‘Twas when the ground was white with snow, A Dandy would on horseback go, To show himself, and take an airing, And set the people all a staring. The snow was moist and close adher’d To horse’s feet, as on … Weiterlesen →

Not far from them was a somewhat tall animal, with hair curled by the barber’s tongs, half-coaxed-out moustachios, a drab beaver, swallow-tailed blue coat with gilt buttons, white pantaloons, boots into which were stuck brass spurs, white kid gloves, more … Weiterlesen →

O Simie, quum talem tu habeas dementiam, imperium in bruta tenebris? Aesopus. Sir, I am induced, thinking it may prove interesting to some of your foreign readers, to transmit to you the following description of an animal, which has recently … Weiterlesen →