Salmagundi; or, The whim-whams and opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, esq. [pseud.] and others. By William Irving, James Kirke Paulding and Washington Irving. Printed from the original ed., with a preface and notes by Evert A. Duyckinck.

THE WINTER CAMPAIGN. 379
other's money by way of being agreeable-may some one of
them take a liking to me, and pick my pocket, or break my
head, in a paroxysm of hearty good-will I"
Thy friend,
MUSTAPHL
BY ANTHONY EVERGREEN, GENT.
2Yunc est bibendum nune pede libero
Pulsanda tellus. HOR.
"Now is the time for wine and myrthful sportes,
For daunce, and song, and disportes of sych sortes." LINK. FID.
T HE winter campaign has opened. Fashion has summoned
I her numerous legions at the sound of trumpet, tamborine,
and drum; and all the harmonious minstrelsy of the orchestra,
to hasten from the dull, silent, and insipid glades and groves,
where they have vegetated during the summer, recovering from
the ravages of the last winter's campaign. Our fair ones have
hurried to town, eager to pay their devotions to the tutelary
deity, and to make an offering at her shrine of the few pale and
transient roses they gathered in their healthful retreat. The
fiddler rosins his bow, the card-table devotee is shuffling her
pack; the young ladies are industriously spangling muslins, and
the tea-party heroes are airing their chapeaux bras and peablossom breeches, to prepare for figuring in the gay circle of
smiles, and graces, and beauty. Now the fine lady forgets her
country friends, in the hurry of fashionable engagements, or
receives the simple intruder, who has foolishly accepted her
thousand pressing invitations, with such politeness that the poor
soul determines never to come again. Now the gay buck, who