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MEMOIR OF THEODORE HOOK 3
THE RAMSBOTTOM PAPERS:--
POLITICAL SONGS AND SQUIBS:--
Carmen AEstuale 133
Ass-ass-ination 135
Michael's Dinner 138
Mrs. Muggins's Visit to the Queen 140
Hunting the Hare 147
The City Concert 152
Invitations to Dinner 156
Vacation Reminiscences 159
Reminiscences Continued 162
Gaffer Grey 166
The Idle Apprentice turned Informer 170
The Queen's Subscription 174
Opposition 178
The Invitation 184
The Beggars--A New Song 188
Bubbles of 1825 194
The Grand Revolution 197
Imitation of Bunbury's "Little Grey Man" 200
Humpty-Dumpty 203
Parody--"While Johnny Gale Jones" 204
Parody--"The young May Moon" 205
Disappointment 206
TENTAMEN; OR, AN ESSAY TOWARDS THE HISTORY OF WHITTINGTON, SOME TIME LORD MAYOR OF LONDON 207
MISCELLANIES, IN VERSE AND PROSE:--
Mr. Ward's Allegorical Picture of Waterloo 249
Letter from a Goose 259
The Hum-Fum Gamboogee Society 262
Moral Theatricals 269
Private Correspondence of Public Men 275
The Cockney's Letter 280
Byroniana 284
Lord Wenables 288
Lord Wenables Again 304
Modern Improvements 309
Punning, with Cautionary Verses to Youth of both Sexes 316
Fashionable Parties 322
A Day's Proceedings of a Reformed Parliament 325
Clubs 333
Rachel Stubbs' Letter to Richard Turner 336
Mr. Minus the Poet 338
National Distress 339
Hints for the Levee 347
The Inconsistencies of Cant 350
Prince Puckler-Muskau's Tour 355
Prospectus for a General Burying Company 388
Letter from John Trot to John Bull 392
The March of Intellect 395
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