 How will this do, asked he, as he repeated the following lines, with a complacent smile touched with some tight lines of fear, lest his subjects, he subjected himself to criticism. I rapidly copied the lines with my pencil, as he uttered them, and sent them for insertion in the Observer, saying, if you should think them worthy of preservation. The Observer did consider them worth preserving, and they were published September the 13th of 1845.