p a piece
of ground which had not been opened for many years, he
discovered a very good brick grave, and, to his great joy,
also discovered that its occupant had long since mouldered
into dust. He cleaned the grave out, procured some reddle
and water, brushed the bricks over with it, and informed
the person that he had a most excellent _second-hand grave
to sell as good as new_, and if she thought it would suit
her poor departed friend, would let her have it at half the
price of a new one: this was too good an offer to be
rejected; but Jemmy found, on measuring the coffin, that his
second-hand grave was too short, and consequently was
obliged to dig the earth away from the end of the grave and
beat the bricks in with a beetle, before it would admit its
new tenant.

~232~~

He was a zealous opposer of the Aqua-_arian_ heresy,
A steady devourer of beef-steaks,
A stanch and devout advocate for _spiced bishop_,
A firm friend to Bill Holland's _double X_, and
An active disseminator of the bottle,
He was ever uneasy unless employed upon
The good things of this world; and
The interment of a _swiss_ or lion,
Or the dissolution of a pasty,
Was his great delight.
He died
Full of drink and victuals,
In the undiminished enjoyment of his digestive faculties,
In the forty-fifth year of his appetite.
The collegians inscribed this memento,
In perpetual remembrance of
His _pieous_ knife and fork.

"Very well for a _trencher_ man," said Horace; "now we must have a
recitation from Strasburg.{20} Come, you jolly old teacher of Hebrew,
mount the rostrum, and "give us a taste of your quality." "Ay, or by
heavens we'll baptize him with a bumper of bishop," said Echo. "For
conscience sake, mishter Echo, conshider vat it is you're about; I can
no more shpeek in English than I can turn Christian--I've drank so much
of your red port to-day as voud make anoder Red Sea." "Ay, and you shall
be drowned in it, you old _Sheenie_," said Tom, "if you don't give us a
speech." "A speech, a speech!" resounded from all

{20} Strasburg, an eccentric Jew, who gave lessons in Hebrew
to members of the university.

~233~~the yet living subjects of the party. "Veil, if I musht, I musht;
but I musht do it