JACK TENCH: OR, THE MIDSHIPMAN TURNED IDLER. BY BLOWHARD. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY W. BRITTAIN, 11, PATERNOSTER-ROW; AND SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. MDCCCXLI. THE LE PIQUES.-BATTLE OF HASTINGS.-THE TRUMPETER.-MADAME STURGEON'S IDEAS OF ANCESTRY. DEAN SWIFT, when asked by a barber, whose sign was the "Pole and Basin," to give him a few lines upon it by way of motto, drew forth his pencil and wrote the following couplet :- "Rove not from pole to pole, but step in here, Where nought exceeds the shaving but the beer." Our hero, however, has roved from pole to pole; been well shaved in crossing both the tropic and the equator; and by way of saving his readers from a similar ordeal, he too begs they will Not rove from pole to pole, but look in here Where, p'rhaps, the shaving far exceeds the beer. A few words of Jack Tench's maternal grandmother. The old lady had her whims and her oddities, of which latter, pride of ancestry was the most ridiculous-for few ever heard of any great virtues B 41. 4. 27.45. |