength to our faith, both by its spirit and the passage on which it was founded, &quot; Lord, to whom shall we go but unto Thee ? Thou hast the words of eternal life.&quot;

��Out on the Shakspeare cliff, and look below ! Seest thou the samphire-gatherer ? He no more Pursues his fearful trade, as when the eye Of Avon s bard descried him. But the height Is still as dizzy, and the ruffian winds

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