ONE HUNDRED

DOUBLE ACROSTICS.

DOUBLE ACROSTICS.

3 New Year's Gift.

EDITED BY

"MYSELF."

CRUSTY CRITIC-" Obscure quotations bagged from
unfair literature!"-C. B. D.

HOPEFUL EDITOR-" Methinks a generous public
will be lenient and indulgent."-H. W.

LONDON:

ROBERT HARDWICKE, 192, PICCADILLY.

1866.

80.1.142

THEC

LONDON PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET,

AND CHARING CROSS.

No. 1.

PRAY, all who buy this little Book,
Accept these wishes kind;
Be pleased its errors to o'erlook,
And to its faults be blind.

1. Glist'ning leaves of violet hue.
2. Silvery beams o'er waters blue.
3. My native Isle, fair freedom's seat.
4. This do, to make the two ends meet.
5. A Jewish maid, with locks of jet.
6. My dog's sad way, the naughty pet.
7. Come fill the goblet high with wine.
8. A merry lot in life be thine.

9. The clouds are gath'ring for a storm. 10. Pendent, it shines, in many a form. II. My heart is rent with grief and woe. 12. He was my friend,—but now, my foe. 13. That noise again! those patt'ring feet. 14. O for my Cat to kill and eat!

15. Your humble servant, this, my last.

H. W.

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