#################################################################### Transcriber’s Notes This e-text is based on the print version of ‘The Works of Thomas Hood, Vol. II,’ published in 1882. Inconsistent and uncommon spelling and hyphenation have been retained; punctuation and typographical errors have been corrected. Footnotes have been moved to the end of the sections in which their respective footnote anchors are situated. Small caps have been changed to uppercase letters. #################################################################### HOOD’S OWN. THE WORKS OF THOMAS HOOD. COMIC AND SERIOUS, IN PROSE AND VERSE, WITH ALL THE ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS. EDITED, WITH NOTES, BY HIS SON AND DAUGHTER. VOL. II. LONDON: WARD, LOCK, & CO., WARWICK HOUSE, SALISBURY SQUARE, E.C. NEW YORK: 10 BOND STREET. CONTENTS. PAGE The Boy at the Nore 1 The Run-Over 4 Johnsoniana 11 The Great Earthquake at Marylebone 16 Ode to St. Swithin 20 The Apparition. A True Story 24 A Blind Man 28 The Supper Superstition. A Pathetic Ballad 30 A Snake-Snack 33 A Storm at Hastings, and the Little Unknown 36 Lines to a Lady on her Departure for India 45 The Nelson 48 Sonnet to a Scotch Girl Washing Linen after her Country Fashion 51 My Apology 52 Sonnet to a Decayed Seaman 54 The Great Conflagration 55 Huggins and Duggins 97 Domestic Didactics. By an Old Servant 101 Pain in a Pleasure-Boat. A Sea Eclogue 107 A Spent Ball 111 Literary and Literal 113 The Accident 120