Volume 98 — SIGNS OF THE SEASON.
Reading edition
(By a West-End Shopkeeper.)
The voice of the horse-dealer's heard in the land, The Season, it says, will be full, gay, and grand; He is happy, and gives the most hopeful accounts. Well, the horse-dealer rises by virtue of "mounts," The thing in mid-March to keep hope well alive Was the prospect, in June, of a jolly full Drive, The wiseacres Long-Acre stir with delight. And oh! don't we hope the wiseacres are right!